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Someplace Better

By biff pedachenko

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There's no one else here But this place is alive It crawls with the unsettling life The type that comes from nowhere But envelopes you in its shadow I sit here taking it all in The scurrying rats below And the stench of soaked cardboard And I begin to think 'Surely I deserve better than this' And I know that once I did But that was a long time ago Before it happened Before someone told me what I should do And before I listened Written January 18th, 2002 © on Jan 18 2002 08:42 AM PST   18 • 0 • 10

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