And the Days Were Just Packed - Darren Hanlon

You try not to believe what you already know

You walk through neighborhoods they said you shouldn’t go Just so you can feel

Something that’s real

If you thought college was hard then wait till 27

But don’t take it to heart do as when you were 11

Recreate the scenes with action figurines

You send armies of dumb questions to invade my thoughts

Like is it possible for rebel astronauts to Smoke cigars on the moon

Do the deaf lip-read cartoons?

The ghosts have all left town and the neighbors are at war

And we’re deafened by the sound of the shops shutting at four

We’re filling days

With feeling dazed

There’s a place secret the this whole hostile race

You can go but only for those in the know

Take the tack in but it’s hidden by brambles and bracken

There’ll be square signs to direct the way there

You’ll find reams of planet print wallpaper dreams

You’ll find rhymes that explain what we did with the time

There’s a place!