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PAIN

by Jeffrey Murrell


24 HOURS A DAY


Pigeon-holed for three centuries or more
In the bed, on a tennis court;
It's what you are
24 hours a day.

How strange are the things we don't discuss.
Let me into the country club!
It's permanent, you know?
24 hours a day!

Hell, I can't help looking so blue,
Going around the way I do.
I'm sensitized to it
24 hours a day.

I want to network with the big boys, too!
All that intensive business to do!
Gets away from me
24 hours a day.

It's pure, lip-smacking pain.
It's black and white all the way!
It's the way it is
24 hours a day.