Gus from Twos by jay suttin

In a dark dark town there was a verb verb noun
Crash bang sound as the camera pans round
Grainy filter black n white cinema scope
Cue protagonist emergin from a gentleman's club
Intoxicated clearly disheveled n in dissary
A black eye percolates in purple busted lips protrude the way
Cursing all and sundry n throwing punches at the moon
When will I escape this torture?
A voice replied in whisper "soon"

What! who said that? Who mocks me from a hidden place?
Reveal yourself ye bastard let me look upon your twisted face
Hold your bitten tongue my child first of all let's play a game
We've been waiting for you Gus..
How the hell d'you know my name?
You're not ready yet for answers
Be patient don't complain
Your storyline can yet be changed
Now close your eyes n feel the rain
A black sky rips n precipitate drips
As the wind picks up to facilitate it

We see all in this crooked little town of lies
We enter every dwelling every curtain twitched to leer inside
We view the true side of your kind n violent wretch n at what we find
Your husbands beat their cheating wives
Your children weep alone at night
Daughters mask the pain of life with slices on their upper thighs
Sons who want for love n fun are numb from drugs n other highs
Your old n frail are cast aside the sick n lame are ostracized
their hope is gone, the race is run the soul has died a shell survives

But you Gus. Well we watched you grow from boy to man
Something out of nothing n escape your father's heavy hand
With a shoddy set of tools you built yourself a way out
A Sunny deposition shining silver on a grey cloud
We where there when they said you may kiss the bride
And 3 years later met the daughter at your side
We watched you live a perfect dream n flinched as then it fell apart
That fateful night, one fatal slide that wasted life n pierced your heart

Crash, bang wallop
Now your wash your sins in the bottom of a bottle
Rehash coulda stopped it
press brake less throttle
take a shot, shit talk, jaw popped n lashed out the club,
Enough! do you think I want to hear this shit?
whatever do you want from me I've nothing in this earth to give
Oh contraire my boy your gifts have just been beaten back
Come n live as us n we can get your journey back on track

You'll have happiness eternal n your suffering removed
We have a task to ask of you so quickly, you must choose
Choose? There is no choice no rolling dice no win or lose
Every hand the dealer sends me may as well be ripped in two
This cursed place has poisoned all the love I had to hate instead
I'd rather take my chances with this voice I hear inside my head
Set me any task you wish just free me from this evil trap
Can't carry all the hurt no more relieve the weight from off my back

You've made the right decision Gus I think you'll thrive as one of us
Now here hold out your withered hands n take from me your second chance
A blade to cut the ties between the soul n flesh
See it as a key and the lock resides within your chest
Plunge it through you heart n let this vessel sink away
Stain the earth red n let the pain be washed away
Catch a last look at your carcass in collapse
Then forget the past, free at last
A man is dead long live the rats

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