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The Grind

from Cactus by Peter Bruce Wilder

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the grind 6-28-01
peter bruce wilder
©2001 Maplewood Earlines, BMI

drag to a.m. four lanes full / inches made the steel snake still crawls / everyone looking forward to brakelights / file in sequence, ramp by ramp by ramp / rough into spaces in underground lots / ignoring the stench of urine and exhaust / everyone cuts off nobody that they know / mechanical birds chirp, there's safety in remotes // is this the forever that we all dreamed of / when Henry's idea put us up on the line faster and faster, with lots more combustion faster and farther / it becomes the grind / connected by endless gray ribbons of asphalt / urbanity now becomes the state of mind / reduced to a world of drive through experience / faster and farther it becomes the grind // air conditioned cubicles / within a cubefarm acres wide / noise reduced and still anti-neighbor / challenged as we walk down the aisle / leave the cube and then go find the car keys / drive the car up to your house / leave the car and still you look at no one / home becomes another cube // is this the forever that we all dreamed of when nasdaq and dowagers put us on line / faster and faster, with lots more congestion / faster and farther it becomes the grind / connected by tight packs of optical fibers / anonymous chat is the new state of mind / reduced to a world of virtual experience / faster and farther it becomes the grind // technical progress is made and embraced / social progress is challenged in courts / down primrose path the false happiness chased / there's cash in our pockets the quiet consort // is this the forever that we all dreamed of / our nose to the books and our eyes on the prize / faster and faster, with no comprehension / faster and farther it looks like the grind / the choice of time spent in relentless pursuit / keeping up with the Joneses, ohhh that would be fine / reduced to a world where the sensitive perish / faster and farther, we become the grind / faster and farther, we become the grind / ya

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from Cactus, released June 1, 2001

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