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Waiting For Angels

from Waiting For Angels by Peter Bruce Wilder

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waiting for angels
08.10.04
Peter Bruce Wilder
copyright 2007 Maplewood/Earlines, BMI

brushing the last of the crumbs from her fingers
smoothing her skirt and adjusting her socks
gesturing flies off the pools of spilled margerine
magna cum laude the school of hard knocks

dogs in the yard lift their muzzles in hope
she leans through the doorway open and bare
rusty cars and old empties —
decayed Tonkas and rope
the overgrown histories, decay and declare

waiting for angels she knows were forgotten
lost in the blue of an ocean of things
waiting for angels alone on a roadside
wheat fields still ripple from their soft beating wings

home comes her man with frustration, exhaustion
treading the mill and still grasping at straws
putting food on the table keep a car up; pay taxes
below all that radar, ignored by these laws

forgetting gets harder amidst the Old Crowing
the tempo starts pushing up fahrenheit red
the blaming and shouting the crying things throwing
tangled sheets and I’m sorries, they make up in bed

waiting for angels she knows were forgotten...
inventing her future from a present in shambles
erasing the blackness with a spraypainted white
fighting the good fight and ignoring the gambles

juggling the books every day every night
arms stretched to Heaven faith strained to breaking
what kind of sin is deserving of this fate
walls cracked and falling
everybody is taking low roads
now floating on the oil spills of hate

waiting for angels...

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from Waiting For Angels, released April 5, 2007

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