Frightened Rabbit
State Hospital
The half back-flip conception, State hospital birthThe most threadbare, tall story the country has ever heardBrought home to breathe smoke in the arms of her motherThe blunt kitchen knifeWho just lays in a submissive positionBeneath a national weight and the slow arc of a fistHer heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concreteForced to be brave, she was born into a graveAnd in the limp three years of board schoolingShe's accustomed to hearing that she could never run farA slipped disc in the spine of communityA bloody curse word in a pedestrian verseSpirits in graveyards and fingers in car parksShe cries on the high street just to be heardA screaming anchor for nothing in particularAt the foot of the fuck of itDragging her heels in the dirtHer heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concreteForced to be brave, she was born into a graveThe cheek of youth flashed red and turned grayLetras de cancionesNow she lies on the pavement, she is helped to her feetAll thighs, hair and magpie handbagsSaturday's uniform for the 'fuck me' paradeBrought home to keep warm, in the arms of a plumberRuddy and baldingWho just needs a spine to dig intoA chest for the head, and a hand for the holdingHer heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concreteForced to be brave, she was, she wasHer heart beats like a breezeblock thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concreteForced to be brave, she wasA broken elevator anthem held between floorsBut if blood is thicker than concrete, all is not lostAll is not lost, all is not lost
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