Hamster Wheel

All the movies have already been watched. All the amusement park rides Have already been ridden.

The races have all been run. The products have all been bought And sold.

All the backs have been stabbed. All the books have been written. All the words . . . spoken. All the thoughts . . . thought.

Hamster wheel, Hamster wheel, Remember a time before stars.

You are not these things. You are nothing more than these things. But what could this mean?

Your chair is made of eggshells, Your bed is made of salted wounds, Dresser full of Freudian slips And secondhand dreams, Uniforms fashioned from broken mirrors, None of which reflect you, While the clock whispers lies.

All the lives have already been lived. All the gods have already been invented.

Hamster wheel galaxy In the schizocratic linguiverse, Spin me a web To call home.

J. Martin Strangeweather

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