Pictures of Perfect Women

from Main Street Milky Way by Michael McGuire

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The world is a beautiful woman that doesn’t even know I exist, And I’m still some little boy lost to the point of all of this, I just don’t care about where tomorrow is taking its ride, Or picking bloody diamonds off the sidewalk from a crashed Wall Street bride.

But I want to believe in something; oh something that can deliver me, I know what I’m looking at but I don’t know what I’m supposed to see.

The sky is a bleeding barrier to the heavens soft design, The stars proof of the light beyond for which the Earth bound angel does pine, But this is not some dreamer's definition; this is flesh and clock, Sick-souls and mercy-boats dashed upon the rock.

But I want to believe in something; oh something that can salvage me, The blank script of the everlasting now is the mere burden of my memory.

She is the desert on my lips; let her be the river for I can drink her, From her actions I must infer the thought that built the thinker, A boy studying pictures of perfect women from a hopeless room, He’s just dreaming up the details of his masterpiece of doom.

But I want to believe in something; oh something that can believe in me, And pictures of perfect women are the stuff of apathy.

Feb. 04

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from Main Street Milky Way, released July 1, 2004

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