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I Retired From America In The Third Grade

from Normal Human Being by Justin Blackburn

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This track is about getting real with yourself and giving yourself all A's on everything you do! This song I am roaring over is "Business As Usual" by Coma Cinema off one of my favorite albums ever "Blue Suicide" Though every album they make is one of my favorite albums ever. Listen to them here comacinema.bandcamp.com

This poem is from "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available on www.virgograypress.com

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I Retired From America In The Third Grade

Laying in the grass,
watching you sleep
it is not a mystery to me
why I am
who I chose to be.

It all seems to fit,
the way I bitch
the way the ambulance drives
the way fear eats me alive as if it loves my life
the way beauty grows from inside
the way I could have it anyway
as if I would not have it any other way
like a bird opening her mouth
like a beautiful song shining out.

I retired from America in the third grade
with one day’s worth of lunch money
and a box full of crayons,
wearing the sadness of a million angels,
drenched in the fear of a thousand liars.

I was never a child
crying in my mother’s arms,
I was always on fire like a star;
I was always in trouble like a storm.
I tried to have others kill me,
no one could,
my heart would never let me live
in the illusion of myself.

Since the day I was born,
my beauty has always been so heartfelt only mountains can stand it,
my love has always been so real only God can feel it,
my joy has always been so magical only mermaids can breathe it,
my sadness has always been so deep only stars can shine it,
my self has always been so me only I can express it.

The land lost inside your mind is where I was born,
don’t worry you are not my mother
just my creator,
you are not the result of my thoughts
just my savior.

This poem is from "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available on www.virgograypress.com

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from Normal Human Being, released October 31, 2012
written by Justin Blackburn
music by Mat Cothran comacinema.bandcamp.com
produced by Mat Cothran and Amelia Hall

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Justin Blackburn Oklahoma

My name is Justin Blackburn and i am author and poet. This is a collection of performance poems entitled "Normal Human Being" Lots of these are from my latest collection of poetry "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available at www.virgograypress.com You can buy it and it will make your life better. Lots of wisdom. I love you. You are wonderful. I hope you love yourself. ... more

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