parallel lines

if you found the words, would you really say them?, or stutter through the verse, with mumbled punctuation?, remembering the line, an empty metaphor, that you savored by yourself, you're never cured, if i forgot the lines, is it easy enough to fake it?, or do you need a moment to re-memorize, and model it like a curse half-disguised?, leers, jeers, whispers and the tears, that final taste before you're taken away, odds, ends, final amends, it's all right to say it, just as long as you don't really think so, give me a little room, to get on with concentration, just enough to know, what i'm missing in education, borrowing all the hours that you gave to me, it's a wonder i could ever breathe, under all your thoughts, you'll hear the floating whisper, of all the things you were that have been paralleled, all the voices that were raised and finally fell, leers, jeers, whispers and tears, that final taste before you're taken away, odds, ends, final amends, it's all right to say it, just as long as you don't really think so, no lights, no show, no sex, that's all you get, no waits, no calls, no written tests for what you know, leers, jeers, whispers and tears, that final taste before you're taken away, odds, ends, final amends, it's all right to say it, just as long as you don't really think so