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by Wetdryvac
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Radio Wall
May 14, 1992
I thought of a radio wall
built up to drown out my silence
crash through the tide of anti-sound surrounding me
I thought up a television room
to keep me company
I thought of an endless library
where the people in the books never changed
I could turn the pages slowly
listen to passages again, again
I turned on my radio wall
turned it up as loud as I could make it go
waited for the distortion sure to come
but all there was, was a single note screaming
I changed the station for a different song
but the note stayed on inside me
my own song of a single lonely hopeless note
one endless wail cutting through the feedback
no matter how I tuned my radio
I walked into my television room
running from the sounds of screaming radio
couldn ��t get close enough to turn it off, you see
I turned it up so loud I still hear the note ��
ringing behind my ears
but I couldn ��t hear the TV, and it just flickered anyway
an electrical sequence of static and storm
crackle washed in the silence of the sound of my radio wall
tried to read but was overwhelmed by electricity
media, caught in the strobing of the television
tried to ignore the chattering descant on my nevers
no silence in my library tonight
only the silence of the sound �� of my radio wall
the only silence I hear any more
the scream of the loneliness of a crashing soul
and the flicker ��s in my eyes even with the TV off
my radio wall no help any longer
an illusion but illusion, come down to down
the radio but a dream in strangled hold
no less for being real
and I can ��t see the people out there
the sonic emission driving them forever ��
but my own screams are for them
I give up, close down, rebuild the facade
hide and die in the signal reception
it grows too hard
and friend
all I hear is the dreaming of my radio
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