You can recognize your lovers
by the fear that's in their eyes
you can recognize the one's who'll leave you
when you begin to hear their lies
you can recognize you friends now
they're the ones you never notice at all
you can recognize anything you want
you just look in the mirror and call.
gallagher
CSULB
07-08-76
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
Its an illusion, drink up your fill
look in the mirror, its all what you will
you're just dreaming you've got time to kill
you've only one time
and it won't sit still.
Long Beach
07-09-76
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
We're all dying here of boredom and life's mundaneness.
my friends call occasionally to see how it goes with me.
Their tiny voices, across the miles, empty and brave
ask, 'how do you like your job...'
and they'd like to hear that I have the answer...
but they hang up as sad as they called,
when they hear its the same with me.
All the alternatives vanish into the vacuum left
where your dreams used to be.
When security and the real world claim you,
you begin to see yourself as you once saw others;
mice on the treadmills of industries, living dead.
Your muscles grow soft and your eyes lose their snap
and your feeling of self uniqueness becomes self disdain.
All the alternatives vanish into the vacuum left
where your dreams used to be.
gallagher
23 Aug 76
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —