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Prince in a Pawn Shop

from picking through the pawn shop by Ten Cent Poetry

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If your words were blades

this carpet would be red

You're satisfied with your technique

but your greatest lover's dead


Prince in a pawn shop

Fondling the gears

of the poor town's locomotive

of the union's hard clocked years

What have you done?


What have you done for the village?

Who have you helped for a dime?

When have you plated up the slices of your life?

Without notating the time?


And now we have this air to breathe

with it's heaviness and rye

You've poisoned the well you see

are you satisfied?

What have you done?

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from picking through the pawn shop, track released January 7, 2011

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Ten Cent Poetry Asheville, North Carolina

Chelsea La Bate is a poet, composer, songwriter, performer, author and radio host. She likes sparkly things. She constructs songs with colored markers, a notebook, a mountain dulcimer, a banjo and a guitar.

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