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So far so good

Coffee motel coffee diner coffee go on

Styrofoam is drying like the tears that once did flow Starting 10 o'clock and ending at dawn

And you can't go back but you're going back And you don't know what you'll say

You've got half-formed sentences Explanations for a life half-broken away

And they just may They'll take you in their arms and then take out their knives So you drive on thinking

So far so good But you can't go on much longer like this you know

You're all alone in this world no that's not true The nice Christian lady told you so

Well you don't believe but you have to believe It's still crumpled there in your back seat

Were you the hero or the worst kind of coward back there Putting pavement back under your feet

Couldn't stand the heat Couldn't stand the thought of ghosts with a negative age Turn the page OK

So far so good You try to sing along to the radio

But it's not your language not your song It's from some other time ago

And you're thinking about how someone died that day The you that was so carefully planned

But then again maybe this life is like a sleeping mountain Waking up to shape the land

Calm calm let it come let it come back to you Calm calm breathe on out you know you know what to do

--"Shasta", Vienna Teng

(and before you ask, my avatar is *not* a picture of me.  I'll give you a cookie if you can guess who it is)