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Drama and Pinball Machine

... ...    
     
Routine job      
My body is on auto pilot      
A would-be executive      
My exhausted eyes      
My tired computer screen      
     
I need speed      
     
Half drama, half comedy      
Time slips away so slowly      
It cannot catch up with my mind      
There is a play field inside my brain      
     
I stop myself in the street...      
To say to myself *I need speed*      
     
I take a break at around evening      
I pass quickly into glass reality      
A pinball machine in an amusement arcade      
Extra balls,  stamina and adrenaline      
     
... ... ...  
Written by Marks
Published | Edited 19th Aug 2020
Author's Note
YES' album "Drama" (1980). A land of exile, an epic landscape. ... A metaphor for deprivation.
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