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Architecture Exuberant!
03:23
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Tenderness, I’m not used to your charms
I come to you slowly, I am cowardly in the face of nausea again on a bus ride / right after noon
then on to New Haven and its Californian ruins / runes
The research beyond the surface of the dearth
the silt and the shrapnel caught in the handprinted clay of the dirt
And innocence / in a sense I can’t earn all this worth:
arrows and gunfire in the tenderness of the earth!
Emptiness, I’m not sure of that harm
(I got a new shirt it’s a little large for me)
But in a sense / innocence, there is comfort in the used?
I’m not taking part of it, it’s a bluff it’s only a ruse
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Geese in love
03:32
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clothed in my bed again and it feels just like a dream
and the red light cloaks the balcony behind the window steam
and I would never be so bold but I kept my eyes closed for all of last year
Geese on a bitter day, unflustered in the cold
and the arrows of migration keen between the frozen oak (!)
to weave a tapestry a’fleet that comes to sweep behind your camo-printed scarf
I was so dumb, you were so dumb
I am so dumb, you are so dumb
and who has such dignity? only those with flat feet and the world to seek
for a greater forest unconcerned with the making of time to trace the axes
where the wires tie the houses in a safety net of sound
Mercy from between the clouds reminds me that I’m free
but I feel 1/4 of a weed gummy is coming back for me
and you won’t let me off the hook when I hide behind a camo-printed heart
You were so dumb, I was so dumb
You are so dumb, I am so dumb
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Swollen jaw song
03:20
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Lonely as you sleep
Will the shadow not pass?
in the driveway heat
there’s a one-eyed rabbit
They don’t make beauty like they used to in the West
There’s a lonely chrysanthemum with sunlight on its chest
and when I was up at Jesse’s picking stucco from the wall
I was still starry-eyed and didn’t take your call
A long
A long night
A long night
Just beyond my reach
we spent the summer getting nearer
On a jagged beach
It’s in the tremors you can hear it
Was there a fever in the evening that I saw?
Between the downpour and the swelling of the jaw?
And we saw roadkill in the highway in the sun
And couldn’t find a place to swim
and I will know you for a long time
A long time
Some long time
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Humingbird
03:16
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At home you’ll see
swarms that better converge in the glint of the westward sun
But on our way
the song of the new bird trapped in the shade of the sunroom sky
Something grave,
O, maybe graceful and brave!
If its sloped wings beat the pulse that holds it in place
A sound like a faulty engine hum,
like the motor that spits and it shakes
as it bends to the groan of the / grownover road ahead!
And once we’re there and drawn to the swimming hole darkness
like the wasp that survives in the eye of the open fig
We’ll lose a few days
O, but at least I can pray
for dovetail birds that peak
and swoop in an awkward ballet,
like our bed in secret,
like the gravel that’s shaved from the stone
and it shapes all the bends in the road ahead!
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basin where
the Gaspee trails
wave on wave on keylocked days
could you feel?
or tear the seal?
the cold reveal
the colorfield
could you feel?
tear the ceiling
tear the ceiling
the colorfield
the colorfield
all gold and steel,
canvas, linen
ghosts upon the ocean water
could you feel?
a knock on the wall is as loud as a call
and the stern can’t return till it’s stringing up the sails again
upend
when Bristol twists off like a broken bone
to trade another battle in the belly of the mo(u)rning king
could you feel it?
gold and steel and canvas, linen
ghosts upon the ocean water
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The bath
02:51
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You’re finishing as hot water comes tumbling out the anus of the drain
and outside over the roof a snow storm comes rumbling
with worn feathers and twists of knotted braids
And he’ll be punishing you for all your new developments
every building you destroyed
all the cemeteries that shoulder the covenant
that you had shattered in the void
Fearful now I’m so sorry that it worked.
Careful now I am not so hard to hurt
Will you be hovering like the kingdom of Solomon or are your castles made of sand
and as you’re thumbing through yellowed blueprints all condemning you with a lonely wrinkled hand
brush your body against the tender piers of sandalwood, clean yourself in the Salton Sea
You have given me a vision of your paradise and I will not rest till it’s complete
Before now you’ve never seen a sky so white
and it will scoop you in its cold fluorescent light
Careful now, I’m not doing any better
Careful now, we lose our footprints in the weather
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mansions
03:15
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If I wade
through the furnace hum
to reach the waves
are soundless in the sun
a knot between the braids, the knuckle, and the thumb
the bread will break and seagulls eat the crumbs
but from the passenger seat I know it takes
Whatever else
You allow yourself
You hold your health
Down
Over on the bay, they’re caving out the elms
They tow and break the ship you used to helm
The gold plates
the jewelry and the rum
It goes away
a fraction of the sum
but then it’s lavender out, I see
You take
Whatever else to distract yourself
You hold your breath
Now
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Bee movie
02:35
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It’s a bug’s life
if you’re the lucky few
there’s always more beneath the brush
And in the footstreams of every avenue
I’ve seen the steam rise towards the sun
I’m still in bed
I’m a good wife
but if I should trouble you
I’ll not be sneaking out the back
Behind the orchard there is another view
Before you call
I’m there
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9. |
Temple Run Utopia
06:40
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That Thursday morning I called you in terror
and twisted an ankle descending the stairwell
It’s bright in the palace, the maids are still slumbering
But outside the temple, the walls are still crumbling
A different story in your face outside the winter window pane
if I should come to take her place I’m lonely just the same
cause I always get away
I always get away!!
Is it enough to cross the ruins’ gates suspended in its place?
I’m planning something profoundly perverted
so make sure the plaza is completely deserted
Seattle to Jamaica Plains
The empire takes its shape again!
A made-up way to fill the space above the mountain range
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New bridge 3
05:14
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I’ll hold the door
and you’ll take a little off
if you won’t take the gold
I’ll still hold the silver close to my chest
you’ve been ultra-inconspicuous
I think that it’s ridiculous
but if buildings keep their vows
then the stars will fill up the canal
so there’s fish on the promenade tonight
and it felt transcendent and gay
and you promised to ask me to stay
what’s the name of your car?
who dismisses your fake ID at the bar?
does your heart beat in the room?
no stains on your Fruit of the Loom
as the tides face the beckon of the moon
(I always sing the same old tune)
So take off in the nightboat baby
the moments like lanterns all strung up above you
there’s dew on the web of the darkness baby
it glints like a shard in the sand
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Asher White Providence, Rhode Island
new shoes. birthday is feb 21 2000
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