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Tiger's Paws
04:04
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Your crane’s neck salty
Two tiger’s paws on a white belly, kneading
Hot wolf spit and howling mouths
Teeth ringing with animal songs
Words on snake tongues simmering
Let us be evil then
But DEVIL
And DOUBTFUL
Didn’t mean a thing
Until I was fallen from you
Come ruination
Don’t the words weigh down the music
Don’t the words weigh down our animal dreaming
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Sailing Days
02:45
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Jellyfish out to sea
She’s the current come for me
And I built a reef
I coasted free
Like a continent
Across her
But my sour days,
My sailing days
With winter all coiled and cocked
A rattlesnake of a day
Jaws unhinging for me
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(Untitled)
01:12
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Blue Light
05:23
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When that old blue light comes rolling in
I will know the thumping of a troubled heart
The path of bubbling blood
There’s a song in the way she folds her arms
In the half-light when dreaming kicks in
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Hammers & Hail
03:48
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There is always a source of sadness here
Irrigated by a block or two of city storefront
Where your ghost still hangs in doorways
And awning shade
Always a song swimming in nausea
Dragging behind it those poisoned scenes
Always a motor purring
Where your eager keys have found the notch
And snuck inside
Blow your breath across my cheek and go
The fists are made
The wounds are counted
All the irony will grow unnoticeable
I will grow unnoticeable
Sick and bulging with words
To remind you of everything with
And sudden fogs and trembling
On the corners of streets
And up the sides of buildings
Stuck in this place like arrows
Pinning it to every speck of dread
That passes between us
Always a secret spoiled
Wrestled from a deep and deadly sleep
Always a night obscured by fireworks
That sizzle and decay before our eyes
One last look
Then back into the car
A stretch of road
A beach we found under the snow
A look that lasts a thousand years
Hammers and hail against me
A secret patch of brain
To remember everything with
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(Untitled)
01:36
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Sex
03:40
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Kisses came and left me here
Her breath in my throat
Stuck like perfume
To what I wanted to say
Thick as syrup
And sickly sweet
Calamity is only skin deep
How thick does she get?
I shoot panic when she jerks and sways
The unnerving gob
The squawk
Calamity, you sulky thug
Seeking bitch and brood
Clanking through the rosy circuitry
Frosting all our pipes with rot
Calamity in heaps and smears
Seconds away from loving you to death
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