Psalm One
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John left himself in the river
As hes drowning a man of God
He knows now that the people wont listen
Until Yahweh is weeping their blood
John sees himself in the water
Under the locust moon
In the dark desert his Father
Rubs the red salt in his wounds
Hold down
Underwater
What you feel the most
Take it
To the river
To the Holy Ghost
Make this
My last day of pain
Just make this
My last day of pain
Mary nailed her heart to a cross
When she killed that temple dove
And spread its blood on her screaming baby
She knew then they would never give up
Now Mary waits at the edge of the city
with her Father and the locust moon
Two women bring the shadow of her baby
She wets her palms in the tears of his wounds
Hold down
Underwater
What you feel the most
Take it
To the river
To the Holy Ghost
Make this
My last day of pain
Just make this
My last day of pain
I’m still alive but
I’m still a liar
I’m still alive but
I’m still a liar
I’m still alive but
I’m still a liar
I’m still alive but
I’m still a liar
Kintsugi Detective
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In last season’s leaves
Watermelon bits of you
are beetle-covered
and evaporating with
winged sheathes whispering
deliver unto us the fuse-lighter
The church basement tip-line
is ringing off the hook
If you or anyone you love
becomes the victim
of a cold case bombing
You may be entitled to a disappearance.
or was it suicide?
or solitude?
Every lost connection in my bed
resting their fingertips on my skin
in the half-light rosemary oil dusk
but a wire sticking from a box labeled “HATS”
catches the corner of my eye
Dear People I Live With
did you mean to leave gunpowder
in the Christmas decorations?
Yes, we did
and now that you mention it
can we just be friends?
After a decade of the Work
I am still googling “sadness”
and re-reading the Wikipedia article
about how Homo Sapiens are the only animal that cries
or has expectations of clarity
Every time you think, you are avoiding death
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https://soundcloud.com/smiththeband/this-makes-me-think-every-time?si=7dcea5f68ece400ab286fe5cf286c1d0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing mama was a painterand dad was a working man's sonmy youtube therapist said I'm a good boy if I get good grades and pay the bills and see myself in mirror naked meditate until I see nothingclean every corner,...
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Cry with loversWhen Fern let's goThe Heartbreaking beautyOf being small No pleasure without hurtSo pick good poisonGet used to taking turnsAnd leave my islandAll bridges burnSo hit the roadDon't listen to them telling me where to goI never really learnUntil...
☾ Read more ☽ ☾ Read more ☽Mother’s Child
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Are you ok
It must be hard on you
Pouring the ashes for two
But I am my mother’s
mother’s mother’s child
Bearing the weight is the proof
That my love goes as far as the moon
And If I’m dying I’ll die like a coon dog
Go out with style and grace
Or die from the grief of a
Loss of the trust of the master
How ya doing
When are you coming back
Just checking in on your mental health
Oh I am my mother’s
mother’s mother’s child
Hard work’s always the cure for the blues
Oh my idle hands are devil’s tools
I won’t loosen my grip on the lives we could lose if we
filled up our closets with
Uniformed skeletons who
Played by the rules of the master
peripheral darknesses; in the right corner of my eye a tear of ethanol, long distance phone calls from purgatory, the fear in your voice with my hand on your slipping pulse, you came so far just to get here. I am my mother’s mother’s mother’s child and I am witness the permanence of shame
Undone Dishes
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You ever wake up from a dreamTo get a drink of waterBut you’re still in the fucking dreamAnd then you hear your grandfather crying What the sam hill were you thinkingI really wish you weren’t such an idiotI can’t believe...
☾ Read more ☽ ☾ Read more ☽And Sagan said to Caselotti…
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MirrorWhere do we go from here?I've beenSpinning on this blue marbleFor 30 yearsAnd it's oddMaking the same mistakes, I've learned nothing from different placesBrushing the same teeth in your image while different faces look backI'll getthe swingOf thingsEven ifI swing...
☾ Read more ☽ ☾ Read more ☽Lady Lazarus Takes a Walk
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Sylvia Plath does Wislawa Szymborska’s “Lazarus Takes a Walk” Lady Lazarus Takes a Walk The poet has died three times now. After the first death, she was taught to die as an artist does. After the second, she learned how...
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