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chrysalis
02:26
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lying in bed and i'm making a chrysalis out of the absences people regard as ultimate failures on somebody's part and have the audacity to call me a pessimist
throwing it out there, consider this: i value the misses as much as the hits and i'm happy as god in the god delusion dancing with jesus inside the illusion of love
under the ivory i've built around me, in the pages of long dead philosophers, so far inside i've forgot how to find it there's probably something i have left to offer up
if you could bother to dig down inside of it, hold your eyes open like a clockwork orange, i think there is something the colour of courage
i count on my fingers your blinks as you're sizing it up
and i think to myself that you're already burning it up
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waltz #3
04:53
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turns out the leaving's no better than the being left
the same old combustion of heaven and head
everything on one shoulder nothing on the other
yr not some new truth i was put here to discover
pulling with one hand pushing with the other
i looked at my seventeen, thought i was above her
there's a steadiness i don't have the words for it yet
an unreadiness you read in my palm thru the sweat
i'll be watching this back on my video camera
laughing the slapstick back into that anger
eyes of the future burn holes in my head
singing long live the moment the moment is dead
follow the line to its radical conclusion
my life's open wide i don't mind the intrusion
thought i'd be cooling yr skull in the summertime
but i'm good for nothing cocooning no lullabies
here in this flytrap the mother of alibis
send yr love back to that landscape where nothing survives
never said i wouldn't be where you are
heaven sent signals i'm wary of
i am not defending myself
and i'm not, i'm not attempting to scare you off
and i'm not, i'm not descending
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fishbone
06:22
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there's been a fishbone stuck in yr throat for the better part of a year
what it takes lately to trace an unfelt fear
from the crown of yr head down to yr neck is all i know of you yet
the last part's supposed to be the best from what i hear
we all know what the body does
it writes itself
rends itself unwillingly for the good of yr health
in all yr fractionating light for all yr life
i heard yr heart making blood thru yr collarbone
split thru yr frame in the night
quiet face weightless in yellow bright
like a stray cat in the alley out back
of the house i sleep in tonight
diamond edgeless in cool delight
we all know what the body does
it writes itself
rends itself unwillingly for the good of yr health
we all know what the body does
it writes itself
maybe a hand in the night would bring you right back to yrself
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dinner for a bird
04:11
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finchlike alight on the edge of my shoulder
might carry me out on a feather
or sit in the pitch and the sickening sway
of the maplessness of that forever
before this whole coming together
empty as hands and as full as a lover
with nothing to articulate
gun to the head and a palm on the bible
i'm putting it up for debate
a new heart has entered the play
and i am coming apart
and you are not looking away
if there was a bad bone in you honey
what would it say?
finchlike alight starling be careful
sparing the details, darling the darkness was
seven and ten and as thick as molasses
when i had already been ate
bitten all tender for mister colossus
before you stepped up to the plate
yr only a century late
you've been beaten my love to the punch
i have already been somebody's lunch
if there was a sharp tooth left in that head
would it crunch? would it crunch?
finchlike alight starling be careful
sparing the details
darling the darkness was awful
somebody bright making me watchful
sparing the details
darling the darkness was awful
ready to try forth and be fruitful
be truthful, yr likely to fly
dovetail
darling the darkness was awful
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mayfly halo bright
03:55
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i always liked yr eyes
how they roll back in yr head
yr always tired
lying with my ear against yr chest
i promised as a child
to do my very best
to curl myself inside
the space between yr neck
and the girls you didn't like
you left something behind
inside me when you left
between my thighs
embedded in the heaviest of flesh
laughed at my attempts to get inside yr head
to find the reason why
you liked me best when i was playing dead
i'd never lie
you know i meant it when i said
that one in five intentions never make the finish line
i'm spinning in yr eyes
outside of circle time
one in three hundred sixty five
my mayfly halo bright
kiss me goodnight
make my mayfly halo bright
in circle time
you know i always liked yr eyes
i'm getting tired
make my mayfly halo bright
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Leonora Hackles Manchester, UK
"It creeped the heck out of me" - The Screever
"Quietly unsettling ... morose hallucinations" - God Is In The TV
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