2021
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Hands.
These are my handsI have scarred themall on my own.and I I have seen them fighting battlesout on their own I try to mind them I am firm but kindthey are my childrenmy threatened kinI try to mind themthey are silent about where they’ve been these are your wounds and I am not a healermix…
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Growing Home.
Michaelangelo is painting ceilings stillhis back not to a platform, gravity has not the willto bring he and his colors downgreen, green high above the ground. Mother gave you a ring, every anniversarytraced a circle in your skin, so you’d remember everythinga string tied around your limbblowing in an ocean wind. The closest that most…
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Good Heart.
“(VERSE 1) o, a man who won’t have me has the last of my loveAnd the bud bloomed once now a Monumentand the heart beats blood yeahthe heart beats bloodlike a good heart shouldlike a good heart does. Still some nights it feels empty as a painted shelldrained so slowly through a pinholeI hid it…
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Glom of Nit.
Out of SavannahUp through the CarolinasThe rhythm of the pinesReminding me the finest things are movingThe finest things are movingQuick In & out of RichmondStrings & things & fingers fastUnload break down & then repackRinse spit repeat get paid come back If the finest things are movingWe get finer by the hourYeah if the finest…
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Georgetown.
They took my father’s eyesLeft me brown & colourblindTwisting in the windLike he’d never beenThey took my father’s eyes Down in Georgetown on the waterFog rolls in off the riverThe winter’s dyingA velvet deathDrowned by college kids &epithets But they took my father’s eyesleft us in the redLeft us waiting for a signLeft us waiting…
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Gaze.
the sun is snaking it’s shiny selfup over these trees beam by beamits light’s reaching meit’s an unwelcome spy one half-opened eye watches the clock creepwatches shadows sleeplong-side me againnight is like a long lost Loverrediscovering. It’s a twitch it’s a groanmy body’s displeasedI’ve been awake for far too longit’s sending me a complaint up…
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Friday.
Dear…It’s a sweet sweet momentThe sun rise is lingeringKeep finding a wayTo stall this day Dear…It’s a sweet sweet movementthe birds are straining their soundsto lend some charm to Charm City’s clouds CHORUSthe power’s out, andthe lines are downThe roads are outIt’s gonna be long slow day anyhow Dear…It’s a sweet sweet momentthe sun’s bright…
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For Your Sake.
For your sakeI will offer up my best intentions againbelieve in things that I’ve left dormantClear the cobwebs off my hopeand find a way to reawakenwhat about me was once innocent For your sakeI will find a way to be grateful againbelieve that things will work out in the endtrust that someone might be watchingthat…
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For Everyone A Reckoning.
I don’t know any more than youif the sky will fall and crush usor the seas rise up to take back what was theirsMaybe we all get exactly what we think is cominginvite the devil we know right on up the stairs. Oh, theire ain’t no runnin’from the hell you make inside of your mindif you…
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Everything I Remember About The War.
my grandfather told me about his boat he might’ve said ship I don’t really know but he ran up to the front as the planes roared in He might’ve said “back” It was a long time ago my grandmother told me about running away she might’ve said towards I really don’t know but the planes…