August 2022
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Good Heart
Oh, a man who won’t have me has the last of my love. And the bud, bloomed once, now a monument. And the heart beats blood. Yeah, the heart beats blood like a good heart should, like a good heart does. Still some nights, it feels empty as a painted shell, drained so slowly through…
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Glom of Nit
Out of Savannah Up through the Carolinas The rhythm of the pines Reminding me the finest things are moving The finest things are moving Quick In & out of Richmond Strings & things & fingers fast Unload break down & then repack Rinse spit repeat get paid come back If the finest things are moving…
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Georgetown
They took my father’s eyes Left me brown & colourblind Twisting in the wind Like he’d never been They took my father’s eyes Down in Georgetown on the water Fog rolls in off the river The winter’s dying A velvet death Drowned by college kids & epithets But they took my father’s eyes left us…
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Gaze
the sun is snaking its shiny self up over these trees beam by beam its light’s reaching me it’s an unwelcome spy one half-opened eye watches the clock creep watches shadows sleep long-side me again night is like a long lost Lover rediscovering. It’s a twitch it’s a groan my body’s displeased I’ve been awake…
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Friday
Dear… It’s a sweet sweet moment The sun rise is lingering Keep finding a way To stall this day Dear… It’s a sweet sweet movement the birds are straining their sounds to lend some charm to Charm City’s clouds CHORUS the power’s out, and the lines are down The roads are out It’s gonna be…
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Elephant Joke
This one-sided blind side was not the right side for me Just cause I’ve got something for you does not mean you’ve anything for me And falling through the cracks with no safety net at all Makes the cheap seats even cheaper and gives a surer sharper fall What did any of it mean? Who’s…
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Drift
Please don’t fear for me I’ll get there snow or no With a cure or with a blow to end it all This steed Is trusted by me I never learned to navigate such drifts But blindness it is bliss And my Love please don’t forget I’m a creature of such willful ignorance Please don’t…
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Drown
It’s all the past-tense beautiful ones They’re working in these bars They keep the lights dimmed down down down In the hope that the years don’t grow And they raised up their eyes in revolution And they open up their mouths A gutter baptism won’t ever save you baby But it won’t be suicide if…
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Deep In the AM
It’s 4am and the scent of your candle still lingers on my fingers with the scent of your hair and cigarette ash in the air my fingertips are stinging from all their overuse and my voice from the singing I caught something from you I’m sure I’m coughing up blood heart’s blood from a wound…
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Draw You In
Making angels out of paper, they fly so well in the breeze from the screen door. Hope you notice all the left-handed scissors I brought just for you. For you. And all the brand-new crayons, perfectly unstained, soldier straight in the box they came in. My humble offering. I want to draw you in. I…