1. |
Desert Storm
05:16
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And suddenly there were a few clandestine heartbeats
just south of the horizon,
just below the moon.
They were barely noticed.
Eyeballs popped.
Faces fell forward.
They, too, remained unseen.
Of all the steps they had rehearsed so carefully
only the ones performed most slowly were moving.
Inwardly.
One blink later - a strange new voice. (4)
Seconds endlessly endured.
Moments made eternal. (2 laut 2 leise 2 laut 2 git)
Nobody looked, nobody listened, nobody uttered a sound.
When the beat of a drum in the dark began to deepen the dawn, (4)
one by one all the colour and the light and the sound began to fill the air with song.(3)
They took a deep breath.
Inward. And out.
It was bound to stay.
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2. |
Benedictus est.
02:37
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It enters me,
sweet sticky sirup,
not knowing where to go next
(as there is nowhere to go
and nowhere to breathe
and nowhere to thrive)
it enters me
on wings but without angels.
And Eve closes the door
without looking back
while I fill her rosy lungs with
cancers.
Oh pestilence
oh tempora
no llores.
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3. |
The Housewife's Tale
03:16
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This will end with
a lifelong addiction to your
prefrontal cortex, vortex of innocence and song,
which I suddenly burst into
while I was reading Prufrock, and
the lines blurred and the letters
started jumping off the pages in a right
frenzy they did.
I had to sit down for a minute
to make the world stop spinning.
(Needless to say.) - (It didn't.)
The pinheads in the cupboard were screaming
for their puppy love, each
a simile in its own right.
Picture perfect.
They had pierced Prfrck's vowels
like the colourful butterflies they are.
Singled out: You, oh! You:
Your head, your brain, crushed between
my sympathy and my rough cobbler's hands.
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4. |
Entering the Exit
03:15
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This is an easy option for easy days,
for lazy people with peculiar ways,
for everybody who's keen to learn
and for all those people who want to burn.
A solution for the million gods
that roam the earth and head their nods,
for all those who don't want to rise
and choose instead to close their eyes.
It's a way for those who drown their fears
for everyone who cheers or sneers,
and for people without master plan
who wonder how it all began.
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5. |
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They told me
he had sprained his ankle
when in fact
he had become
invisible.
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6. |
Skin
03:15
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Damask, vermilion, jasper.
Touch.
A million voices:
Not enough;
rhyme or treason,
sympathy breeds reason -
do you trust?
Me?
Touch?
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7. |
Nursery Rhyme
04:35
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Sometimes we scream.
Sometimes we hold our heads and our hearts
in front of us like candles
waiting to be ignited and infused.
Sometimes we stretch our legs and
lengthen our strides
preparing to jump and run
straight into the fire.
Sometimes we drink deep
from the cup of song
and we inhale and we exhale
until we are absolutely sure.
And then we curl up
into neat little packages
until our eyes and ears are shut and
the steady drip drip drip of the kitchen sink
lulls us to sleep.
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8. |
Stories
03:21
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Forty stories up there
lies a child
spread eagle face down heart wide
magnolias in his open eyes
Soft little white cushions exit soft
little white lips like lies.
Forty stories up there
hangs a girl
her dress softly swinging to and fro
silver threads on her minute breasts like snow
Sweet vanilla skin emits sweet
black poppy seeds like pins.
Forty stories up, there
sits a boy
loose-limbed, facing holes in the wall
red butterflies on windows and floors
white silken roses grow
out of limonite soil like doors.
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9. |
Inside
02:23
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It slowly opens its closed brown eyes.
It closes its eyebrows slowly.
It openly eyes close brownings.
Eyes closely open its brows.
Slowly opening its brown eyes it closes.
Close to opening its eyes it slows.
It closely browns eyed openings.
Brown openings close its eyes.
Slow eyes close openings brownly.
Eyebrows close openings slowly.
Slow eyes open closed brows.
It brownly eyes open closings.
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10. |
Fifteen
02:51
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I'm all bottled up.
All I can do is hold my breath.
I want to burst.
There is no way.
You ask questions?
I don't care, I won't play.
I won't reply.
There's not enough air to stay.
I'm all caved in.
My skin is a waterfall,
oh, this is hell and
I am the seventh circle.
You want to know?
I cannot tell.
My tongue is an eel
and it writhes and it eats my teeth.
I cannot breathe.
I'm all shut out.
My legs twitch, my eyelids flutter.
I'm falling.
I'm the bowels of the earth and
the rock on a mountain top
and I topple down in mid-love.
You want to see?
Look, look, look.
Don't yet leave.
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11. |
5 March 1871
02:31
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This warmth I woke up to
and the softness of the air (your hair)
and the sudden stillness of your breath.
This dusty smell
and the room filled with
tiny white dots -
- dry snowflakes
- sweet sleeping pills.
This moment.
Sweet sleepiness
scintillating scent
sacred silence.
You and a sigh.
Two words and I.
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12. |
Johnny Clementine
02:13
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Some of them have set their minds on staying,
most of them have taken off their hats,
everyone who still has lips keeps praying,
people leave the sinking ship like rats.
Just like Johnny, our dear Johnny, our dearest Johnny Clementine,
our dear Johnny, dear old Johnny, our dearest Johnny Clementine.
Salty waters flood the rooms they lived in,
and the fish make homes for their own kind,
tears keep coming, thoughts and memories drifting,
masters leave their hearts and souls behind.
Just like our Johnny, our dear Johnny, our dearest Johnny Clementine,
our dear Johnny, dear old Johnny, our dearest Johnny Clementine.
He was one of many once, now lonely
Johnny tries to reach the friendly shore,
faith keeps pushing, but the waters only
pull at him, and Johnny is no more.
This was our Johnny, our dear Johnny, our dearest Johnny Clementine,
our dear Johnny, dear old Johnny, there's no more Johnny Clementine.
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13. |
Henry's Song
00:47
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never
tremble
admire
or
promise
eternity
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14. |
The Truth
04:10
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The truth is that the truth
lies between
two songs, between
two pages, after
day, before night.
It lies right
at the bottom of
the top, at the middle of
the end, half way between black
and white, where today
ends and tomorrow
has not yet
started.
The truth is that our
words, dear, can never
hit home the way we hit
rock bottom every time we
rise and try to get it just
right, be it the cake we let
burn that evening in May or the
lawn we simply refused to mow
because we would much
rather lie flat on
each other's backs.
And the grass grew against walls and up
into the windows and up
to the ceiling where it covered
not only the cracks but
also the silken spiderwebs I had woven
while you were asleep.
The truth is that the truth
lies.
It lies
in wait.
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15. |
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Where is it if not in our eyes when we look
and look away?
Where is it if not in our mouths when we speak
and when we [kiss]?
Where is it if not in our lungs when we breathe
and when we wish?
Where is it if not in our hands when we touch
and caress?
Where is it if not in our minds when we think
and think too much?
Where is it if not in our hearts when we feel
and when we look
and when we speak
and when we breathe
and when we touch
and when we don't think enough?
And when we love?
*
And when we love?
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16. |
On Life
05:47
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When acid rains fell to the ground like stars
and all the snakes and crocodiles retreated,
when men and women met to share their scars
as the noble warrior's heart had been defeated,
I knew that every time I closed my eyes
the world would fold itself back into night
and, like an ancient mariner, draw in the ties
that held it tightly fettered to the light.
That's when we gathered at the sacred spot
to say goodbye and kiss and hold our hands,
shed one last tear, prepare to cut the knot,
and finally lay down on hungry sands.
Oh, how the birds lamented us that day
that took our lives, that took our worlds away.
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17. |
On Fruit
01:08
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This lemon's a lime,
this melon is mine
and these apples, they grow on a tree.
A pear can be green,
a grape isn't a bean
and pineapples live by the sea.
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18. |
Words of a Falcon
03:41
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Take my hand and lay it on your heart
Take my breath and lay it on your ribs
Take my knees and lay them on your hips
Take my shoulders and lay them on your mind
Take my toes and lay them on your spine
Take my brows and lay them on your leg
Take my arm and lay it on your blood
Take my ears and lay them on your teeth
Take my lungs and lay them on your feet
Take my songs and lay them on your lips
Take my eyes and lay them on your skin
Take my ankle and lay it on your chin
Take my tongue and lay it on your neck
Take my cheek and lay it on your back
Take my life and lay it in your hands
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19. |
The Lark's Song
03:54
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What might the lark have thought
that was used to welcoming
lovers to the new day?
What might the lark have thought:
that one morning
on which the sun rose
as on any other day
on which the wind blew
as on any other day
on which the rivers kept flowing
as on any other day?
What might the lark have thought:
that one morning
when doors were ripped open
and ribcages were torn
and blood filled the room
and tears.
What might the lark have thought:
that one morning
when she heard the screams of thousands
of faces and bodies pressed against invisible walls
black and blue from need for breath.
What might the lark have thought:
that one morning
when all of a sudden
there were neither lovers nor new days?
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20. |
Siseneg
02:43
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And then there was nothing.
There was no ship to roam
the ocean that was not.
There was no epitaph,
not even for the undead.
There was no more door to open
and no more window to look out of
and no one to look out of it.
There were no lungs to
breathe vanished air.
There were no feet to
tread spotless soil.
Because there was nothing.
And then darkness subsided
and there was a whisper.
No one heard it.
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