don't hesitate to linger
don't designate your sin
donate the things you will not use
when your new skin begins
beget the rush of blood
forget the doctors gloves
place my face between your hands, and
burn it on the rug
it was guilt that held my head
down like a dog that knows what it did
do you know there's a place
where they decide how you will look
before you're born, its like "Left in the Sun"
wrote your name down on a thorn
before they warned you
what it would be
do you know there's a face
that you will see before you die
that's so familiar that you'll know it's yours
even though you've never seen it before
and all your fetishes will be no more
and all your feathers will fall to the floor
and all space that you occupied
will relocate to peoples minds, because
all your veins are telephone wires
attached to heads where identities expire
inspire jaundice in the eyes of
jawless gawkers gazing at your chin
Though all of the contents of a dictionary will continue to fail me, this album will always save me from certain loneliness each and every time. I love that there is finally an album for those that had their orchard burn down. Thank you.
"if your body's sore i will make some more
i will clack my teeth up tight to yours
comb lint, come less, check for burs & beasts
starve youself for weeks
thats a bible, belt, breathe--" girlwithbasketof_fruitloops
album really takes me back to heartless evenings, longing to be held by arms that didn't want me. As we would dance by prince bay fires, kissing strangers and walling long distances. she kissed me, to then regret it. told him I couldn't hold it in. let him feel the emptiness that I held so firm Reuben Goddard
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