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sunday my lover sailed away
my lover sailed away and the day laid low
aware that sails strip slack and that ships crack
sink back down to the dark below
where the bad folks go
then everybody held hands
raised flags, prayed, and waved like the waves wave
quiet when the tide is low
cracks in the pavement, patterns in the mattress
sure he is a pacifist but how were we supposed to know
with all the blood flow

the children descend
to play war and angels, priests and devils
the congregate crumbles home alone

sunday my lover sailed away
my lover sailed away
and the sea wept salt and sacrament
children in the alley build cannons from trashcans

oh no! all the blood flow

(ash wednesday)

a hesistation
a notch set gently in words
trickled out over zephyr scarf
and marking an alley's worth of walls

a hesitation
a hand run over a cross
of automotive grease on our brows
oh, to dust shall you return
after all

then i remember you once
with three white tigers and threadbare fingers
and movement older still by admission
then i remember you once
as i remember all things in tradition

wait! tradition? bullshit!
we cough scrap metal lung
and gasoline spit
like we could be the brand new futurists
you and i
as we say
or as we might say

and sacred canon?
fuck it
here's a revised manifesto
that you can tack on to your docket
to all concerned parties
there is no chance of reconcilliation
give it up

and then i remember you once
as i should never hope to know you
or know you again

(holy saturday)

and the blind will lead the blind
the blind will lead the blind
the children cry
the rest just go home

the blind will lead the blind
the blind will lead the blind
the martyrs die
the rest just go home

and blindly weave and sink into a silent prayer
hands clasped, conjuring, whispering
like children crying far from home
divining hopeful thoughts from guts laid bare
with the fear that lives in everybody here
the fear that after all is said and done
we're all alone

we're all alone.
i don't want to be alone.

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from Shepard's Paradox - Old Recordings 2008​-​2010, released December 2, 2018

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