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Stranger
02:59
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last night i slept with a strange man. he was older than me. he had thick busy hands. we crawled inside his bed and we took off our clothes. we said nothing to each other. this house is our house, too. this is our house, too.
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Two Open Arms
01:28
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what did i learn when i burned down the house. who am i now that i am just myself. no more black heirlooms brickwork blankets or yards. just bones hair skin teethmarks and two open arms. where are we wild when we slept on the shore. who are you now and who were you before. our bodies lose language and we try to change. withdraw from our habits but we stay the same. warm the stove put the knives away. we don't need words if we know what to say.
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we crawl across the landscape and we don't make a sound. slowly drawing birds into our wide open mouths. and with my naked arguments we dance around the room. painting silhouettes of noise that splinter out and bloom. i am the same. i am the same. i am the same. i have changed. the dictionary song we sing to dull our empty heads. pulling off our overclothes and getting into bed. and as we harmonize our haptic melody, we'll reach in each other's mouths and pull out all our teeth.
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His Hands
05:07
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you covered your face with black coal. you stripped away all your clothes. did you think i wouldn't recognize you that way. he wanted to put his hands on me. i let him put his hands on me. get your fucking hands off me. put your pants back on. pretend that you did nothing wrong. don't worry, mom.
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Don't Sleep
04:40
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when your bones break and your mouth makes no sound
we will tell them what we meant when we found
you sleeping in the orchard alone
you keeping the plants that you've grown
and what you brought then was the reason we came
and i confess that my secrets are the same
and i confess that the horses don't sleep
and neither do i
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we know fire we read our newspapers
in ponds drown reds take cautions
out on dates and
never fuck
too worried about friction
(k. born)
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Housewife Pt. 1
04:13
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we paint our houses at night. colours never match up right. we'd never give a lock our of hair. we fuck too much we don't care. too many picture frames on your wall. christmas sparks in my head like all those nights you were in my bed. like all those secret holes we shared. quilts out of skin bones left bare. and too many picture frames on your wall. can i be your housewife. don't be late for dinner.
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Invite
05:12
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i will invite, again. i will make this my anthem, if it fits the pattern, if i say it over and over. i will invite, again. i don't want to set fires anymore, i just want to be wild. so let's be wild. let's make noise all night. let's invite strangers into the house. let's be wild.
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We Will Never Die
03:34
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we gallop the birches with our strep throats
our tired lungs like accordion bellows
we are born from mountains, our mouths are full of sand
we hide dusk in our pockets and we live off the land
my bones are made of wood
carved from evergreen
my skin is math equations
it's so hard to be clean
his brother will be my brother or
no one will keep secrets anymore
and we will walk the ocean floor
for just one terrible moment of warmth
we will never die, then
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Housewife Pt. 2
03:14
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and i will hunt you down. and i will build you a big big house. and we could sleep in the same bed. no one would have to know. you say what if people start talking. well you could blame the mess on me. say: you don't know who you are. you say someday you're gonna settle down. you're not gonna live your whole life this way. because i have nothing to offer, except folded shirts. i can't litter your yard with baby's teeth. our mattress is just a place to fuck and sleep. it's so easy.
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River Is
02:36
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insert thesis here. catch the last bit of water on the edge of my chin. try to keep tempo. try to not corner it is your river is. this river is. your river is.
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Hospital Song
02:42
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he's always writing hospital songs. why can't i write hospital songs. why can't i do something with my head or my hands. i've only thread and bones and endless demands. let's stop talking. let's start harvesting. let's start cutting the grass. our yards are full.
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Hunting
03:22
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you're sweeping up the soldiers
and every song is thin
gather acorns for winter
so you know where you've been
but where you been, my old friend?
you've got rags and tears and tethers
you glued on your feathers
and you shift around
like you haven't slept in months
are you still sore about it?
grab your guns
we're going hunting
it's a long time coming
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He Died
04:06
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grandfather clock got thinner each day and they cut him up starting with his leg. he died. he died before i could understand that his blood was not my blood. i sat with my family cutting up old christmas cards because i wanted to forget so much. i wanted a town with more or less lights. your name on a wall or mine on a gravestone. i wanted him to be you. i wanted him to be you. so all of us could die together that night. so we don't have to have separate hospital beds. no we don't have to have separate hospital beds.
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This House
04:59
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this house is old and no one sings but me
this house is old and no one sings but me
i tried to burn your stains out of the bedsheets
but no graveyard can ever be clean
oh, i want to be clean
i want to stop teething your music from my bones
i want these songs to be my own
but i don't wanna sing alone
no, i don't wanna sing alone
so, sing along
"we sing along!"
these
-rotwood
-yardwork
-smokescreen
-sawdust
-staircase
-lantern
-paper
-cardboard
-mantra
songs
these are our songs and "we sing along!"
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Liturgy
04:19
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you blunt horses. you casper ghosts. your dust jackets. creased sheets cold. auburn wool pockets. carve blossomed boats. simple sandpaper. cottered coats. and you became bones. and my brothers will burst into baskets of orange fruit; my sister will tame all the beasts she holds high; my mother will break bricks to weather her windows; my father will worry until he goes blind; and we all will sleep at the bottom of the river. i’ll sing sonata, bring the frost-bite, bury bones, i’ll call niagara, down the houselights, and stay home. stop your novels! catch a cold. stop your novels! dig your gold.
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