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From our picnic, I see
mice marching over the mountain
I sit on the edge of the dam
watching their bodies make waves
above every walk to the gallows
there are pretty clouds
above every slaver's whip
there is a blue sky
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From Canton in Exile
03:52
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But among the hairbraids, of men leaving home
falls the moonlight, glistening
And where I lay my feet, red sand beneath
gweilo tells me his name for me
Dolly!
born to bloom unseen,
And waste their fragrance on the desert air
where train track surrenders,
to the sands of the billowing winds
rippling!
i say i wont forget you
as you tie the rope around your neck
as color retreats from its frontline
i wish only that id forget you
as color retreats from its frontline
i wish only that id forget you
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I Will Burn Your Coal
05:12
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Bubbly, cuddly are the boundaries of their supremacy
Bubbly, cuddly
waxed and buffed but their edges still sharp
waxed and buffed
I will burn your coal till the skies darken
I will burn it, burn it
Is it worth it, let me work it.
I put my thing down,
flip it and reverse it.
--- the boundaries of their supremacy
Bubbly, cuddly
waxed and buffed but their edges still sharp
waxed and buffed
I am metal and I'll never die
I am metal and I'll never die
We are metal and we'll never die
I will burn your coal till the skies darken
I will burn it, burn it
Is it worth it, let me work it.
I put my thing down,
flip it and reverse it.
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The day dawns,
the morning star is bright upon the horizon
But I am left in the river bank,
hungering in sorrow's kitchen.
I have licked their pots,
I have gulped their bitter water.
And I am filled only with love for you.
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Potter's Field
04:41
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exhumed from beneath the interstate,
the remains of 1,000 workers
makes us catch our breath
like dogs trapped in a hot car
like bees flood to blooming flowers,
like veins of an arm exposed
from its cold, concrete fruit
flows the sweet liquid onto our red lips
And I am tired of wandering
pondering the families beneath me
And I am tired of wandering
wondering if i'll be next to die
while garbage boils in the streets
fattened on wealth they hung their portraits
in the emptiness of the desert
bus stops like monuments,
flooded the valley with oil & blood
And I am tired of wandering
pondering the families beneath me
And I am tired of wandering
wondering if i'll be next to die
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walk it
walk it
maybe the truth is in
how you walk it
(I gotta walk my lonesome valley
I got to walk it for myself,
Nobody else can walk it for me,
I got to walk it for myself)
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Helen Pitts Douglass
06:00
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I will be for you
a guide for what lies ahead of you
between the scribbled line
where our bodies lie
legs tangled in the wire 'tween me and you
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Bodies unbecoming
As the flesh forms a landscape
Whose peaks and valleys
betray their fragile nature
Under amber lights, I consume her
blood flowing down my throat
And as the acid, burns the skin
My insides growl a maxim
Slumps herself feet up, back to the earth
hidden away in the smokey chamber,
keeping your eyes to the ceiling
plumes will gather themselves into shapes
shameful restless icons revealing
under amber lights I consume her
blood flowing down my throat
And as the acid, burns the skin
my insides growl a maxim
Love will smother me, back to the earth
sticky is the veil of the night
thick like clotting cream, runny
and in the humidity of our lust
we'll see each other as the beasts we are
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North ★
06:02
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Apart from our shadows, we have no friends.
Apart from our tails, we have no fat.
who knows what my body's worth
in cold hard cash
I keep no company
No one cares for me
each day a notch on my cage
'till they are through with me
over a river dried, a lake smothered to dust
north star
i stare longingly, and i wonder where you are
north star
what used to be an ocean of sand,
now dynamite & guns rule the land
what used to be this corpus of blood,
now carved into splinters, ashamed & unloved
I keep no company
No one cares for me
each day a notch on my cage
'till they are through with me
over a river dried, a lake smothered to dust
north star
i stare longingly, and i wonder where you are
north star
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Dolly's Dream
05:00
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Dolly dreams of lanterns, swaying in the wind
while her ancestors wash their feet of mud
and under the blossoms she wonders
what crushes our desire not to be trapped
Let a hundred flowers bloom, baby
we can make heaven a place on earth
To stand and gaze upon the Orient lamps,
Where his face burns like a flare
the red lights overwhelm your eyes
and opium smoke burns the midnight air
we have nothing to lose but our chains
and I want to take you there
Let a hundred flowers bloom, baby
we can make heaven a place on earth
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who was pilgrim
who was colonist
in time you will know
the last wilderness
(in time you will know
the last wilderness)
so rest your head,
don't cry for me
in time you will realize
not all of me will die
(in time you will know
the last wilderness)
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tomo takino Death Valley Junction, California
But each fragment reveals the rose from a different angle, he remembered, but delta swept over him before he could ask
himself what that might mean.
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