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21 | ... | 21 | ... |
22 | 22 | ||
23 | | So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if | 23 | | So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if |
24 | | you haven't seen it before, hanging in the sky | 24 | | you haven't seen it before, tacked to the sky |
25 | | like a piece of [rotten meat][] nailed to the wall, | 25 | | like a [rotten hunk of meat][], a maudlin love |
26 | 26 | ||
27 | | a maudlin love letter (the i's dotted with [hearts][]) | 27 | | letter (the _i_s dotted with hearts) hung |
28 | | tacked to the sky's door like ninety-eight theses. | 28 | | on the sky like ninety-eight theses. |
29 | | Don't stare at it like it means anything. | 29 | | Don't stare at it like it means anything. |
30 | 30 | ||
31 | | Walk past it quickly, eyes averted. | ||
31 | | Don't give it the chance to collect meaning | 32 | | Don't give it the chance to collect meaning |
32 | | from your hand like an old pigeon. Don't dare ascribe | 33 | | from your [outstretched hand like a pigeon][]. |
33 | | it a will, or call it fickle, or think it has any say | ||
34 | 34 | ||
35 | | in your affairs. It's separated from your life | 35 | | Ascribing it a will, calling it fickle, or |
36 | | by three hundred eighty-four thousand miles of space, | 36 | | thinking it has any say or even an opinion |
37 | | the same distance you stepped away from time that night | 37 | | of your affairs is a mistake: it's separated |
38 | 38 | ||
39 | | you said your love was broken, a crippled gyroscope | 39 | | from you by three hundred eighty thousand miles |
40 | | knocking in the dark. It was then that time fell apart, | 40 | | of emptiness, staring at you blankly like a child |
41 | | had a nervous breakdown and started following you | 41 | | or your reflection when you found your love broken |
42 | 42 | ||
43 | | everywhere, moonfaced, always asking where you're going. | 43 | | in the dark, when time fell apart, broke down, |
44 | | You keep trying to get away from it but it nuzzles closer | 44 | | started following you around everywhere, [moonfaced][], |
45 | | and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove | 45 | | doggedly asking where you're going, like you know. |
46 | | that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn. | 46 | |
47 | | Don't try side stepping time, either: it's only | ||
48 | | a river you're stuck in, [carrying you][] under the glare | ||
49 | | of the moon nuzzling closer, cooing in your ear | ||
50 | |||
51 | | like a dove that escapes into the empty sky at dawn. | ||
47 | 52 | ||
48 | [fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html | 53 | [fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html |
49 | [rotten meat]: roughgloves.html | 54 | [rotten hunk of meat]: roughgloves.html |
50 | [hearts]: proverbs.html | 55 | [outstretched hand like a pigeon]: last-passenger.html |
56 | [moonfaced]: boy_bus.html | ||
57 | [carrying you]: music-433.html | ||