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Eugene
03:01
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I can't cry for you anymore, Eugene.
I can't try for you anymore, Eugene.
These are complicated times and it's your right to change your mind
But please let this be the last time, Eugene.
There's a strong wind in the backyard, Eugene.
It could carry you so very far, Eugene.
But you never trust the weather, even when we're swept together
Take your shelter like a savior, Eugene.
Yellow eyes, or headlights
Out beyond my windowsill
When I open up, you come just close enough to touch
If you don't want me now, you never will.
You may think that all my waiting is a trap
And that might be why you rarely call me back.
But this patience is a rose, with her tired face exposed
There are petals falling at your feet, Eugene.
Gather up your useless bounty, Eugene.
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Face the Terrain
04:51
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Some go by bicycle
Some by commuter train
Whatever your vehicle
You must travel through the pain
So let’s go there
And face the terrain.
Sit in the night and listen
Hold the earth to your ear
The O to the R horizon
A shift in the lithosphere
Let’s go there
And face the terrain.
Gather your golden people
Your chaperones through the stars
Point your compass inward
Follow your map of stars
Constellations carved in your veins
Let’s go together
And face the terrain.
Fractal of petals
Geometry of a leaf
Infinite patterns of being
You’re a landscape
Worth exploring
You go by bicycle
I’ll catch the next plane
When we reach our destination
Our bodies will fill with rain
Open your arms
Embrace the terrain.
Let’s go there
And face the terrain.
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Pet Store Iguana
03:53
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Pet store iguana sitting
On branch made of wire
And construction paper, and the fake greenery
Even you don’t believe.
You’ve changed the color
Of plastic, and index fingers
Point to your signaling
But here it don’t mean anything.
You were meant
For a warm rock in Sedona
Panorama for your rotating eye
And I don’t understand why
You were doomed to end up
In a 12-inch aquarium, a pet store in Iowa
Looking up at a decal of the sky.
I’m sorry that I stare
When you can’t go anywhere
It’s perfectly unfair
And if the weather was better
I’d drive you to the desert.
Even if you escaped
Disguised in the aisles several days
Your life would be about the same
As any pet we ever save
A little bit more space inside a bigger cage.
You were meant
For a warm rock in Sedona
Panorama for your rotating eye
And I don’t understand why
You were doomed to end up
In a 12-inch aquarium, a pet store in Iowa
Watching me cry.
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Hold yourself together
Control is all that matters
And the wise men gasp
At the light spilling out of your cracks.
Keep only what’s needed
Artery and seed
Scattered on the floor of your body
Empty as the lies you believed
Unsteady earth lurching under your feet
Slipping over the edge of nothing.
Who will ever reach you
In your catacomb.
Where your softness turns to stone
Where you face your monsters alone
Making yourself hollow
Weightless at the edge of nothing.
I am reaching my hand
Through your broken rib
Maybe something will give
We’ll find a way to bring the lives that we live
To an understanding place
Broken edges interlaced
Holding hands at the edge of nothing
Looking over the edge of nothing.
Stay around
Stay in time
Keep your light
Sewn to my side.
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