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THIS JUST IN
Teach me how to cry at will,
I'll teach the sharks of love to learn you up.
I know you know the weeping sea,
you've seen her shutters open blowing shut.
The folks who manage to make it work,
do they stay together by mostly staying apart?
The second act, we know where it ends,
but the trick's in how to start.
Start me over.
Starting over.
Entering the sunset on a mule,
the moon she's playing dead.
And we all take our places at her table,
the night is generous.
And chance is in the shadows
like a ripper, jacking mirrors, sacking beds.
Venus playing nine-ball with a stork,
your son is patient at her nest.
If something were to happen.
If something were to happen, just in case.
Start me over.
Starting over.
If something were to happen.
Hear and art and heart and hearth,
arranging chairs on a chopping block.
Many miles a minute,
I am tying triple rainbows in a knot,
for the one whose door for me is ever open,
my tender wounded dock.
Sew your calloused hands to mine,
I'll paint roses over all your gunshots.
If something were to happen.
If something were to happen.
If something were to happen, just in case.
Start me over.
Starting over.
Start me over.
Starting over.
DAS - Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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