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20060710 - For A Woman I've Never Met On Her Birthday

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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FOR A WOMAN I'VE NEVER MET ON HER BIRTHDAY

Is this your birthday?
It is nice to meet you.
I hear you're a gypsy,
and you take many lovers.
Forbidden dances
keep us young forever.
Trees are budding.
Two bottles marked now and never.

Are you a dancer?
I am a whirling dervish.
I am the caller.
I'll make you twirl forever,
like mandalas.
I'll make you young forever.
I'll make you young forever.

The contra dance of spinning clockhands.
Spin the bottle, a spinning wheel, a California twirl.
What if that dismal bottle never slows and never stops
and never slows and spins forever?

Are you a seamstress?
He made you spin forever.
Cloak & dagger.
The bottles spin forever.

What if that dismal bottle never slows and never stops
and spins forever?

Lindsay, wouldn't it be worse
if it never stopped at all?
The contra caller calls and calls.
The grizzly stranger on the ball,
a mandala on the wall,
his poems wrote on leaves.

Lindsay, look into your heart of hearts,
would it really be that bad,
if the bottle stopped on me?

DAS - Austin, Texas, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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