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20060901 - Caliper Kiss

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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CALIPER KISS


Many miles a minute,
cradle to nest,
picking through beginning,
to much needed rest.
The houses on the harbor,
they're bigger than death.
Their garlands wire the windows,
the bedsprings, the meth.


The ocean rigged its waves up,
forces a smile,
out of mountain range of quiet
stretched out for miles.
Alive in the country,
my family, my pen
searched the world over nothing,
haven't found enough of it yet.


Let's just pretend I'm a flower
and you are the sea.
And just like the sea,
you're swallowing me.


Drifting until
my number is up
I am your flower
til my kingdom comes.


Ships come in ensemble,
like calipers kiss,
laying low the ditches,
all in the wrist.
God was my witness,
his stone eyes stare back.
Religion had him quartered,
his crystal ball black.
Drain this awkward river
between outside and in.
Put itself between them,
bad bloods drawn thin,
many miles a minute.
Something about breath,
keeps us full of empty,
and that's important, I guess.




DAS - Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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