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20061221 - Memory Now

from The Song Diary I by Paleo

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MEMORY NOW


I am going to count to a million,
forwards from oblivion.
You will slip on your unconscious wishes
long before this count has finished.
Our eyes are getting stiff as boards.
Our feet slink back into the floor.
Try to focus on my voice,
the voice of freedom has no choice.


Is there nothing I could say?
Nothing i could do?


Retreating into memory now,
the night is like a big bad black eye.
And the moon, the moon, the moon is its glimmering iris.
It strains to read me despite a seedless sky.
Like snowballs in a blush red wine,
we roll up in our blood red carpet rides.
Who was that in the guest bathroom
inventing a porceline hula hoop?


Give me cat eyes, Kim.
Cat eyes like you.
Pretty as the midnight soil,
midnight like the afternoon.


Is there nothing I could say?
Nothing I could do
to make her stay and burn
a midnight oil or two.


I am going to count from a million,
backwards to oblivion.
And at the end of it all, when I come to,
will I still remember you?


Will I still remember
all the colors on the world?
On my way away from you, my girl.


All the stamped out tracks,
and the cities I pass
on my way away.


Is there nothing I could say?
Nothing I could do?
Is there nothing I could say?
Nothing I could do
to make her stay and burn
a midnight oil or two.




DAS - Somerville, Massachusetts, USA

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from The Song Diary I, released April 15, 2007

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