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20171111 - The Unguarded Ark

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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They sit gray in the window,
half-god and half-rat,
the cats always watching
the deeply alien act,
where the mouths and the fingers
stray from the tracks,
veering into the one heaven
from which people come back.

In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
The unguarded ark,
in the graveyard
of my heart.

Let those furred wizards watch.
Let them peer through
the sockets of our madness
and see something in there true.
Because sometimes all I see
is the dirge of flesh and blood,
children who go out to play in rain
and come in covered in mud.

In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
The unguarded ark,
in the graveyard
of my heart.

I saw a litter born once.
I woke up to the sound
out of the canal of dreaming
to five kittens on the ground,
squirming poltergeist pulled
through a red black hole.
And they watch me now sideways
and see something with no soul.

In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
In the graveyard.
The unguarded ark,
in the graveyard
of my heart.

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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