By Button Poetry
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George Abraham, performing at Honey in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
00:02
– The ghosts of the Dead Sea
00:04
rewrite the history of drowning.
00:07
Sink, the bodies sink,
00:09
unholy, sink, into their own sink, sink,
00:12
home, sink, the bodies sink,
00:15
I lift, sink, Zion, sink, expense, sink, in skin,
00:19
sink, in bone, sink, sink, coarse, in sink, crystalline,
00:23
sink, in wound, sink, sink, I swallow, sink, or inhabit,
00:27
sink, hot earth, sink, welling, sink, into me, sink, sink,
00:30
converging, sink, topography, sink, of shattered, sink,
00:34
silt, sink, I betrayed my, sink, sink, self, sink, country,
00:38
sink, not my, sink, entirety, sink, or maybe, sink,
00:42
I’m written, sink, sink, into betrayal sink or death, sink,
00:47
it’s own, sink, earth salt, sink, holy, sink,
00:50
the salinity, sink, of avulsion, sink,
00:53
sink, wound, sink, holy, sink, escape, sink, of fluids,
00:58
sink, entombed, sin, in its own, sin, ghost, sin,
01:02
town, sin, say Khalil, sink, I’m sorry sin, say Gaza sink,
01:06
I failed, sin, I am, sin, ocean,
01:10
sin, I could not, sin,
01:12
swallow, sin, your mirror, sin, horizon, sin, I am, sin,
01:16
sin, everything, sin, you are, sin, not, sin, the holy, sin,
01:20
sin, perhaps, sin, is in, sin, the sin, blood, sin,
01:24
you name, sin, parallel, sin, sin or maybe, sin, the name,
01:29
sin, is a story, sin, written in, sin, blood, sin, in flesh,
01:34
sin, which is, sin, its own, sin, scatter, sin
01:38
diffusion, sing, say we were, sing, never, sing,
01:42
light, sing, worthy, sing, praise, sing,
01:46
your birthright, sing, sunset, sing, passing, sing,
01:49
reflection, sing, unto body, sing, not my, sing, entirety,
01:54
sing, say, sing, we were never, sing, light, sing, worthy,
01:59
sing, sunset, sing, passing, sing, reflection, sing,
02:03
unto body, sing not mine, sing, entirety, sing
02:07
praise, sing, that boy, sing, who wandered, sing
02:10
into me, sing, searching, sing, for God, sing, to build,
02:15
sing, from lifeless,
02:17
sing, holy, sing, the dead, sing,
02:20
who walk, sing, in me, sing and become,
02:23
sing, story, sing,
02:25
strange fiction, sing, biblical, sing
02:28
save for, sing, salvation, sing, risen, sing, rise, sing,
02:33
rise, sing, risen, sing, rise martyr, sing, levitate, sing,
02:39
human stay, sing, human,
02:41
sing, free, sing, fly,
02:44
sing, fly,
02:45
sing, levitate, sing, fly, sing, by means,
02:50
sing, of ghosts,
02:52
sing, fluid, sing, refusing, sing,
02:57
its own, sing, weight,
03:00
sing, sing, sing.
03:04
(audience clapping)
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