By Button Poetry
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Transcript provided by YouTube:
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in the beginning we were one blood
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than the body stem of thorns grew it’s
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disagreement from the inside out
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like all biblical stories it begins with
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a simple form natural secret the body
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kept from itself
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I opened the sealed envelope everything
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in the sky folded gathered into one body
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shoulders the tightness of my mouth
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Wounded Bird lightning fluttering
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between two boys who want to be in a
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basement in a town they dreamt up
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lightning in cities and towns I’ve never
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been to never heard of
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I am positive
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I’m not
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I make a moon with a sugar and a damn
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thumb watch it son lick body dissolve
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into memory
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a couple of turns over I am born and
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reborn I’m not not positive until I say
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it until I taste it
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boys died and died in bodies like this
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and don’t ghosts except on voice
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messages their mothers play to keep
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alive they dress to grieve in churches
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inside black moons blotted out days
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separate from the face
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posthumous thorn
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body liquefaction
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I dream about altar boys and iron
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seersucker suits pecking each other like
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swallows one dared boys with whiskey
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mark Nick’s like a scream of darts found
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them in the sanctuaries loved basement
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in the dark
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one night big druid the town they dreamt
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of fences he allowed clubs like the
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static on TV their only light knowing
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any other light would wake one sleeping
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sister her body in the corner of the
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rooms mouth
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faithful
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moving on Leah’s gun does one night in a
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symphony of nights and he likes us until
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he doesn’t
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like trees struck by lightning we aren’t
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visible until we’re on fire
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everything depreciates like this once
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it’s inside unless it’s overheard
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unless it’s shot in flight
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you
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