There's a boy on the creekside, gaunt and bitten in the wing. He'd raise a short, deaf from shellfall, taking care. See the gore on his bootshine where he's singing in the reeds. He's borne the cold, bore it often. He's wading in. He never wanted to be anything more, he's always known these sins for reasons. Beat the box and skip the crown, they fought the ground, they fought the ground. All the sighing tenderfoots, so many jars of Baal. What they'd seen in cosmoline, all justified and justifying. "Unto others..." scribed into their golden tomes from home. But he never wanted to be anything more, he's only known this bellum ritum. He's singing! I give you hard felt reliquary, I give you heartfelt cat o' nines. I give you something to love. I give you blood-drained television, I give you blood-stained son of mine. I give you something to love. Wasted time, he's wasted all the time. The forwards breech the line; he's waiting to fall. Porous, the northern forests, ever moving through. I beat the pall, recall it's all I do. I've raced these boys around the col'mbines, a lie that they never really wanted to follow, they never wanted to go this far. It's all I want to sing! Hey-yo, oh-no! Strike all the way! Strike! Oh-no, oh-no! It's your golden anniversary! O Eris, I show my sons around! O Ares, I show my boys around! I give you heartfelt reliquary, I give you pogroms genuine. I give you something to love. (I give 'em all, I give 'em names...) I give you blood-stained television, I give you all partition line. (I give 'em all, I give 'em fame...) I give you hard reigns and fallbacks, again. I give you something to love. (You all will sing again!) I give you bones, veins of blood, brains, and okay okay okay okay.
credits
from "Two for Midnight, One for Noon" EP,
released December 18, 2022
Additional Musicians:
Kristen Beard, viola
Matt Douglas, bass clarinet
Karen Galvin, violin
Rosalind Leavell, cello
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