imitating birds

from gradually and then suddenly (2014) by all my nights are dreams

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We were birds, imitating birds
falling towards earth, sedimentary verse

we were young, and we held the world
with arms outstretched, so we could watch it squirm
you were the ghost, that haunts the ghost
like Henry Thoreau, we spend our lives alone

tell me if it hurts, if it all feels bad
nothing is built to last, never learned to dance
and the highway is a woman's breast, the sky her song
lets hold on to this emptiness until it's gone...
until everything's gone

invent the train, and you invite the train wreck
an astrophysics joke, Schrodinger's cat
and the nightmares that, I still get
I appreciate the company, even at my own torment

all love, is rudimentary, it's a small thing
against the ennui of eternity

when I fell to the dirt, and reached for your hand
you couldn't pull me up, but let me stand
the skyline is a woman's heart, and now it's dawn
lets hold on to this emptiness until it's gone...
until everything's gone

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from gradually and then suddenly (2014), released July 25, 2015
Landon Gow

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