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Child Errant
03:34
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Child of delight with sunbright hair
And seablue seadeep eyes,
Sprite of bliss, what brings you here
Beneath these cheerless skies?
You should have stayed in endless spring
Where day is never dim.
Why, angel, has your erring wing
Borne you down to weep with him?
Emily Bronte, paraphrased
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Castle Wood
06:07
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Day is done,
The winter sun is setting in its sullen sky,
And drear the course
That has been run, and dim the beams that slowly die.
No star will light
My coming night; no morn of hope for me will shine.
I mourn not heaven
Would blast my sight; I never longed for joys divine.
The grief that pressed
My aching breast was heavier far than earth can be;
And who would dread
Eternal rest when labor's hour was agony?
No sighs for me,
No sympathy, no wish to keep my soul below;
The heart is dead
In infancy, unwept for let the body go.
Emily Bronte
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We're still tied
Your spit never dried
Your pulse still in my hand
Go do your thing you said but
This ain't freed up space
No no it's no clean slate
Laboring in the chain I won't break
Drawn down in you I'm done
There'll be no other one
For everything I said I'd do & never will
I hope to keep a garment of my dying angel
If I am noxious you can't be benign
I have fits & you live like a swine
Assessment I can stand but
You will not tolerate
The slightest censure of your ways
Gonna rid yourself of the man who'll never match your wage
You love our kids for sure
And yourself even more
For everything I said I'd do & etc.
PJCF July 2023
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4. |
A False Friend
05:08
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Should've seen this coming
Generation gap agape
She'd like to keep it nice
Hey, farewell is a casual vice
No falser friend
Ever smiled in vain
At a specter of demise
Standing in the rain
Her poisoned dart
Won't pin me –
A green ghost in the shadow
Of a bloodless maple tree
(strophes 2&3 James Finn of Olympia, paraphrased)
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Wading from the boat to shore
You never wet your feet
Shoulder-perched, waves before
The nearing strand entreat
Did not let go my hand
When I set you down
On the sifted sand
Where we'd come aground.
Beech leaves crisped winterlong
Trembling on the twig
Like the edges of the gouge
Of a gutted thing
Hooked and hung head down
Flesh yet crawling
Life's spasms lingering on
It's appalling.
Only want
Stands between you & rot.
PJCF March 2023
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To Araby
05:51
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When she finally spoke to me
I was too confused to answer
A short eternity
I'd carried her icon with me
Everywhere
& everyday
Lived in her image.
Are you going to Araby she said
It's going to be a splendid bazaar
I wish I could go
It's well for you
But the convent school is on retreat that week.
Round and round she turned her bracelet as she spoke
And swayed a little side to side
And I said
If I go to Araby
I will get you something
If I go to Araby
I will bring it back for you.
It was late on closing night
When I got to Araby
No sorrier sight to see
The place was deserted
Every stall was closed
Except for one
The girl who worked it
Talking drivel with two young men
Acknowledging in time
The aimless schoolboy brat,
She asked me if I wanted
Something
I said no
All was unmasked
My fool's holy grail
My wasted weeks of imbecilic fantasies
A creature consumed and mocked by vanity
With rage and frustration my eyes burned.
If I go to Araby & etc.
August 2023, based on James Joyce's "Araby" from Dubliners
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7. |
The Carcinogen
08:15
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You're unconscious when they operate
You wake up and they say you did great
What does that mean?
Better to claw up in the dark & claim your station
Falling ill is a prince's education
Got the spins again
Cannot return to how things were back when
Or void the carcinogen
When will I lay this burden down?
I can hear them murmuring underground
Got a sick mind in a sickly frame
Cannot trust me, I give offense in all I say
To the proffered cure I prefer the ache
You'd rather pay to be affirmed that's how they got you trained
Altered slothslain nutjobs on wellness bent
Depressed on daddy's dime post their mutilation
Such ameliorations' results are mixed
And I'd rather die than have my psyche fixed
Spayed world with tags for speech
Such the winnings of the weak
I never wanted to wear that dirty crown
When will I lay & etc.
PJCF September 2023
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8. |
Adrift
07:18
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Speaking in tongues
In darkness to no one
The Ironclad ticks in the night
Clocks another year.
Tread the dead every predawn promenade
The used March snow crunching in senseless resent
Cloudsigned moonset adrift in blood
What was and is to come
Night stretching on.
I don't believe we are coming home
Till we've burned it down
Phoneblue kids with broken minds
Fumbling for life's lookalike
Mom & dad gonna take the reins
Now that God has gone away
Night stretching on.
PJCF April 2023
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