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Text and Video: he picks up jorgy every night at eight oclock
he picks up jorgy every night at eight oclockhajorgy asks where’d the pauper get the chariotsays it dresses him up to a princehathe way he sits behind that steering wheel nahhe’d be humbled by a crown diminished by royal robesjorgy says they drive out to tiny’s place to loseat poker every night ‘til well past…
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tomorrow when the sun is still in its seed
tomorrow when the sun is still in its seedbefore the seed cracks and the first lightsprouts then spreads like a sudden vinetoward dusseldorf and cologne tomorrowremain blind as a mole ratthough the voice of the nightjarrestores your hearing and the song of the robin cures your senses remain blinddusk yourself back into dreamdusk yourself deaf…
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Text and Video: abi asks why i answer the ten oclock
abi asks why i answer the ten oclockquestions at rex’s café yeahhe sold that land sold the machinery he’s retired now y’knowbought that pickup new and all he doesis drive the old lady to the city to do errandspick up groceries at the i g afeed at the mill so she can feedthe chickens in…
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the final dawn
the final dawnsomewhere in thuringiaa bud on a twig of beechbuddedfrom dusk when the day shortenedinto winter orovernightbudded and now the time of yeardawn thaws and the day lengthensthe beech leaf is parchmentscroll rolled at the end of the twigwhen it’s unfurledinto a green daybreak bethere to read it
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Text & Video: it was she who plowed furrows in the field.
it was she who plowed the furrows in the fieldand as she filled those furrows with seedhis highness gambled the acres out from under the machinery wheelsgambled the machinery right out from under her ass and the bankraked in the potraked in the harvestraked our inheritance into their record profits tell me abby won’t speak…
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when they cease to be your friends
when they cease to be your friendsit begins when they wake your daily companions the changebegins one morning the firstmorning after the annual season returns they waketheir lives dressed in silks and velvets embroideries abandoned and in their sleep smocks and in the woolen breeches of workers they go out of their roomswhen the oat…
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Text and Video: ah the lioness
ah the lionesswithout her the rain on their barnroof would drip ploink ploink ploink in the liquidmanure on the barn floor the horse in the barnwould wade plash plash plash through shit to the fetlocksto the knee knobs and yetnot even she can stop the corral collapse the decay of old posts into the dry…
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the prince’s mother
the prince’s motherthe elector’s widowjohann of brandenberg who’sappointed regent over saxonyhe adores herand his adoration tolerateswhat proclamations she issues from dresden
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Text and Video: abi’ll bring the baby home
abi’ll bring the baby homeput him to bed on a rug where the lino is worn through to the bare floor woodi’m afraid she’ll speak how we liveinto the child’s name the name by which we must call himwe must call him solomonthe lioness expects ithttps://youtube.com/shorts/FMOpU8CtAWs?feature=share
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you learn solitude
you learn solitudeyour classmates all are like older unclesi haven’t read anywhere that the soul has shutters that swing open nor have i heard anywherethat it has doorsyour peers when they strolluphill the street to market squaredown lane through the meadowwhen they wade from the grassshores of the elbe into the shallowswhen the light of…
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