Spoken Word
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Text and Video: but now he can drive the lioness to church on sunday
but now he can drive the lioness to church on sundayand i don’t have to use our old truck and time i don’t have i don’t have time to haul the loads of potatoes she digsup from her garden to the farmers’ market so his highnesswill have what he calls pocket cashabby says he’s a Continue reading
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when you wake
when you wakeblind as you do at every dusk of nightin the hours before sight dimsinto your room through the windowin your dormitory in every cellin every feather filled bag of bed your friendsclassmates peers with their hands feelfind the tinderbox you took to your bedand the short thread in tallow dippedand dipped a hundred Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Text and Video: back in august
back in augustwe’d planned to put a crib in that second roomi laid a light colouredcarpet down against a somber tone in there and nowthe child’ld catch a chillunder the warmth i painted across the ceiling in whiteand through the cheerful air i painted on the walls in yellowhe’d catch his death by coldhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/55Z7Fu8U9Ps Continue reading
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Text and Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold
i never thought as i carried her over the thresholdthat the october wind would blowthis cold and this continuous through the wallfrom around the window frame in the wallit blows down on where the child’ll sleepblows the pilot light in the gasfurnace out and this with cold cominghttps://youtube.com/shorts/rNrpKJ2LXr4?feature=share Continue reading
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i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 05
Hi Everyone: Here’s the fifth segment: https://youtube.com/shorts/KlMSyKKNnFo?feature=share Continue reading
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