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Daddy Daddy, it was just like you said
Now that the living outnumber the dead.

Where I come from it's a long thin thread
Across an ocean, down a river of red.
Now that the living outnumber the dead.
I'm one of many.

Daddy Daddy, it was just like you said
Now that the living outnumber the dead.
Speak my language.

Hello. Hello.
Here come the quick. There go the dead.
Here they come.
Bright red.
Speak my language.


- Laurie Anderson song

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Monday, 14 April 2008

Another Song of Love




Another Song of Love


you stepped
into the laboratory

you shook the vial of love

you heard
the noise of roses
struggling in your fists

angel
of sex and sound
you waited for the earth to turn lemon,

my poem
fell on your skin
and you were lost almost forever,

forever you are traced
in the digital memory
of thieves;

acid girl,
your sweat
stains the folklore
of my forgetful land,

and whispers secret corridors
to thieves

when they raid
the museum of magic,
with only the weapon of sound,

tonight.

4 comments:

Ritwik Banerjee said...

Parts of this poem are incredibly beautiful. These lines are intense. What passion they carry in their words!

my poem
fell on your skin
and you were almost lost forever


your sweat
stains the folklore
of my forgetful land


I will remember these pictures always!

littleblackstar said...

...you heard
the noise of roses
struggling in your fists...


this poem carries the scent of lemon and acid stains.

Rye.. said...

[i]Your poem..
Fell on my skin..
and I was lost forever..

[olive] Some of the most lovely lines i've come across.. :)

oindri said...

i saw u in one of eliot's community...am also a poet and that wat drove me to read urs...u have a truth of passion in you...thts what made me love it...