Cleft

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pointed toward scaly theatrics / some numberless and unravished shells / and conventions that ground us in moans / when filthy rivers are the fashion / our guilty cleft minds are pregnant with reproach / and are contrary to the country // contrary to the country / the country of our parents and our children / a lonely rebirth broadcast on a cage / an elevated attendance / inebriation / arbitrary / grasping at word heaps parallel and criss crossed // parallel and criss crossed our cleft minds are pausing at the pits / slow feet hesitate rest / refrain from breaking / from muddying the cadence of the doomed progression and our botched curation / so we borrow the acoustics

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from Smiley, released March 29, 2019

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