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SUNDAY PRAYER, cxxxviii
time & time again,
fingerprints pave the windows
packed with plastic men and women
wearing grassy knolls and swimming
in a pool of peppermint skulls
the wallets dancing on the walls
in a eucalyptus bliss
clap your hands and slit your wrists
i am i am
time & time again
those are your clouds in the drain
that is your new suit they're staining
your skull they are painting black
that's your face in the glass reflected
the men and widows plastic perfected
here and gone as fruit flies, and
the sharp songs that said it best,
but they were wrong
because you're a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - little egypt, u.s.a.