Line weight

from Line Weight EP by Garden Work

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I am a red-light beacon in a white night,
riding old routes in between camp sites;
passing by all the city's people buried up to their necks in cement.
In paralysis perusing tempting shiny things,
I somehow found a piece of shrapnel, too, embedded in me.
Despite the old man's war, fight, and jubilee,
in the worst ways, we have eased.

So I gripped those garden shears,
and trimmed my brainstem back to the spine;
in hopes of cherry blossom tops to lure the honey bees from their hives.
I drew a sharp garden spade,
and put it in my weakest side;
and dug up most of the gravel and stone
that cast these wayward roots of mine out of line.

One arm pulling me in, the other pushing out-
it's no mystery, I'm spinning in my own cloud.
From a tortured god the world beamed,
aimless joy and loss of self they deemed me.

"So I cast too, my delusion- beyond man, indeed."

So I gripped those garden shears,
and trimmed my brainstem back to the spine;
in hopes of cherry blossom tops to lure the honey bees from their hives.
I drew a sharp garden spade,
and put it in my weakest side;
and dug up most of the gravel and stone
that cast these wayward roots of mine out of line.

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from Line Weight EP, released May 14, 2018
Written by Garden Work.
Produced by Josh Keech.

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