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The moon was rusted.
Her man looked shot
Like Honest Abe...
And that light coppered the Mesa.
She said, "No more secrets...
A penny for your mind!"
Well, divine Ancient,
It hurt bad to know her,
And worse to say goodbye.

I'm like everything else that feeds.
Time, love, blood, mud...it's all meat.
And in the desert's bone jaws,
In his sunbeam teeth,
I know nothing will spare you or me.

America, the beautiful land where I consume,
Born of ancient Indian burial womb.
Flown on hot air of Negro Spiritual tune.
Oh, the hatred is sacred, too.

We the people of frightful, distracted attitudes.
Lonely fools running out of fuel
On big roads built post-WW2
By men who would laugh at you.

But, America I was moved to stay parked there watching you,
Like the Holy Rood, alone, walking through
The field in the long light of afternoon.
I craved the grace that surrounded you.

Cobalt blue,
The sky poured all its paint inside of you.
Airing out the heart's hot and stuffy rooms.
The boxed-up regretting, unopened forgetting, false prophetic peddled dust settling.
And the Big T-Truth:
Lord, I never knew I was at war with you.
Like a desert-sucked bone, I'll be your hollow tube.
You can come here and get it.
I said it. I meant it. I whistle. You fetch it.
And slobber right on through with it
That shining, grinning, loving spit.
Put this old, dancing dust-bunny-boy to some use.

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from Torn​-​to​-​Pieces​-​Hood, released May 15, 2020
Voice/Guitar/Bass Guitar: Pat Phelan
Synth: Adam Lepkowski

Written by Pat Phelan
Produced by Adam Lepkowski

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Rat King drawing by C.TenEyck, 2018

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