Recorded as a voice-memo November 5, 2015 at 1124 Province St, Pittsburgh, PA.
You called me in your sleep.
I came to you in haste
and there I saw that you
were in the grip of The Future's trial.
And so to calm your fevered mind,
I joined you in that dream
and there I held your hand
like a pillow does a crown.
And then I woke to find your eyes -
they had washed away in peace
as though a thread had been pulled
by a needle through a cloud.
And then I sawed off the bottom
of a lake and then I dove
even further down
into the wilds of my mind.
And the Freedom came along
(it was a boy I used to be)
and he said, "oh, my god,
what have you let yourself become?"
And so to please the only clock,
(and what a needful child it is)
oh, I am neither young
nor so clever as to lie.
I keep my fears in a jar.
And I keep that jar in reach
so that I can stare at my fears
like a boy who's caught a frog.
And I will fall by the clock.
I will hold my body forth.
Oh, I don't want to be alone
in a body that I owe to the ground.
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