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At the throat, brushed green like tile I shine.
The devil says "hum-drum", the eel struggles,
futile like a wagging tail, so many broken, hating
with the hardness of crocodiles and ants, pulling along their dead, to consume,
knowing nothing of sorrow or forgiveness.

All night I sit with my naked thighs
on the carpet, red from the heat.
What point could there possibly be
to all this pain, the death of others,
the sickness that swarms in mid-air
and the Hurricanes hit the graveyards.

you saw the ones you lost
you sure you did enough
you saw the ones the world cast off
you’ll meet them soon enough
you’ll meet them soon enough

A gull tilts on a telephone wire. I wish to bid goodbye.
I wish for ice-cream cones in my fridge,
a handful of poppies to give some child,
any child, I meet. I see dead eyes in my dream, glossed with
mucous and unbearable vacancy.
How do I serve when the world is so cold

Let us go now, my nightmares and I,
let us go under the light,
let us go until our heart's blood is
free-falling, exposed, let us go
free-falling, exposed, let us go

The humpbacks know this, the midgets and also the centipedes.
I want to hide in rooms where infants are sleeping or salamanders nurse their young.
Lord The darkness is in me. The ground deceives me,
changes colors changes me as I go.

you saw the ones you lost
you sure you did enough
you saw the ones the world cast off
you’ll meet them soon enough
you saw the ones the world cast off
you’ll meet them soon enough
you’ll meet them soon enough
you’ll meet them soon enough

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from River - songs from the poetry of Allison Grayhurst, track released October 5, 2017
© 2017 Diane Barbarash (vocals, musical composition and arrangement) and Allison Grayhurst (lyrics from the poem Elegy of This Day Being) with additional lyric contributions by Diane Barbarash

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Diane Barbarash Vancouver, British Columbia

Thank you to the ones who inspire me daily to be true to myself when I write... Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Steve Earle, Sigur Ros, Kathleen Edwards, Kacey Musgraves, Julie Miller, Rhianna, Future, Bon Iver, Yellawolf, Lights and to songwriters everywhere ... more

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