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1.
Pain is a secret mark
And then it spreads out like a stain.
Eyes hung like lilies on
the surface of the rain.

First I made a little word
and it choked her like a wound.
Her arms bent around me
like a sky all bleak and blue.

Broken-footed, empty-headed,
dance my fingers outside of her hand.
Fill her mouth with sorrow -
that’s the kicking of my lungs.

Need another voice.
I’ll be silent for awhile.
Didn’t want to do it.
She forgives me with a smile.

CHORUS
I know, I know what I am:
I’m a little animal,
I’m dead without your love.
I know it’s not enough to say it.

I know, I know what you are:
you’re the little wave that
breaks against my mouth.
I hope you know I want to drink it.

2.
First, her face, like thorns,
got stuck inside my heart.
Hands twisting ribbons
round the body-kicked-apart.

Moment on the lip of joy,
she trembled like a watery bruise.
Arms bent around me
Still that sky, same bleak, same blue.

I will not speak, I’ll let you speak.
I’m burning holes in everything.
I want a smile,
a burning line smiling back at me.

Torn hand, like rag,
she fluttered inside my head.
Legs weak with distance
as she jumps across the bed.

CHORUS

3.
If you ask me to explain,
it is a simple, stupid wonder.
At night, when you lay sleeping,
I’m ashamed of all the blundering.

CHORUS

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from An Eighth of a Bottle of Something Sticky Green, released July 11, 2018

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Cameron M. Thomson Toronto, Ontario

Cameron Thomson is a Toronto-based moral philosopher, musician, and writer. When he’s not writing or making music, he may be found on the beach, searching for beach-glass and other treasure, or in the woods, digging for historical glass in former dumpsites. Visit him on Instagram at @cameron_m_thomson. ... more

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