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Disillusionment

from A Living Past by Eliot Cardinaux

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lyrics

DISILLUSIONMENT

in the loop ― and out
it’s nothing ― personal if
you stay ― calm ― you
stay ― an anxious ― wreck

did you want me ― to scorn
the ear ― did you need
my throat ― to sing
did you want me ― here

to live ― in an unknown
word ― meanings coil ― around
their things ― havoc rings ― my head
a hydra’s ― lizard’s tail ― expendable

wrap ― your tongue ― around
a dash ― in the way ― I need you
there ― this way ― to go
did you want me ― bare

adapting ― hand in
hand with ― blindness
to the drug ― is the score
the truth ― that ― malleable

out the loop ― and in
it’s nothing ― special if
you stay ― calm ― to
stay ― an anxious ― wreck

Note:

Many thanks to Ivy Schweitzer
for publishing these lyrics in White Heat
a Dartmouth College blog
following Emily Dickinson's movements
throughout the year 1862

https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/whiteheat/

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from A Living Past, released October 31, 2020

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The Bodily Press is an independent poetry press & record label founded by poet/pianist Eliot Cardinaux. Mostly an avenue for its founder's own work, the press features a catalogue of original work in the fields of both lyric poetry & improvised music.

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