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Fishes
03:09
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The fish is in the bed
Where the water won’t keep his speckled head
From drying up
You would dry up, too
But a friend’s a friend who always comes
The ones you love float over you
The fish is on the chair
And no water will reach him there
So far from sea
You’d be homesick, too
But a friend’s a friend who always comes
The ones you love float over you
Foamy wave and algae bloom
Barrel down, bringing gloom
But there’s always some light left on
But a friend’s a friend who always comes
The ones you love float over you
Salty krill, siphonophore
What are all your numbers for
But to keep company and be safe?
But a friend’s a friend who always comes
The ones you love float over you
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Old Bones
04:02
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You’re a tar pit love is frozen in
Your sweet fossils will stand here in thousands of years
Diplodocus, deep in rock for us
Every ivory bit a beauty
Apatosaur in the clay
We saw every ivory bit above us
Soil and centuries
Oh, your bones will go
And all of your babies
Will build your atoms up
And wonder at your motion
And know that you were grand
In the scaffolding
Many skeletons
One by one are all escaping
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Old Blues
00:59
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Esses
01:39
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Isla, I love your silent S
So sublime
Isla, a secret your name confesses
When it is read
Or written out instead
Or pictured in my head
Among the dreams and dreads
Though the word, when it is said
Is certain to except
The hiss the eye detects
There’s a sound you keep as a secret
Tucked sweetly away
A pearl in your oyster flesh
For all your days
And no sadness or worry
Can fill that space
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Matt Savage Cambridge, Massachusetts
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