A toll for the window ahead: anointed.
A small price to pay for a choice between them.
A fork in the road like a light directing,
but these are the paths we’ve been got
so take one.
Age comes with beauty and longing,
(and) fear is the cavern of hope.
Chained to the floor, I’m stuck watching
my own dancing shadow convoke.
I am a sucker for feeling most likely since I barely can.
So I can just keep it in plastic and stash it away until then.
A son of stars,
a basket of Christ.
I’ll turn my cheek
since you don’t mind.
Is a coffin really only after?
Since the word is just a symbol,
isn’t coffin how you normally emote?
I’m as weird as I expected
but it’s really something watching
the mirror—you get older by the liver spot.
A circle only ends
when you take your hand away.
Death and interest.
So it goes.
credits
from You Are A Citizen,
released December 13, 2019
Lyrics by D. Diaz
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