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Roots & Crowns
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along your skin lost my language black lip and red carnation safe house safe tap shoes break union station marble wrapped in malpractice quiet in the sway
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PINK & SOUR
oooodrop down drop down de-sung ribcages shelter wound river languid husk of old jet sweet light tavern in the morning taxi driver silent hard long hands
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safe house dead trying to whisper a soft vaccination cotton in the calm along your side lost my language on sand and smoke foundation loose in the sway sing to me pink and sour
ooookill the kitchen kitchen light
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Rutili, G. Sherman
SPIDER'S House
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peel and age
fingerings lost
familiar peace
in the motions of
in the pain
our hands sit just as you are
raindrops tremble and wait to freeze on spiders house
lost in the crime carry the choir age and peel the circle around the brawl divides in frozen rain on spider’s house pulling you wrong in soft belief and midnight finish a violent quiet freeze
after the quiet bleeds peel and age familiar peace in the pain
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SUNDAY NOISES emptying yourself for sleep soft bones a skeletal stretch of drive skinny arms your white dress comes cigarette teeth by now the eye you lost in the crusades is planted in the sand kneeling by wait to reap another sight this where you leave behind your brush fires and wedding day our ethiopian bones the pictures and the pills remember when this was the ocean tiny rivers
catacomb wine a Chinese actor loses heart
bleed the map the eye you lost in the crusades
tricks the light legs entwined brick on pedal chain on wheel
is planted in the sand
warm from the machines fixing
just about to flower ready and wetroot crown sweet ever on/ bones and bread tenderness here we are held and carried the afterlife saints and angels sex lives switch wives
Rutili, Becker, Adamik, Massarella
a belly what’s never seen the sun
A CHINESE ACTOR
root crown sweet ever on trust came slanted made no mention bones and bread tenderness a dim head light arrives friction breathe tenderness trust came slanted legs entwined brick on pedal chain on wheel bones and bread tenderness here we are held and carried hot blind fight empty armor dim head light arrives Rutili, Becker, Adamik, Massarella, Deck
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scratched and bit crawl out of the faultline this book is the mask on the bride circle til the engine dies tail high let it lay burn our dead shin high it’s almost surgical the way you shatter when you hit the water drawn on the window steam claws on sleep addiction •8•
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this conversation is the dust on anything slow and green burn our dead this unwilling is the way you shatter when you hit the water
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When all the numbers swim together/ And all the shadows settle/ When doors forced open shut again a flytrap and a petal/ My eyes burn and claws rush in to fill them/ And in the morning after the night/ I fall in love with the light/ It is so clear I realize/ And here at last I have my eyes/ When all the figures sound retreat/ The soft skin starts to shrivel/ When dreams made real become less sweet/ The orchid and the metal/ My sex turns and claws rush in to fill them/ And in the morning after the night/ I fall in love with the light/ It is so pure I can arrive without the fear of seeing my eyes/ When all the characters full size/ And every moon is level/ When all the spirits burn in lies/ As center grief by steel/ My eyes burn and claws rush in to fill them/ And in the morning after the night/ I fall in love with the light/ It is so clear I realize and now at last I have my eyes/ psychic TV
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BURNED BY THE CHRISTIANS wire
sung
in the teeth
throated air
while we
down your spine
warm twine
crown cooks light
while we breathe
we wolfed and whale
skip
bellied on
notes and bless
we shone down blinder and winterless days
where you been
lost a black ocean recline
we lose days
held under your tongue like a tiny stone paid and gone Rutili
broke hearts are whole or burned by the christians recline held under your tongue like a tiny stone carried home
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sons and mothers red hand rise side door bones belly and limbs mudslide daughter wrung sweet wine nail and dime a glasswork heart yolk and scotch mask and bed mudslide daughter sons and mothers orchard orchard BLACK METAL VALENTINE
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mask and bed ice on dancers broken feet spit and shine black metal valentine mudslide daughter side door bones not for mine black metal valentine tiny wrens to take the dinner from your teeth black metal valentine Rutili, Becker, Adamik, Massarella, Deck
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Water dissolvin’ into water
A head asleep upon a lap
Animal dream, animal tongue Animal medicine
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Rose petal ear Water dissolvin’ into water
A head asleep upon a lap
Water dissolvin’ into water A head asleep upon a lap
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3 LEGGED ANIMAL
hands fit together like medicine butterfly itch on a bottle rocket tail everything is bleeding shake the glass out of your hair spell your name in broken teeth 3 legged animals shut their sweet eyes lick your scars and grow wings sleep for me sleepless dream for me dreamless hands bleed together fine sweat off your makeup peel and wait in washed out gold ease back warm electric chair leave your memories we’re almost new sleep for me sleepless dream for me dreamless Rutili
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IF YOU WOULD candy glass sun on red tile this winter bed lives and breathes winter bed could do so much if you Rutili, Becker, Adamik
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Recorded and mixed Brian Deck Recorded by Michael Krassner, Jim McGranahan, Andy Bosnak at 4Deuces [Chicago], Angeles Drake’s Warehouse [Long Beach], Nico’s House [Phoenix], Western Sound Lab [Los Angeles] and by Califone [At Home In the Wilderness]. Wil’s Bass Recorded by Ron Gruenche at New Future Vintage Studios [Oakland] joe adamik Drum Kit, Bass Clarinet, Wurlizer, Piano, Organ, Vibraphone, Dr. Sample, Bells, Melodica, Prepared Metalphone jim becker Violin, Banjo, Vocals, Guitars,Bass, Loops, Electronics, Percussion, Xylophone, cajun Accordion, Mandolin, Kalimba] ben massarella Batterie; Lensdrum, Pistons, Zuni Rattles, Shu{3}Lai{2} Bao{3}Treasure Counting Sticks, Bronze Fork, Gourds, Shakers, Glass, Oak Chimes, Ribbon Crasher] tim rutili Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Electronics, Field Recordings, Organ, Synthesizers, Banjo, Loops, Bowed Balalika brian deck Synth, Electronic Manipulation, Vibraphone, Organ michael krassner Harmonica, Loops, Electronics wil hendricks Bass alan scalpone Trumpet michael mcginley Trombone anthony gilbert Viola
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