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Spiral Onion Shoots
05:32
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Fruit of the earth
The rings of Saturn
The epitomizing
Roundness of the sun
My own cranial spheres
And longing stalks
And the humble, breathtaking
Onion Shoots
Spiral in the direction
of each other
Spiral like unlikely lovers
Here we go again
Down winding roads
Through the broad open meadows
Of April green
Of river green
Of bursting forth
Of onion green
Fruit of the Earth
Reach for the sky
Up and out they climb
Nature takes its time
We eat before we should
Not seeing things we could
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Love Your Food
04:17
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If I had to pay for every smile and sigh
I would go broke, I would grow sick and die
Losing all my will to share
Cupboards filled with "I don't care"
Love every, love every, love every, love every meal
A cup of indifference, boredom and salt to taste
Ten minutes lost, ten minutes gone to waste
Use your ears and use your eyes
Handiwork denying lies
Love every, love every, love every, love every meal
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Surry Hospitality
05:40
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The Ice is everywhere
Demands to be heard
Demands to be felt and seen
Something like wanting
And not wanting
To escape
We flee like happy beasts
To the outskirts of it all
To Surry hospitality
And California dreaming
Visions projected
In bright black and white
On the bare red screen
My own double feature
Or some other creature
You could have fooled me twice
We lie like passengers
To the outskirts of it all
To Surry Hospitality
And California dreaming
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Manzanita
03:39
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Someone said
It takes two bullets
To put you down
She was right
Or was it he
I didn't see
Head was down
Staring at the ground
Staring at my feet
Dipped my quill
In the black ink of loss
Once before
Oh Manzanita
Don't say goodbye again
I've hardly got the pen
To write about the sorrow and the shame
Again and again
Manzanita my friend
My dark Corsican love
My creme brulee
My cafe au lait
Gonna go climb a hill
Walk you off
The best that I can
Oh but I'm tired
Uninspired
Staring at my feet
Oh my little apple
You left me at the chapel
Someone throw me up a grapple
I wanna come down
Oh Manzanita
Don't say goodbye again
I've hardly got the pen
To write about the sorrow and the shame
Again and again
Manzanita my friend
After all that we've been through
A part of you apart from you
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Almanac Mountain Portsmouth, New Hampshire
“a swooning, antiquated delight.”
-GoldFlakePaint
“his songs are large and lush and
lathered in strangeness, built of a sense of experimentation that flips out of any convention the moment you recognise it. .”
-Various Small Flames
"a searching, fuzzy-headed, lyrically precise stab into reason and wincing memory."
-Lyrically Addicted
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