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Balloon Man

from Censor the Silence by Cameron Blake

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lyrics

Edward Estlin Cummings hieroglyphics
down the steps
(bee in the only rose)
vertical typeface, lowercase alphabet
A child’s balloon, let go too soon
The parting flesh, the big love crumbs
The shocking fuzz all seem so new

Sunday morning stroll through Little Italy
Clanging dishes, hanging twine tied stems of rosemary
Then I saw you
I met eyes with you
The jetted music splashing water fresh
My eyes began to fill

With love or was it sorrow?
My body and your body
Come and hold me again
Oh, this cup of sugar borrowed
To come undressed
Then to give it back
It’s an all too cruel familiar friend

Joni, sex don’t kill, it’s masculinity
A toxic oil spill, the gulf between
the pocket and the sheets
Have we all been had?
An ass up for grabs by salesman, pimps, consumerists
“Give me what I want, when I want it man!”

Roses red and raw, learn to love and laugh again
Frida draws a scull then goes inside to light a cigarette
If you don’t make room for me
Then I won’t make room for me
The cross is always avant-garde
At least that’s what the vicar says

With love or was it sorrow?
My body and your body
Come and hold me again
Oh, this cup of sugar borrowed
To come undressed
Then to give it back
It’s an all too cruel familiar friend

Look up in the air! See it flyin’ way up there!
It defies the law of nature,
it’s too much for me to bear
Now the summer’s gone and the autumn’s on
and whatever private oceans we’ve unlocked
I still hold in my memory

With love or was it sorrow?
My body and your body
Come and hold me again
Oh, this cup of sugar borrowed
To come undressed
Then to give it back
It’s an all too cruel familiar friend

credits

from Censor the Silence, released October 30, 2020

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