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From the top of the Of the wide, stairs the rest of my life Do you for me there?
There's a in my ears There's a white roar a bell down the stairs Hear it forevermore
Hear it forevermore
Drop a bell off of the it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And mutiny
There's a light in the Hits this system of From the side while swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our elbows and Makes us as we couple in endless increase As the admires
And the white dove Made with love, with love: Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc From its perch in the Settle Settle down my
And the moment I slept I was swept up in a terrible Though no longer bereft, how I and I couldn't remember
Then the furthermost shake a murthering stake in And cleft me down through my center And I shouldn't say so, but I that it was then, or never
me back into a tree Bind my buttons with And my long ears with bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
Then the system of strings tugs on the tip of my (cut cardboard and old magazines) Makes me and rise like a sparrow And in the place I stood, there is a circle of wood A cord or two, which you chop and you stack in your
It is terribly good to water and chop wood Streaked soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed; As I through the rafters And the and pulleys trail after And the holiest belfry sky-high
Then the lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and you make your first incision And in a of almost-unbearable vision Doubled with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', cooed the Who was stuffed, now, with and diamonds
I wanted to say: why the face? Sparrow, perch and play of long face Burro, and bray songs of long face! Sing: I will swallow your and eat your cold clay Just to your long face
And it may be madness, I will take to the grave Your longface And though our bones they may break, and our separate - why the long And though our bodies from the grip of the soil - why the face?
In the of the waves Which are like dogs we, pale-faced and grave, As I in my log
Then I hear a noise the hull Seven out to sea And it is the bell!
And it - well, I believe, that it tolls - for me! It for me!
And though my and my waist seemed so easy to break Still, my dear, I would have walked you to the very edge of the And they will recognise all the lines of your In the face of the daughter of the daughter of my
and darling, we will be fine, but was yours and mine to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes But if it's all just the same, then you say my name: Say my name in the morning, so I know when the wave
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and So: enough of terror We deserve to know And grow evermore and lighter You would seen me through But I could not that desire
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, desire
From the top of the Of the wide, stairs the rest of my life Do you wait for me