Elise in Freefall

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Bad thoughts, bad faith, bad skin -
Allen never loved me, did I ever love him?
There's a void, there always is, and a hunger
but bring me bowls of honey, I'll still shudder.
Maybe I'm not so good at the feeding,
maybe I'm only good at the ache -
carrying and bearing and burying that weight.
But a poet nonetheless and when the words don't make sense
the words are the weight
the words are the weight I can't lose
no matter how far or fast I move.
Maybe I thought I could fly.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I thought I could fly
seven stories high.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I thought I could fly
into that dizzy, silent sky that would hold me without breaking
if I believed my life weren't for the taking
I would have stayed
I would have stayed terra firma.
Learned to do that Good Woman thing:
learned to cook, learned to sew, learned to sing.
Maybe I thought I could fly.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I thought I could fly
seven stories high.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I thought I could fly.
Maybe I wanted to fly.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I wanted to fly
seven stories high.
Maybe I jumped 'cause I wanted to fly - oh, why not?

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from EPK, released November 24, 2012

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shaekrispinsky Tampa, Florida

I usually sing and play guitar in ...y los dos pistoles. I write various other fictions and like cats. A lot.

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