looking into your eyes is like visiting hours,
I just don’t know if I’m at
a hospital
a jail or
the morgue.
taking the hands of someone you love
is like putting them in delicate cages.
host.
hostage.
every face is mine,
reshaped.
your hands are mine,
reshaped.
of course I’ll hurt you.
of course you’ll hurt me.
of course we’ll hurt each other.
our experience is our own,
we’ll register the agonies as greater or lesser than the previous.
“the pain you feel today, it will never go away.”
among the wolves live very tired sheep
because mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
I’m trying not confuse being used with giving all I am.
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021