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UUNO - Last Stretch

We sleep on the dark side of separate lives

each ones shadow puppet life cast by the other's cell phone light

The green sentimental scream and the ocean’s cobalt will

I’m tumbling down

sloping sentimental cornfields

across the blue prayer of mankind

to you, the church of don’t speak

me crying

screaming through Michigan

Wisconsin seeds fall from my dreams of who you might be

we drive down

spring up next to people

always springing up

even around lone fires

and in the flat tire funeral buzz

people spring up around you

know-nothing me

poring over

the highway scriptures of Sisu

like a dog watching TV

peace is blue and green

I think, I mean

I don’t know anything really but

Michigan dissolve

Wisconsin scream

without the prayer of mankind

we grow silent, alone

the green sentimental scream

and the ocean’s cobalt will

flat tire on a hill, spring up

the never-silent deep in me

dissolves in you

dissolves in the unknowable dive,

the thrumming scripture of whales

buzzing within the prayer of mankind

the funeral birth

hot black fertile earth

can’t grow people

no matter how many Wisconsin seeds

3-year-old me tries to

take from your wallet

but life travels to us

even on the head-down high seas

and the don’t speak Indiana side streets

and after the storm’s had it’s titanic fill

cornfields spring up

around the fossil of a whale

on a hill

A Mother

The sky turned gray, and night and day became just one dull half-lit thing. Colors were sapped from the trees which grew ever more sparse, and the great stones turned to rocks, then pebbles, and finally fine black sand.

When we got there, we were no longer cold. I laughed, butterflies in my stomach, reminding me of the thousand times my mother had waited with me in a dentist or doctors office, or consoled me on the phone before a big stressful event in my life, but then I was sad, because I’d never thought much about her feelings, or been there for her in the doctor’s or dentist’s office, and this moment wasn’t mine to be nervous or frightened about, it was hers. I needed to be there for her, so I took off her fur coat and then removed my own and set them in a patch of lifeless dunegrass, and I smiled as strongly as I could into her face, which was old, and afraid--I realized I had been avoiding truly looking at her for years--I tried to smile and transmit to her even a one-hundredth of the hope and strength she’d thoughtlessly given me over my lifetime, but I could see it wasn’t coming through. This wasn’t the same thing, and in truth there was less I could do for her than I thought.

One thing I could do though was hold her hand and continue forward, as far as I could go with her. The black sand grew moist and it started to become very difficult to walk. I sang a song that she’d sung to me as child. It was called “The Marvelous Toy” from a book of children's’ songs by Peter, Paul and Mary. It’s chorus has the singer make a series of silly sounds like “zip” and “pop” and “vroom”, and my mother had loved to get us to make the sounds along with her, but when I tried in this turn to get my mother to make the sounds with me, she would not, and I wondered with huge doubt in my heart if I were doing this wrong. Neither of us were children, perhaps I needed to meet her on equal ground, as an adult, as an individual.

The black sand had become so fine it was nearly silt, and the water in it pulled at our feet like suction cups. My mother started to cry and I wanted to stop, and let her take her time with this, but we were too far now. If we stopped, we’d sink.

“It’s all going so fast” she said.

10 track album

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Katie Stout 2014

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With new hope of getting this thing finally finished, I've begun work on the album art. If you or anyone you know might be inspired by any of these images, I'd love some help making this thing. I need some more reverse mermaids wielding baseball bats!

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fleurdulys

The Earl of Surrey “Beholding the Fayre Geraldine in the Magic Mirror”- Edward Henry Corbould

1853

Settlers

We snuck in the back your purse full of the laws of nature and kiss me over the garden gate

we stole the sandman's silver watch, fled down the trail of moonlight dripping from it's cogs I wrapped it round your wrist, it fit and we hid within a starless kiss

You and I, we walk the streets at night our faces painted for war by dim street lights

the sun came up our trail ran cold because the hunting hounds have all grown old but who have we become in the light of this new sun?

we lobotomized and then set free the cult of Johnny Appleseed and our rabid pantheon of dreams can't see the orchard for the appletrees

"there, there" and "it's ok" dance around your weeping face like we danced around the fires in our midnight masks

all we are is our desire like ash is just the memory of fire I cover you from head to toe to shield you from all earthly woe

walk among scavengers for just one more taste of amazing grace but to get out of the rain we'll settle for a fire and a fairy tale

This song has been "written" for almost two years, save for a few small lyrical problems that had plagued me until just a few days ago. Mermaid Stew is brewing.

summer 2013