COYOTE STORIES | THE CRANE WIVES
SENTENCE STARTERS | PART 2
“ i hear a rumblin’, honey. “
“ this wild weather’s got the mountain shakin’ weak. “
“ i know you long to plant your feet. “
“ we best get a move on, or the devil we will meet. “
“ i feel a quakin’, honey. “
“ rocks are a - tumblin’ while the people are asleep. “
“ i pray the day my soul to keep. “
“ drop dead sprint, my darlin’, now! “
“ don’t look back now, honey, just try to breathe. “
“ that monster’s comin’ and it don’t care for you or me. “
“ the angels we may someday see. “
“ i’ve gotten good at leaning on metaphor. “
“ i’ve gotten good at living on someone else’s page. “
“ i’ve cut my teeth on secondhand sentiments. “
“ you can’t trust a single thing i say. “
“ i keep my closet free of skeletons ‘cause i’m much better at digging graves. “
“ i always dig up bones in your sympathy. “
“ i can’t trust a single thing you say. “
“ you won’t like the scars he put in me. “
“ i’ve gotten good at making up metaphors. “
“ i’ve gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape. “
“ all these words are sweet and meaningless. “
008 -- THE HAND THAT FEEDS
“ i’ve seen good men spoil. “
“ they work and sleep and work again. “
“ in their darkest nights, they howl. “
“ their cries are a warning. “
“ no man should stand to work all of his days and have nothing at the end of them. “
“ i’ve got no money but the change that jangles in my pockets. “
“ i am powerless to stop it. “
“ it keeps rambling on like a mad, wandering man. “
“ my dear papa gave me lessons in regret. “
“ the hand that feeds deserves to be bitten. “
“ he taught me how to break my chains. “
“ i may never be a rich man, but i can make sure i’m free. “
“ it was a march we made towards ruin and despair. “
“ i swear that i loved you. “
“ ‘neath the table you would offer up my bones. “
“ i’d drag dirt through every room inside our home. “
“ you still held me at night. “
“ we didn’t give up ; we wouldn’t surrender. “
“ it was an honest loss. “
“ the aftermath will ring with songs you’ve sung. “
“ i fought with tooth and nail before the flag had flown. “
“ you were already gone. “
“ i feel the mountains shifting under me. “
“ i hear something calling me. “
“ the moon is humming lovely melodies. “
“ the trees are crowing hungry harmonies. “
“ ‘twas there i wrote me a sad, sad song. “
“ if my lover will not hear it, take my voice and take my spirit. “
“ leave me wicked and dig my hole. “
“ only my lover, not i, can keep my soul. “
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