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honey (feat. Eric Tu)

11/10/2016

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The honey is bitter this morning

I wake up and say all the left words
Counterclockwise


Sweetness heavy on my tongue

I let the beat dissolve
Like these grains melt in the sun


Gratitude that night dissolved
When I slipped through dream’s fingers

Sieving out of love and out of season
All’s in order out of sequence


I look out the window and a bird flies by
I look back to yesterday and a year’s gone by

I’ve spent time underground and off air
Online and in-print
On-stage and in blogs
Counting days
Like they hold some kind of promise
My fingers crossed


It’s Tuesday
And I’m waist deep in myself

Today, I stand not just knee deep
In break beats with an old soul


Bones drumming on book pages
Splintered with coffee stains

My words live in black ink
My body decomposes in the white space
In this composition of colors
The voices of the counter-culture
Too shy to speak loud


(*Eric's lines are italicized.)
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