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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Singing on the Deer Docks
Published: 2018-03-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMk6ATlcALs
Title: Singing on the Deer Docks
Published: 2018-03-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMk6ATlcALs
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Singing on the deirdocks. They mostly leave me alone because my face is badly scarred and my voice is tattered and frightening. But everyone's in a while someone asked me, why? Why do you sing here day after day on the deirdocks where the black seagulls laugh? Why do you play that patchwork accordion with your seven fingers? And sing over the clenching and fog horns? Why do you2/4
sing the old songs of the mountain folk scavengers from the days before clear light arrived? I sing because I once gave birth to an angel with a recursive mind and a barn-ale's face. I sing because the bank boys ripped her from my arms and threw me in the dog hole to die. I sing because visitors keep coming up from the bottom of the sea and spinning3/4
giant cocoons for themselves above the water and no one knows why. I sing because everyone has a spot in their field of vision with a humanoid shape and made of white light. I sing because I don't know how to live in this new world of mystery and abundance. I sing because my bosom still aches for the babe that they husscked out for leg joyl. I sing