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Moonlight
03:15
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Wide awake
Eloise walks
to the lake
to take a picture
of the waves at night
Dave escapes
to his phone and
searched her name.
Eloise posts
the strangest pictures at night
Yeah they never look right
but there’s something that they say
about the moonlight
By mistake
David liked one
Eloise
heard her phone buzz
her doctor
liked her picture at night
Eloise
thinks this behavior
though it’s strange
is the same
as the frame
of the picture
of the waves at night
Yeah they never feel right
but there’s something that they say
about the moonlight
What’s in a name
of a stranger?
Eloise sure believes
the men in her life
look at pictures at night
Where’s her dad?
and where’s her brother?
Leaning over the glow of a phone
and a picture
of a stranger at night
Does it ever feel right?
But there’s something that they say
about the moonlight.
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There’s a bully in your bloodstream
There’s goodness too
And goodness you have your mama’s voice
Daddy’s feet
Nana’s eyes and Grandpa’s teeth
There’s an element of evil in
What you were, at age eighteen
You could blame it on the bloodstream, yeah
You could blame it on the bloodstream
Accept the blood, for how it beats
Accept the liar, and the cheat
Accept the violence, and defeat
Accept that you are, what you eat
You eat in secret, you overeat
You starve yourself, and then repeat
If I met John at seventeen
I wouldn’t tell him anything
Cause he is evil, but also sweet
Wearing outfits, incomplete
An emperor without his sleeves
A little boy who loves the beach and
Now a man at 33
Who sometimes hears a voice repeat:
“Yeah you could die, and you’d be clean
You could go leave everything”
But I am an ocean of living things
A lover, friend, and I sing
Just like my mom
Just like my dad
Just like my sister
Just like my past
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