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Nobody's God

from God Knows What by Conductors

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I am not accountable to an ant.
Still I make demands
expecting no answer from above.

Why the sense of symmetry?
Why the sense that it all makes sense?
Why the fantasy of justice
if all the world is graceless?

I can’t see the full sum
I can see enough of negative
Indifference wouldn’t be so strange if I were not human.

There is a man who has dissolved.
He was always known to lend a hand.
It was overused, ripped off, thrown away.
Then he gave the other one;
the result was the same
He gave his feet -
their skin was scraped off by gravel
which his toes then became.
He continued across the land helping everyone.
His limbs carried off on the wind.
His left leg was ripped off to become a cane.
His blood mixed with all the earth’s mud.
His chest didn’t seem so useful til someone needed a pillow.
His teeth made jewelry.
His hair - a rope,
His tongue - a sponge.
After everything else was gone his skull was taken for a cup.
He wasn’t a man anymore,
only dust, maybe dust.
Kindness is gruesome.

The other night while I drove
I had such a stark picture stuck behind my eyes-
My face buried in her blouse.
Her beautiful, blameless, blue blouse soaked.
Her hands holding my still-pouring head,
accepting the surrender.
It even had the itch of pleasure.
But man is not a river -
there is pride in every quiver.
So I took the wrong corner and went back into town.

I might be wrong to hold on to pride and dignity
But there’s strength in being a pebble.
Power’s not so pretty to me.

She’d never take my weakness from me.
She’d never take my kindness from me.

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from God Knows What, released May 19, 2014

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"Mona tried to tell me
To stay away from the train line
She said that all the railroad men
Just drink up your blood like wine
An’ I said, 'Oh, I didn’t know that
But then again, there’s only one I’ve met
An’ he just smoked my eyelids
An’ punched my cigarette' " ... more

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