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The Elysian Fields Border Patrol

from Pure Plush Bone Cage by Turtlenecked

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lyrics

panera towns
obscenely content with
ligament leads
splitting heads

palms are read
like protection spells
an electric stun
for stalin’s son

literature buried
and sometimes burned
hospice garages
in newborn mirages

the saviors taunt
by luminous white
belief’s steps from hell
i know all too well

that ship will be dragged
over the mountain in time
laziness laying waste
to the days in a line

you will not remove
you will not construe
this black mass of nails
this black wreath of flails

fuck it all
cut the ropes
rejecting consolation
longing to elope

between mondegreen
and milquetoast
between fetal bodies
and drunken boasts

I’m terribly nervous
for you to come over
inescapable, it must be
all this kitsch, so lovely

you want my body?
then take it!
tear off my clothes
and with it my skin!

the astroturf lawns
the melting pink face
the emerald collar
trimmed with milky lace

hideous performance
that sparkling gaze
forgetting the lines
just throw it all away

i am a security camera
watching from the corner
playing back old tapes
the film becoming rearranged

cigarettes and sycophants
laborious new firebrands
pituitary glands for
every woman, every man
marching bands…
marching bands…
weaving hands
weaving hands

your xylophones
your student loans
your lies and lays
your brightest days

godless deathbed
onions and chives
fingers touched
while still alive

you’ve been married all along
you’ve been married all along
you’ve been married all along
you’ve been married all along

sloppy bliss
in a split lip kiss
split lips mend
to tear again

you will not remove
this black mass of nails
you will not construe
this black wreath of flails

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from Pure Plush Bone Cage, released August 19, 2016

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