Desert farmers
Beloved I have to adore the earth The wind must have had your voice once It echos and sings like you The soil must have tasted you once It is laded with your scent The trees honor you in gold and...
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Six o'clock when I left the house. Storm brewing over San Gabriel mountains. I closed the door but I didn't lock it. I threw the keys right out. Drove on through the central valley And all the way to...
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He was a pretty boy, Stayed at our house. He took his girlfriend and They went off to Laos. They took a photo there Of his heart. Some things you should never see. Some things you should never see....
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When you’re a mother. You love your boy the way God loves him. The way God loves him. You don’t see the awful haircut. You see the part that’s shining up, the healthiest part. And you never stint on...
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When you got clean you took your loot And sunk it into dragon fruit. You sunk it into dragon fruit. So now you have to become a desert farmer. You cover up the rows with tarps. So let the brutal sun...
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On the plane, How much pain. We sing our trinkets. Lost in the sauce Feelings uneven, Strange obligation. Thy will or mine, Recessive eyes. Say I want. I wanna be held But now I'm in a rock band. Duty...
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If not a fig tree, there are rhizomes. If not rhizomes, there are tubers. If not tubers, there are succulents. If not succulents, wildflowers. And above these there are birds. There are perching...
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