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The Alphabet of Movement

by Ivory Wax

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1.
upon my birth i cast first sin i broke the spell of harmony the void was sick an abysmal flu go have four decades then i'll call you back i was Babel in the flesh to not know how and it's touching and breathing for the first time when the lights go out again touching and breathing for the last time waiting for ejection on empty plains i named the stones the sky was mine to draw on an engine planned for eventual failure and obsolescence craving relief from the burden of being cast in flesh
2.
unreasonable it leaves me bleary eyed a compass that makes no sense arctic's druthers forbear you betrayed when we met in the arms underneath time feigned its subtlety then he says he's okay then she says she's okay okay, okay, we're all okay one jubilant portal you betrayed when we met in the arms underneath time feigned its subtlety
3.
we walked outside and saw the alphabet of movement and we wrote letters that were previously unknown to the best anthropologists and then we broke me with the ropes that i climbed on from the sound of it you knew what you meant all along from the sound of it you knew what you meant all along
4.
Cancer 05:40
my palms sweating at his velvet stride every precious step an indication of my atrophying time i looked at her empty face, abreast, grey the pollen of my metastasis settling atop her thoughts inevitably centered and i say that without any sort of judgment but i say it with conviction because he said to me then well, i said to myself i have to die here i am in my coffin an ironic comfort for the audience as my nerveless pillows sets on some pillows surrounded by beautiful bouquets the mirth wrought from relativity is nice, is great they versus i, and i versus them the inevitability of our personal extinction trying to quash the idea from top taking root because what more is there to the charades unclean messes left longer than clock's demand the thin fabric of bridges
5.
paper thin consciousness but still hope despite being near erasure the onyx release awaits us with no barbs just max entropy inside the bulb's glow sits empty pupils paradise the walls caved in that's fine the mirage and i parting ways at dusk paving light jeopardy arrows pointed two scrolls unfurled diploma imbalance wrought into their jewelry cinnabarine molars gazing back magmatic sprite eager for its boon the sad truth we must countenance despite the infinity of consciousness we are subject to parenthesis

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artwork by kevin hewes
written and recorded by matt schuman

featuring
anjimile yvonne - vocals on "touching and breathing"
steve capachione - vocals and keys on "touching and breathing," keys on "jeopardy arrows"
roz raskin - vocals on "jeopardy arrows"

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released December 2, 2014

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