Elephant Ear

from Slays a Badness by The Boy Who Could Fly

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the foggy-eyed youth have a gleam in their eye
they are tearing the skin off my knees
they sing "i am the way into the city of woe"
i try to fake asleep

you flash by my door like a blue-lit ghost
i was laying on my back
i sing "i should have slept outside last night
under a cool expansive sky"

in the shell of this body i'm animal i'm dead
with my feathery skin and my leathery head
then fall upon my neck warm air
sniff out a scrap of food i've saved to share

you pulled a blanket up over around me
you kissed my head i went to bed
took off in flight, one feather shed

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from Slays a Badness, track released July 11, 2008

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