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Piano keys move on their own

They read the blueprints

And process music out

Into my mind

Into the odds and ends

Into the happy ending odds

When will life complete this melancholy circle?

All the pain all the loss

All the gray shy aways

In six long days will close away

Will halt to another chapter of the year

Another dozen roses left to pick

Left to give up to you

Another dozen months left to pick

From the garden underneath the palms

Of my poor sore toes

As I reach out on the edge of the moment

And plummet down the sweet ravine

The day is just a spoiled plumb

An apple-worm in the trees that sprouted

Through the garden of a dozen roses

The day is out of date

Out of time, out of bait

To catch a wild, savage swordfish

By the lip, by the slow drip of time

To hook a whopper

As time drips slowly on

To fill an ocean of void

To rust upon our shoulders

Leaky faucet is leaky fantasy

Leaky escapes to squeak by

The guards at the gates

Just leak through a crack in the door

To escape the circle

To escape the melancholy runarounds

Caucus race, caucus way

Leaky kisses drool down our chins

Turpentine kisses, lipgloss and caterpillar love

Flirt around us like fireflies flirt with our eyes

Flirt with the night, coy expression

Coy gesture, coy hic-ups

Bumble bee bumbling around

Tries not to leak out the secret

Like a mumbling faucet

It’s not a blabbermouth

Words trail down the page

Dripping so slowly as paragraphs grow

Drips down the page like blood

That scary dream

I was caught in the act

A guilty-looking dream

It’s such an empty thought

For hurting you, my love, my world be dark

Be lost inside the night

Never will I hurt your heart

For love is a sentimental heart

So life is a sentimental way

A sentimental notion

To spill the flowering river of a mind

A sentimental kiss of turpentine and smooth lips

Leaky faucet leaks on through the night

Through the eyes that focus

Through the grass that’s greener

Outside this melancholy circle

Through the tall garden

I will forever life for you

You, my one, my only love