By Button Poetry
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Guante, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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An open letter to Pinocchio from Dracula
00:10
Let me tell you about flesh
00:13
We dance in their living rooms while they slept
00:16
Squeeze through keyholes and soundlessly caress to the insides of their loved ones
00:20
glory
00:22
pillowcases painted dawn pulling real boys out from under our fingernails
00:28
No
00:29
Flesh is not your wish
00:32
More likely normalcy the electricity of a lover the chill of dusk the ability to smell
00:38
Remember, the creatures of the night belong to me including the crickets they talk
00:45
your wish
00:46
for flesh bubbling around your walnut heart
00:50
for blood cascading through your wooden joints. More likely, the wish of a leaf to drop and join its brothers on the forest floor.
00:58
A tortured prisoner biting off his own tongue to choke. Remember, that spirit inside you is not yours
01:04
You only feed it. We are more than the materials with which we have been built
01:11
paint your skin
01:13
ratchet the angle of your spine
01:15
But keep this magic burning too much leaked away already, like the skin peeling off a snake
01:22
Like an angel starving to death like the last music ever
01:28
Remember,
01:30
Abomination is just another word for miracle half extinct. We are still gods
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