learning how to talk,
i’ll base it off your punctured lung.
like the spare room in our house,
i’ll watch you clean your insides out again.
it’s dead space—our bodies hollowed out.
peel the layers off our fate like dead skin now.
unlearning how to talk
and washing out all the words you taught,
i know you tried,
but i’m not supposed to see you cry.
it’s not supposed to feel wrong to be alive.
my body’s a hearse to you,
and if i’m the coffin,
you’re the hallowed ground we walk on.
it’s a place familiar
like the faces cut out of all the pictures.
credits
from Learning How To Talk,
released March 29, 2019
artwork by lisa a. ryan
recorded in kansas city by patrick robinson & braxton matlock
produced by patrick robinson with additional production by braxton matlock
mixed by braxton matlock
mastered by troy glessner (spectre)
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