Wednesday, June 2, 2010

deliberate anatomies

I've got eyes
With second hands built in
Watch them swivel and swing
Like a cuckoo bird, I'll sing
I've got eyes
With deliberate rings
Half moons and eclipses
That don't mean a thing

And I've got hands
With bones that can bend
And magnets in the joints
That want to extend
Yeah, I've got hands
With palms like a map
Just follow them straight
And you'll always come back

I've got a tongue
And a teeth-made bed frame
With lips for a door
A distorted privacy game
See, I've got a tongue
That seems to get in the way
But pearly bodyguards always
Make sure it stays

I have a backbone
With many vertebrae
And it curves like a smile
And tries to whither away
But I have a backbone
That you hold up so kind
It's easy to forget
That backbone was mine

You have a heart
That sits in its cage
And it beats like a drum
And gets carried away
You also have eyes,
A tongue, hands, and back
A deliberate anatomy
There's nothing you lack.

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