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To Say Something

from Artifacts by Eric Beeny

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Your voice separates
my flesh into climates.
I travel the world on
the tip of your finger.
You decide where and when
we go, I kiss you when we arrive.
I know living seems easy,
it’s hard enough just to survive.

And that’s why…

Like a poem, your name is only
an excuse to say something,
so I put my voice into a safe-deposit box
for your to open when you’re seventy
like a photo you took blindfolded,
where love is a parental advisory label
tiny in the corner of an album cover
whose lyrics we have yet to read,
where our frozen stare melts
into a wet glance.

But for now each kiss
is a cyanide capsule
I place under my tongue
since I’d rather die
than be without one.

Tight-roping this flat line,
don’t want to reach the other side.
I’ll arrest these alibis
to keep you in these arms of mine.

But for now each kiss
is a cyanide capsule
I place under my tongue
since I’d rather die
than be without one.

Like a poem, your name is only
an excuse to say something,
so I put my voice into a safe-deposit box
for your to open when you’re seventy
like a photo you took blindfolded,
where love is a parental advisory label
tiny in the corner of an album cover
whose lyrics we have yet to read,
where our frozen stare melts
into a wet glance.

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from Artifacts, released January 30, 2010

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