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on the day the sun didn't rise

from love letters from the end of the world by lay / lie

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even in sleep my vision is suspect

roaming city streets with unreliable eyes

the cornea of mind scratched and warped

must place my trust in what i feel,

in palms, soles, soft drums of ears,

which know by the crunching underfoot

that i am in a lesser playground

where by day children scrape plastic cups into piles

collecting baby teeth, bone shards, splinters of tibia, femur

to build castles, pat into cakes,

and emerge like ghosts under a veil of ash, coughing skeletal dust –

but it is night and cool

the playground is empty but for a few of the older children

who came here to smoke and curse

to press their mouths together to find softness

their skin glitters with bone in the moonlight

my lying eyes say beautiful

but their shadows are bloody pools



(excerpted from sleepwalker, sarah iyer 2020)

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from love letters from the end of the world, track released July 19, 2021

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