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Why Can't I Dream

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My woke trances still my eyes
make dumb my fluid thoughts
arrested in liquid

a floating orb in black water
a flicker of azul
and numbing like cold
that is warm and blanketless
but all around me

might I peel them open?
but the weight is light and pressing
and there’s mud
it’s sediment that mushes high-in-bio-nutrient-muddy-in-my-toes
suspended
all legs and heads floating

water is air
so I breathe in deep gulps and become my fish

I am afraid of the black, still open-shut open-shut of the abyss
I don’t have to turn for bedsores
but I understand nothing

nothing chases me
and I can’t recall the faces



I am standing in jelly-muck child-hood-river-bed-made-of-fish-shit-and-dead-leaves
in still water
it slides around my ankles sucking through my toes oozes the richness
my feet clap out to walk

Is there a rock at the bottom of the ocean
is there sky
is there an answer there?

does the behemoth swim the deep and make a sound if there’s no human there to hear it?
eardrums on vacation

still yourselves with science
still yourselves.
still yourselves with science
the ocean thinks it’s sleeping
still yourselves.
still yourselves with science

the immediacy is in the people who are the earth and planets

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from Through Flames, released April 24, 2020
Written, Played, Recorded & Produced by Brad Hamers & jdaugh
Lyrics and Vocals by jdaugh
Mixed by Brad Hamers
Mastered by Frederic Stader at MusicMattersMastering

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"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames. " Antonin Artaud.

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