Hold Me Down

from Open Island by John Canned Goodman

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Hold me down, tranquilize the feeling I've got flowing out. At daggers drawn I'm dreaming of a different dawn made miles and months ago.

Torn in two I travel chasing timelines to and from the truth. I marvel mammoth monuments and piazza blues - appropriated and centuries removed.

The persistence of memory pierces both you and me. Though you're not caught up in calamity, from these moments we are never really free.

This state of woe which wages war - forevermore - won't break my bones, but the blood that it has poisoned in my marrow...it still breaks my heart.

You're empowered and priveledged, neither naive nor innocent. So stop acting like children. Have some respect for your goddamned breatheren.

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from Open Island, released March 2, 2017

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