No,Not Gently

from Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions by Enablers

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…Your "brink's" and "edge's," too ---

they're all that keep the oceans and continents

that vast and permissible.

I will talk all night.

The nature of love is loud,

and these "placeholders" you talk about, these

necessary steps, they’re nothing but crippling traps

your instincts will go to die in,

memorizing how or why you couldn't shout love

out of your sleepy designs on the "right thing."

I thought you were tired and "starved" of demanding a simple,

feeling touch? Go on.

He's probably waiting to hear you say it.

It’s better that you live with such formidable

and arousing odds you call ghosts.

Pain accepts us.

Who among us hasn't

had their heart ripped out by now?

I’m not moving too fast.

Keep dreaming about our walks at night,

walking in perfect step after entire afternoons in bed.

And please,

keep the photographs coming,

please. They're great.

Admit it.

One day soon ("I'd bet my genes on it"),

I'll ask you to go get the wine, sit down close,

and tell me to remember what brought us here.

Stop your patience.

The cold and lonely nights are here now.

The bare tree’s limbs tapping at the window, the balcony doors

rattling under your grip: you really wonder

why you jerk and twitch among the afternoon hordes ---

those tics?

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from Blown Realms and Stalled Explosions, released October 5, 2011

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Enablers

Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). ... more

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