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Corduroy Road

by Jack Kilroy

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Your spirit still lurks,
Inside the most decrepit banister,
Back in Portland, Maine,
Buried in some nameless grave.

A life detailed from birth,
Turned and tilled just like infertile dirt.
Hunger pangs for hope,
Hauling logs down the corduroy road.

Everyday a maze through evergreens and pines,
Rhythmic blinks and grins split between redundant lines.

Brooke, she made you smile,
Like a wet-beaming, newborn child.
Hands of tiny stars,
Made to singe every inch that you are.

Eyes that drip with glue,
Slowly spike poison into truth.
Each breath from her throat,
Oh it stings like a lazy, pitchy note.

Whispers picked your skin like a knife pealing a scab.
Each shadow she cast enticed you to grab,
Around her narrow neck to twist just like a drill.
Calmly and composed, your hands made chills.

The screams, they never sang out,
Like the moon without the sun.
She limply fell to the ground,
Before you carved out her lungs.
Hung them up to dry all night,
While you slept and your dreamed,
Of morning mist and white lights,
And how nothing in this waking life is as bad as it seems.

And now there’s nothing left just snakes around your eyes,
Silk strings and rusted reeds melt mechanically inside.

I can feel your veins,
Grace my skin just like sideways rain.
Slow taps from your heart,
Burn like a freshly struck spark.

The rumble of steel tracks,
Hard-pressed up against my back.
To the blazing horn,
I close my eyes in time to be born.

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released April 16, 2011
Guitars, Bass, Synth, Vocals: jack kilroy
Drums: Jacek Kolacz

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