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Mother Teresa

from Silver Plane Crucifix by Perennial Reel

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It's alright in the vacuum
in my swollen head
I saw it spin around my lightbulb 
till I picked it up and said
that there’re some beads upon your breast
and there’re some thoughts around your teeth
Mother Theresa’s in the corner 
and her eyes are full of grief
her skin is wax and sand and
her hair’s in knotted strands
she was born of broken paper 
and prayer cards and hands
that’ll type up your horoscope,
her stars are in the sky
and her shoes are not yet filthy 
cause she keeps them clean to die

Don’t let the good lord into your home
he’s gonna knock down all your friends
and leave you all alone
in your skeleton construction
your eyes are gonna glisten
as speakers blast static from hissing televisions

Jesus christ listens to the radio
transmission tower beacons light the way to go
and those little blinks you hear
they’re sure as hell not real
they drive freaks to salvation
schizophrenia and feel
the skin over bones and the
vessels of blood
that carry cries to her brain
how she stains wilted buds
and she flows over banks 
onto dark broken streets
by the railroad refineries 
I hear when i sleep
the industries dead there
all they got left
is some third degree murder
and some misdemeanor theft

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from Silver Plane Crucifix, released November 29, 2013

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