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West To No Salvation

from Mud Tongue by Boog

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We went west to no salvation
We were thinking that we were free
We’re just now getting out of the garden
only to be buried by the sea

Between the notion and the nation
there’s this little thing called faith
Birds fall dead on holy places
sacred spaces long laid waste

We went south just to get some air
but it was a tree-lined way of pain,
Bienvenue au le monde, mon frere
Ma, you can’t have an Abel
once you’ve had a Cain

Between the victor and the victim
there is a constant tacit game:
He who sleeps will be he who bears
scars without a name

We went east just to say goodbye
to those who’d said the west would be the end
It seemed a clear drop at the horizon
but the sun must rise again, friends

Between the crowning and the coronation
tiger-lilies line the way
to the battered door of the station,
where they bear your sons away

We went north to twigs and pebbles
and a dusty country road
(It was skulls and bones and ashes
trapped beneath the snow)

Between the shouts of the louts and lushes
there’s the thrum of locust wings
Beneath the singing of the thrushes
the spider loves the fly on in

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from Mud Tongue, released March 14, 2016

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