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Velveteen (Sound Of Dust Falling)

from The Drowse or the Age of Constant Fatigue by Kristin Reiman

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lyrics

What is the sound of dust falling?
what is the sound your lashes make
as you blink?
Do eyes full of dust sound just like the ringing in your ears?


A hazy clap (x3),
clapping to get away
applaud so you can finally leave, right?

Leave where
Dreamland?


What if the dreams are just as exhaustive
as the waking life?
What if the dreams you have
you only have before being forcefully woken;
what if those dreams are not the pleasant kind?


Sweat in the summer heat,
as the rays of light
hit your eye,
a bit too early, perhaps;
in this case, waking in any
sweat
might be waking in cold --sweat.


Dreams of falling are a fright,
dreams of rain falling a wish;

what if all you see,
are Ovidian’s interventions
and dreams won’t shape up for reasons
outside of you?
Just as a good velvet is not to be seen,
we are dealing with velour here,
or velveteen.


Now, whatever that is, that is real?
The things that buzz inside you?
Wearing on you bit-by-bit as you get loose in the joints and very worn
out.
And it lasts for always.



Like hypersomnia

or
forever aestivation

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from The Drowse or the Age of Constant Fatigue, released June 19, 2019

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