Vestigial Tailbone

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THE RESCUE #3
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when does a box become a cage
after i say so or after an age
of fooling myself that it isn't?

pulling my voice out through my neck
and laughing through it cuz what the heck
oh, god, it hurts but i just tell myself it didn't

pinnacle of my mind
brave man, strong man
swanning around like he's
got somewhere to be

rubbernecking around like it's
nobody's business
gulping down the sea air cuz i'm
told it's good for me

maybe we were never here
maybe none of it is real
sometimes i feel like just a piece of someone's dream

thoughts just fall right out my nose
about as much use as my tailbone
sitting peacefully, vestigial so it seems

we sit at the table
dining with our worst fears
pining for a fable
a story to distract our ears

listen so, so closely
let the day melt away
lost in all the things we could have been

maybe it's not so useless
after all
it's just like a reminder that it's
not what i wanna see

and i'm walking around like it's
nobody's business
standing on two legs cuz it's
what we're meant to be

when i feel your eyelids on my chin
flutter right against my skin as
gentle as it is temporary

i remember all the things we
learned that we could be
evolutionary dead ends keep us incomplete

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released August 22, 2021
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