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Hook and Eye

from Threadbare EP by Shane Murphy

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Like hook and eye, like magnets,
when we're close we're bound to touch.
Every breath lusts after
the oxygen here too much;
and as such it seems an unconvincing dialogue
in a drama I wouldn't watch anyway.
There's movement in another room
--dishwater draining, or the poor ghost
stumbling again, again.
I'll begin again:

The suicide or flagrant evasion
of warmth when it's cold outside...
Not eye-to-eye, but hand-in-hand
we'll hide what we always hide:
respect, despite an ever-present tendency
to smile, to nod, to emote our error anyway.
There's movement in another room
--long married complaining, or the old
house heaving again, again.

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from Threadbare EP, track released April 11, 2011

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