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The Chemistry of Life

from HYMNS OF OBLIVION by William Basinski

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writing on the Earth
so removed from the Earth
shattering a thousand screams
a broken window
mixed with flashes of glass and sky
weeds and vines
smooth surfaces such as the sea
the threaded wind
the boom of the harbor
folded in seconds
in ruins
and insignified rust
an ambivalent monument
already interlaced
with the people to come
and then they come
riding on the Earth
waiting in a striated sweat
all covered in ointment
of a customary pledge
a fierce hallucination
the patterns of smooth flesh
and skeletal shudders
content in a reptilian slumber
close inside
the inner end splits into two
and the chemisty of life
rubs its hard face
across your eyes
the cells make a sucking sound
a fierce hallucination

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from HYMNS OF OBLIVION, track released March 20, 2020
lyrics: Jennifer Jaffe

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