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Dead Leaves

from Machinery by Joseph DeSimone

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Pride is a sin
But you do like to brag a bit

The dead leaves
On the concrete
Move like a river right up to me

And how did we
Ever learn to live like this?

Fallen from the trees
Down deep to the rot beneath
Your lips, so warm and wet
and red like I can't believe

The dead leaves
Like some new disease
Or recrudescent perpetually

Either way, I get so sick
At the sight of it

And your skin gets so flushed
From the roughness of the touch
And the name along the wall
That just doesn't look like yours at all

And the latch key
Like some foreign policy
You put your trust in me
That this is just how it needs to be

The sky is candlelight
And your eyes fade from my sight
And your voice carries through, the words you used:

“Oh, I never meant
To be cruel to you”

And the dead leaves
Turn to gasoline
First they learn how to play dead
And then they all just die eventually

And what else could they do
Beyond this multitude
Of options
That they still had left to choose

“Of course it hurts.
It was supposed to”

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from Machinery, released November 18, 2022

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