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Nothing Much Happened All the Same
Hours 1999

Cara Losier Chanoine

Seven days to live my life
or seven days to die,
but sometimes
my shuffling days fall to my feet.
What is clay and what is sand?

We are the dead dreams.
We smile too fast
then can’t think of a thing
to say.
Seven days to shrink
under vermilion sky.

I was Thursday’s child,
always a little late
for the dawning of the day.
The gods forgot they made me,
so I forgot them too,
but I’ll survive
your naked eyes.
I am the best jazz
you’ve ever seen
and I’ve danced with you
too long,
so throw me tomorrow.

Shallow man speaks
to the trembling shadows,
says
All the pretty things
are going to hell,
but we can avoid
the sentence of our lives.
Give me money
for a change of face.
They tilt his head back
on a bridge of violent people,
in a city full of rain.

These are the days, boys.
All the clouds are made
of glass,
all the ravens spiral-eyed.
You didn’t feel us coming,
you lucky old sun
lighting lonesome nights.
I remember how we wept.

Hearts become outdated clocks,
and now
you’re left with the worst.
We are the tabular lovers
in this lonely crowd.
I am the blood
at the corner of your eye,
and the hymns come to me
at the wrong time
on the wrong day,
but I have seven ways to die
in these noisy rooms,
and all the pretty things
are going to hell.

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