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hearts and moons

from picking flowers for the dead by A.S. Coomer

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hearts and moons

hearts and moons
burnt like rusted spoons
hearts and moons
broke spokes spinning
on a stolen bicycle
ditch bound

each day a tick of the cooling engine
the hours gravel pinging in the wheel well

this new series of nights melts into a fever dream
soured hours taste like a handful of dry swallowed pills

hours as blue as blue can get
life a blues song on a dented resonator

the biscuit cone tinny & harsh
the song set to swamp & soaked in gin

no real chorus to speak of
but a frail voiced refrain

hearts and moons
burnt like rusted spoons
broke spokes spinning
on a stolen bicycle
ditch bound
keep that spirt, kid
that all said
did they know i's a ghost
we're all dead
that's what the book said

where have you gone?
even the ghosts have departed
slipped off with a shadow’s sly slight of hand

i nosferatu up
from uneasy slumber
with a gliding creep
shake off night sweats
like the blood of foes
& find cold water
try & numb my swollen eyes

stillness is collusion btw eye & brain
a proverbial trick of the eye
mind: the mastermind
pulling strings behind the scenes
where we forget everything is topsy-turvy
our vision a projectionist’s compensating work
a realtime editing of a lazy editor’s uneven sequences
in this illusion of substance
we are vibrating with the dance of atoms
we are flitting dust motes in an expanding snow globe
shaken by a restless child in a spinster’s abode

hearts and moons
burnt like rusted spoons
hearts and moons
broke spokes spinning
on a stolen bicycle
ditch bound

keep that spirit, kid
they all said
did they know i's a ghost?
we're all dead
that's what the book said
it's what it said

i didn't ask for this
can you please send help?
i can't ask for help

we didn't ask for this
can you please send help?
we can't ask for help

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from picking flowers for the dead, released April 20, 2024
all sounds made by a.s. coomer

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A.S. Coomer Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Folk. Americana. Narratives. Ambient Instrumentals. Aubades. Nocturnes. Poetry. Rock & roll. Psychedelia. Alt- Country.

Five of my tunes were published by The Museum of Americana.

Rural Eminence Volumes One, Two, & Three are instrumental reflections of the rural life.

Songs for Leaving is a poetry/music fusion.

I've got tons of projects cooking.

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