how can we survive if we survive?

by Jessy Fields

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through my cat's eye a dog wakes up a bird flies by the window as I hold you still swallowing that little pill that keeps you alive and yet ~ you want to die in that storm circling the house because how can we survive if we survive, you say, drinking tea, as we braid our lives through our teeth

here at the end of everything

in the eye of the storm
in the mouth of a wound
we both die, come back to life

and will you take me to the water
protect me from slaughter
never mention the name of my dear father

as we forage e from his bones

as we dance and moan at the old cement factory
where god and the devil agree
there is no reality
except the one we make with our teeth and our bones

how can we survive if we survive at all
how can we survive if we survive ourselves

and i know there have been times when i've let the light go
and yet we somehow grow
as there is no form without shadow no soul without a window to a world that lives and thrives while another world dies and that doesn't mean we have to die ourselves

because life goes on
and it's a weary song without a forest to sing along
but we sing on
in spite of the nothingness brought on by your song
this is how we move on
how we prove ourselves wrong
nothing is gone

how we survive if we survive at all
how we survive if we survive ourselves
how we survive if we survive at all
how we survive if we survive ourselves

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released February 5, 2022
jessy fields: voice and classical guitar
graham ulicny: percussion and guitar

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