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The Carving of the Figurehead

by Platitude Queen

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Sometimes hate is the solution.

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The boom of the bitterbump shook my head.
A disappointment is what it said.
We get don’t light in the way we should.
A ten foot wall of fucking mud.

Wearing the shoes of my dead best friend,
Beneath the wind I break and bend.
Times are tough pal, sling your hook.
A ten foot child with a bleak outlook.

The crack of the corncrake in my skull.
My jaw is loose, my blade is dull.
Their numerous faces flashing past.
Ten more minutes is all I ask.

You got somewhere to go then?
You got somewhere to be?

Michael dances, Peter dances, Eleanor dances, Frederick dances.
Irfan dances, Stefan dances, Fatima dances, Jacqueline dances.
Nadiya dances, my mother dances, Christopher dances. Jay also dances.
The idiot dances, the pilot dances, the big lad dances, Reginald dances.
Ophelia dances as well.

The bubble of the queest and I’m on my feet.
The taste of blood is sweet relief.
There is no justice, there is no peace.
You count yourself lucky if you die in your sleep.

I have nothing left to give to the strange animals who took you.
And I wonder what you said before you died.

Sobia dances, Abraham dances, Fennimore dances, Wyatt dances.
The big faceless beast that appears in my mind at times when I am alone also dances.
Elmer and Peach and Penny-poo and Teddy dance too. I don’t know what to.
Sarah dances, Lucky Tom dances. The girl with the bruises dances really well.
We are all dancing well. We are dancing in hell with ourselves.

And they dance with abandon and aplomb.
And they cast shadows in such a way to make the walls come alive.
And they split the earth in two and out come rivers of light and heat.
I am not dancing with them, I am not dancing with them.

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released June 11, 2021
Music and words by Platitude Queen.

Artwork by J. S. Gordon.

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Platitude Queen Stockton On Tees, UK

Platitude Queen is a folk project by Teesside based musician and certified daft apeth J. S. Gordon (formerly based in Leeds).

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