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Southern Hole

from All Is Not Lost by Matt Ellin

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So the linguist from Boston, he called it a southern hole
It got cold when disease had its way with the streams
And the roots dead or else destroyed, he was first hesitant to take its polaroid
But the hole loved the camera
And the camera loved the hole

The next morning, he went outside early to see it
It had grown out significantly he could see
The animals made a home of it, and their babies begot to the bone in it
And the linguist took pictures, the linguist got mud on his khakis

And he thought if earth's critters ascend into ether, will our stray dogs have decent places to drink?
Will the warthogs and worms have adult movie theaters and time to stay home
Time to think
Still the stillborns persisted to sink

So he dragged them up out of the dirt to break even
To commemorate them more appropriately
Plopped them into a plastic bag, and then smoothed out their wounds with a cleansing rag
Popped them into his car's backseat, then drove gingerly into the sleet and machinery for miles in the town that he lived in
In his excess, he swerved to the side of the street
Another car hit him going past, then the breaks gave out, engine was revving fast
And the linguist spun straight out of his lane and into a tree

He just thought if earth's critters ascend into ether, will our stray dogs still have good places to drink?
Will the warthogs and worms have adult movie theaters and time to stay home
Time to think
You know, I think
Garden of Eden
Of tandem or treason
This world's not big enough for the both of us

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from All Is Not Lost, released September 1, 2017

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Matt Ellin New York, New York

Singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, Theophobia member, performer

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