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Thomas Hawtin

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After The Bombs Fall

Maybe someday, you’ll reveal yourself to me; maybe someday, after the bombs fall, after the sirens sing out, after the fallout you’ll leave your shelter and speak once more

Double-Crossed

We’ve been double-crossed by the stars, the dice of fate were lost and weighted, you were born under a different sky, I was born too late. It goes without saying you can’t be bought

I am Silent Joy

I am silent joy, I am silent sorrow, I am what you have made me, driven mad in the silence. Fill this noiselessness with the language of angels, make me proud to hold joy, to bear sorrow.

Dance on The Graves of The Dead

Dance on the graves of the dead, mock their mossy tufts with the loftiness of love and lust and life, for they once danced like this. Fear not to be cast out into the migrant night,

Premonition of Civil War

(of the painting “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans” by Salvador Dali) mighty Colossus of flesh and brawn and tit of bone the desert sky does not pity you

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