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Rotten Apples

We are the fury and the greed and the filthy hearts of fishermen

Wrapped necks in their own line fed on by the fish with milk white eyes

We are the rotten apples plucked off the tree of the divine

We are the rotten apples plucked off the tree of the divine

 

Our father breathes diseases, our father breathes diseases through his fingers

Blows them out from his hands like hot ashes sticking to our eyes

 

We walk the paths wolves fear to pray but for what reason or a reason at all

Our love is in violence and our love is in pain and we love that we feel this way

We are the rotten apples plucked off the tree of the divine

We are the rotten apples plucked off the tree of the divine

 

Our mother breathes earthquakes, she breathes earthquakes from her lungs

And the earth will open us and swallow you whole, and it will and it will

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joseph-c
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Jul 8, 2010
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