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Will desert its body in fright of being caught - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Before us, we have two mirrors - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Did not succeed in luring me back - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Yet, one cannot take a lawsuit out on oneself - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Grew my dreams thick through hot nights - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Found I could not afford their nurture - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Liars began their parade without my asking - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Strode sidewalks inches before my doorstep - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

I sold my mind on the street - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

Conditioned to hate her for her appetite alone - Cate Marvin "Oracle"

Needling an emblem's ink onto your wrist - Cate Marvin "Oracle"

And ride that terrible train homeward - Cate Marvin "Oracle"

Made to begin where she ends - Cate Marvin "Oracle"

And drip their arrows down into the ground - Cate Marvin "Plastic Cookie"

Dropping such bells of tears now - Cate Marvin "Plastic Cookie"

A table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"

Prepared to swim away with your tears - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"

Noisy gusts roiling him awake - Cate Marvin "The Truth"

Startling the nerves of canines - Cate Marvin "The Truth"

Then he spackled the rim of the break - Cate Marvin "The Truth"

You would have thought nothing of the wall - Cate Marvin "The Truth"

The stains it harbors are the trails of dreams - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

The tree that carried you off with its scent of resin - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Won't disappear into the water filling the basin - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Before the resinous reflection of window - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Window cast into mirror by interior lights - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Do you wonder if I dream of your shattering? - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Marks on the face don't melt into the water - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Strange to dream that hard for a stranger - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

You who became strange within an hour - Cate Marvin "Two Views of a Discarded Mattress"

Your tinsel hair weaves the wheel - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"

That streams through my dreams of battle - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"

The child pulls its witching wind between - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"

The day that the planet circles the night we began - Cate Marvin "Why I Am Afraid of Turning the Page"

The light making off with its reflection - Cate Marvin "A Windmill Makes a Statement"

Until all lawns shimmer with your bluest energy - Cate Marvin "A Windmill Makes a Statement"


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