Gray Is Too Dull A Color For My Anatomy

from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence by Paulie Lipman

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GRAY IS TOO DULL A COLOR FOR MY ANATOMY

I am not made of limbs
just
a loose arrangement of musicians
They have no discipline
so my bones are all intuition and elbows
knees
knocking an awkward rhythm
and a face
that only my mother could call classical

The only note they can agree on
comes from my spine
When bowed slowly in the key of remorse
its tiny vibrations are barely enough
to keep my head up
but
when struck with purpose
it resonates up through my eyes
in a tone that is anything but minor

This is the same chord that
echoes through the
empty opera house of our insides
plucks our tongues and choirs our teeth
to powder
We
are gap mouthed whistle kids
keening off time and outta key
to form the most disjointed smiling chorus
this side of rapture
singing out every dissonant ghos
until all that is left
is the most cracked note ever uttered
that we pray at least one person
thinks is beautiful

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from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence, released March 15, 2011
Words and music by Paulie Lipman

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Paulie Lipman Denver, Colorado

Paulie Lipman has been a part of 8 Denver National Slam Teams(including '04's second place and '06's national champions). His work has appeared in The Legendary, Borderline, and the Write Bloody anthology: The Good Things About America.

In addition to Spoken Word, Pauile is also a musician/composer and is available for hire for commercial/video game/soundtrack work. ... more