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I have a statue’s sense of grace

late afternoon light paints me heroic

If forced to move, my stoicism

is reduced to a stilted two step of

cobwebs and marble dust



I hope

you like random dance parties

The art on the walls

is all still life and could use a little more…push

These floorboards deserve different echoes

less ballroom and bayonet

and more joyously fist thrown

bossa nova



Leave me on the mantle

I’ll watch from here



If your feet need

more lift than my clucking tongue

and drill bit teeth can whistle

I’ve still got records, wax straining

against the dust of their crates

Don’t let all the Joy Division scare you

That’s only one side of it

Take solace in the Stax 45’s

Stevie Wonder, Bare Naked Ladies,

Sesame Street, and all the musicals

Spin them across your fingernails

let the vibrations bypass your tongue

and scream Glory



I won’t stop you



Half the time,

I want to tie up the wind chimes outside my window

and strangle their beautiful, random song

just

so I can sleep

The other half of the clock

is caught up between tip toes

and pounding out anti-mute rhythms

on my chest with all its

sunken fingerprints

If I happen to check out early

you’ll at least

have a short list of suspects



This is not a place you want to vacation

yet these walls

could use some more bend and bow

your 3 pm shadow, cast

into thousands of dancers

a thud rumble and damn the neighbors

Throw the curtains into a surprised smile

of early afternoon, sing and spin the room taut

into a single bass note, tremoring

seismic and delicate, until

I fall off the mantle and shatter

immaculate



Please

Leave me smashed and wonderful

don’t bend your exquisite knees

and disappear me into structure

Leave me to the waltz of the open window

and in this one movement, momentarily

achieve grace

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from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence, released March 15, 2011

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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

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