ACT I. The wound will take you there. It is a blood trail.

Snow and dirty rain? Light brought in in buckets?
the hunter's heart,
the hunter's mouth, the trees and the trees and the
space between the trees, swimming in gold. The words
frozen. The creatures frozen. The plum sauce
leaking out of the bag. Explaining will get us nowhere.
I was away, I don't know where, lying on the floor,
pretending I was dead. We have
swallowed him up, they said. It's beautiful. It really is.
We were in the gold room
where everyone finally gets what they want.
You said Tell me about your books, your visions made
of flesh and light and I said This is
the Sun. Let me name the stars for you. Let me take you
there. The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar
cube... so I said What do you
want, sweetheart? and you said Kiss me. Here I am
leaving you clues. My applejack,
my silent night, just mash your lips against me.
We are all going forward. None of us are going back.

Snow and Dirty Rain,
Richard Siken
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Dion
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i. Seven Devils, Florence + The Machine /  ii. Burn, Baby, Burn, Sea Power   / iii. Dance Yrself Clean, LCD Soundsystem /  iv. Fool, bôa / v. Deadlines (Hostile), Car Seat Headrest / vi. Baby Self Absorbed, Crywank / vii. Drawn to the Blood, Sufjan Stevens / viii. Fynbos, Alice Pheobe Lou / viv. Strangers, Ethel Cain / x. Joga, Björk / xi. Darkness, I'll Always Be Your Girl, R. Missing / xii. Half a Person, The Smith / xiii. Paparazzi, Lady Gaga / xiv. Don't Believe, Vashti Bunyan / xv. Abbey, Mitski

Good end: It will never be the way it was

Tom & Dion
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i. Beautiful Crime, Tamer / ii. Bourgeoisieses, Conan Gray / iii. The Secret in the Wall, Daniel Hart / iv. A Burning Hill, Mitski / v. Girl Afraid, The Smiths / vi. Poison Tree, Grouper / vii. The Perfect Girl, Mareux / viii. Beware the Friendly Stranger, Boards of Canada / viv. The Body is a Blade, Japanese Breakfast / x. beautiful boy, Esha Tewari / xi. Another Believer, Rufus Wainwright / xii. You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby, The Smiths / xiii. Who Are You, Really?, Mikky Ekko / xiv. Strangers, Ethel Cain  /  xv. Terrified, Childish Gambino

October, 1943 ✶ Sixth Year