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Sleeping Whip

from Brushfire Lorca by Straight Panic

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No one sleeps here

Lunar beasts climb the walls
Reptilian jaws upon hollow broken men
Iguana and Alligator in quiet tandem
beneath tender stellar protestation

No one sleeps on the Earth

Drought makes corpses to cry
Call out the dogs
The dead child cries too loud

¡Cuidado!
Living is not dreaming

Moist earth at stairwell's base
We tumble, mouths open
Unforgetting
Flesh is.
New veins entangle kissing mouths
Pain begets pain—forever
Carry the fear of death

With roses in our mouths—
the rose has teeth in the mouth of the beast—
butterflies float from graves

Scarred men—
by stress and storm—
and weeping boys with mummified hand,
the impoverished dead
at the reptile wall;
waiting ursine teeth,
hair on end
in violent blue shudder

No one sleeps here
Not on Earth or in sky
If the eyes close
fetch the whip
Let there be a landscape
of burning wounds
and open eyes

No one sleeps here
Show the moss
the catastrophe, the poison
the grand Guignol skulls

No one sleeps here

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from Brushfire Lorca, released March 4, 2022
Lyrics adapted from "City That Does Not Sleep" (1929/1930)

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