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GOLEM
Those who know me well will tell you that I'm not too good with secrets
And true enough with most I'm liberal to no end
But there are certain things I'll never say
The creature, after all, was made of clay
and only things unspoken keep it sucking wind

And true, it started clay, but as it walked it changed its composition
I mean, the air alone contains a million different things -
So I saw fit to split it into dozens
Laughed at purity and all its cousins
Beastie's now a little bit of everything

And it's scattered in fistfuls to all the four winds and the current may guide it to certain old friends who still have a sliver of me in their memory
And one might tangle in your hair and, darling, trust me - it ain't there to scare you
Nonetheless - when it's there, I hope you scream.

When it comes and come it must I hope it comes with bells and bones a-janglin'
With mason jars of blood and feathers it arrive
When it come I hope it come with eyes of ember
Rictus-grinning, kind, remembers
When it come and come it must, I hope it come alive

O when it come and come it will
I hope it come with ancient nets entangling
The moon conduct it ever higher up the cave
When it come it lift you from the floor in incraments of more and more and more
And when it come and come it will I hope it come in waves

And I hope when it come that it splashes round you in
Luminous pools of holiest blue
Hang on to yourself or surely you'll wash downstream

When it come -it come, I know - I hope a second later it just go
And when it go, I hope it go like steam

Those who know me well will tell you that I'm not too good with secrets

The sky cracks
The ocean glows
All jet black
You couldn't know

A coughing fit to rid my organs of a coat of purple glitter
That throws light round my ribcage to this very day
A taxing effort on this throat of mine
cause something came up, but it didn't shine
Instead - the red and living carolina clay.

It never sleeps
It doesn't even blink
And it sure don't listen to me
But if you want the creature not to stay then simply wave the silly thing away and watch as it dissolve just like a dream

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from Beastie, released August 29, 2014

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