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Die Traumdeutung

from MAGNIFICENT BIRD by Gabriel Kahane

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lyrics

This time, I’m listening on the radio—
The explosion, even on speakers,
Rattles my ribcage. There are screams,
Chaotic shouts, voices I think I know,
Or maybe I don’t, and then silence.
This is the new Age of Anxiety.

If I am a camera, I see three starfish in the bed.
All of us dreaming, one of us too young
Too have learned to dream in red.
Jump cut to a wide shot of the sky:
Three hundred million fists clenched tight.

All these months I’ve slept
With a pencil tied onto my finger
Thinking that it might help me sleep.
But instead I find I’m left
With these photographs that only linger
After I write down what I’ve seen.

After the silence, a change of scene. I’m
In some kind of safe house, having my
Head shaved, being trained as an assassin.
I think these images must spring
From the vault of action movies
I have stockpiled on sleepless nights, on
Transatlantic flights over the ocean…

For tours, a relic of an earlier age:
When we sat in airport lounges drinking Scotch,
Eating pretzels, watching cable news,
Oblivious to the mess that I was making for you.

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from MAGNIFICENT BIRD, released March 25, 2022
Gabriel Kahane - piano, vocals
Anthony McGill - clarinet

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