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A Quarter for the New Ghosts

from Apocalyptic Love Songs by Chris Goudreau

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A quarter for your thoughts indivisible
They line the streets with “Can you spare a buck?”
In rags and trucker hats
The wind cuts cloth from flesh
To breed new ghosts

To howl down alleys
With a throatful of hornets
To beg like a fish
With a hook for a donation
To gather shopping carts
Be they tin cans or your savior

Why look at me,
When you’re paying to not look?
A penny for a nickel for the moral of the story that you’re told

A quarter for your liberty huddle
Around drums of fire near the highway underpass
With cardboard angel wings
And hymns from dim street lamps
That herald new ghosts

Who dream of a beast
Whether hunter or hunted
Who vanish in a mist
To drown inside a bottle
Who sing like a saw below high-rise apartments
Who half-heartedly cry
Are we not a sovereign nation?

Why look at me,
When you’re paying to not look?
A penny for a nickel for the moral of the story that you’re told

Holy, holy albatross
Spread your wings unto the sun
If your feathers turn to fire and dust
There is silence
Oh, there is silence

Holy, holy albatross
You are not the curse, the crux
The face you wear is the face of us
In our kingdoms of storms and shipwrecks

The beast you starve is a ghost defined
With shadows curled around your eyes
And when you look will they disappear?
Or will their eyes be your mirror?

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from Apocalyptic Love Songs, released June 9, 2023

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