Four Bottles, Out To Sea

from What Happens Come Dusk EP by MockingCricket

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lyrics

Melody:

We are not a river bed.
Droplike & stretched, we shed porcelain,
Pleasing as the mirrors who would lay on the sea,
Fealty pre-sworn to the softness of anarchy—

Ancient thing, ambivalent at gunpoint
And blackening to birds.
If we’re here to fall apart,
Let’s fall apart exquisitely,
Regardless of enkindled, delusive degree.

And the muck & a gleam
Devour one another and waste.
Never let’s spill us like jelly to waves!

My heart was mollusks, transparent like they
Were poppets I parted, all staggering true,
But human & scorpion vain.

Counterpoint:

I would turn my face
Inside out for my love—
Tooth and nerve bared
For who knows who
Would find them enough.
(But I would turn my face
Inside out if enough.
Run, void-milk blood,
void-milk run!)

I would shake these bones out
To better know my love—
Know the nature of my love.
(Pretty charcoal traces
On the vellum of a drum.)

Bind this bone raft
Float us out to the sea—
Ribs over ribs under ribs
‘Neath the bowing gate of baleen.

(Black bottle, blue bottle,
Green bottle, gold bottle.)

You be the egret-bitten
River of the estuary.
I’ll be the bell(e) in the whale
On the wine-darkened sea.

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from What Happens Come Dusk EP, released May 28, 2020

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Mocking Cricket is a one-man band by multimedia artist, Evvie/Evvin Marin (they/them). Gothic folk. A smoky voice & a questionable life decision.

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