Thursday, February 14, 2013

to Bright Eyes, "If the Brakeman Turns My Way"





There’s no answer to that query, just a need. A balance that stays vastly under-weighted or over adjusted. The dancers only walk now, and the snowboarders’ gear gets hung up early.

The community takes a lot of time to settle after a holiday, a torrent that rattles the majority of the locals. A sudden desperation that skews me and us.

Some automatic writing, a forced pen in hand, but there is a drive, a run to it. The Paris of the south looms in the back of my mind, veering and steering me.

All this death must need a counterweight, but the scales only balance when they need to. Fate is a curious pagan in that way.

And she will whisper an uplifting notion in my year. Ascending to a major tone and echoing encouragement. A beatle-sec sound and cadence.

If the brakeman turns my way, leveling, stopping, balancing and slowing
 Is that what we want, a pause in the action, a rest in the conflict , unrest in the natural illusion?

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