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Sally Won't Sing

from Sally Won't Sing by The Araby Bazaar

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I tried to tell her: she sounds just fine
she said she can’t and won’t not believe me
but when I came the other night, I heard music…

a curious thing - that Sally won’t sang
the buxom heiress of dysfunction
but, she knows the rich touchstones (see her tell her saxophone)
faithless poets’ UV pens (she has thirty-two of them)
I press my ear against the bathroom door…

bolted books; wide wisdom -
these are Sally’s smoking guns
watch her smiling as she reads “Crying” out in Portuguese
what she’s hiding is her business; she insists she ‘caws’
but I’ve heard things coming through the bathroom door…

Sally: on four, give me your meanest “Radio Ethiopia”
some things cosmic wish to spring from your breast through your seams
it’s tristed twicks of rods and cones: the phantom tons on peerless bones

a bothersome thing - that Sally won’t sing
the frenzied scholar; nubile fugitive
confident lust in the claw-marks cardinal; bookish in the sack
I think she thinks she’s grotesque, but watch her peaks tear through her chest…
…feel her cresting on the bathroom floor…

the silliest thing - Sally thinks she is in some way less than perfect
(such that she looks to me like I am in some way better)
the thing about you I’m trying to surmise can be explained
by the way you hold me when I am insane…

Sally: on four, give me your meanest “Radio Ethiopia”
some things cosmic wish to spring from your breast through your seams
it’s tristed twicks of rods and cones: the phantom tons on peerless bones

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from Sally Won't Sing, released July 12, 2020

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The Araby Bazaar England, UK

A cute cute, in a stupid-ass way.

'weird as helllll... kind of driving hard rock with really intellectual poncy talk-singing. [Likeable] but... deeply odd.' @thesweetsnob, Twitter

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