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Before You Lose The Ocean

from Frontera Dogs by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs & Eric Muhs

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from the album "Frontera Dogs"
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs & Eric Muhs
December 2019

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Before You Lose The Ocean

Like a crab
the movement sideways
losing a leg endlessly
Conjugating its soul
in languages unknown to itself

The country at large
parades its blemished
infantilelike consciousness
People waving flags disclose
handicap nationalism
like a SARS virus outside of China
no flag to hold

Demonstrations of thirty thousand gagged
by the suave media camouflage
We stand guilty pioneers to the world

we still don't understand

We stand guilty pioneers to the world
in the long line of forgiveness

Our sins hang on pins
from the clothesline of the Equator

And the latitudinally palpitating xenophobia
in our country smears
storms the air with
parcheesi-like ladders that held us to ignorance
Our questions fill the country
held back several years from graduation grammar school

Our credit cards boneless
Our stoic cars filled with the dark juice of forgetfulness

Our souls on lease to someone else's guilt
Verguenza agena. ?????

Our tears for rent to hire bettors of pain.
Our sins hang on pins
from the clothesline of the Equator

There's no place unread by time
Deciphered by education where one can hide

There's no place where palms can be read by past events
where books will no longer embrace you
letter hug you
sentences whispered to you
You have encountered yourself on paper
It was your destiny
in your learning of life
to find your passion
on the bark of a tree
It's all a spiral of knowledge
Yet an unending and undeciphered letter
to write your life
before you lose the ocean.

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from Frontera Dogs, released December 21, 2019
Eric played Korg and Roland synthesizers.

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Eric Muhs Seattle, Washington

gigging musician since 1981 in Seattle's seminal "new wave" bands STUDENT NURSE & AUDIO LETER. Got into recording in late 80's in Santa Cruz with MATA RATA. Built homemade 4 track tape loop system for 200 + solo performances. Now live back in Seattle, where I make instruments & perform with Metal Men. I've got a modest solar-powered recording studio. More at www.invisiblemusicstudio.org ... more

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