Monday, 24 April 2023

Foundry Songs by Dean Rhetoric

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This is a collection with a heavy emotional load – it deals with physical illness, it deals with the complexities of identity


An example


Silk Cut


Look, sometime we let a little trauma

salt the meat of the men we become


when we were boys

every son on the street

was a murderer

suffocating their softest parts

so their friends

had less of them to hurt


unbuttoning buildings

to sneak upstairs

past curfew


if caught

their cries for mercy

were tested on the damn birds

until the damn birds

were broken

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