Adrienne Rich - Implosions lyrics
[Adrienne Rich - Implosions lyrics]
The world's not wanton
Only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
Would have to be changed by
Take the word
Of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
Your dark scribbled flags but take
My hand
All ways are useless to the dead
My hands are knotted in the rope
And I cannot sound the bell
My hands are frozen to the switch
And I cannot throw it
The foot is in the wheel
When it's finished and we're lying
In a stubble of blistered flowers
Eyes gaping, mouths staring
Dusted with crushed arterial blues
I'll have done nothing even for you?
Only wild and wavering
I wanted to choose words that even you
Would have to be changed by
Take the word
Of my pulse, loving and ordinary
Send out your signals, hoist
Your dark scribbled flags but take
My hand
All ways are useless to the dead
My hands are knotted in the rope
And I cannot sound the bell
My hands are frozen to the switch
And I cannot throw it
The foot is in the wheel
When it's finished and we're lying
In a stubble of blistered flowers
Eyes gaping, mouths staring
Dusted with crushed arterial blues
I'll have done nothing even for you?
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