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Heelstone Mary

from The Bath (2005) by Achilles Tenderloin

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Locked in your bedroom
and lookin’ right up at you
shakin’ your hair
in the ceilin’ lamp, wearin'
your fluorescent halo,
like a sunwatchin’ heelstone—
I’m head under heel, as you're
foldin' me into your dawn.

O, Repunzel,
throw down your hair,
like a bible cord pinned
between velveteen covers.
I’m bendin’ your spine
and your body is good,
like the book that he read
to us, Sundays ago.

Don’t worry, Mary.
We don’t have to marry,
like Mary & Joseph.
I’d rather be Sisyphus,
carryin’ on with you,
rollin’ around with you,
turnin’ you over, and
tumblin’ under your

weight—Ariadne,
openin' passages,
I won’t abandon you
there on the island.
I’ll wake up beside you.
We’ll dance like Bacchantes
and pipe-playin’ goatmen.
I’ll move with you, singin',

"Eohoe!"—Mary,
I’m no messiah,
but I won’t be burnin'
the scroll of your memory.
You will be there with me
up on the summit
and I won’t be crucified,
leavin' you nothin',
but bread and wine.

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from The Bath (2005), released May 27, 2005
All songs written and performed by Achilles Tenderloin (Joe Augustin), 2004, 2005

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