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No Sleep 'til Buffalo

from No Sleep 'til Buffalo by Sherman to the Fucking Sea

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we gotta know where we come from
else we'll never get back there again
yes from the earth, yes from the dirt
but just which stretch gave you a name?

it's not like I had a choice
I awoke when the traffic spoke
the bandages swaddled me up
the brick in my mouth stopped the crying

the woods were my first native love
gray branches brittle as sticks
cracked under the weight of my awe
the sky was occluded by their mesh

I had an unborn wish within me
to strike a match and watch it all burn
now that I've groomed an arson's heart
when will I roll in the soot of my hope?

rough mix gravel
spread thin for driving on
upward weeds between dirt tracks
up to the grip of worn blacktop

the end of this road
is a semi-colon
a fork in history
mine and a few others'

bouncing through the mud
in the back of a truck
hold a gun and a dog by the collar
collecting hot brass, clicking in clips

thicks whiffs of saltpeter
this is home too
how Easters were spent
with smoke and fire

so project a video image
of my mother giving birth
you'll see the same face coming out
as this one that wants back in

no sleep 'till Buffalo

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from No Sleep 'til Buffalo, track released January 26, 2010

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