Name: Walking Stick
Duration: P00H05M34S
Description: I read about an African father carrying his starving daughter to a refugee camp. She died in his arms less than a mile before they arrived.

Walking Stick

from Shrug by Rhea Valentine (Wendy Lewis)

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I read about an African father carrying his starving daughter to a refugee camp. She died in his arms less than a mile before they arrived.

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Bloated on the empty retching in the neck, I see the preying mantis kneeling down as bone and flesh. Leaning on the landscape, moving is the trick. I am the walking stick.

Dragging what loving brings, sagging in her skin. All that I had to give made her this prison. Leaning on the landscape, moving is the trick. I am the walking stick.

Stepping on bodies, no reason no rhyme. Forward is backward, I bury my child. Leaning on the landscape, moving is the trick. I am the walking stick.

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from Shrug, released May 1, 1995
by Wendy Lewis

Lewis : voice
Ward Harper : bass
Terry Eason : guitar
Mike Michel : guitar
Dave King : drumkit, voice

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