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Could've Been Graves

from The Way The Hook Bends by Tyler Dettloff

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Remember we were so afraid to say love we said lizard instead?
We could reach across canyons carved into vinyl records
and touch each other.

I sat on that fresh painted park bench, stood up with and "L" on my ass.
We scoured our diction to say every L-word but love.
Took two years and the funeral of my husk
just to pronounce, just to pronounce that word to you.

Our skulls rammed full of pride.
We said a lie was the easiest way out of love.
I saw your eyes long for and L-shaped parachute,
but we couldn't lie, no we wouldn't try.

So we licked envelopes, sent the last L-words to unmarked benches.
They could've been graves. They could've been graves.
How many sounds could've filled our hearts
if we hadn't filled our heads with words.

Books don't feel
but a song can peel
the wrought-iron
from my spine.
I'll ask for another try.

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from The Way The Hook Bends, released April 15, 2015

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Tyler Dettloff Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Musician and poet from the swampy Delirium Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Tyler performs and records with Lost Dog Records.

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