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The Breathing Houses of Cornwall

from Big Sal and The Computers by Yellow Jacket Avenger

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All the women in this town
they are hiding in closets
with crochet needles and designs
doormats to bedspreads

Whimpering and crying
from bedrooms across the town
are harmonizing in the sewers and bounce across the waters

A foghorn misplaces the birds and the dogs yank at their chains
work shirts are worn with warm lipstick on the collars
but the men have lost their compasses on the way to work
follow the line of cars to the showbar
driftwood and dirt

Throwing money at the girls from the Reserve
and drinks are spilt as a bedsheet curls around the stage

The envy lives in their pillows and grows and bickers in the light
and the bannisters that once shaped them
they have fallen ill

Well they decorated their bodies with a still life of parents
Its a spell to ward off the cysts and complications from the strike

Meteors raining
caught in a blanket of pulp and smoke
this town is getting smaller as the houses begin to breathe harder

Fumes coat the signs and the awnings
black icicles in the winter
green sparrows in the summer

I am in the corner of the plant
quivering under moths
I sifted into a factory shirt
and cut through the air

Heaving and sighing
from bedrooms across the town
and the windows take them out
to be folded into the lawn

And the morning has peeled the horoscope
from the belly of the town
and the things that I once memorized
are now wearing a frown.

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from Big Sal and The Computers, released January 1, 1994

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Yellow Jacket Avenger Montreal, Québec

Yellow Jacket Avenger is the working name for all musical projects conceived by Geoffrey Pye since 1992. Born in Ottawa and continuing to work at it in Montreal today.

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