Found: Kathryn Gillespie
01. Writer
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Kathryn Gillespie
02. Theme
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Found
03. MUSIC INSPIRATION
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The Mountain Goats:
Family Happiness
04. WRITING
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Stasis in Cycle
You are listening to dead people all the time.
I’m trimming my cuticles with exacto knives
while louder ghosts play on our radio,
clutching hard won figments of me,
though I always cycle back
to fatal worst, dipping toes
in acid again, screaming
I tried my best
to learn.
We bury conflicts quick in unmarked graves,
sleep uneasy in beds unmade with strife,
rest our heads on mirrors painting
our whispers just too soft to know
where this spiral starts
and who it dredges
down.
I’ll crack my face with raging tears.
You’ll find me a pinned butterfly
marked in inefficient
pattern, singing odes to
circling carrion
birds.