Mesopotamia

by Jonathan Davies

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You're looking for a laugh
even whispered under my breath
on nights asleep until the rest of death
you crack this jaw, you let it spill

You're looking for a laugh
when you let the lens do what it does
and it makes my edges bleed so much
when your sight's not straight and your hand's not still

Camera holds what he's told to hold
never reach beyond this view
you're looking past me past the dark age to Mesopotamia
building old temples on the ruins of the new

You're looking for a laugh
when the gospel's clear on where we stand
and the code is high
old Hammurabi gave his word
the word of old god was his own

and straight and clean and like a modern camera
captures everything
it knows so much more than you know
but not as much as all you've known

and what you know when you see the known world end
and all the bullion in those tombs
and all the gold in those hills
and all the gates that could be opened up
and all the bulls and the birds that could run free
while all of us lie still

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released April 4, 2020

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