Heavy as an oil drum

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• I don't belong to anyone / my heart is heavy as an oil drum / and I don't want to be alone / my heart is yellow as an ear of corn
• I took a blind shot, across the creek, at the black bear / when he roused me in the night, and left me cowering with my light / calling out, "Who is there?"
• We both want the very same thing / We are praying I am the one to save you / But you don't even own your own violence / Run away from home — your beard is still blue
• how I would love to gnaw / to gnaw on your bones so white / and watch while the freight trains pound / into the wild, wild night
• I am blue and unwell
• and daughter, when you are able, come down and join! / The kettle's on, and your family's round the table
• everywhere I tried to love you is yours again, and only yours
• Well, I have sown untidy furrows across my soul, but I am still a coward / content to see my garden grow so sweet & full of someone else's flowers
• But how do you choose your form? / How do you choose your name? / How do you choose your life? / How do you choose the time you must exhale, and kick, and rise?