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surgical spite (Lyric) by calliope
Avert your eyes,
and a wolf may snatch the sparrow
from the sky
as she flies by singing your song.
You've got to try
to shape your words in such a
way
that they grind like knives
out through your teeth.
And stab the wolf.
He hungers for silence.
He hungers.
Don't feed him anything.
Just stab that wolf in the heart.
And if he dies,
your thoughts were worth enough to
blot the sky
in a swirl of surgical spite.
Go on and try.
Shape every word in such a
way
that it grinds like knives
out through your teeth.
To stab the wolf.
Let the hilts roll from your tongue,
stain the soot red at your feet.
Grind down the blades til they're dull.
Cuz you know they'll still stab just as deep.
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