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The Wheel

Record Details

Release
2016
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Record Tracklist

  1. The Wheel
    The Wheel

    a revolving wheel of metal chairs
    hung on chains, squealing

    four little children flying out
    a blind man sings in arabic

    now you see them, now you don’t
    the children vanish behind a vehicle

    now you see them, now you don’t
    faces, limbs, a bouncing skull

    little children, don’t disappear
                        I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
    lost upon a revolving wheel
                        I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
    all that’s left after a year
                        I heard it was twenty-eight thousand
    a faded face, the trace of an ear
                        I heard it was twenty-eight thousand

    a tableau of the missing
    tied to the government building

    thousands of sun-bleached photographs
    fading with the roses