Easy For a Prophet to Say, Joan

by The God Awful Small Affairs

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I left you for no reason.
I loved you for one season.
I was born in a time of red water,
while you were depicting coming ages of slaughter.

Burn baby burn they chanted,
hysterical romantics.
Never could reach you through smoke or dramatics.
I’m hiding out in your bathroom attic.

Who is this ‘god’ you’re speakin
to in fields and on weekends?
I’m the demon knocking on your door thrice,
crowing cocks or birds of paradise?

I tried to listen to
what Leonard sang about you,
But no old white man could
depict your dichotomy: bitter bliss / sainthood.

You turn me to a pillar of salt.
If I look behind me, swallow you off that altar.
You said I don’t have to be all alone.
Well, ain't that easy for a prophet to say, Joan?

I see you with my eyes (closed).
Clothes you pick out makes me feel so (ashamed).
A shade of current often missed-
my sweetness in the daylight misrepresents.

A century? A year?
How long have we been here in bed?
I must pretend
that this won’t end
that I don’t see the exit glowing
Red.

With my ear pressed to your thigh
I heard the ocean the day she died.
You turn me to a pillar of salt.
I’d look behind me
but see you still on that altar!
Said I don’t have to be all alone.
I say that's easy,
for a prophet to say,
Joan.

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released June 4, 2023

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