[ lyrics: natalie merchant/music: robert buck ]







Greta's cedar hope chest

Is full of pamphlets

Glass shelves of romantic vignettes

A journal laced with sedimentary prose



Norma gathers and collects vintage photoplays

Hair combs valentines



Lillian allows the animals to scratch

Leather crack

Mail collect in the box coatings peel



Agnes veiled cathedral dweller

Smiles with benevolent pain

It's katrina's fair tuesday morning

As she with caution unlatches the flat door

She alone cascades to the basement

Careful not to spoil her

Calico printed pinafore

Composite traits mannerists

All others dissipate



Margauritte vigilant dwells upon frigid casements



Sarah's thoughts in the velocity

Accusations always pierce and pass



Clara abandons her passions for distastes

Miss lenora p. sinclair

Early for coffee in the pool

"i'm resituating all your words"

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Sylvia keeps beasts in jars labeled

Kingdom phylum class order family genus species


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