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ANI DIFRANCO lyrics : "The Slant"

the slant
a building settling around me
my figure female framed crookedly

in the threshold
of the room
door scraping floorboards

with every opening
carving a rough history
of bedroom scenes

the plot hard to follow
the text obscured
in the fields of sheets

slowly gathering the stains
of seasons spent lying there
red and brown

like leaves fallen
the colors of an eternal cycle
fading with the

wash cycle
and the rinse cycle
again an unfamiliar smell

like my name misspelled
or misspoken
a cycle broken

the sound of them strong
stalking talking about their prey
like the way hammer meets nail

pounding, they say
pounding out the rhythms of attraction
like a woman was a drum like a body was a weapon

like there was something more they wanted
than the journey
like it was owed to them

steel toed they walk
and I'm wondering why this fear of men
maybe it's because I'm hungry

and like a baby I'm dependent on them
to feed me
I am a work in progress

dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding
offering me intricte patterns of questions
rhythms that never come clean

and strengths that you still haven't seen

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