The Cartographers
from Get Used To Being Everything by Michael Garfield
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We ply in maps.
We are certain that
the world fits on a page,
in a poem, and believe that what we see
doesn’t slip into the discontinuities
we use to lead our children through
this quaint diorama.
We are real people living in our imagination
at simile speed,
failing to keep up
with a life led beyond
a metaphor’s needs
that sheds and reissues
all that continues without seams.
The dispersal of seeds.
We are all sages and saints waiting to happen.
We are real people living in our imagination.
And it is more beautiful than can be expected.
But we scratch and sniff at our books
in attempts for the actual scent.
Lord, we try to fade into the sky.
But we come home alone.
We come home small.
Cuz no belief has
any meat at all.
We are certain that
the world fits on a page,
in a poem, and believe that what we see
doesn’t slip into the discontinuities
we use to lead our children through
this quaint diorama.
We are real people living in our imagination
at simile speed,
failing to keep up
with a life led beyond
a metaphor’s needs
that sheds and reissues
all that continues without seams.
The dispersal of seeds.
We are all sages and saints waiting to happen.
We are real people living in our imagination.
And it is more beautiful than can be expected.
But we scratch and sniff at our books
in attempts for the actual scent.
Lord, we try to fade into the sky.
But we come home alone.
We come home small.
Cuz no belief has
any meat at all.
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from Get Used To Being Everything,
released June 11, 2006
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Michael Garfield Santa Fe, New Mexico
Singer-songwriter, avant-guitarist, and live electronic producer all at once, Michael's dynamic live shows and intricate albums takes listeners on emotional trips spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde.
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