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Thinking Something Looked Like What It's Not

from Transportation II by Julian Cartwright

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Thinking something looked like what it’s not,
left with two dissonant wind chimes, bird on top.
Left with all kinds of emblems,
I looked out on a pier.
Maybe for the last time,
and I still want to be here.

A certain part of foolishness is ultimately right,
but it’s hidden inside itself, weirdly.
All my emblems were reflective of the luxury of time,
and I was jealous of that in my wide hat,
but ultimately, inside it, weary.
And accustomed to an attitude absolutely basic,
like a guy who has just lost something he’d won.
Even my confession is overdone.

I know that if I were strong,
I’d be running toward the lie and from the liar,
thinking “hopefully things are incrementally dire,
rather than finding me bored.”
But why do I use my imagination
to imagine disaster, or imagine my spirit poor?

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from Transportation II, released March 3, 2014

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Julian Cartwright is a songwriter, instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in the Philadelphia area. Instagram @julian.cartwright.songs

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