Chalk​/​The White Kite

from Three Nights in the Wawayanda by Hourloupe

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lyrics

O let me lie in my bed of chalk
Or is it lime covers me
To wring out my time?

Staying here’s a piece of cake
Or for the birds
Whatever you like

It’s raising takes the courage of words

From the loam
From the dust afterwards
Written on black slate with white bone

Smudge them
Wipe them out
There’s still a ghost

Of what I meant to say

Man of chalk
Eraser hands
Burst into applause and we all go up in smoke

Finish your stand up
And after the joke
We’ll all be stretched
A long while
In our bed of white

Your shadow is a black balloon
Mine is a kite
White as a page
Flown by a figure from no place

Sending a message no one reads
But everyone gazes at: nature
It is flying away

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from Three Nights in the Wawayanda, released March 17, 2023

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Hourloupe: “I associate it, by assonance, to ‘hurler’ (to roar), to ‘huleler’ (to hoot), to ‘loup’ (wolf).”
—Jean Dubuffet

Hourloupe is a collaboration between writer, musician, and artist Frank Menchaca and Anar Badalov.
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