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I have nerves of nylon
a tiny stab and I run
I have a spine so thin
I don't stand I shake against you spiky limbs
Vulnerable to brushing arms
Chock full of disease
and a seething hole is left
in the shape of the hosiery run
This mortal shape of cardiac arrest
is so stultifying
I'm scratching everywhere I've ever been touched
Her body's so sex
So she packs in the violence she needs
to prove solidity
Then cuts it into servings
from a box of broken glass
So she can eat from the pity we give whores

To let break and slide
like tarpaulin grain and die
Is to shake rattled nerves then release unto a lie
It was chance a tool of opposition
As cute as a corpse in the back of a car
With blue eyes and red lips she died
Sometimes I am a fly: landed in wet paint
what graceful misfortune
In ordinary lifeless color.
Winter comes
And everything we know on earth dies again
I’m scratching everywhere I’ve ever been touched

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from Northern Lights EP, released March 17, 2010

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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