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Abyss of Potentials

from Objet a by Old Girl

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Lyrics derived from Human Cylinders, by Mina Loy
except 4th verse written by Old Girl

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Human cylinders
revolving
in the enervating dusk
that wraps each closer
in the mystery
of singularity
among the litter of a sunless afternoon

having eaten without tasting
talked without communion
and at least two of us
loved a very little
without seeking to know
if our two miseries
in the lucid rush, together
could form
one opulent well-being

your indistinctness
served me the core of you
when in the frenzied reaching out
of intellect to intellect
leaning brow to brow
communicative over the abyss
of the potential

where each extrudes
beyond the tangible
one thin pale trail of speculation
from among us
we have sent out
into the enervating dusk
one little
whining beast
whose longing is to slink back

your indistinctness
served me the core of you
when in the frenzied reaching out
of intellect to intellect
leaning brow to brow
communicative over the abyss
of the potential

shaking in your glass house
all the doors open to the universe
a ghost in every room
and the cold wind blowing through
your psychic split
and hollow bones
never know
who it will be
waiting for the one
who can survive
the everything, nothing, and in between

your indistinctness
served me the core of you
when in the frenzied reaching out
of intellect to intellect
leaning brow to brow
communicate over the abyss
of the potential

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from Objet a, released May 18, 2016

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Old Girl Victoria, British Columbia

Old Girl is an experimental bedroom recording project by Nastasya Ellefsen Yaremchuk who lives in comfortable obscurity with the wildcats, wolves, and ravens on Vancouver Island, Canada. She was born in Montreal with Ukrainian and mixed Quebecois heritage. She's a Slavic Studies academic (history, culture, language) and makes music on the side. ... more

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