command and compliance

from DRESS FORM by Stranger Killings

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Command and Compliance

God is a tapestry woven from terror
Command and compliance
Divide and conquer
I’m just a garland of error
A filthy tongue could never speak these words
Was it god
Was it god
Who set fire to all these birds
Was it god who spoke these words
A litany of shame and accusation
Every bone and brace is faulted
The church of all bodies is vaulted
Hymnals of weakness ring there
And rest there deep in the chest
It speaks of things uneven
And when it sings it sings of heaven
And when it screams it screams of penance
Everything shines
Everything shines
Everything shivers in ecstasy
Every eye is clouded
Every form is shrouded
And every action is guided by command
All dissenting will subverted
All caving in and crawling in compliance
Command and compliance/ i’m crawling up the rib of adam into the mouth of the seventh mansion
Is that mother
Is that god
I am engaged
I am engaged
With a wedding band of blood
With a wedding band of lead
All proof of my engagement
These grateful hands are my commitment
He commands
She commands
They command
And I am compliant
When he commands
When she commands
When they command
I am compliant

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from DRESS FORM, released March 25, 2016

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