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Painted Desert / Petrified Forest

from GREATEST HITS 2010 - 2015 by BOURBON AND COFFEE

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painted desert / petrified forest

driving desperate beauty
relentless sun
fierce wind slicing through
bright warmth
behold the immense weight of emptiness
desolate but not lifeless
desert life
determines appropriate scale

urban american psychology
presumes
un developed
under utilized
expecting a wealth of
something everything
heaped into dense collections
of sight and substance
as the city piles onto itself
as the suburban strips unfurl
rolling swiftly toward
un sustainable

the desert resolves itself
with implicit logic
subtle as a purple succulent
sprouting between pebbles
two ravens
observing a tourist with
intelligent interest

abundance balanced against
the sparse resources
of an environment
which fluctuates
extreme temperature
and moisture
on a daily basis

the desert is not greedy
it knows when enough
is enough when enough
is too much

when the human settlements run dry
drained of their adolescent optimism
the desert will accept a blessing
of towering shade

crude artifacts
of a long suffering society
vestigal organs
placed into historical context
alongside a fading generation
which slowly legalized
man's worst behaviours.

bank
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idfirst bank

fallen letters
disappearing into a wash
of punishing light.

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from GREATEST HITS 2010 - 2015, released November 25, 2015
IAN BE played all the ukuleles and the voice

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BOURBON AND COFFEE Buffalo, New York

BOURBON AND COFFEE is a freak jazz poetry band born in a Buffalo NY basement summer. wake up and join the fun. a lyrical flight through cloud mystery zones.

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