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https://twitter.com/cat_beltane/status/329686743550947328

Bunting bird, turn out the lights
It's nighttime, let the curtain drop
Eat all you can tonight (little ortolan, keep on ordering)
In the dark, you don't know when to stop (stop calling me, stop, stop calling me)

You were plump and perfect, I drowned you whole
In the velvety dark #IATETHEBONES
Salt in my mouth and I don't know if it was blood from a cut or the wine that I drowned you in
Or something else of yours, little bunting, little ortolan

Drape my head with a veil
Hide my shame from God
Name my desires and my guilty silken pleasures
I know that my appetites are wrong

Last supper before your Judas kiss
Last night I told you all I wanted was this
Under the sheets and I can't hold onto you or anything, not anything
In the darkness I feel that I could eat up everything, little ortolan

In the bright light of day
I know when to walk away
But in the dark, I'll DOUBLE DOWN and I'll swallow you whole
ALL IS PERMITTED, I'll bite your bitter bones

Drape my head with a veil
Hide my shame from God
Name my desires and my guilty silken pleasures
I know that my appetites are wrong

Bunting bird, turn out the lights
It's nighttime, let the curtain drop

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from Names of Things and What They Do, released November 6, 2015

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