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lyrics

Junior year, I got some bad news
Trying to study from my book about biology
Kept on staring at the sentence:
"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
The words were blurred, my hand was shaking
Two lines, parallel and blue
You have a choice, you have to make it
The rabbit died and I don't know what to do

So I'm standing in the kitchen with the stereo singing
And the buzzing of bees in my head
Dreaming of the sound of church bells ringing
But I looked out the window and saw the church sign instead:

"Don't put a period where God put a comma"
And what if there's no period? God!--
Little comma, lines continuing
Little comma, I think of my mom,
Nineteen, in the kitchen
Phone like a crescent moon pressed against her ear
Saying, "I'm sorry, I'm going to keep her"
Light down the lines saying comma no period here

Comma curves like the crescent moon in the sky
Or the spine of a specimen in formaldehyde
Half-made salamander with its moon-black eye
I'm sorry, I can't keep you

Tail of the phone line curling down in the dark
Pale spine pressed up on my ear
I whisper to the gills of the moon in the dark
I'm sorry, there's no room for you here

Black water, white fish in black water,
I go towards the mirror in the dimming light
In the dark of the hallway I look like my mother
Mother, comma, goodnight

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

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