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Ask for Dust

by David Plell

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1.
散歩、暑さ、太陽が降り出すかのように。雲も空を軽くとんでいる。さっと僕がベンチに座り込み。なんという間にか眩しい夕焼けが。 Walking in heat like the sun could fall. And clouds weightlessly drift in the sky. I plop down onto a bench. Out of nowhere, a dazzling sunset.
2.
Learn Hello 02:30
I feel awful poor at this. I feel as though pretending not to notice this is keeping me behind. How do I begin to dig your breathing wooden skin where the scales miss, miss? (La la la la) Look to the ground. Look to the animals. Learn how they say goodbye. Study their tails go. I'm gonna have you stuck in my mind, I think I'd like to see you some time (time) moves over when we get together buzzing like two feathers!
3.
When ghostly dots become a thousand million ghostly dots, it's time. Your palms begin to sweat. Don't keep closed. You know, a salty ocean's memory must come to foam. I had a dream before my eyes there was a dream. I had a dream I saved the country from a dai-jishin, cause in my dream the whole thing fit inside my palm. Then the next thing you know, I'm keeping secrets from John Rhys-Davies. Then the next thing, I learn my secret was a lie. I fell asleep before my eyes there was a dream.
4.
(Orders) 03:00
Haunt another time - we don't take orders from the tomb! I wanna sing a song for every little spot on you. Erect your ears in future dreams of Mexico (and if my telephone starts ringing I'll just have to let it go.) If you knew the feelings that I have for you: a world in which even our silence is a gift, and foods taste good. The warmest breath this world has ever seen. I think that's understood. Your golden knees, the middle of your chest. Your sing-song voice takes confidence and slaps it in the ears like twirling thread like rising bread, I feel so strange and hopeful. May I ask your heart to take me up to see your room? Will your heart answer soon? ...Hey, is it cold? Is it this cold? Are you this cold? "It is cold in a tomb."
5.
1811, practice Hungarian, discords are in. (Take a number, う) 1840, heart-stirring stories, girls who like Russian boys take a number, う 1915, in France a woman sings, "I think love is mean." (Take a number, う) 1917, give me your singing jazz-machine. (That's what I need!) It's that number, う!
6.
Acting Adult 03:36
Higher! Another nail in the wall. Another inch off the trim and I'll have you looking like my princess. Liar! I see your tongue sticking out! I see the words on your breath and none of them agreed to take confession. I came along concocting this song for telling-off everyone. As things turn out, the feeling gets lost each time I come up to the chalk. (That's the deepest hole I ever seen!) That's the deepest dream I ever seen! That's the kind of thought I like to feed. It seems like thats the only line you ever sing. It's one after the other, to then fro. If one can't live in chaos how's it really all I ever get to know? Here's the only harp I need to own - let's make it worth the money. Higher! Another nail in the wall. Another pinch on your chin and I'll have you looking like my mistress. Liar! I see your tongue sticking out! I see the words on your breath but can hardly understand the message. I wrote this tune without having a clue of how to include you, so now I'm calling you out for acting adult and finally stopping my calls. Went you went home, heart-broke and drunk, and I wanted to meet you, you read my note and quickly wrote back, "I'm sorry. No thank you." (That's the deepest hole I ever seen!) That's the biggest talk I ever seen! That's the kind of talk I'd like to lead. It seems like that's the only talk I can't compete with. It's one after the other, to then fro. If one can't live in chaos how's it really all I ever get to know? Here's the only harp I need to own - let's make it worth the money. it's one for the road, and two for the show.
7.
Nearer is   where we peel garlic   hands cleaning steel pots, streets stealing bright flowers in crops   where we slip knives in hot water   knives rainless curtains, gardenlike we peel away   light smells on our eyelids as sun on steel   we lay tracks, crop mountains and rooftops with snow, rails with freight cars the size of leaves, I   hold you nearer now   than a season, than a whistle praying in the dark.

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released March 31, 2012

Thanks to friends who offered talents and creativity and made this project possible. The incredible -Naydja Burton- did the drums for most of the songs in a single evening. Long time friend and companion from Cyrus Fell Down -Cory Mason- also played drums on "(Orders)." -Aaron Anderberg- and -Shane Taylor- gave bass to "(Orders)" and "Keeping Secrets," -Tri Tran- shot photos for the album artwork, and the talented -Lainey Guddat- recites her poem, "Nearer is," as well as makes most of the noise. Thanks everyone!

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David Plell is a Seattle-based multimedia artist.

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