Stuck in kinetic
we crossed the Potomac
You watched the rain
Slick the road purple and green
We saw what was there to be seen
We'd guessed against it

And I liked it, the wanting--
all that wanting.
But we'd follow the line of best fit
Wait for our turn and then take it
Make it impossible

We built it to test the last of our time
and gravity
To climb through the fence,
up the back of the sky,
past the metal men
And to orbit there for just as long
as you needed to feel some moonlight on your hair

Spent all day Friday
in suspended animation
just staring at the phone
Hey did you wait just like me?
I promised that you'd never see it coming

And when all of the words failed to soothe
or show at all
they spoke still, somewhere in the dark
They sang to me:
you are alone in this place
and no one remembers your name
They don't even try to

And now baby I'm lost
I'm just a map of my bones
in the killingest frost this land's ever known
Yeah I'm a child of the cold
and I'm a test of my own
But even I'm going to freeze 
if I never get home

When it broke in my oldest heart, I was born again
So I walked past the farthest plain, and I was bored again.

Gabriel Armstrong

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