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Campfires

by Matt Aspinwall

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1.
Campfires 03:53
the sun marched through the canopy and tried to make its way to the willow tree when the birds began to see, they tried to stop the fire's reach they soaked all the branches and moved east they moved away to escape the sun's fury and when night fell on the man of the sea, he was lost in the forest he was looking for me there were campfires beneath every tree and he followed them to the willow tree where he found himself and he found me feeling cold and wet and feeling lonely he carried me out to the depths of the sea where i died and moved out to the city and i was content and living happily but i was picked up by the sea breeze and i was carried back to the willow tree some drunk men cut it down and then they looked at me and i was chopped up and my bones were buried that was the last time that you could ever see me.
2.
Spring 2006 04:39
all my friends are moving north to escape the summer i'm in my room trying to hide from my mother the sky is turning black the rains have come perhaps i'll plant a garden for you or maybe i'll just lay down i'm in my room and i'm staring at the ceiling sunlight's pouring through my open window as i listen to birds sing i don't want to get up you'll knock me down again but i'm too much like the sparrow that returns every spring "la dadaaa dada da" i'm in my room and i'm lying on the floor i can hear my family underneath me laughing under the floorboards "ha hahaaa haha ha" i can hear a cop car traveling down the street with his sirens blaring i hope that they catch that god damn thief the birds have gone now the clouds have moved in i can hear the leaves shuffling out my window that is still open and the cop's going home now to have dinner with his wife and kids and everyone is happy and full in their well-lit kitchen all my friends are moving north to escape the summer i'm in my room trying to hide from my mother
3.
you climbed to the top of the mountain just so you could sleep with the pine tree everyone wanted to climb the mountain but only to find out what they could see they all tried to climb the mountain but got buried under rocks and leaves everyone had hundreds of funerals and you woke up next to me
4.
i sat on top of the ocean and watched the waves under me everyone fell in love with the ocean, everyone, that is, except me and everyone got caught up in the currant, i got dragged out with the tide and everybody wanted to get sober and i just wanted to die

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released June 20, 2007

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with the infusion of friends’ idears, influence, and overall assistance, it wouldn’t be fair to keep putting it all under the porch of “matt aspinwall”. so “black lake” it is.

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