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title: The Moon is drowning
genre: verse

id: moon-drowning
toc: "The moon is drowning"

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    class: stark
    order: 3
    next:
    - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing
      link: music-433
    - title: Worse looking over
      link: worse-looking-over
    prev:
    - title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
      link: poetry-time
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      link: big-dipper
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| [The moon is drowning][] the stars it pushes them
| under into the darkness they cannot breathe
| they are flailing the moon boasts to my shadow
| how powerful is the moon how great its light

| My shadow nods and calls the moon father though
| it acknowledges also the existence of others
| headlights are like little moons father my shadow says
| they pass like waves in a dark ocean

| Father moon becomes angry and threatens
| I can maroon you shadow I can trap you in darkness
| your strength comes from my own the little moons
| are fleeting like foam on a darkened sea

| My shadow fears the night as it fears death
| but it remembers the moon's strength is from another
| my shadow wants the headlights like an ocean
| might want the moon as a seducer as a lover

[The moon is drowning]: moongone.html