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Bonus: Parting Gifts

from Cibola - 7th Anniversary Edition by Bird Friend

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this radio silence was restraint at its finest
but in time, it started to impair
the assertion it was more than effective denying
the entrenchment of this despair

so the terror that it's brought and the hell that it's wrought
is manifest as in the same sin
that makes you want to hang a weight from your neck
and sink to the bottom of a bottle of gin

so i took it rough but i am better off
trying to work it out by traditional means
than to bitch and moan that i'm alone
while your face fades from my memory

it was the absolute among us that you just couldn't stomach
made so evident in your vindication
for as you departed you paused to remark
that any day you'd take the pain over the suffocation

now the future is upended or it hangs suspended
in the amber of another drink
or in a message carved by a beer-soaked prophet
in the mirror above the bathroom sink

so fare thee well i hope you are compelled
to accept the liberation you have earned
so take these parting gifts, i pray whatever path you walk
you escape this wicked place
before you burn

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from Cibola - 7th Anniversary Edition, released February 26, 2016

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Bird Friend is a weird folk band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Geoff Himsel, Carson Kennedy, Andrew Eckel, and friends.

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