Name: Thesaurus
Duration: P00H04M44S
Description: about meeting expectations. and not meeting them.

Thesaurus

from Gorgeous Morning by Tanya Davis

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about meeting expectations. and not meeting them.

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I've had this thesaurus for 10 years
and i have borrowed its ideas to make mine clear
the dictionaries are on the shelf
you can use them to figure me out

Seemingly I do not fit the description listed
be it poet, cheater, straight girl or crooked
the labels are on the boxes
you can use them, they are safe and monotonous

Somebody planted a bible in my bedside table
it is for them a truth and for me a fable
says Moses parted the waters
I'd rather stay in and swim with the dolphins

And i read the old book of rules
says I'm doing it all wrong
so I change pages into tissues
wipe my tears off

And all the things you hope I will be
they're not for me, no they're not all for me
and you could save yourself the disappointment, please

Somebody posted a checklist, but I didn't read it
because the ink was seeping into the tree beneath it
ink is to run until it is to dry and the rain will clean it
and those lists you wrote, they will have no meaning, no.

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from Gorgeous Morning, released June 17, 2008

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Tanya Davis Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island

Tanya Davis is a writer and artist living on Epekwitk / Prince Edward Island. She writes poems, songs, monologues, speeches, and other things.

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