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to attack what yields

from dizzy giant by bly wallentine

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lyrics

i knew i could not do
what it would have taken
to come out on top,
and so i lost to an enemy.

i had no fight in me,
and the struggle left me
like a wounded sparrow,
and so i sipped from the panacea.

i wasn't ready!
i had not equipped my ego
it was taken by an arrow
in the wing and down it spiraled.

as it lay lamenting, flightless,
it was swaddled up and nurtured
by a cavity in being,
intermediary fissure

who fiddled with my thought
then placed me on a mountain,
pushed me from the precipice;
down again i spiraled.

i watched the ground approach,
but had no mind to fear its impact.
guzzled by the earth,
i continued my descent,

broke through the asthenosphere,
witnessed a division:
stephen to the left of me,
suffering, a victim.

a hand reached down from heaven,
cracked stephen in half,
withdrew from it a rib
then buried it in earth,

and wept upon the soil
and up began to spring
a secondary body
with a pair of intact wings.

once the bone had settled
and the creature's eyes had opened,
a dove lighted upon me.
i embraced it as an omen.

i named the infant creature.
"bly", i called it gently.
it wished that i possess it.
i entered through its crown.

we made our journey upward,
returning to the surface.
i knew not to look behind me;
i would shatter into dust.

i am continually learning.
i do not know.

(in morse code)
nothing’s worse than attacking what yields.
to attack what yields is to throw away the prize.
so, when matched armies meet,
the one who comes to grief
is the true victor.

Eb Ab G- F-
B D#- E
A G#- G B-

E Db E Ab

credits

from dizzy giant, released July 23, 2021
final verse by lao tzu, rendered by ursula le guin, from tao te ching.

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