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Should I feel grateful he’s chosen me,
to give me a shape like his own?
How jealous or fortunate are the ones he’s left alone?
Should I stay still when the hammer strikes,
as he forges me his ideal?
When the eyes of his worshippers chisel me, too, should I yield?
Tell me, creator, what words you have
for that which at best imitates—
what solace is there for a stone forced to bear your mistakes?
Tell me, creator, what I should feel
when they fasten me to the floor,
when they turn up the blinds and stand guards at every door?
How will I know the trees?
How will the light waste me?
What if I want to rot?
Shaper, have you once given the Shaped a thought?
Should I feel grateful he’s chosen me,
to carve me a face like his own—
forever dissatisfied with his own failure to clone?
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Traveling across the white land,
I find my love in situ;
you were a cold and foreign meteorite,
on the morning that I found you.
Nearly frozen to the arctic earth,
you said you’d come a ways,
from a place as dark and deep as space—
where you’d had a different name.
You insisted you were chipped-up rock,
said, “There are billions just the same.”
And you told me I could never understand
unless I’d come from where you came
To prove your worth, I brought you to America,
and held you in the lights,
shouted to the crowds, “Come see my mystery,
this love I found in ice.”
They took you, love, and put you on display,
I know you liked the way they dressed you up.
You liked the way the people stood and stared,
and not a soul could touch.
Still, I come to see you now and then,
and talk about the past,
knowing it will never reach your heart—
oh, stone behind the glass
Come back fallen love, come back soon
You left me like a footprint in the moon
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The Moon Looks Back
03:53
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Desert Music
03:28
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Cotton
02:13
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Ode to Green
03:04
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Maria
02:25
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Todd Portnowitz New York, New York
From 2004 - 2009 Todd Evan Portnowitz performed as singer/songwriter in the Florida band Clock Hands Strangle, recording two LPs, Redshift/Blueshift (2007 Team Grizzly) and Distaccati (2009 Chocolate Lab). He now performs and records as a solo artist out of New York, NY ... more
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