Edwin Bodney – “When a Boy Tells You He Loves You” BTV Neil Hilborn @ Icehouse [3 of 3] #shorts

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So eloquently they used to speak until I Asked the questions that broke them into Ghosts that led me into a corpse with so Many questions of my own for the soil But their tongues do not know simple the Things I should be hearing the things That would make us living men in this Time of insatiable yet dying lovers when A boy tells you he loves you Only to become silent like a folded Sheet of tissue paper not wanting you to Decrease him into the truth Do not crack your face into the fullest Crescent moon at the tapered bottom of a Blackened sky He never meant a single word of any of It He is just a boy remember He is just another Silly sad boy remember

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