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from Mockery Sparklers by Saint and Kings

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I thought I knew what size was
Back when I also thought I knew trust
I knew how to feel my hands and feet
The order of operations followed neat
The air in the room against my face
The room I took up inside your space
The space we took like a conversation
As elite consent became sweet elation

You were never little to me
Not even when you let me be
One more thing you couldn't see
One more was less, I set you free

You thought you know what scales were
Nothing weighed on you in miniature
You got close and from your perspective
Attention was always a welcome corrective
The breath in the body against my skin
The distance between sensibility and sin
The space we took like a conversation
As elite consent became sweet elation

We dealt the cards, cut and sort them
Now we're left with this paltry postmortem
An after-action report ripe with ribald retorts
Behavior best suggested, suborned out of sorts
A leave taken without approval of absence
All forsaken formal structures now lack sense
And the conversation now looks like empty space
Sweet elation meant to elicit unearned consent

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from Mockery Sparklers, released November 26, 2023

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Saint and Kings San Pablo, California

I’m a singer-songwriter using guitars and keyboards to craft distinctive dispatches from intimate interiors, vast exteriors and all points in between. Drawing on years of pop, soul, indie, folk and dance-music fandom, I try to turn observations and narratives into succinct sonic snapshots. ... more

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