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I Do Not Wish (To Carry Boxes of Tea and Jewels Back and Forth Into Delusion)

by Ortega Fuerte

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Why are you making that noise,
Why are you starting that machine?
I can hear it in my bones.
I can hear it in my dreams.
And are you starving that child
While you're arguing with me,
and is your anger too loud,
to hear the rest of us scream?

You need to see it in the news, now, don't you?
It's the only way you can take my word for anything
In this world.
You need to see it in the big bold letters,
handed down from the mouths of the only ones you'll believe.

Go on and cripple my voice,
Go on and call my bluff,
Go on and baffle my mathematics
So I can never add up
Go on and call me a name
Go on and make me a child
Go on and terrify my pain
Until it can't sing out.

Even as light makes darkness flee,
Did you think you could trap that ghost in me?
You're expecting to revise my memory,
But I'm free-I'm too free.

Can you cancel my past?
Can you revise my will?
Can you edit my experience?
Can you metabolize my pill?
Can you inhabit my mind?
Can you control my gait?
Can you suicide my soul
To keep your narrative straight?

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released April 30, 2015

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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