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All Dissolve (by Safia & Jamaica)

from Back Up, Black Out by E. Oks

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Written and performed by two members of the NYU Slam Team, the first team ever to win the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) two years in a row.

lyrics

[Fourth Dream - Safia & Jamaica]
my body is a pill, small, and love is the wrong man's tongue to tell
me so

my body dissolves

my body finds men who are water and calls them home


my body is everything that happened to me

love is a thing my body borrows to forget

love is a pill

my body is water.

my body is a tongue and love dissolves

love calls the wrong men home

love makes my body a stain and goes

looking for water on the wrong man's tongue



love is a house, my body is a bath drawn in floodwater

my body trickles in through the floorboards

love is the carpet that I've ruined

love is an alternative to water,

love is just something to do until the wars start

my body is a border drawn up by some man long ago

love is everything that happened in between

love is the floorboards

my body is decoration

love ruined all the carpets

my body is the carpet

my body is the stain

love makes it all dissolve

love is an alternative to home

love is floodwater



my body burned to the ground

my body called the wrong man home

love started the fire

my body is everything that happened after



the wrong man is an alternative to love

the wrong man is a map

home is where he puts the lines

my body is a border drawn by accident

by the wrong man's tongue

love makes scars on my body and calls them borders

the wrong man mistakes my body for a body of water

love let the wrong man decide what my body mistakes for home

love started the fire



my body is a house on fire

my body drew a bath in floodwater

the wrong man is floodwater

love and the wrong man are an alternative to hating my body

my body is a body of water, poured over everything that happened
to me

my body makes every scar an island

the wrong man makes my body small, a pill

love makes the water

and my body dissolves

credits

from Back Up, Black Out, released August 26, 2013
Poetry (written & performed) - Safia Elhillo
Singing (performed) - Jamaica Osorio
Original song - Lighthome by Matt Corby

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