The Self-Unseeing

from Potions of Pre-villainy by Death and The Poetess

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"The Self-Unseeing" by prolific poet THOMAS HARDY (b. 1840)
with stanza re-ordering.

This song (of the poem) aims to evoke the phantom, evolving spiritual sense of being the protagonist in the novel of one's life.

This includes the Act One of the journey/story. The poignant, bittersweet childhood nostalgia and blind innocence glimpsed in looking back on one's past. The meta-mystery of consciousness that one climbs (out of) while growing, and the non-linear, merging magic of memory.

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"The Self-Unseeing" by THOMAS HARDY
(with stanza re-ordering collage)

Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.

She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.

Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!

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from Potions of Pre-villainy, released March 1, 2024

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Death and The Poetess Boston, Massachusetts

Blake Girndt (The I Want You, AxeMunkee, With Uncle Bones) and jojo Lazar (Burlesque Poetess, Army of Toys) bringing you crypt-folk tunes & spare bones for your spare change.

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