Natalie Raymond

poet, documenter, maker of things.

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songs

Posted on February 5, 2012 at 11:10 PM Comments comments (0)

Oh! Darling, please believe me

I'll never do you no harm

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

 


Oh! Darling, if you leave me

I'll never make it alone

Believe me when I beg you

Don't ever leave me alone

 


When you told me you didn't need me anymore

Well you know I nearly broke down and cried

When you told me you didn't need me anymore

Well you know I nearly fell down and died

 


Oh! Darling, if you leave me

I'll never make it alone

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm

 


When you told me you didn't need me anymore

Well you know I nearly broke down and cried

When you told me you didn't need me anymore

Well you know I nearly fell down and died

 


Oh! Darling, please believe me

I'll never let you down

Believe me when I tell you

I'll never do you no harm


-Lennon, McCartney

 


more

Posted on October 27, 2011 at 11:15 AM Comments comments (0)

There's a new link in the navagation bar. It points to another blog I have (that is very annoying). MORE.


P O E M

for love

I bake my fingers &

cut my skin short

so it hangs

from my bones

like curtains



notebook entries.

Posted on October 20, 2011 at 9:15 PM Comments comments (0)

on the approaching season.


MANIFESTO:


IN ART ONE MUST KILL HIS FATHER.


you have to make it for yourself. learn about the tradition & then tell it to go fuck itself. destroy the very foundations on which you stand. swim without the water wings.

leap & the net will appear.


take off the chains of what other people have done. bury them.

worry about explanations later.

making

Posted on October 19, 2011 at 10:15 AM Comments comments (0)

I don't have the time or energy to make anything anymore & it's depressing.


if god were here

I think

she'd want me

to take the bird

living under

cold cut lungs

& make her sing

through my teeth

like sunday.

freud & jung

Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM Comments comments (0)

J:

the unconscious is trying to reveal itself to us.

a rose is a rose is a rose.

 

F:

the unconscious is trying to conceal itself from us.

a rose is anything but. 

 



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journals

Posted on July 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM Comments comments (0)

I've been writing a lot of nonsense in my diary.

this happens from time to time.



"I wake

I ride the wave

I am supple --

spread out

like patchwork grass

under callused feet.


my toes are the notes

in your symphony."





poem

Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM Comments comments (0)

 

waiting by the telephone


like ephemera from a 50’s catalogue, my skirt starched & anxious. I’ll have impatient feet & terrified tongue. I put a lot of weight in you, a lot of precious metals. I mine your bones for my deposits, I’ll search for your promise.

less than a month, less than a month, but somehow it’s a mountain. 


 

© 2011 Natalie Raymond

 


The July Issue of Poetry for The Masses (my issue) should be posted soon.