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The Collector

from Traffic Island by Susie Asado

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THE COLLECTOR

in an arena in Barcelona your sandals are coming undone
and the bull running towards you who would become a story
nobody would believe you were in the desert in Egypt
smoking cigars and counting camels as they fall from the sky

you are a man in a tree a man in a high-rise
you have a home that can swap countries
you are a mathematician and I think magician
perhaps you're living more than one life

on an island you plant palm trees you watch them grow over the years
and when your drunk you stumble among them as if you were one of them
you are a collector of watches carpets apples and elephants
you photograph the sunset and flowers of seeming insignificance
you are an investor in chocolate and you like the word brilliant
you don't drink much water but I think that is irrelevant

you are a man in a tree a man in a high-rise
you have a home that can swap countries
you are a mathematician and I think magician
perhaps you're living more than one life

you are a cowboy at a campfire a man in airplanes and automobiles
you are taking trains in Japan you drink cold sake out of boxes
you are a mariachi recording songs onto a little old tape deck
or yodeling on mountain tops you are a father playing vampire
with your children who lock themselves in a bathroom
because they are uncertain if the game is a game
for they know you to be cowboy a singer a gambler
a bullfighter a businessman a hobo a husband a refugee a poor boy and a rich man
well you might as well be a vampire too
oh no

because you are a man in a tree a man in a high-rise
you have a home that can swap countries
you are a mathematician and I think magician
perhaps you're living more than one life

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from Traffic Island, released December 9, 2011

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Susie Asado Berlin, Germany

Susie Asado lives in Berlin. That is the band, not the poem. The poem is by Gertrude Stein. Yes, there is such a poem. The band is not a poem. It is a band. Josepha writes the songs. She takes this very seriously, as she takes the band very seriously and of course the poem, that is Gertrude Stein very seriously. ... more

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