Wisdom Teeth Song - Julie Byrne

Thank you for letting us stay

Sometimes I lose my mind

But you know me

I always manage to keep what nobody needs

Like when you’d rest your tanned hides against the door frame

And the Black Walnut trees and the Sumac and Starlings were lost in the swell

of the creek

And I leaned back like a woman, baptized in the river of sticks

Oh silly rabbit, sometimes everyone gets tricked

The Museum of Natural History with its new blood and fur and ivory

Left me wanting to know so much more of this world

But you know me, I always manage to leave what I most need

Like when the ice broke and the lake, it did swallow you whole

And the Black Walnut trees and the Sumac is gone and the Starlings fled from

the East

And we’re caught in the drifts now but we’re headin' to Mexico City