A thin skin of / bullfight dust
Chewing up the fright / covering the days

- the baptizers cage can wait
The exorcists medicine can try
- the sun falling needles on /
The water in tiger lines

One speck of skin / dust at a time
Every seven years / we become another

Time steals and stretches and retracts
We must measure and try
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I've been a child / for long as a I remember
A thin skin of / bullfight dust
Chewing up the fright / covering the days