I'm Not Tweaking/I'm Peaking

from The Dao of Woodworking by Charles Dalton Telschow

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lyrics

Everything is spinning. Oscillating to a balanced flow, you are a whirlwind of stardust, you immaculate constellation, supernova currents sliding off your hip sway, the record just keeps playing. The song never stops, just changes.

I am a broken record symphony stuttering along to the harmonies of moonbeams.

I am loud light leaping in step, vibrating in time, shaking the solar system like a snow globe,
this,
tidal hourglass lamp glow, black hole spherical mirror carving out its place in the emptiness,
and showing me the way to do the same.

I am whirling static, drifting through nothing
in attempts to prove I'm something.

Maybe then, I am drunken compass that only points towards self-fulfilling prophecies.
Perhaps a comet that only travels in fiery pirouettes.

All I know is I am a current that always comes home, if only to just leave again.

I'm a wheel of crashing waves balanced on top of a gyroscope

The sound of a car crash coming from a music box.

A shotgun in the symphony

Harmonizing with the screaming

Cruel beauty is irony with a sick sense of humor

And I am just someone watching the train wreck get painted, standing in awe, thankful for the mere opportunity to think of this as art.

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from The Dao of Woodworking, released July 6, 2017

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Charles Dalton Telschow Denver, Colorado

Charles Dalton Telschow is a 23 year old Denver poet and musician. He has competed in the city poetry circuit for several years, traveled to Congress to perform poetry, and was formerly in a metal band. He now finds refuge in writing, playing guitar, and singing. ... more