Keep The Dog Quiet - Owen Pallett

My body is a cage

This union is cage about a cage about a cage

And this, and this town too

I’ll see you once in a while but I can’t be seen with you

This place is a narrative mess

The floor a tangle of bedsheets and battered sundress

The ink has dried in the well

The journey once was consequential

Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential

When will you silence your hounds?

The eldest sons to the altar of the Eternal Sound

Their blood is spilled at the dawn

A nation bound to your will, still, the violin plays on

Plays its devotional song

Once it was, once it was so essential

Now: sequential, sequential, sequential, sequential