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Perennial Nettle

from ill fly away by Lebo Jenkins

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spoken word intro by Alfred Edward Housman from the poem The Stinging Nettle

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PERENNIAL NETTLE
"the stinging nettle only
will still be found to stand
the numberless the lonely
the thronged of the land
the one that hurts the hand
that thrives come sun come showers blow east blow west it springs
it peoples towns and towers above the courts of kings and touch it and it stings"
-Alfred Edward Housman
cold dark winter won't you leave my sweet flower alone i don't know where you come from but this is no longer your home•take your frost when you vacate•remove it from her sweet petals•i want to wrap myself bath sleep in her stinging nettles•wither her leaves with your solstice•so dry not even a tear•perennial blooms back from the earth•year after year after year•frost it will melt with the sun•this flower will persevere•staying with me•burning my flesh•shattering all of my fears
burn me

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from ill fly away, released September 23, 2016

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Lebo Jenkins Marshall, North Carolina

performs alien appalachian,
old time tunes, and american primitive compositions on banjo and scordatura guitar along with other instrumentation and noise collectives. Word singing too.

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