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Self Portrait

Miscommunication
and Mystery were wed,
and their miscegenation
made every word I’ve said.

Similes and comparisons;
words in other words,
in other words—and other words;
a sketch of what I meant to mean.

All my casual comments
can accrue in complicated ways,
Like a close-up benday abstract
that resolves into a face.

(As I walked out
on the streets of my city,
I spied on some spies
who were spying on me.)

The timid hesitation
always has a reservation here.
Knock on my front teeth
and maybe you’ll draw it out.
Draw some blood.
Draw a crowd.
Draw a breath.
Draw conclusions.
Draw a portrait of me.

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from On the Other Side of the Window, released September 1, 2003

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David Garland New York, New York

Composer/singer/multi-instrumentalist David Garland has been steadily shaping songs in new ways since 1980.

"Like many great songwriters before him, Garland pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. If it's not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland."
--Sean Lennon
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