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The Stick Figure

from Control Songs by David Garland

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The Stick Figure

Kick away the stick figure.

Send him end over end to the end

of the land, where the sea meets the land,

and the waves take him in and away.

Break apart the stick figure,
churned by the sea, barnacled and waterlogged,
drifting on the tidal flow,

sinking down and rising up,

little arms and legs gone every-which-way.

Tear away the statistic.

Search out the way to reveal what is meant

by percent and survey, so you know

how a fiction and a fact make a figure—

made of sticks.

(first verse)

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from Control Songs, released September 1, 1986

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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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