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No Masters in Paradise

from No Masters in Paradise by Paul Bergmann

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The butters of youth
Cat's milk in the bowl
Slivers of fruit
So pampered and cold

Honey and oil
Sucked sweet from the thumb
We're getting old
Nothing is won

Of filth and of fame
That peach was to blame
Juices that ran
Left trails down the man

Now little bones swim
Just below the skin
And fists that would win
Just hang in the wind

Cake for the sinner
Doomed to eat well
Priest of the living
Living on shells

Some Puritan life
Not a morsel tonight
No honor in living
Living to bite

A crumb of a wafer
Not food for a mouse
Pleading for nectar
A breast in the mouth

No masters in paradise
Just sugar and fat
And the butters of youth
I've had all of that

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from No Masters in Paradise, released May 5, 2023

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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