Dallen Pyrah
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I CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT YOU AT A JAZZ CLUB ON 23RD STREET. 

D.P. 2000.
23 THOUGHTS

From the primal question to the twenty-third answer.

My thoughts, once held captive in the worn pages of my bedside notepad, have erupted forth. They bleed into a curated amalgamation - you, me, the collective consciousness pulsing as one.

Don't just read these words, immerse yourself in the emotive depths they paint. Let the visceral feelings that birthed them seep into your skin. These aren't merely writings, but echoes of my existence distilled, shards of my soul splayed raw across life's canvas.

The intimate interrogations, the splintered inquiries, the hollows between bone and flesh, the fragile frames of realness cloaked in skinny guise, the yawning arctic chasms tunneling my core, the tattered bruised wings dripping bitter substance - they sprawl before you now, unfurled.

Each bears the imprint of the years we've breathed this shared air, gazed upon this singular sky, our rhythms intertwined in discord and understanding.

Unravel these petals plucked from the garden of our experiences. Let their unraveling be your mirror, refracting those feelings you've let lie dormant, hibernating in the forgotten hollows of your deepest self.


  1. Monotony of Familiarity
  2. Symphony of Silence
  3. Swamp Land Porch in Louisiana
  4. A Transition of Life
  5. A Long Time to Get Ready
  6. Flavors of a Memory
  7. Pick Him Flowers
  8. Dance With Me, the Lights Are Off
  9. Bury It Next To Me
  10. Beyond the Depth of This Surface
11. Cancer Cowboy
12. Lay Me Down in the Mine Field
13. I Drink Too Much Coffee
14. Fleeting, Oh We are Fleeing From The Mountaintops
15. Eternally Swaying Through This Forest
16. In the Shadow of the Bayou
17. Duckin' Streetlight Notes
18. Intimate Interrogations of the Disarmed Man
19. Questions Of Mine, Broken They Come
20. Bones & All
21. Real, Flesh, & Skinny Jones
22. Widening of The Gap
23. Wings of Substance & Abuse