{"id":4042,"date":"2017-11-07T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/?post_type=stsp_text&#038;p=4042"},"modified":"2020-11-29T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T13:49:36","slug":"mills-windmills","status":"publish","type":"stsp_text","link":"https:\/\/stadtsprachen.de\/en\/text\/mills-windmills\/","title":{"rendered":"mills &#038; windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets like feathers inside your skin<\/p>\n<p>Transformed into my own clothes<\/p>\n<p>And here I proclaim Paradise is Hell, hot sublimity, Coming after me way before I reach the exit.<\/p>\n<p>We beat our drums as if they were the head of the Ghost, We went inside the nonexistent body of the Ghost,<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you feel it too?,<\/p>\n<p>We stroll along a dream of scorched earth, We walk like an extravagant duck,<\/p>\n<p>The flawless bird we will eventually be.<\/p>\n<p>They say it is too easy to shoot a bird in a cage,<\/p>\n<p>They say some desperate animals just forgot how to fly,<\/p>\n<p>Thus our reason escapes slowly<\/p>\n<p>And our feet run in circles after that lost possibility: We are now the nonexistent feet of the Ghost.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s burn the wooden figurine we used to be,<\/p>\n<p>We are no longer one forgotten saint placed in the Ghost<\/p>\n<p>House,<\/p>\n<p>A dark liar that exceeded the limits of our prayers<\/p>\n<p>And considered our involvement as somewhat trivial.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a windmill, nor a millstone, nor a modern grist- mill:<\/p>\n<p>We woke up inside the Mills family, A family name just like any other<\/p>\n<p>Except we were the phantom limbs of this Ghost, I mean, of this Name.<\/p>\n<p>We are the Spanish-speaking spooks,<\/p>\n<p>We are trying to learn the language of our own family While some foreigners say our mother tongue will always be a translation.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes your name won\u2019t rhyme with your face<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So please don\u2019t rail against reality<\/p>\n<p>And accept your ancestors had sex wearing carnival masks,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cause that\u2019s how it rolls when Chaos is your only God And transgression is the secret encrypted in your genes. A flock of endless shadows go with the flow,<\/p>\n<p>Comings and goings not fully understood in the Tropics, Ancient, buried, forgotten names are pulling the strings And sometimes you feel like a jack-in-the-box<\/p>\n<p>They once dared to call Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secrets like feathers inside your skin Transformed into my own clothes And here I proclaim Paradise is Hell, hot sublimity, Coming after me way before I reach the exit. 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