Invocation (featuring Demetrius Francisco Antuña)

from The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow by Adam Gnade

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This is my invocation. I’m putting it in words and I’m throwing it to the breeze. I’m making a list here and you are the notary and now it’s official. I wish to live a good life and at the end of my life I wish to go easy, but I want to know I’m going, and I want to be surrounded by the people I love as I go. I wish to go in a rush of wind that rattles the tree branches then falls silent and still as morning.

I wish to live a life that’s like the relief when you wake up from a nightmare and know it was all just a dream. I wish to wake up rested and with a calm heart. I wish to never be tired when I shouldn’t be tired. I wish to think clearly and never stumble over a thought as I struggle to explain myself. I wish to be thought of as eloquent. I wish to say lovely things.

I want to stand at the fence-line and watch Ward’s cattle in the field moving as slow as ancient time.

I want to take it slow.

I want to take my time in this fast, fast life.

I want to be good, gentle, and true to the people I love, and I want them to think of me as good, gentle, and true.

I want the people I love to look at me and think: Don’t go nowhere.

I want the sweet ache of our times long past to comfort and not hurt me.

I wish to grow old with a straight back and a clear, sharp mind. I wish to grow old with those I love by my side.

And when my boots have worn out float me away.

Float me away. When my time here is over.

Float me away. When my work here is done.

Let me go nowhere. Let me go.

Float me away.

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from The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow, released December 3, 2021

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A new record label releasing audio recordings of writers' work. Poems backed by noise. Novels as audio books. Stories on cassettes. Curated by Adam Gnade. Currently accepting submissions.