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Antonia Antonia

from Journeys Through Obscurity by Vernon Tonges

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Antonia Antonia
Antonia Antonia
Spinster mouth
The odor of reptile longing.
I gobbled your cobbler & I wolfed down your cakes
Now slake my void with belonging. I'm longing.
Stuff me as full as a goose.

Dragonflies are jet planes. lost in the wind.
The beetles are beaming with pride.
The trunk of this willow’ll serve as our pillow
Shading the glade where we lie. Oh my
As autumn & evening draw nigh.

Your hair is a massive eye public disaster
Your expression sad as a sigh.
Your body is bulgy, bumpy & bony
Your face is round as a pie. Oh my
Guess that's why I love pie.

Shy as a glutton I loosen a button & sing some Victorian verse.
I’m aloof you’ve been told & elusive & cold.
I assure you quite the reverse, my Antonia
I assure you quite the reverse, my Antonia
I assure you quite the reverse.

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from Journeys Through Obscurity, released December 11, 2020
Music & Lyrics - Vernon Tonges (BMI)
Publisher - RockinK Music International (BMI)

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A literary songwriter of the first rank. It’s his quavering, compassionate, observant, imaginative, sometimes overstuffed, always eloquent songwriting that his crack bands are there to put across, as they do, unfailingly.... the kind of miracle that keeps me checking out thousands of albums a year so I can grade a couple hundred for posterity.
- Robert Christgau, Dean of American Rock Critics
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