Karin Kunstmann
 
   writer
The Lyrical


This lass
Some fifteen odd years
Is widely known
To have spat
In her teacher's lap
And will not take it back
For now I see
How after all their crap
She rightly came to that.
 
-The Shins


My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist 
In pre-war Paris
Smuggling bombs for the underground.
-Colin Meloy, Decemberists


I'm sorry I missed you. 
I had a secret meeting 
In the basement of my brain.
 
-The National


She's the name tag on the toe 
Of your long dead l
ove affairs.
-Thea Gilmore