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Tobias

'In any creature's radar of desire,
That behind the pane is most sublime.
Skin tested by the coals that boast the fire
Lies balded-nerve and mercy-slave to time.'

Tobias saw the sky as iambic pentameter.
Like he ever meant to hurt her.
Tobias slammed a fist, a pen and then a fist again.
And cursed the scent of men.

'If libido is a litmus for the soul
Then man should fix his faith to sterner spines.
Is love derobed of flesh an empty bowl
In whose dust 'Lover' chooses to see wine?'

Tobias heaved a sigh as even he fell lost for words.
Of boys he'd always dream.
Tobias eased the silence, musing 'sex is too absurd'.
Apalled the page with screams.

'If love is letting one be loved by all,
And loving is accepting of the whole,
Then maybe we won't ever love at all,
As consciousness alone castrates the soul.'

Tobias, suddenly pious, took a humble step away,
Yelled 'man, these words are gay'.
Tobias, hating liars, tore the page with rabid nails.
'Of course love bears its ails.'

Tobias lit a fire, all callow by the coals,
Plunged his hand in whole.
Tobias got all high. As the blister whispered sleet,
He grabbed another sheet.

'If all we have is what we'll never know,
Let love be the last agony we throw.'

Tobias eeked a cry upon concluding in such style.
A veiled and vapour smile.

He laid his pen to page and head to rest,
A born aesthete and rather self-impressed.

Tobias dreamed of 'why' as an epitaph that night.
He hoped to make that 'was'.
Tobias said to one boy, when asked 'how'd you know we're right?'
Smiled and said 'because'.

'In any boy's barometer of being,
Seeking the sublime engenders pain.
A pupil scorched by love is truly seeing:
A pupae flexing wings in The First Rain.'

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from Tonight We Are Alone Together, released August 7, 2020

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Nick Hudson Tbilisi, Georgia

Nick Hudson is a UK-born, Tbilisi-based composer/artist/image-maker/activist..

In April 2021 Nick released his first solo album in five years - Font Of Human Fractures - to glowing reviews from The Quietus and Libération.

"There isn’t really anyone making music like Nick Hudson” - The Quietus

“Genius” - BBC Introducing

“Scott Walker channeling Coil” - Mojo

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