<aside> 💡 Themes: Crime/Bandits/Robbers/Illicit/Illegal/Rebel/Forbidden Rebelling/Against the status quo/Not Acceptable/Different/Subversive/Making Our Own Rules/breaking rules/propriety Rules/no rules

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The rules break like a thermometer,

quicksilver spills across the charted systems,

we’re out in a country that has no language

no laws, we’re chasing the raven and the wren

through gorges unexplored since dawn

whatever we do together is pure invention

the maps they gave us were out of date

by years… we’re driving through the desert

wondering if the water will hold out

the hallucinations turn to simple villages

the music on the radio comes clear—

neither Rosenkavalier nor Götterdämmerung

but a woman’s voice singing old songs

with new words, with a quiet bass, a flute

plucked and fingered by women outside the law.