Introducing the Hardline According To
     ...Ofer Maimon

closer to kim than you closer to nails than fingertips closer to fire than oxygen closer to life than breath and heartbeat closer to stars than night closer to words than silence closer to skin than flesh closer to spring than wind and rain closer to slave than master is longing to the lonely prayer to the destitute father to daughter wife to husband life to death man to god hope to love the heart of another beating in your chest

allways wished I had a brother smoke from the same chimney filtered though the same skies someone to help me carry the years a stained mirror to look into another man like me and nothing like me but there is a voice on the radio and through the dusty memories he sings of how i broke my heart in another life and another time when i waisted myself and you he sings like I would if I had been a singer the words that I would if I was a poet and rebel that you were an angel and that I was wrong another heart like mine and nothing like it I wish there was another man that I didn't need to prove anything to I wish I weren't an orphan and that I had a brother that had worked the same factory floors and had lived the same years another man like me and nothing like me is singing on the air waives of how I failed you som many years ago that I can hardly remember how I never gave you what I asked for and how I could have stayed with you and let you love ...