Name: The Runaway Bunny
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Description: I wrote and recorded "The Runaway Bunny," a love song for all of our many un-led lives, between early November and late December 2021. The title is after Margaret Wise Brown's eponymous 1942 children's book. I have a tattoo of one of its illustrations near my heart.

The Runaway Bunny

by Claire Donato

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I wrote and recorded "The Runaway Bunny," a love song for all of our many un-led lives, between early November and late December 2021. The title is after Margaret Wise Brown's eponymous 1942 children's book. I have a tattoo of one of its illustrations near my heart.

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Beneath the moon
Looking at the moon
I never met you
Until I met you
Where were you
In 2008, I placed my hand down your throat
And pulled out a box: the unspeakable

oo-oo-oo

I don't know what passes through me
Is it a runaway bunny?
It's painful, I say to no one
On screen

And get dime after dime after dime
I die 1000x with each dime
I imbue my heart into the piller candle
It's nine in the morning
Where you are, it's twelve hours later
I'm still writing my letter
In the zoo
Beneath the elephants and the peacock
I sent to you

"Good luck with work," I joke
"Good luck with work," I choke

Who am I
Beneath the sky
Painted on the ceiling
As if nothing ever mattered to you

I cried looking at your photograph
From the past, I imagined ourselves meeting
On a street
At a bookstore
Unmarried
Before the divorce
Tore out your box

It felt like a dream
A bunny passing through me
The grass
The stars
How to do nothing

I love you more
Than a bunny loves its mother
Which is another book

credits

released December 31, 2021
Lyrics, DIY mixing, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harp, and Tibetan singing bowl: Claire Donato
35mm photograph of Pio the Rabbit: Claire Donato

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Claire Donato Brooklyn, New York

I write songs on my bed, practice Zen meditation, illustrate myself naked in fish tanks, take 35mm photos, and am the author of some books, essays, poems.

Here's an EP I made when I was 20: friendshippa.bandcamp.com ... more

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