Shark Bait

Before I wrote songs I wrote poems.  Here's another one from the vaults.

Shark Bait

Sharks close their eyes
the moment before they strike.
They sense the electrical signal
of the heart, they know where to bite,
they can find it blind. The heart
will betray you every time.

It's been a year I've chosen
to be alone. My life is full
of work and talk and the occasional fling
where no one falls for anyone—it's best
to become heartless. No one holds me
back; I don't get that attached.

I say heartless but this is a lie. It beats
red and bloody underneath it all, I am ripe
for slaughter. It keeps getting harder
to hide the signal: the heart wants
to be discovered. Or devoured,
if that's what it takes.

The sharks' own hearts must crackle with charge
as they glide silently through the leaden water—
do they sense each other's presence
as they sense prey?
Do their hearts call out to each other 
in the darkness beneath the waves?

I want someone to draw my passion
like a magnet, a target, I long for it.
So the heart sends out its signal: I'm a beacon.
Nothing will protect me from the danger.
I'm just waiting to feel
the teeth sink in.
 
Ellia Bisker, 2004

Sweet Soubrette - 'What's My Desire?' | The 405

New review of the "What's My Desire?" video by the 405:

"Sweet Soubrette have crafted a compelling bitter-sweet pop song of the highest order."

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Sweet Soubrette - 'What's My Desire?' | The 405

Fan mail

A super sweet email from my cousin came in this week:

I want you to know that we regularly listen to your latest CD and EP albums in the car, and Claudia [my cousin's wife] has downloaded her favorite songs to her ipod.  Max [their ten-year-old] regularly requests (and knows every word to) “Is it a secret…” (sorry I have never really studied the song titles and so know them only by lyrics; “Wild Wild Wild?”).  I have a recording of him singing it in the car I must send you.  My personal favorites are “Gold Digger” and “We Don’t Talk About It” (lyrics again, sorry; I really must look up your album covers or itunes lists and learn the titles!)

WKZE 98.1FM in-studio interview, 8/15/12

While touring with Sweet Soubrette to perform at the Hudson.Water.Music festival in Hudson, NY, we stopped at the WKZE 98.1 FM radio station for an in-studio interview. Listen to it here:

Ellia Bisker of Sweet Soubrette, WKZE in-studio interview, 8/15/12

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Sweet Soubrette Press Photos

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