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Prayer: Reframed in RetrospectWe sat in the snow and cracked schemes to soften our mortality, like if when we died the soil grew up and over our bodies to pull them back to her instead of leaving them like shells to fall where the living had dug uninvited into the darkness. / And You / You were just some
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Apr 28, 2014
February 29th, 2014Sometimes the laughter rolls in waves up the spiral staircase, spilling through the cracks in the floorboards, the cracks in the doorframe, the cracks lining the edges of the ceiling. Someone once told me they imagined, as the years came and went through the house and each new tenant pasted and painted his nest in new shades of home, the rooms gradually getting smaller, closing in on their inhabitants. Sometimes I imagine the room getting smaller around me and sometimes it is my own body shrinking into the room, into the cloud of smoke that sometimes pools on my books and throws my mind back at me from their pages.
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Apr 28, 2014
There’s a piece of tape on your wall and it doesn’t even hold anything upFuck ‘em as you see ‘em, I don’t know whether to call it feminism or arrogance. / High-def skin rubbing up on love like sandpaper, / False starts to whittle you smooth.
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Apr 28, 2014
Friday NightWere you the one who lifted that toilet paper from rehab? / That’s some fine industry, ain’t 2-ply / But that’s some fine ass 1-ply.
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Apr 28, 2014
Richard BrautiganSpelling out a new human inventory / Thinkin’, I’m glad there are still folks round like that. / Whether I am like that and whether you are like that
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Apr 28, 2014
Hot Tub JeffHe got up onstage lookin’ like somebody’d torn him out of a National Geographic special on the Amish, plunked ‘im down in Eugene for a decade where he quickly realized he didn’t have to change much to get along quite alright here. / this is a song ya know I played it here 23 years ago just right over there on that side of the room and ya know my partner and I played it here and I couldn’t write songs then and he could and I was a little bit down in the dumps about myself about it but then I moved on and ya know my partner left here not long after that got caught up in that hitchhiking business and then got tangled up with the mental hospital and now he’s forced to take antipsychotic drugs every day for a time he was known as the second most dangerous schizophrenic in the state of Oregon but ya know he was also probably the second most gentle person in the state of Oregon cause ya know opposites sometimes come together in that way and ya know his songs were gentle too like this one for example this one is real gentle / ya know he was really a gentle player and now he’s caught up on those antipsychotics and its all my fault cause I drank a bunch of urine
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Apr 28, 2014
My Body is a Ghost, Steam in the EngineHis hands belong to the hammer / And the hammer to the spikes. / Every day, ground is harnessed
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Mar 26, 2012
MastodonI walked like water into this / Ready to be part of your cycle, / Rain and sleet and hail, and all we would need
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Mar 23, 2012
Valentine's DayI missed you / until missing you / was the only thing that kept me
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Feb 19, 2012
Save Me, BarcelonaYou are a warrior. / In the morning you put on your captain’s coat and lead an army of dreams into battle, / Your face set and sealed like the envelope folded in your back pocket,
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Jan 27, 2012
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