paul-rousseau
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Left Man Blues
Well I’m your left man baby / Keep this woman out of sight / We’ll I’m your left man baby
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Burnt Adolescence
Burnt adolescence, the smell of survivors / The satiric regime beholds. / White-gloved landlords, picking at grapefruit
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Turtles
Despite the frustration flaunting his bedspread / I despise the energy it takes to proof bread / “an hour at least”
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Zeus' Journal
And so it seems I sleep with the enemy / We walk in propetual summers glow / And so it seems I'm somewhat ahead of me
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Galaxsea
Dean and I loitered on iron horseback / Flaked with nuances and peppered with a keen stutter / Our jokes had weight
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Twin Planets
Larry, the man who terraformed Mars, has a scar over his left eye. / Maggie, his younger sister, could not make up her mind. / Her brother was a Star Man. She was left behind.
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The Centipede Pit
I scrutinized the miserable wretch harnessed to the table / Polished my knuckle with his murk, malice, and fable / Placing a centipede on his stomach as it shuffled to his eye
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Iguana
He’s a chain smoker in his head / And a businessman with his hands / He was a cosmonaut at the bar
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Destiny Pantoum
There is more free space than matter / My zenith is far from touching land / A wing tipped by the ring of Saturn
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Oh, Avocado
Electric water I bite you / Off again / Sheet rock solder I am your
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