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Smashed Penny
03:26
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We drank years-old, freezer-burnt pina colada mix from the wine glasses
And I stole the hat you were trying out that week
Pulled idiot faces in all of the photos
Some desperate fear of being left behind
Surface like a smashed penny
Hope you look back on it fondly
Changes came at accelerated rates
Slip away for half a decade
Surface like a smashed penny
Hope you look back on it fondly
Changes came at accelerated rates
Temporal demarcations
started to fade
I stayed put
and watched you ping-pong around
Ripping from each others’ orbit
Surface like a smashed penny
Hope you look back on it fondly
Drift away among your clutter
Slip from view permanently
Hope you look back
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Would it be acceptable to not come in today?
To stand in the wind tunnel that these two buildings create?
And let myself drift until I’m finally jerked awake
By a collision with a bannister that flips my feet over my face
Crash into a seating area below
Brush the mulch from my business clothes
Nod to the future lawyers and stagger home
I’m finally awake
Upon your admission
You are issued a pack of Parliaments and a firm punch to the stomach
You will maintain a sour disposition
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I have absconded
Flamed out in dramatic public fashion
Laid low in high towers
The golden door slides shut
Snug in altitude’s womb
Lights are charged with wild excitement
When the clouds go black outside
The golden door slides shut
I miss the last words said
I question why you waited
It moved at the pace of a snail
Your image faded by inches
mis-scanned to a hard drive
Language decays/broken versions of a word
The golden door slides shut
A Hesitant bob
A Mistimed weave
Took it on the chin, A swoon then a spin
The golden door slides shut
And I’m flush with the floor
The fire signal is always flashing
But I can’t track the smoke
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On The Outer Loop
04:05
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Curl into the corner of a corner unit
Tack up calendars of events that you’ll never attend
Derive vicarious thrills
From a vibrant community
you keep at arm’s length
Assume that you’re never enough
Cover every inch of the walls
Make your home look like the work of a set designer
Hope it will offer distraction
A surplus of stimuli to stave off the fog
Lose yourself in your studies
Find relief knowing that you have an excuse
To not log loved nights in snow-wet bars
Justified in sealing yourself off
They welcomed you/They remembered your name x2
And yet you shied away, shied away
They invited you/they opened their space
And yet you shied away shied away shied away
You retreat from the city center back out to the outer loop
And question this affliction that has set itself upon you
It’s not who you were/not who they knew/someone else
Haunting the lot of the complex
Push between the trees
Truck song sings out on the desolate breeze
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Frowst Cincinnati, Ohio
Bass-driven kitchen sink sorta-punk from the Ohio expanse.
Erik ZDP (Hissing Tiles, Till Plains) + co-conspirators.
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