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Ghosted
03:20
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The day that David Bowie died
Sheila laid in bed and cried
and fought with her boyfriend
over some stupid shit again.
Then walked down to the tarpits
and studied all the tourists
The legends and the myths
the flat thirds and empty fifths.
The man who fell to earth
and the band that broke his hands
how you twinkled in your high heeled shoes
on stage and snow white tan.
Take a walk
Take it in
Life is fragile
it’s fragile like skin
The day the reaper dies.
There’ll be no one left to cry.
He was home alone in bed
He got ghosted by his friends.
Take a walk
Take it in
Life is fragile
it’s fragile like skin
Take it off
Be yourself
you’re bout to something
with everything else
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Candy Wrappers
05:20
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With his hands at the ready he palms his hair slowly
and drops a white iPhone onto a cluttered coffee table.
Takes a long drag from a soda and blows smokerings in the air.
Pronto
Bottle rockets in the distance and the evening is receding.
I gotta get a hold of Bobby I gotta get a little baggie.
I got a pile of candy wrappers, some National Geographics, and way to many Red Bulls, and empty cigarette packs.
Pronto
Judson stumbles to the bedroom and collapses on the pillow.
Now the telephone is ringing and Bobby’s pretty anxious
We punk to bricks of Black Cat’s shrieking with Drunk Laughter.
Pronto
We wake up to some hot knives and espresso at 2:30
Oh shit, I missed the phone call. Goddamn the house is dirty.
Where’s Sheila? Where’s my roomie? What are all these firecracker wrappers?
I guess I’ll shoot out another text again cause I gotta get that package.
Pronto
Oh no, Oh no, Oh no...
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Mixed Motives
03:45
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Finding fault with your friends
and their shifting allegiances to Mixed Motives
Sheila never learned so much
as when Bobby Basehead stayed out of touch
Someone else got stabbed in the back.
Got devoured by the rest of the pack to Mixed Motives
Bobby never learned so much
as when Sheila Shortbread stayed out of touch
I fell out with a friend
but I don’t know when.
I only wanna be myself.
When I offend, I get to be by myself.
Sometimes he doesn’t respond
because he doesn’t know what’s going on.
He doesn’t have a clue.
He does what he does and then moves on to somebody new.
Make eye contact, have a point. Speak clearly, don’t patronize
Use your hands and be polite. Know your crowd, be organized.
Making friends with your faults.
Maturing slowly into adults to Mixed Outcomes.
We never feel as out of touch.
We shift about the subject darting eyes dancing Double Dutch.
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Book of Neighborhoods
07:30
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The neighborhood slowly shifted from large black Escalades
To small Subarus and SUVs in decline. To Hondas and Hyundais.
Every streets a sentence with a word for house.
Brokedown, Shotgun, Mansion, Bobby’s up in his apartment so fucking stressed out.
The neighborhood’s a paragraph from the sushi on the corner to the market by the bar.
You can watch the city change by the make and model of the car.
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