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Apocalypse
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Reading Tarot in an alleyway by Sparky’s on Burnett
With the lovers card reversed there in the center next to death
And she’s reacting to the images (or what they represent)
But when we’re driving home, she carries on about her animal spirit
She rattles off some wisdom, some Snapple facts she’s read,
Or perhaps she’s checking twitter- but her voice becomes intense
And she says, “If I was an owl, how would we have met?
Is there some pattern to the cosmos or are you just the one I picked?”
Pulling up to the apartment, she is quiet and content
Running through the mock occasions of the ways we would have met
And I am careful not to miss her trembling silhouette
Juxtaposed against the terrors of apocalypse
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And Your Body
03:14
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Na-na-na-na
I drove with reckless speed to pick you up
From the corner of Salina and East Fayette
When I first heard the news, I only thought of you
Na-na-na-na
We made our way to Westcott in the rain
You were bleeding out and singing through the pain
But you looked so fine as I carried you inside
Na-na-na-na
Searched the house to find the last few hydrocodone I had left
Wondering how many of our friends were probably dead
I sat and heard your desperate pleas until it was just me
And your body
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Nothing Is Changing
02:15
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I stepped out into traffic and felt the cars race by
A hurricane of blind emotions guiding me from inside
The workers organized; this highway’s occupied
By rage and flesh and I will sacrifice myself upon the asphalt of I-81
Headlights blazing down the interstate
I make my way into the center of the lane
If I could inhale before it breaks through me, it would be nice just to breathe again
Wipe me away, clean the streets
Keep the Country safe from me
Nothing is changing
I take a hit, let it break
Spinning on the freeway
I send you spinning
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Imagine We Are Infinite
05:41
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We sprayed the leaves in PCP,
Carved a pipe from a zucchini
You got a call from your friend Jenny
Who made a joke that she was watching me
Between the blinds in that locked closet we weren’t allowed to see
When we first rented this apartment
And you said to me, “I am afraid” every night for the first two weeks
I started spinning Dead Kennedy’s
You lit the fire and breathed in deep
I watched the vessels in your eyes throbbing
You asked, “Am I the owl?”
Breathed in my ear
I was aroused and acted like I didn’t hear
To still a kiss when you asked me again
And I bit your lip so hard I broke the skin
You started bleeding in my mouth
We both collapsed and stained the carpet making out
You asked again, “Am I the owl?”
I whispered barely audibly, “I don’t know- but we’re alarmingly free
Just a couple of Americans smoking PCP and imagining we are infinite”
Imagining we are infinite
Imagine that we are infinite
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Adeem the Artist Tennessee
Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.
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