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Keisha Phillips
03:27
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Cluttered sink
Will never fail to push you over the brink
Seven years left to survive
Endless sighs
of curling smoke sting your bleary eyes
Pick the kids up at school in your beat up 4-wheel-drive
It’s a quarter to five
As the painting dries
The details crystallize
All your life
Becoming steadily emulsified
Bathroom stall
A whispered conversation down the hall
Did she ever even care at all
It’s your call
Powdered wigs
Suits and ties and professional things
Butterflies in your stomach, restless all your life
Have been settling.
As the painting dries
The details crystallize
All your life
Becoming steadily emulsified
As the painting dries
The details have crystallized
It’s a quarter past five
And the light is feeling so sublime
Yeah the light is feeling so sublime
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2. |
Reese Worthington
05:41
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Public pool swimmer
Self-edify
Climbing the ladder
30 feet high
Ooh
And I don’t feel separate from myself
Suspended in the air between the water
And where I stood
And I don’t feel like anybody else
In the subtle hum of becoming none
Think through the motions
A million times
Impatient faces
On down the line
Ooh
I don’t feel separate from myself
Suspended in the air between the water
And where I stood
And I don’t feel like anybody else
In the subtle hum of becoming none
Become undone
I never was
Wander through the dunes
The summer’s over soon
Did it ever feel new?
What can you do?
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3. |
Mikey Thomas
03:39
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Slow drift out of view
Wilted history for me and you
Making breakfast on your own
Prefab pleasures surround your home
It’s no way to spend an afternoon
But all I want to do
Is be back next to you
Reciting things we knew
On and on and through
Been a while
Staring down those empty miles
Undress sunsets from the roof
And should I mind
Wasting all my sentient time
Watching flowers fail to bloom
When all I want to do
Is be back next to you
Reciting things we knew
On and on and through
And it’s not clear to me
If this is where I’m supposed to be
Hung up on the mystery
Wading through a rising sea
Fell off my bike trying to sidle on
Billy Joel song in the distance when I’m all alone
Doing laps around the island, getting loud and bored
Taking decades between decisions, future and foregone
But all I want to do
Is be back next to you
Reciting things we knew
On and on and through
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4. |
Jocinda Smith
02:15
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A late night riser
swaddled in unwashed sheets
only inspired
when calamity disturbs the dream
Unshaken make belief
that this spell can be sustained
in casual digressions, residential depression
a weaponized invisibility
But there’s still
still a long
a long way
way to go
Thumbtacks in the ceiling cracks
cold sweat is dripping down my spine
Fresh hell by the wishing well
I'm breaking kneecaps just to cut in line
"Well good grief it’s a god damn relief
I didn’t even really want to try”
A bad defense for ambivalence
don’t know the difference between dead and dying
But there’s still
still a long
a long way
way to go
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Pablo Sanchez
06:41
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Rising static ocean
Assured what my worth is
Distort my purpose
Wondering what the score is
Trying hard to be patient
Don’t know where the days went
Trace the cracks in the pavement
Hide out in the basement
Move backwards come chasing
Go out for a cigarette
Try not to have regrets
Lie down in the deep grass
Is the moment right, now?
Am I empty of all of the things that I used to think about
Is this my trophy, the sum of the things I couldn’t do without
A living monument, the waves that carry the breath of day
Away from the sun
Away from the sun
Tend to your backyard empire
Apropos of nothing
Are you still running?
Appeal to the cosmic umpire
Does it feel like living free?
Don’t know what it meant to me
Is it real what you’re making?
Was it yours to be taking?
Is a smile worth faking?
What’s your motive to stick around?
Did you lose yourself anyhow?
Does it all seem different now?
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