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take all the extra letters
from everybody's misspelled names
and hand them off to nameless things
so they can finally be claimed

take all the silent letters
from all the borrowed foreign words
arrange them into unspoken thoughts
so they can finally be heard

edit your life on video tape
star wipe, zoom out, fisheye, fade
give up and burn the edit bay down
call it the director's cut anyway

lie in bed wide-eyed awake
in the dark see monstrous shapes
are they projections of your restless mind
or literal monsters come to gnaw your face?

get up, never sleep again
be very productive for about a day
completely lose it, have a public meltdown
go home, sleep the crazy away

stare down the clock
till it makes a palindrome
hold your breath for that whole minute
then wait for another palindrome

edit your life on celluloid
cut out the frames you'd rather avoid
splice it together until it makes sense
it's not the truth but it'll play in the midwest

you're very sick, yes, very ill
always have been, and always will
the doctors say it's all your fault
then call you fat and hand you a bill

they say you need to get outside
but the sun beats down and burns your eyes
and the fresh air makes you choke and cough
everything's poison if you take enough

pass out on the toilet
throw up down the shower drain
push yourself through all regrets
walk home in the pouring rain

edit your life on reel-to-reel
listen to all the warm analog sounds of
your constant fuck-ups and awkward moments
then lock the master tapes away for good

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from Ante​-​Anticlimax, released June 5, 2020

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The Great Joe Bivins Orlando, Florida

Eight feet tall if he were an inch! Arms like two great tree trunks with hair like a fiery-brown mane of a lion that'd been kinda sick! Scraggly multicolored beard that granted wishes! Wishes with IRONIC CONSEQUENCES! With a voice like a great grizzly bear if bears were really good singers! Oh I seen him, doncha tell me I didn't see him with Paul Revere ringin' them bells! ... more

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