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1.
Pot of tea And dog-eared Leaf Under foot Little sound Impatiently In groups of three Aching beautiful now By the window Stand and watch the clouds Hope a car comes down Who would be getting out What would they be saying to you Washed in red lamp light Watch them fade away In the tire’s wake Tail light’s gone Draw the curtains now Now
2.
How many of you Want to party hardy Have a seat at the bar Until some tables open up Well until then You can Check out our menu You can call it a preview Of all the mishegoss to come In this interminable summer How do you get there You wanna be out in the hall Out you stickers on the wall Stick it to your principal How do you get there You can’t get out without a pass You carry water for the trapped A sip for every ballot cast How do you get there Your skin was alabaster You hands were telecasted You mind was oh so plastered now You never once considered Just how you’d babysittered Up down the block Around the world Up with the dress rehearsal The blue green infomercials Go ’til you hear your parents stir Make it excruciating With pitfalls like the real thing Around the world Around the world It feels so wrong To wait so long The whistle calls And it’s over the top How medieval The serfs and the peasants You call Mr. Sellack He’ll only help you if you craw I’m sorry to tell you But your account is overdrawn
3.
Half Steps 02:39
Couldn’t be more candid Couldn’t be more clear I’ll race you to the end of the driveway And watch you disappear All your friends were watching The bishop brought me beer He had me mated by the end of the hour So it was like you were never here
4.
Scrolling past my liquor store All those barred and buzzerred doors Where my high school went to work Hear my high school’s so much worse somehow Behind a pay wall come and see And check that assiduity Gaze until your eye’s content While your jacking up our rent again This town loves me no more Was it even a town at all Well I don’t know But it does not matter Nothing matters here At a Wawa Eat my lunch A swimming pool the parking lot Cause there’s nowhere else to go And the tears have got to flow somewhere A dead pixel on your screen A bit naive but ever green And I’m hiding in your trees And I’ll hobnob with your leaves This town loves me no more Was it ever a town at all Well I don’t know But it does not matter Cause nothing matters here Don’t love me now
5.
Well there they go Goodbye flamingo I’ll be here ’Til next year Just swimming round and round A silly girl Hurling Triscuits around For the squirrels What a world If they see me limping hope I swear I’ll Hiss and beak their nose It’s what they’re angling for But still I’d like to get back to the Maritimes And PEI But visa vie a V-less me can only fly So high In peru There’s not that much to do Honk at cliffs And dive-bomb granite ships Can’t complain The Nessy of Champlain He’s a friend The GOAT My Champion Same timezone But still I miss my home Cannot lie I’d do it every time Not to deface Take a shit on the place Of my brith It’s a gem I will go there again When I croak But not a moment sooner
6.
Hang out on a corner waiting Hang dog on a corner wasting time Barely lift a finger Hoping something will arrive Mimosas with Florida peaches Stemware is sweating in this heat Got a splitting headache From their ashtray potpourri But where will we go What will we do When we see them again My friends Each night is another broadcast Each morning they sharpen up that line Can’t even think about it Man, it’s messing up my mind Thought I’d marry a statistician Never thought I’d be a statistic Don’t know how I feel Haven’t reached that chapter yet But where will we go What will we do When we see them again My friends Open up the cask And watch me fly around this maypole Party’s over when you wake up Can you do it Can you hang on Cause we all need a little more time Just to hang out But where will we go What will we do If we see them again When we see them again
7.
Sark Jumper 03:35
Hey Siri Everything’s weird This apocalyptic bingo Has me running out of chips All kizzy since WMD’s And I feel the decline Brand new summer Looks the same Feels the same Retire my number Fly it high The league wide What an honor We both know long ago We jumped the shark How low we set that bar In the back of a car In a Walgreen’s parking lot Boadiseas On your teeth Whips in my throat Don’t need a chariot To kill that trope We both learned how to Devine Pain from art But how low That bathtub ring of Cutty Sark Have another Roll credits On again off for good Call Ripley’s And wake up the neighborhood No refunds No buyer’s remorse And those teeth look just fine Streams of coffee Cigarette Everest With so much laundry Can’t believe that I’ve seen the last one
8.
Tell me Every Thing My darling Lo And it was a dark one And there was a storm And the sky was all black Hung like sackcloth Baby no A road sign Decoded A windshield Exploded Could not be wetter From your cowboy catcher Settled down By a voice you do not know Come around to Alright You will be Alright Count back From ten Nine eight Seven Nurse Hand me the thing No, the other thing This won’t do at all Is there anyone we should call Is there anyone My future A suture’s will The mirror A stranger still I wish I knew you But I deja vu you Count down From ten Nine eight Seven
9.
Jan Mayen 04:52
When you’re on your own It is hard to know What is brain And what is stone Cause it feels like I’ve always been Where the sun keeps circling Keep it down down now Cause I think someone’s listening Who left these handprints on the door And I know I’ve Seen that cloud before Reminds me of Absolutely nothing That face in the window A reflection When you’re on your own It is hard to know What is brain And what is snow So you sit in your yard And you watch the world a tumble Through the void in your yard And you watch the world a tumble I don’t know It’s the longest I’ve ever been Held by fingers so bonny thin Simmer down down now And the sun just keeps circling Won’t go down now And I swear something’s listening
10.
Whale Tale 04:08
Hot chaperone Stretched out bandeau Your bedpost becomes a guiro now Hear Vicky’s tale Such arcane whales Even the pod see’s there’s no threat here, Keith We’re normalizing everything And every feeling So let them go Chap stick parade Cold sores okay Tuck in your chinos to your socks, Josh And you’re too uptight With your moralizing Bedroom trends Your reddit becomes a 4chan Cast all your hangups Into the sea They’ve got some shit now that you will not believe Your head and neck hurts From trying to peep on The things that people do To fill their baleen So grab your toothpick You deserve a lot, Dale Deserve the docks, Dale Tuck in your morals to those thots, Chris And you’re too uptight With your moralizing Even the pod sees that there’s no threat here We’re normalizing everything And every feeling So let them go
11.
Gather up your sheets in the corner Finish with a yawn Bathtub Toaster Tooth brush On your Pair of cords Another fad Too bad See the light of the High ball crystal Rainbows on the wall And you know Birds know How the Morning chorus goes And see your breath De menthe Never watered your hot house orchid Forgot to lock the door Reminder from the dentist on the board You did your best They were Impressed
12.
I never laid it on the line Never gambled the farm I always tried to bide my time Now got nothing at all Lives of leisure Never toil Never sweat Run children From the hyperreal And eat those bread crumbs for lunch Seven hundred years ago How the stakes seems so low Paul Robeson never looked so tall I Thought one day I’d jump off County college Never study Never sweat Already raddled by the rush Oh, how I languished On my own with someone else Oh, lack the language To describe it for myself

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released November 25, 2022

By Tom Donohue

With thanks to Cole, Courtlyn, Danielle, Dom, Dylan, Iris, Jeremy, Josh, Justin, Kaitlin, Lisa, Liz, Sam, Sarah, Stephen, Terre, Tim, Tony, the boys down on Rue Bercy, and Tom.

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