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Birthplace (Prologue)

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Birthplace (Prologue)

My brother was born in a coalmine.
The blackest soot outlined the words drawn on his throat.
He said, “It’s all I know, and someday
I will die here when I’m old,”
and dust drove from his great lungs as he spoke.

My brother was born in an office building
on Wall Street, in a hail of tickertape.
He’s always spitting facts and figures
like a swarm of adding machines—
says, “I’d love to stay and chew the fat, but I’m running late.”

My sister plays dead for her husband;
he prefers his wife and home “traditional.”
She says, “I know there’s a lot I’d like to do,
but with the kids and all, I don’t know...”
So she bites her lip and she keeps folding his clothes.
She bites her lip and she keeps holding that pose.

Well I was born. I was born. I was born. I was born. I was born.

I was born in the sunshine ’neath our sprawling familytree.
I speak the language of the watchful malcontent hiding in the leaves.
I said, “There’s nothing to these politics or greedy handshaking.
I can’t hold my tongue and that’s why I’m all alone.”

Oh, I can’t hold my tongue so I keep writing these poems.

And I was born, and I will die. And I was born,
and I will die. And I will die.
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Credit

Jacob Eli Goldman – rhodes, keyboards, drums, modular synthesizer patches
Rob Hallberg – clarinet
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, electric guitar, piano wash, synth bass

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from Attic & Cellar, released July 1, 2010

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aeroplane, 1929 Springfield, Massachusetts

aeroplane, 1929 was a band from New England. Between 2005 & 2010, they released two albums & two EP's on Topshelf Records. The band consisted of Alex Mazzaferro (vocals/guitar/keys/lyrics), Jacob Goldman (bass/keys/recording/arrangements), Noah Goldman (guitar/pedal steel/keys), & Wil Mulhern (drums), plus friends like Julian Veronesi, Chad Jewett, Dave Van Witt, Alex Syner, & Peter Federman. ... more

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