I pivot and pirouette
on a grave and perilous precipice—
half boy, half beast.
I take stock,
photograph myself once a day
to see if I can see it happening,
and I howl to the milky moon (no no no...),
and I cry to the sun at highnoon,
“Where do I go? When will I be there?
and how will I know? What price salvation?”
And I grow fitful and chaotic as the Market.
Copper coins smell of dried blood:
a savage transaction.
Well, I exclaim to passersby,
“I built this house, locked
the Devil in the cellar but he escaped
and I quailed, lost heart,
and I flinched, lost faith
in clean gravity and the one times table,
in the dictionary and a silverlined tomorrow.”
Now my chest beats a frantic tattoo
and my fangs grind, euphemistic...
progress, expansion, maturation ::
corruption, destruction, deformation;
oh, ambitious, enterprising, patriotic up-and-comer ::
predatory, avaricious, jingoistic opportunist.
The bottomline looms large above (laissez-faire...),
and I watch as my hands do what they want.
I got these chewed collarbuttons,
and I don’t know where they came from.
I got this dark place in my mind
where I’ve seen just how it ends.
And this machine is unstoppable.
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Credit
Frederick Chu – cello
Jacob Eli Goldman – piano, bass guitar, drums, synthesizer, hand claps, noise
Noah Goldman – electric guitar, pedal steel
Alex Mazzaferro – voice, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mellotron, rhodes, hand claps, trash can, television, noise
Wil Mulhern – drums
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