Being Good; (or, Life with Serpents)

from To Persevere by aeroplane, 1929

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Being Good; (or, Life with Serpents)

You've been living with serpents.
We all make mistakes.
You're perfecting a poison
with parts of speech & punctuation--no...

But you've been telling everybody different;
you've been cursing my name because I caught you red-handed.
& you're finding solace in the bottles that you drink.
you've conjectured that the ghosts who've come to haunt us are for me.

& your intentions cruel & kind, alike,
are the salt in my wounds; are the insults to injury.

You'll sit home sharpening daggers to tear me apart with.
Please tell me something that I don't already know.

(We're at each other's throats...)
I x-ed out every photograph.
I meditate. You medicate.

I heard of a doctor from Atlanta
who cut the heart out of a man's chest,
& poked & prodded & cut it all up,
& didn't learn a thing.

You'll never learn a thing about me.
Don't waste your time dissecting mine,
I've got to get away. {After all,} no one's perfect.

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Credit

Katie Cooke - violin
Peter Federman - electric guitar, effects
Jacob Eli Goldman - tapes, maracas, effects, voice
Alex Mazzaferro - voice, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, organ, sleigh bells, trash can
Wil Mulhern - drums, tambourine

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from To Persevere, released May 2, 2006

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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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