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Avalanche Kiss

by Paul Gonzenbach

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Brained, a luckless guy Kind but out of time Why would they try? Son, I do not like The look that’s in your eye. Why won’t they die? It all smacks me of cartoon violence Three words were all it took you: Bring it on!
3.
I’ve been thinking about you You’ve been thinking about yourself I read a poem written by A fly on a windowsill It said: “Each day is another chance. Each new day is another chance.” You’ve been thinking about yourself I’ve been dreaming about it every night. I am missing words that cover you. I have newer ways to envy you. Trust is a title Faith is a word in a song I want your heart to ache I want your heart to break open Ah, ah! Maybe you know you’re being lied to Ah, ah! Maybe you think you know how it ends Ah, ah! Maybe your checking account will not be overdrawn Ah, ah! Maybe this will be enough! Maybe this will be enough… Dawn at a public park Someone you don’t know leans into you You’re only young once You’re only young once for a very, very long time.
4.
You met a man last night You got into his car In the grey morning light You wake up and you don’t know where you are A message at the tone From Caroline back home Her third call this week Press 7 to delete A message from your boss At your minimum-wage job, “If you call in sick again Don’t ever bother coming back in.” Do you think that we don’t know Where all your money goes? Oh! Do you really think that we don’t know? You took a room by yourself Your friends talk about your health About your noise, about your brain Between your toes, about your veins And when they ask about your dad Do you tell them where he’s at? How he got there, what he’s done, How he’s not the only one? All the questions that you dodge All the borrowed stuff you lost The merchandise you palm The midnight calls to mom Until you decide It’s done once for all We’ve done what we can We wait for the call.
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6.
I Seldom Do 05:08
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You dreamt a baby carriage And a baby that didn’t live It looked like a black and ruffly octopus In a coffin You broke a window You placed the shards inside my heart So I could be free You’re free like a life raft cut adrift You’re free like an actor with no script You did some things with him you didn’t quite expect to You didn’t quite agree to There is one thing you regret A bloody clot, a pamphlet The doctor made sure you were comfortable and free You’re free like a life raft cut adrift You’re free like a play without a script One hundred days left on your lease One hundred ways to find your peace When I will finally summon you back to me County jail, empty threats County jail wasn’t kind You called them all away
9.
The back seat cradled you like a sick bed Like your parents’ foldout Like any other in the series of couches You stayed on that autumn And I turned around the wrong way In the passengers seat When you when you when you You sang to yourself even though I was there You never asked me I never told you but you knewYou want to cling to “maybe” Still, when he says “might be” it means “will” And once he’s gone, baby, he’s gone We scraped the tire against the curb And watched the sun rise over the suburbs We weren’t fooling anyone You said, “No Mom, I don’t want a window” You weren’t fooling anyone You sang to yourself You sing for yourself You never asked me I wouldn’t have told you if you had And I can still see your frozen breath In the air as you mount your stairs Under the cold November light And I’m gone
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A tangle A hopeless knot of twigs and bows It winds and tightens Through claws of crows Though all acquaintances, yours and mine Your comic timing is flawless Another botched attempt Your friends all snicker As we weave and dodge the lightning bolts She said, “The wine is slow. The pills are quicker.” A standing reservation at the clinic
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Costume 05:37

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released October 15, 2008

“Quel age a-t-il?” was written with Josiah Feinberg and Shana Applewhite. “I Seldom Do” was written with the Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Josiah played drums on “Pearly” and “Quel age a-t-il?” Stuart Hake played cello on tracks 1, 3, 5, 8. 9. 10. and 11.

Mastered by Carl Saff. Vinyl lacquers were made by Paul Gold.

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