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Man Alive!

from This Time This Year by Scott Gesser

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I am spending literally every moment
Shaking and swearing and sweating
Browbeating my psyche, its tenacity wearing
I’m flaring up the way a dragon warns
Against its metaphysical forms
Smoke rising from the horns
To arms, it’s time to start a war
Listen, battle to battle stations set in the realization
This is not what I signed up for
When I planned a vacation
I’m living in a house with walls unstable
Able to cut the cable, it’s less than a fable
Having supper huddled under the table

There’s so much to digest
That no matter how good you are
You’ll never be the best
So I’m not going to stress the vibe
If I’m not six feet under, I’m the luckiest man alive

Now I’m flying off the handle
Oversupplying demand’ll light a fire under your ass
Until you can’t hold a candle
To the hordes of whores enforcing stores
On corners and borders
They’re lapping up the killing floor
Just like an eating disorder
We should not be allowed to be withheld
Forgot how to yell like a mind-meld
If you’re thinking what I’m thinking
Then we’re thinking: what the hell?
We’ve gone out of control
Slipping ever further from the goal
Who knows where the fuck you’ll end up
If you started in the hole?

Last time I tried this shit I said I’m not afraid of dying
And in retrospect that’s half-correct
But also kind of lying
I’m afraid of getting dragged down
With the lifeless hags and garbage bags
But if we survive our lives will drive
From rags to rags to rags to rags
To ragging on the people in power even for an hour
Won’t put food inside your mouth
Or give your kids a place to shower
You can glower and scowl and you can let out a howl
But you’re still one in a million wolves
Who doesn’t know where to prowl now

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from This Time This Year, released April 10, 2020

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