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Phone Blows Up

from Some Gift by Enablers

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Sides lose.
Betting sides, intuitive sides.
Marriages end, elections are lost.
Everyone in this equatorial world
one day wakes up holding themselves,
losers.

The sun slowly mounts the morning sky
lighting up the doorway you’ll walk through
for coffee and a cigarette in the kitchen
where, sequestered late with Carsten the night before,
talk turned on the changing grace of bars, neighborhoods,
how all our youthful indulgences & stardom tap out.

Decadence is staying drunk well into your forties,
up late most nights, “sitting bullshitting” in a dim kitchen
and feeling thrown away by everything you should have
known twenty years before. You can’t despise the sun
when its light culminates in windblown autumn leaves
and is swallowed whole like a ghost in clouds.

It’s only reminding you to go back to Reichenbergerstr
to re-light the candle in the kitchen: sometimes sides don’t lose, they collapse,
and you can’t tell the difference between the two anymore.
You know how the keenest people around
know when to shut up and don’t have to go out of their way
to prove anything?

Perhaps this is what empathy truly is.
There’s no urgency in much of your life, especially in writing.
You can do it anywhere, which is no ultimate guarantee for “good” or even “great” work. Balance purpose with action? It’s a living.
You don’t care for overly ambitious people who are always competing.
But this makes you feel urgent.

Competitive, overly ambitious people comprise too many
telegenic assholes walking the earth,
and people like you give them an advantage; they tend to
win over crowds and sunder the already weak or careless
with something that irreconcilably rhymes
with orange.

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from Some Gift, released September 2, 2022

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Band Members: Joe Goldring (former Swans, Toiling Midgets, Touched by a Janitor) on guitar; Kevin Robert Thomson (former Nice Strong Arm, Timco, Touched by a Janitor, now Hazel Atlas) also on guitar; poet, writer, and narrator Pete Simonelli on vocals. Rounding out the line-up is drummer Sam Ospovat (Ava Mendoza, Brendan Seabrook, tUnE-yArDs, William Winant). ... more

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