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Suburban Death March

from Some Gift by Enablers

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lyrics

That insistent, lone goose-honk
blaring across the complex--

In single-file the orderly students --
hands on shoulders

in forced march--
pass the weapon-at-arms soldier in

the parking lot’s

outer perimeter--the austere soldier

still as stone the students
sluice around like river current

then part from
in zany spokes, clothes

and hair ruffling under choppers’
blades

---the shooter is still loose.
This is not a drill.

They run over the lavish, green lawns
backpacks flopping, a blunt show of

bodies and terms--

like fresh refugees
are a blunt show

of bodies and terms—fear
under a maundering pump of

chopper blades.
No sluice now—dread, yes, but

a wondrous sight comes through
—white kids approaching

now splitting around a single Black student

strangely unalarmed
arms raised in mockery or in a rallying

cry the choppers’ blades syncopate: pumping

and pumping his arms
like to pump out of his skin

a past and future
whim,

in a manner of I am
pump

like I’m the only motherfucker
who knows

I am doom forestalled pump

He is
bowled around, no stone

but
chaos’s chosen brave child chaos

will use
to exalt itself

once more

on the dour
pumping of a neck.

credits

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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