Lo, yet another turtle
Let’s stack them in a pile
and see if we can hurdle
polar devotion if we use them as a stile
well, where else could I be
than fluctuating endlessly
between billboard exceptionality
and weatherboard mediocrity
just watch me pulse and swing
between those corridors of whim
well how else could it be
when you tell me all the world needs
is a vipassna retreat
or a reevaluation of climate policy
or pseudo-bliss indifference
or another lick of paint on your neighbour's white picket fence
I used to speak genuinely
about fever and grief and my romantic beliefs
I used to be free
of self effacing humour and apologetic irony
but now it seems my only muse
is a calculated disdain for the past songs I produced
what was it that made them, a steadfast myopia?
that I’ve substituted for pedestrian anhedonia
was it
an intangible musing or a quiet discontent
for subjects neither past, pending or present
roped together by a sullen apprehension
of something ending
when all one’s shortcomings seem uniquely theirs
and no longer something to incite despair
but something to care for
and with those newfound children
grown comely and demanding
those lonesome hours in grey carpet lined rooms
will wriggle out of their discontented cocoon
and proclaim from the top of their pedestal
there’s a slight depression in between those grand poles
it’s there you should sit
it’s there it’s most comfortable
credits
from Low Temperature Civics,
released July 24, 2015
All songs written and performed by Low Temperature Civics.
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