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Epitaph Sampler Fall 2015

by Epitaph

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1.
There is a lynching at Home Depot of the last day laborer In this sanctuary city with its anchor-baby births They say "It's time we had some justice for the white race on this earth This place is strange and getting stranger" "We got to round 'em up! Door to door tonight we're ready" Knock Knock Knock "Drag them from their beds They got some nerve to say they were here first" "We're gonna round them up! Hiding in the semi-trailers" Knock Knock Knock "Beat it in their heads We keep our word and Maricopa pure" They're sweating in Sun City cause they just got off the course Saying "Sheriff Joe it's awful and it's only getting worse" "Oh did you hear about Rob Krentz? They left him bleeding in the dirt These Spics they're brave and getting braver" "We got to round 'em up! Door to door the posse is ready" Knock Knock Knock "Drag them from their beds Cause it's their turn for someone to get hurt" "We're gonna round 'em up! Crying in the day-care center" Knock Knock Knock "Beat it in their heads They'll never learn until Maricopa burns!"
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Ease the babies out of their wombs. Make your hair blonde, hop on the number four. Do you become the driver when they drop you off? I'll become the driver. You don’t take their money, ripping out their roots. They found two heads hollowed out in the sanctuary or on the dry roadside. This is a duel and she won. Congratulate her, send her thanks. "How great that someone's doing what many of us should have done." Put up a statue of the new killer out of chains in the waxing moon. Do you see my shadow off the stake? Are you Diana, the Hunter? Are you afraid of me now? Well, yeah. Shouldn’t I be? But, don’t you quiver. I am an instrument. I am revenge. I am several women. Follow the arrow from behind the line. Moving forward, the night begins. We are brave and strong, but you don’t quiver. Let’s write this down, together. Our hands on the same weapon. Make evil afraid of evil’s shadow.
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thanks for showing me around last night hope you don't think I don't care because i do i just don't know if i should feel this bad about you after finishing your birthday drugs look at a yearbook unprepared and betray yourself to sleep it off. then come down to collect it I think you're funny I like your friends I like the way they treat you I've got some money that we could spend not that you're like that
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Shirt was in the car when it happened Swear to god we're cursed with all this sadness I'm dizzy in the thought Memory loss Your chrysalis Nighttime wanderer Venom drip King of somber Fumble on a road Blackened backyard Weapon from a trunk Static recall I'm dizzy in the thought Memory loss Your chrysalis Nighttime wanderer Venom drip King of somber Slow like my fist underwater Bended light vision sharpener
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is it crime? is it crime? what was stolen wasn't mine call me dear call me your dear but darling it isn't clear if I'm the one in the headlights or on the side of the road the one in the headlights or on the side of the road I'm afraid you'll choose is it fall? is it fall? we unravelled like a psalm call me dear call me your dear but darling it isn't clear if I'm the one in the headlights or on the side of the road the one in the head lights or on the side of the road I'm afraid you I'm afraid you'll choose I'm afraid you I'm afraid you'll choose am I the one in the headlights? or on the side of the road? the one in the headlights? or on the side of the road or on the side of the road or on the side of the road
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All smiles All smiles over here All smiles All smiles over here All smiles All smiles over here All smiles All smiles over Take your sunglasses off and then put them back on again I’ve created a force field and I hope no one breaks it This is my life and this is how I chose to live it Take control of your life, stand up straight and shake a hand Take your sunglasses off and then put them back on again I’ve created a force field and I hope no one breaks it This is my life and this is how I chose to live it Take control of your life, stand up straight and shake a hand I sit on this grass I sit on this grass I look past this all I look past this all I focus on my toys I focus on my toys Shape shifting everywhere Shape shifting everywhere All smiles All smiles over here All smiles All smiles over Take your sunglasses off and then put them back on again I’ve created a force field and I hope no one breaks it This is my life and this is how I chose to live it Take control of your life, stand up straight and shake a hand
7.
Just kind of float around the house, my white noise, it always howls, and I'm dancing to the motion of what I need, when you just want to dance with me, just kind of goes back to the old half-assed tries and the Pigtown mold, I was much better then, when we started again, you're the better half best of me grip me, grab me down, paint me certain, paint me yours, I should know, it's where you take it from, where you take it to, and what you take it for, our sugar was earned so let's take it some more, white like the lack of paint behind the radiator, paint me, white like the blue bottle bedside reflection, paint me, back then it was too early to tell, too early to see, just kind of float around the house, my white noise sings a howling sound, and keep dancing to the motion of what I need, and your dancing is all I see.
8.
¶ THEY’VE STACKED THE BODIES · A THOUSAND HIGH · A CARNAL MONUMENT · TO TOUCH THE SKY · THEY CROWN THE PEAKS · SO FAR ESTRANGED · BUT DOWN IN THE DIRT · NOTHING HAS CHANGED ¶ NOTHING HAS CHANGED ¶ TIME HAS COME – THERE’S NO ESCAPE ¶ INTO THE RABBLE · THE PANIC SEEPS · ONE TARGET HISSES · ANOTHER WEEPS · THEY SCALE THE WALLS · THEIR MINDS DERANGED · BUT DOWN IN THE DIRT · NOTHING HAS CHANGED ¶ NOTHING HAS CHANGED ¶ TIME HAS COME – THERE’S NO ESCAPE
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The days since we last spoke turned to weeks, turned to months, turned to years. You were heavy with child with your arms around a stranger in fear. I had the burn in my blood, I had the ash in my veins, had the lies I keep hid between teeth. The boy must never know about me, never know of my face. Between us, hold these secrets we keep. My penance, in your name. Rain taps on the window. Burning red neon sign pushes it’s way through the blinds. Sleep never comes easy. Sinking guts, lacking faith and on the nod every night. Dim glow of the street lights, forgotten tenement for the damned. No cut of the cloth here, just another broken man waiting, praying for death. “Hail Mary, have mercy. I dread the loss of heaven, living in hell. Forgive me my Father, for I am a sinner.”
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Last friday night I wasn’t me, I was a still life trapped in eternity, I was the focal point out of focus, out of ink, and I’ve been wandering nightly, through the garden of your heartache, always making a mess, always stumbling out the door. But I don’t wanna be an asshole anymore, baby I’ll be good to you. Another night I devoured the sun, and plunged myself into the depths of oblivion, somewhere along the way I found why it feels damn good just to bleed sometimes, but all I ever wanted was to make things right, the years of idleness and spite, have pushed my emotions off a bridge, after taking them hostage with a shotgun, now they’re somewhere treading water, somewhere lost inside the man that I’m not. I won’t lie no more, about where I’ve been, and I won’t pry no more, over the people that you’re hanging with, because you’re the only lover that I’ve ever missed, ever been hopelessly in love with, look at this tangle of thorns, I don’t wanna be an asshole anymore

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released August 25, 2015

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