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Laura Gilpin//The Two-Headed Calf

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother.

It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass.

And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

La Dispute//Nine

I recall once on the church steps When I moved to kiss your chest How we paid such close attention To each sweet and stuttered breath

I should've stopped to paint our picture Captured honest pure affection Just to document the difference Between attraction and connection

I can see all of my friends and I break into empty buildings When the coast was clear With backpacks full of beer We'd throw our bottles from the rooftops At this city-it looked endless

Guess I still don't see the difference Between real purpose and that urgent adolescence And I remember in a basement sharing sweat With all these stranger boys and girls "We'll change the world!" We sang "We'll change the world!" But Nothing seems to change and They say none of them will listen But I still see much more power in that basement Than in heartless politicians

And if we get beaten by this winter If we get strangled by regret, just Let our love of life intensions Gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths, and Have them lay us in a basement Smash some bottles on the ground, and Say we couldn't tell the difference Between the feeling and the sound Remember not our faulty pieces Remember not our rusted parts

It's not the petty imperfections that define us but The way we hold our hearts And the way we hold our heads I hope they write your names beside mine On my gravestone when I'm dead And when we're dead let our voices carry on To find a better song To find a better song and sing along

FAVE MITSKI LYRICS

Did you go and make promises you can't keep? Well, when ya break them, they break you right back
When I'm bent over, wishin' it was over Makin' all variety of vows I'll never keep I try to remember the wrath of the devil Was also given him by God

And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child

And I don't wanna go home yet Let me walk to the top of the big night sky And at least in this lifetime We're sticking together Me and my husband We're sticking together

Venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming Did its people want too much too? Did its people want too much too?

I've been big and small and big and small and big and small again And still nobody wants me, still nobody wants me

You're the sun, you've never seen the night But you hear its song from the morning birds Well, I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds

It's just that I fell in love with a war And nobody told me it ended And it left a pearl in my head And I roll it around Every night, just to watch it glow Every night, baby, that's where I go

Mom, would you wash my back? This once, and then we can forget