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Coupling

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Let’s Write a Novel Hello monkey you always call me monkey I’ve learned to love it like your thumbs across my eyebrows And how your hair tickles at my nose You said you wished you’d somehow found me sooner I wasn’t ready I was messy and unworthy Living with mom up through my thirties Here’s where we listen to the bands out at the park You prefer the mystery of not seeing them play I watch you watching all the boats out on the water Wishing that the week had more Sundays You told me about the malady running through your family You said you’d go first I’d never be right again But we’ll make a fort of this pretend Let’s go night swimming let’s make a tree house Let’s find that abandoned town up in Manitoba We’ll write our novels on the sofa How easy you tumble fluttering off to sleep How your breathing hits my ears all soft and muted How your dreams are the only dreams I ever like to hear Weird how I’ve never felt so human
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Salty Puddles Just a couple of salty puddles, no big deal You’ve been holding them, controlling how you feel Let ‘em roll and slide on down your cheeks Just a couple of salty puddles on your sleeve All my friends cry and I think maybe so should I I should learn how to weep and keep my brain from caving in Just a couple of them Crocodile eyes peak the river denial Come to realize, it’s been a while since a smile Time to clean what you’ve swept under the fridge Just a couple of salty puddles You’ll still live All my friends cry and I think maybe so should I I should learn how to weep and keep my brain from caving in Just a couple of them
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LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS HOW MANY PIECES OF MY DIVIDED HEART DO YOU WANT? DO MY ESCAPES TO THE COUNTRY COME OFF UNCONCERNED AND NONCHALANT? AT LEAST TWO SOULS WILL TUMBLE AND FALL IF NOT ALL FOUR AND CAST AN ASHEN SHADOW LIKE LEAVES ON THE FOREST FLOOR AND I WILL HAVE WHAT I CAME FOR SOMETIMES I THINK I IMAGINED HER THIS CAN’T BE REAL PIECED TOGETHER WITH BITS OF YOU THROUGH WEAKNESS AND A VAGUE APPEAL QUICK UPON THE EXTERNAL GUISE THE VERDANT SHORE YOU SEE THE PAINT FROM LIGHT TO DARK SHE SEES THE WHORE BUT I WILL GET WHAT I PAID FOR BOTTLES OF WARM UNTRACEABLE WINE CHERRIES AND ROUND BREAD HASTILY SCATTERED ALL IN THE NAME OF HOLLOW ROMANCE WHERE DID YOUR LATE AUNT’S EMERALD EARRINGS DISAPPEAR TO? LOOK BENEATH THE BLANKET CHECK THE MAGPIE’S NEST THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SWIM AND AN ANKLE DIP BETWEEN BARE SKIN SMELLING OF SWEET GREEN HAITIAN VETIVER AND A FULL-LENGTH SLIP ONE’S A COUPLE AND ONE’S A PAIR TWO ARE HAPPY, TWO DESPAIR THE FALLING WATER BREAKS THE HUSH OF THE MIDDAY AIR LEAVING US NOWHERE
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Luxor & Bunny Luxor and Bunny And isn’t it funny How nothing works out The way it was planned Lance and Betances We all take our chances But she was a woman And you were a man Lisa and Buster The spiciest mustard On all the world’s weiners From Spain to Japan Lucky and Betsy You bought it on Etsy A dark chocolate doily For your dirty white van Oh, we pair off Then we square off And we tear off Our clothes and their labels Our trees and our dreidels Our soups and ladles And we set them ablaze Now we’re a couple A couple of couples Quadruple, quintuple And onward for days Lumpy and Bumpy And ride me and hump me Like camels, like desserts Like snakes in the sand Lawrence and Barabra The losing of marbles The finding of treasures The bar codes we scan Luke and Beyonce The kids goes, but I’ll stay The steeling of nerves And the taking of stands Linseed and Bratty Your doggy got catty A welcome for Matty A raisin for Bran Oh, we pair off Then we square off And we tear off Our clothes and their labels Our trees and our dreidels Our soups and ladles And we set them ablaze Now we’re a couple A couple of couples Quadruple, quintuple And onward for days
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Show Me Mercy You caught me laying in the dark again These short days get away from me I swear you’ve been on my list of things to do But I’m a nervous little bunny I brought the mail in from the mailbox Looks like it’s getting out of hand You said you’d call me when it’s pouring You know I’ll always understand Show me mercy some days are not to be believed If you wanna make yourself some coffee You’ll find the kitchen to the left the hall I used to fall in love so easily Now I can’t seem to fall at all I brought some soup to tide you over I’m hoping you’re a fan of pumpkin I made it for my father who’s been ailing But he wouldn’t let me come in Show me mercy some days are not to be believed Lately I loathe this time of the day Shadows burn their shapes into the carpets I tried to call my wife this morning They say these first years are the hardest
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Coupla I got a couple of tickets to the big show this week But I got no one to go with so maybe I’ll sell my seats I got a couple of doughnuts hidden in the back of the drawer Mom says with my braces I can’t eat them anymore I got a couple of kitties but they don’t seem to like me Except when I’m about to feed them and they come running to my feet I got a couple of turtles they cost a lot of money Now when people come over they say that it smells funny Whatever happens over here Has to happen over there The world is a big collection Of all these perfect pairs I have a couple of builders hammering next to me My landlords are building a hallway and driving me crazy I got a couple of chickens squawking out in the yard Dad says we need to eat em why is everything so hard I got a couple of nose hairs I hope that no one sees Every once in a while one will pop out and tickle me I got a couple of eyeballs rolling around in my head I wonder about what happens to them when you’re dead Whatever happens over here Has to happen over there The world is a big collection Of all these perfect pairs Two lungs two eyes two ears two feet But I wish we had two lives And somehow they could meet
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Just a Couple Turns Lest these words remain unspoken nets will catch, escape hatches will open 'cause way beyond the love you knew I live on watch over you Butterflies, white feather signs I’m floating Rainbows up, pennies dropped trust I'm showing that way beyond the love you knew I live on watch over you The endless days muddling through the haze I’m the second wind you breathe in through the darkest nights when your mind takes flight I’m the star to guide your landing The world of time where all things end is dying a just a couple turns we're reuniting
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Itemhood David Walker you and me, we're an item we're a vessel on a hot pink sea gales of affection pushing you and me in the tempest of a living thing how you flitter about my thoughts i dive into your eyes and i get lost you and me, we're an item we're the snow up on the mountain now avalanche of kisses coming down tender afterglow whirling glitter on the mountaintop you delve in and break the permafrost only for this i wake honey, i'm but your heart to break we're but a star in a grateful night sky no more my heart ought do than to be one with you than to be one
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Two Wooden Matches Two wooden matches burned out by the bed A picture of a pine tree and a pack of cigarettes Molly’s reading Melville Melissa paints her nails The black bird out the window studies the details And the tea has long grown cold And their blood runs so slow Molly’s dog Potato sleeping like a stone Melissa humming quiet reaches for her phone There’s the light on the carpet making funny shapes And the way we can sometimes lean into our mistakes Molly begins to drift away As the light goes to grey

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This album was written and recorded in February of 2020 as part of the RPM Challenge. Folks were given the prompt of writing a song about a couple. However they might interpret that. I'm not the boss of anyone. Especially not my cat, Coco. She is six pounds of pure will.

If anyone actual does spend money on this though, realistically, no one buys music any more, all proceeds will be donated to the SPCA. We can all get with that, right?

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released March 2, 2020

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