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Damndest

by The Ready Stance

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1.
Where the sprawl meets the suburbs Subdivisions meet the farms Build a hacienda In the style of Escobar In the business early Moving bales from Mexico Medellin eventually Pack figurines with blow Launder in the Caymans Through Geneva, Panama Retire after scrapes with death His partners and the law Late night TV preacher Revelation touches him Reject the past Retain the cash The sinner’s born again RANCHO CRISTO SILOS HIGH CHAPTER, VERSES PAINTED ON THE SIDE RANCHO CRISTO STABLES , POOLS REVERENT REVEREND DIVINE TOOL Call the flock to worship every Sunday in the barn Build a congregation as Donations fill the jar Land across the highway Start construction day and night Less a church, more a city Touchdown Jesus Neon lights
2.
So your high school smile has fallen Down below your knees Coke lines you did don’t have much significance HEY MRS GALANTRO DID THEY TREAT YOU LIKE A MYSTERY GIRL ALL YOUR DIAMONDS AND PEARLS IN YOUR TRAILER PARK WORLD I CAN SEE THE WRECKING BALL Spinning lightly to confuse Now there’s nothing left to use Except your Tired, weathered hands Jan Vincent’s on the tube Longball and retro glow And the canyon facial cream Is running down in the extreme HEY MRS GALANTRO DID THEY TREAT YOU LIKE A MYSTERY GIRL ALL YOUR DIAMONDS AND PEARLS IN YOUR PAPERBACK WORLD I CAN SEE THE WRECKING BALL Spinning lightly to confuse Now there’s nothing left to use
3.
Long Arm 03:09
Should have thought it through Before they left it up to you Last best hope retrograde reality Shanghai commandeer Exploit anger and our fear Pretext of convenience Self-ordained divinity EXTEND THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW CAN’T REACH AS FAR AS WE WOULD FALL WRITING’S ON THE WALL Rile up the rabble with more patriotic prattle Platform any indecency Vilify objection for the sake of our protection Shout down dissension to ensure democracy EXTEND THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW CAN’T REACH AS FAR AS WE WOULD FALL GUNBOAT CONVERSE DIPLOMACY AND IT ALL SEEMED LIKE A BAD DREAM Should have thought it through Before they left it up to you Last gasp for morality
4.
Disgruntled 03:36
For the second time, in as many days light shone Through the walls of my place They’re beaming rays They control me through the phone So I step to the window In Sheepskin chaps a beard of bees Guns drawn And a bone to pick with you NEVER WAS ONE TO GO OVERLOOKED, UNSEEN THEY’LL FIND A LETTER IN MY POCKET EXPLAINING EVERYTHING For the seventh time in as many hours I drove Round the place where you work Counting beans and deciding who stays on Then I burst through the doorway with hair ablaze and a live hand grenade And a bone to pick with you.
5.
Smiley 03:46
Smiley’s got a scar From his earlobe to his lip Recalls exactly how he slipped But Eleanor likes it Makes him look so tough Lucky for her you know It always gets her off HE LIKES IT ROUGH SMILEY And he’s got a stump Where a finger used to be Working the press too carelessly But, she doesn’t mind it Says he’s man enough for her Lucky for both, you know They know what gets them off SHE LIKES IT ROUGH SMILEY
6.
It’s come and you’re gone Final machinations of an overhaul And it breaks our hearts A utopia these years and now it falls apart YOU’RE SO VERY NECESSARY NOW It’s here the worst Amid your speculations on who exits first And who could believe You would be the ones to leave the rest aggrieved All the while—the while you run—to leave You rationalize Some pastoral existence on the Other side And we’ll hope the best But we both know some things never get confessed
7.
Marathon 03:12
He always felt a little awkward asking to check the oil A little meek about his price Plug a tire for you A Dodge Dart pulls in around lunchtime on a Sunday afternoon He nods, hey how you doing And what can I do for you? THEN HIS OWN VOICE ANSWERS BACK FILL IT UP, IF YOU PLEASE HEY—SON OF A BITCH ARE YOU MAKING FUN OF ME? It’s harelip versus harelip Down at the Marathon He’d wipe his wounds and wonder If he had judged him wrong
8.
Real America 03:30
Radio Caller will show the host He’s learned the most A loyal devotee He doesn’t falter each word echoes Prior shows in faithful mimicry DERIDE CONTRIVE THIS REAL AMERICA Radio pundit so smugly boasts he’s coast to coast brand enlightening He only does it so public knows They’re in the throes of such vast conspiracies DERIDE CONTRIVE DIVIDE THIS REAL AMERICA Radio caller wants the host to know They’re simpatico Patriotically
9.
The latest modern marvel Conveyed by fire—steam Swiftest new example Makes port in Queen City Eager Captain crowing Come about— turn upstream Call more black coal for stoking Boiler swollen at the seam Retiring to his stateroom Commotion beckons to the deck Stroll topside witness landfall Well-worn bible at his breast Port of Cincinnati Stands starboard in repose Reverend offers blessings as Colossal boiler blows GOD BLESS THIS SHIP LAST WORDS TO LEAVE HIS MOUTH MOSELLE EXPLODES ELIJAH NORTH GOES FORTH VAULTED, CATAPULTED, DUE SOUTH Among the decking, planks, debris strewn over Southbank sand Remains discovered Unscathed bible in his hand
10.
Try to trace the roots along Melungeon family tree Each branch divides in triad Settler, slave, Cherokee Outcast, exiled miles behind Some seaside colony Legend holds in manifold Dash Turk or Portuguese LITTLE ENGLISH LITTLE DUTCH LITTLE COLORED – JUST A TOUCH LITTLE GIBSON – LITTLE GOINS LITTLE CARMEL IN THE LOINS Carmel, as scripture tells Or confections, just misspelled The name belies implicit lines Lines of ancestry An encampment still, just as before One flashing light- Old general store They say the Musics up and left Left and gone away WASHBURNS MOUNTAIN ROCKY FORK CREEK LAND PROVIDING BOUNTIFULLY HOMESTEAD HERE TO LIVE IN PEACE
11.
Glow 04:33
Gig was academy’s formal Introductions made Eyes drawn, like moth to candle If he may be clichéd THE FIRST TIME EVER SAW HER KNEW LIKE HE’D NEVER KNOWN FIRST TIME HE EVER SAW HER HE WOULD SAY SHE GLOWS Come fall , awaited orbit Gel now underway Strikes then he could grow to adore On come the accolades Eclipse, Dark star obscures Momentary fade to grey In time all would emerge Enhanced by those Beautiful babies

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released June 1, 2012

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