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I'm gasoline-driving on into a future we may or may not see
Keep the dial steady on an unsustainable teleology
I don't know how to write a black-pilled song and
I never want to mow our goddamn lawn
but clover and native plants
are never gonna hold the shoreline back, okay
Will we be okay?

Modern millenarian
waiting on The Big End
two degrees Celsius
whole world in the deep end
but the truth is the Tragedy
is never distributed equally
the End of the World happens everyday
depending where you're looking
depending where you're looking
Will we be okay?

Walter Benjamin's 'Angel of History'
moonwalking forward
staring back at
the sea of defeat
the fragments of losing
the failures repeated
the self-same refusal of All (hope & doubt)
the piling wreckage of All (hope & doubt)
the endless catastrophe of (hope & doubt)

This thing will not collapse in a day
it'll gradually decay
rotting from the inside
as things just stop working
We'll privatize our public goods away
and gig-ify the labor that we do to get paid
bureaucratize all functions of the state
make a thousand-year waiting list to get into the country
'No chicken for any pot!'
but for every engineering student; two dozen jobs
making a new way to harass and surveil
or maybe make a smarter bomb
'No chicken for any pot!'
but for nine of ten people; a shitty lot
a desperate sequence of desperate days
from here until eternity
And even the people for whom the burden is light
will find that in time their lives will destabilize
But always there will be the belief
that fate is fair
and you get what you've got coming

As long as we're okay
As long as it doesn't catch up with you,
catch up with me (yeah!)

Thirty-three
feeling comfy
Live the Dream
Get What's Coming

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from Patti in the Dining Car, released December 15, 2023

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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