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good’s not good as it was anymore, your jawbone pulled out and laid on the floor. the pay rate is high. it meets all your needs. at night, you walk out and light up the streets.

the dust, it gets all over your skin. it won’t come off, so you wash it again. these days, you’re tired of losing friends you don’t know, and you’re tired of the glow.

the grit in your teeth, the taste of the paint—how lucky you’d be if those were the worst things! the leak of the wounds, the holes in your face—even you don’t recognize yourself much these days.

you don’t look like you in old photographs taken only months or weeks in the past. you hate the way you’re changing fast, and you know that you really hate the glow.

shine for a moment. shine for a day. shine for the last time in your favorite way. shine for an evening, in town, on a date. shine on your deathbed. light up the place. shine for your lover. shine for your friends. shine till the morning when the evening ends. shine for the thrill of it and for your own sake, for your bones that are breaking and for ruined x-rays.

does anyone think there’s a point anymore? you’ve won all the games through the darkroom doors. oh, where is the glory? and the effort or war? you don’t know, but you’re dying from the glow.

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from Songs for Ruined X​-​Rays, released June 26, 2020

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