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I put a new guitar on the only credit card I hadn't maxed and now I'm walking down to practice the rhythm parts. No job, no home, no heart. Got an hour to kill. Cherry-picked trash hill and a rubbished amp. Watching cars roll off the ramp while the sun sinks low and throws the shadow of the sugar factory across the BQE. Rays bleed through doors of the bars by the shipyard.

I've got a record deal and all the records I can steal from the midnight show on indiepirate radio. Behind the fire sign Emily and Eli are broadcasting live between bites of pad thai. Helicopters turn their searchlights on kids smoking junk in the building sites, and everybody scurries over tractor treads and teddy bear heads. Tomorrow the cranes put the clubhouse to bed.

I've got a show to do. Guess you've got one too. Strike a chord as they nail boards over sheetrock and blue glass. Finger-traced blueprints say here is the car park, here is the internet cafe. I am the werewolf without wherewithal. All ways, no means, manufacturing daydreams. Rain coming down. Nothing but a summer storm.

I put a new guitar on the only credit card that's from Citigroup. I can see their HQ across the Newtown Creek. I've been to Eagle Street. There's a new Duane Reade superstore opening next door to the Polish specialty shop. Hot pierogi and a transit cop. And everybody wants to check out everybody coming out the subway stop. Pop records in a bag and Magnet and Creem. Mr. Contractor, build me a dream. A new continent of earth and fire.

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from I'm Assuming You're All In Bands, released December 10, 2015

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