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Deforestation

from The Middle Ages, Vol II by Tyler Shipley

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This is a true story about a kid I met a few years ago.

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I know a young man, I worry about him. He's got a youtube channel and a mental health condition. he reached out to me when I was thirty-three, I was ten years older and a figure of authority. He asked if I would go with him to "pimps and pumps." It's a club night but I don't go to clubs and I don't think its a good scene for him, he doesn't know how to relate to women. They're just objects that he wants to have, when he approaches them, he scares them half to death. But he's got a sweet side that comes out in song, yeah, he wrote one about deforestation. And his dad interrupted him at the end, but it's part of the charm: he still posted it. Well, I tried to help him, half-heartedly. I said, "your songs are really great," and we had a coffee. I said some platitudes, and that I had to go, and he began an impression of Al Pacino. Al Pacino said he hated Tyler Shipley and he was gonna fuck him up royally. Well I was torn between being sad and scared so I severed our relations but he's still out there and he needs a few solid friends to keep his shit together when he goes off his meds. But a couple friends can't change the world and the way it teaches young men that they get to have young girls. When I heard about Elliot Rodger, I thought of this kid and I shuddered.

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from The Middle Ages, Vol II, released September 2, 2017

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Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.

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