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it's a beautiful day in june, twenty degrees with a breeze, but I'm indoors
watching a show about a murder that takes place in iceland in a small town in a winter storm
I'm stuck in here with the cats while we wait for the poison spray in the rest of the house to dry
cos I was getting bit by bed bugs and I was sick of it and I didn't know what to do so I called a guy

the tv show is called trapped and that's how I feel as I watch people through the window walk by
and also in the sense that I've been captive in this house knowing bugs were crawling and biting on me in the night
and further to that I feel trapped by the deadline that's looming for the book I'm trying to write
and sometimes I feel like a prisoner in my body when what I really wanna be is a free-floating mind

I don't wanna get old to get back pain or cancer or dental surgery or shingles or hives
sometimes I hate having to eat I wish I could take a pill and get all my nutrients and vitamins
I had bad smells and discomfort and excessive noise and extreme heat and when my hands are cold as ice
and I joke about carrying a cyanide pill so that if I ever get too old and pained I can quickly end my life

but I know that's stupid and the pleasures of the mind aren't all they're cracked up to be
and to think they exist outside the body is irrationality
sometimes I drop the repressed act and allow myself to just be
and I know you like those moments in me

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from Coral Linus: Memories of the World That Was, released December 23, 2020

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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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