slacking off

by people zoo

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written and recorded 1/19/2019
i've been at school
and that's alright

lyrics

i've been slacking off and i
don't care that much
the hills are always far away and
i like the way they look from here

throw me a bone
watch it appear
harmlessly grown
into shape

i've been looking at things all the
wrong way lately
i've got a box of rocks and i keep
leaving it open
scissors in my middle palm are
wide as angles
hung from a neighboring palm

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released January 20, 2019

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people zoo St. Louis, Missouri

falls asleep in front of trees, fixes batteries on holidays, trembles w/ supreme syrup and lemons, crinkles like flypaper, torn from the ceiling, buttered up baby, known to not see straight, sailing in glass cemeteries til the chancellor arrives, eating syringes out of the plastic, corrugated like iron plating, droll and sensitive to smaller feelings, dancing naked on parade, forgiving salami god ... more

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