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Alcohol in the 1920s

from Quit by Other Families

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lyrics

All strung out on toast and jam
all strung out on
toast and jam all
Strung out on
Toast and jam all strung out on
Toast and jam.


We will speak of our years open as crystals, a prism
shining through light from the shutter.

There was prohibition, new dances, and the advent of
modern movie magic. The riots,

the smugglers, rum runners, the familiar beat of their
bone-bending wheels on our cobbled street dropping parcels,

we could dance or we could sleep to that rhythm.
Men were better then,

people said, clean shaven and up. Your lover
a person that you loved.

We were drunk on the musician’s breath between notes,
me on your space between kneecap and hip,

that little street of the body,
and your jazz music.

The trip into the city, which you loved
and missed.

The train like us, had its gravity, an attraction
you followed and fell into

like the beds of our husband’s best friends.
It moved in space, and left it

between itself and the tunnel wall. The ember of moon
moves forward into the tube of its eclipse.

Hands, holding cigarettes, come out of the gutters.
Women wear feathers, men thin moustaches they could

have drawn on but for their dimension.
Sweating the lip-stick off of their skin.

Darling,
keep your teeth in while I’m telling the story.


The animals are waiting for
God the animals
are waiting for God the animals are waiting
for God the animals
are waiting
for God

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from Quit, released February 25, 2012

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