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I was scared of what I saw when I kept watching,
but every appetite is shame, not hunger.
Blow out the candle just to smell the smoke.
What wicked hand will reach out of this painting?
What whetted palette threatens to make another?
Those dead eyes are the deadliest.

Come stare me stiff and scare me into stillness.
Come run your veil across me and rip-flip it.
Come drag my lip a minute in your tooth-touch.
Come slap out of my hand all understanding.
Come plunge into my chest the throbbing darkness.
Come plunge into my chest, the throbbing darkness.

It’s honestly okay to remember how sad you can feel.
Look at pictures of her. The subject gets blurred:
there are thighs, there are lines, there are lights in the sky;
keep those irises peeled.

These things she screams at me:
“I am without inbetweenness.
I am here for endings and beginnings,
not scraps of scraps of scraps of scraps of scraps of weakness
and the forgottenness of breathing out just to breathe in again
and out and in again and out against the wind.”

Come stare me stiff and scare me into stillness.
Come run your veil across me and rip-flip it.
Come drag my lip a minute in your tooth-touch.
Come slap out of my hand all understanding.
Come plunge into my chest the throbbing darkness.
Come plunge into my chest, the throbbing darkness.

Well, I heard on that same wind she’s a doctor now.
Well, that makes sense —
she was always telling me I’m sick, and how sick.

I still, sometimes, accidentally
arrange her face in a heap on my plate,
but I’m not hungry anymore.
I know I said I wasn’t before,
but I’m not hungry anymore.
I know I said I wasn’t before,
but I’m not hungry anymore.
I know I said I wasn’t before,
but I’m not hungry anymore.
I know I said I wasn’t before,
but what’s a fall, what’s a fall without a floor?

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from Behold and Begone, released November 4, 2022

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Lyric-driven post-punk from Portland.

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