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when I come in on my down days
I open up the door
and spend five minutes watching the sunlight
waiting for the shadow of the end to cross my floor
I stack glasses
and I wash tabletops
and I listen
to the songs I wanna hear when that bomb drops

it's a flash of light and then nothing
or an earthquake and then horrible pain
hostile alien gods
or a new plague
or just a pretty big rock at the right time and place
or the internet goes down
and down is where it stays
and we lose it, one by one
I see it happen in a million ways

more often though its heart attack and vine at nine am
and I'm thinking on days spent sleeping stoned
as my regulars come in
tom the most begotten son
sings gunpowder burlseque
and I feel the spark of that organ hit
the shockwave mutters through my chest

maybe everything up and over flows
with pouring biblical rain
or maybe yellowstone finally blows
and things everywhere just slowly go gray

when I come in on my down days
I see it happen in a million ways

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from Short Songs for the End of the World, released August 10, 2018

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