Is there any hope for us, or are the rumors true?
Are we just the mulch and kindling that accrues?
Can we recover from this?
I've seen expressions in department stores.
I've smelled regression wafting up from these shores.
This is not a celebration of slipping through some crack.
This is sloth and devastation and we're the resulting trash.
Count all your fingers tonight.
And believe what you find!
(I'm sick of making small talk in this rotting chowline.)
Can we recover?
We cover our heads and run for the gutter!
Toby Keith's horses and Toby Keith's men
finally put us all in our place.
It's a wonderful hug when there's so much MORE to love,
when there's steaks and hearts jammed in your face.
This is the fucking slop line and we're scratching with our hooves.
How much of evolution must we finally disprove?
Count all your fingers tonight.
I can't believe what we find.
Can we recover?
We cover our heads and we run for the gutter!
Dear Mother,
I'm sorry. There was nowhere left to run.
We fought and we fought until our bullets ran out,
and they took us one by one.
Dear Mother,
Im sorry. We had just barely begun.
This will be the last letter from your only son.
Yeah I do not believe!
Recover as one...
Recovering The Opposable Thumb
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[Untitled] \ "I'll Take What's In The Box, Monty" 100 Resolutions 106 South 3AM QVC Shopping Spree Hangover A Boring Story A Guided Tour Of Chicago A Toast A Wishful Puppeteer Abracadaver Acheron River Alert The Audience! All The Week An Evening Of Extraordinary Circumstance Another Boring Story Are You There, Margaret? It's Me, God Asa Phelps Is Dead Beautiful Things Beyond The Embarrassing Style Boatless Booze Cruise (Part 1) Brickwall Views Chapter 13: The Hero Appears Chicago Is Burning ... Criminal Cut It Up Detention Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile Drunken Thweets Eighteen Inches Faintly Falling Ashes Fireflies Ghost Stories Great Lakes/Great Escapes Heaven Help Me Here Comes The Neighbourhood Hesitation Station Hey, What Time Is 'Pensacola: Wings Of Gold' On An... Hey, What Time Is "Pensacola: Wings Of Gold" On An... Hey, What Time Is "Pensacola: Wings Of Gold&q... Intransit Introduction (The Ramblin' Boys Of Pleasure Sing T... Jumping The Shark Kevin Costner's Casino Key To The City Light Breathing (Me And Martha Plimpton In A Fancy... Like A Record Player Lose Your Illusion 1 Metropole Minute Navigating The Windward Passage Nebraska Necrotism: Decanting The Insalubrious (Cyborg Midn... Never Fade Away Northside, The L&L, And My Number Of Crappy Ap... Northside, The L&L, And My Number Of Crappy Apartm... October Blood Old Dogs Never Die On With The Show One Day, We're All Gonna Weigh 400 Lbs Outro (Hobo Reprise) Overheated Porno And Snuff Films Presenting: The Dancing Machine Quincentuple Your Money Requiem Revisited Right As Rain (Part 2) Sixteen Hours Smokestacks Take One Down And Pass It Around The Corpses Of Our Motivations The Devil's Takin' Names The Disaster March The First Eviction Notice The Last One The March Of The Elephants The Old-Timer's 2x4 The Profiteers The Rabbit And The Rooster The Ramblin' Boys Of Pleasure The Raw And Searing Flesh The Revisionist The YMCA Down There's No Place Like A Stranger's Floor These Pigs Seem To Be Getting The Best Of Me Traditional Turnstiles Uptown Free Radio Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been You Are Here Your Gravest Words
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