The Origin Of American Breakfast

from It Was Dark, It Was Raining, And Nobody Helped Me by Harrison Watters

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lately
ive been having these
dreams where i am tortured brutally by my best friends
and im watching all my fingers get chopped off
but i felt love again

ashamed
ashamed of being
a morning person because everyone loves to sleep in
they all miss out on the colors of the early day
and i keep them all to myself

and the housewives leave the husbands to all their cruelties
playing poker games for sinus pills and jewelry
while im exploring all the life of the wet spring
and i made it out alive just by thinking
yet so remarkably few make it as far as me

and you sit quietly
and groove to the songs your fed
and act normal

corporations have made us blind
the lack of sensation is somewhat divine
but they know what theyre doing
yeah they know what theyre doing
they sell you bags to pull over your own head
they sell you bags to put over your own heads

so you cant see
the injustice of our economic system
so quad-annually youll vote red or blue
who has the courage to ignore this illusion
and stop buying fireworks for Dependence Day
and a turkey for Thankstakings Day
and toys for all the children on Christless day
and rubber masks on Hallows Today

post an online indication of our interests
and crop out all the symptoms of our sickness
and share it with your friends so that theyre jealous
at tantalizing photographs of your everyday
i hear about it endlessly all week
yet breaking out of prison makes such a fool of me

and you just take stock
but do you have the strength to pick up and
move those boxes around
or turn your attention to the
label on the shit you throw in the trash everyday
or put down the phone and expose the real thoughts in that brain
or keep faking those feelings of pleasure you will surely
rot away in your own time you shall come to regret it
regret it

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from It Was Dark, It Was Raining, And Nobody Helped Me, released June 24, 2015

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