I remember
the day they took down the climbing wall
at the centre
of the Dick's Sporting Goods at the Freehold Mall.
A crowd had gathered,
and rattled off their rights,
with their tanks and their banners,
believe you me it was a terrible sight.
I can see the defeat
in my mom's posture
and the angle of her feet
from the last time she lost to...
to the parti-coloured candies
of those lazy Passaic County moms.
Where I've been broken up with
three or four times by flip phone.
I've trapped myself
into an ever-tightening series of cardboard boxes
in hopes of
one day becoming a black hole.
But all it did was
upset the judicial process
and leave a faint smell of plasma in my home.
And that's why
I say
I failed
at being
a
no
bod
y.
Twitchy, effects-heavy post-punk grooves give way to psychedelic surf-rock delirium on the Toronto quartet's dreamy-yet-doomy second LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 25, 2024