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lighten up!

from creature comforts by a small bird

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Moments of relief are hard to find;
This face looks almost real this time.
Maybe today there’ll be no gasps,
Or frightened screams, or heart attacks.
But every footstep on cement
Loosens the bolts and frays the threads
That keep me together, that keep me together, that keep my head.

Don’t know what makes them so ill at ease:
The patchwork skin or mismatched teeth.
Uncanny always close at hand;
I made somebody cry again.

I’d be sent to Roswell for inspection
If any agent dared to risk infection.
My survival is predicated on fear.

I try to lighten up,
It seems one billion volts wasn’t near enough.
Still, I should lighten up,
And I’m trying, I’m trying.

Town made up of apprehensive grins
Waiting for me to finally give in,
Let myself crumbled down to dust,
And be shipped back to wherever I came from.
And many years after my death,
No remnants of my efforts left,
Just some vague anecdotes about
The ghoul who used to haunt the town.

And my spirit will spill right down the driveway,
Run with plastic drugstore bags along the highway
Like a pile of trash for a party that no one had.

I’m already breaking up,
But I don’t think it matters if I’ve had enough.
Only one way to it and it’s to get tough,
And I’m trying, I’m trying.

Call me a malcontent—
I’ve gotten worse, and I’ll get it again.
Self-Sufficiency may be my only defense,
And I’m trying.
I’m trying.
I’m trying.

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from creature comforts, released July 2, 2021

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a small bird Chicago, Illinois

a small bird is the solo project of a queer trans artist based in Chicagoland.

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