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FLEETING MOMENTS IN THE NIGHT OF A LOUNGE SINGER

from The American Rescue Plan by Bill White

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(drunk in the cocktail lound, mumbling to himself)

my bowels moved twice
one time orange
one time white
both came feom the same rump
i named one biden
the other trump


(the lounge singer)

play whatever you want to play
nobody is listening anyway
sing whatever you want to sing
nobody hears a god damned thing

wrap a sound around your head
turn it up and go to bed
play it loud play it deep
you're living in the land of sleep

its just a certain kind of noise
like santa playing with his toys
when its time for birds to die
in which direction do they fly?

to covers in an irish bar?
or woodwinds in a falling star?
aquariums of singing fish
turn off the lights and make a wish

nothing flat and nothing sharp
when the devil plays the sacred harp
the sound you are surrounded in
is just the marching of the tin

white water drunks on a crashing river
while sober voices make her shiver
to be no more what she has been
that bird will never fly again

the hour has come a song will stir
you from the nest of hummingbirds
and when your daddy tucks you in
ask him to sing that song again

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from The American Rescue Plan, released July 27, 2023
written and performed by bill white

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