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It All Shuts Off (Explicit)

from Posterity Measures (2018) by Brian Dickens

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Once was night where I sat behind my eyes and I felt around inside for a darker shade of truth. And not just the kind that I feel so much is mine but the type that you can find once you stop losing your cool and you rest in it instead. Try to feel welcome in your own head. Seek to mute the ticking of your clock and quit giving a fuck that it all shuts off.

    Once saw myself on a Pennsylvania porch, picking my phone to receive some bitter news from my brother back home- says this veteran we know and we love left his soul and is heading for his tomb. And I hung up and cried in that dawning night,  wondering if when he finally died he took one big last breath as if to cough, and said “I don’t give a fuck that it all shuts off”.

Once just for kicks, gave my Nana a lift for a casino trip that I hated every bit of. But I confess, I don’t regret that mess even though she was crude, oh so awfully rude. Since in three short months in she was gone, leaving so much to think on. Echoing question doesn’t stop: did she give too much of a fuck that it all shuts off?

    Once had a winter where I found the fuel for a mortal inferno that burnt off my hair as I was counseling kids on the overnight shift, I compared my concerns to their more real affairs and I saw myself to be quite the fool as I chaperoned their boarding school. Put my palm to my face and I thought, "why do I give a fuck that it all shuts off?

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from Posterity Measures (2018), released November 7, 2018

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