Feminist Lithographer
from Former Lives by Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals
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free radicals / lease Cadillacs / take sabbaticals / drink sazeracs
good citizens / lithium batteries / take Ritalin / go to matinees
post-colonials / invent dystopias / act ceremonial / deny their phobias
new critics / in their citadels / drive Honda Civics / take sleeping pills
Homo sapiens / in mass hysteria / build football stadiums / and rest areas
and something here isn’t quite right, think it might be the water
ao lock up your libraries, let loose your daughters.
Sing a song for your great-grandmother, she went there before.
Let us be the ones who will walk through that door.
old historians / sear plastic hairnets / date neo-Victorians / Play bass clarinets
perennial favorites / in diaspora / elect their saviours / bake Alaska
a hotel lobby / West 23rd / a great love affair / feft without a word
midwestern poets / we do not celebrate/ are still inchoate / may reincarnate
so let us make of our lives something stranger than fiction.
Let our hearts be fore’er tempest-tossed.
Let us saturate lines with our symptoms, our signs, our addictions.
Let us be the ones on whom nothing is lost.
feminist lithographer / telephone directory / great stenographers / of the 20th century
good citizens / lithium batteries / take Ritalin / go to matinees
post-colonials / invent dystopias / act ceremonial / deny their phobias
new critics / in their citadels / drive Honda Civics / take sleeping pills
Homo sapiens / in mass hysteria / build football stadiums / and rest areas
and something here isn’t quite right, think it might be the water
ao lock up your libraries, let loose your daughters.
Sing a song for your great-grandmother, she went there before.
Let us be the ones who will walk through that door.
old historians / sear plastic hairnets / date neo-Victorians / Play bass clarinets
perennial favorites / in diaspora / elect their saviours / bake Alaska
a hotel lobby / West 23rd / a great love affair / feft without a word
midwestern poets / we do not celebrate/ are still inchoate / may reincarnate
so let us make of our lives something stranger than fiction.
Let our hearts be fore’er tempest-tossed.
Let us saturate lines with our symptoms, our signs, our addictions.
Let us be the ones on whom nothing is lost.
feminist lithographer / telephone directory / great stenographers / of the 20th century
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from Former Lives,
released May 19, 2016
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Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals Seattle, Washington
Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals is a six-piece folk-apocalypse band from Seattle, WA, featuring cello, violin, theremin, bucket drumming, and four-part harmonies, not to mention heartfelt songs about love, life, and the end of the world. DL&PI has been bringing their cacophonous blend of indie rock, folk, punk, country, and jazz to the barrooms and bedrooms of the Puget Sound since 2012. ... more
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