Saturday, August 9, 2008

If You Live Long Enough

You get a few answers here and there
Sometimes it takes twenty three years
to learn the name of some punk band you
had a mix tape of as a kid
and knew the words but had no liner notes
and no one you've asked since remembered
were too high
passed along
recorded from speaker to speaker
bad edits
way before the internet or cd-r's.
Out of left field
in some smoky basement speakeasy
you learn this from a kid spinning vinyl
who was in diapers
when you considered angry cool.

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