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I, sometimes, I sleep
"Oh, I'm alright, I'm alright, everything's alright with me"
Embellished whispers about you, while I deny what's in front of me
Base fantasy bears base reality

Meanwhile, bored and suburbed
Six hours stuck waist up, riflin' through the cupboards
What comes next? You have to ask?
Snort assorted shavings culled from one another's ass

Huff your own bad breath, man, eat some rocks
(Tomorrow, hair preened, pants pleated, white teeth flossed)

Sometimes, sometimes I sleep
Eyelids provide the backdrop to so many awful things
Unspeakable, unwelcome, imagined
A slow and steady mantra of "I haven't, oh, I haven't"

Oh, I haven't seemed to manage, I confess
To open my mouth without making a fucking mess

Explanation:

In the punk community, support and understanding of mental illness is often subordinated to the fetishization or romanticization of mental illness. To wit: if you can dig a scrawny, mid-twenties art kid taking a microphone to the forehead, you can dig standing by those struggling around you.

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from NNT#051 The Bug - Humbug; or, So Many Awful Things EP, released June 1, 2017

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