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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
- 2
La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
- 24
La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 28
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
- 30
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 31
La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
- 36
La Dispute - A Poem
- 37
La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
- 38
La Dispute - Autofiction detail
- 39
La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
- 40
La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
- 44
La Dispute - Fairmount
- 45
La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
- 48
La Dispute - Four
- 49
La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
- 50
La Dispute - How I Feel
- 51
La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
- 54
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 55
La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
- 56
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 57
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 58
La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
- 59
La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
- 60
La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 62
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 63
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 64
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 65
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 66
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 67
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 68
La Dispute - Seven
- 69
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
- 70
La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Six
- 72
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 73
La Dispute - Ten
- 74
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 76
La Dispute - The Field
- 77
La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
- 78
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 80
La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
- 84
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 85
La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
- 88
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
- 90
La Dispute - You Ascendant
Only Everything Below
La Dispute
don't believe your ears nor trust your mouth
i think that every feeble doubt-soaked promise of trust
had a mind to leave you out in the rain
with your hands to the train tracks,
pulling the ropes with your teeth but you're too weak
and you're too tired, child,
lay down--i will tear every ghost from your dream
(oh king, you've stepped on the wrong crack)
rejoice! it is beating still
still strong. still thundering onward.
it turns it's palm up, lifts it's voice up, speaks, says,
"i don't know."
he speaks with the speed in the clench of a bear trap,
softly rebuilding the castles he'd kept. says,
"there is grace in a steeple collapsing."
straightens the sheets on the bed where they'd slept
thinking his love was as passive as flowers
planted in a garden of lies in her chest
says, "there is grace in a steeple collapsing"
pointing the calm in his eyes to the west.
to valinor! where love was sent on airplane wings
to shake and be shaken.
still, the flowers open as she passes, and the birds they sing to greet her
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she heaves blood.
though she -
though she -
though she heaves blood!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
oh, there is grace in a steeple collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsed.
collapsing!
collapsing!
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
there is grace in a steeple collapsing.
and he said "boy get your things together,
make them wood and make them stone,
and we'll build you a house.
there isn't ever any shelter anymore."
