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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
- 3
La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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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 - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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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 - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
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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 - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Poem
- 40
La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
- 42
La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fairmount
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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
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - Future Wars
- 55
La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
- 56
La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
- 57
La Dispute - How I Feel
- 58
La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
- 59
La Dispute - Last Blues
- 60
La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
- 61
La Dispute - Objects In Space
- 62
La Dispute - One
- 63
La Dispute - Only Everything Below
- 64
La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
- 65
La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
- 66
La Dispute - Saturation Diver
- 67
La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
- 68
La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
- 69
La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
- 70
La Dispute - Seven
- 71
La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
- 72
La Dispute - Six
- 73
La Dispute - Stay Happy There
- 74
La Dispute - Steve
- 75
La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
- 76
La Dispute - Ten
- 77
La Dispute - The Castle Builders
- 78
La Dispute - The Child We Lost
- 79
La Dispute - The Field
- 80
La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
- 82
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
- 86
La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
- 87
La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
- 90
La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
Five
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most repeat the same theme over and over again, it's
as if they were trying to refine what seems so strange
and off and important to them, it's done by everybody
because each must work out what is before them
over and over again because
that is their personal tiny miracle
like now as like before and before I have been listening to symphony after
symphony from this radio
makes me realize that certain people now long dead were able to
transgress graveyards
and traps and cages and bones and limbs
in tiny rented rooms I was struck by miracles
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men (they) drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big winners
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.
but sometimes I think about
it.
there must be a way.
surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it has kept the rope from my throat
maybe it will loosen
yours
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else
fills.
