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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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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 - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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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 - The Castle Builders
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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 Letter
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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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 - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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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 - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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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 - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
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La Dispute - Last Blues
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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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
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - Untitled
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
The Surgeon And The Scientist
La Dispute
This is science, this is progress.
And don't pretend these are heartfelt words, we are
Children dressed as surgeons but disturbed by the sight of our scars. And now we carry scalpels to trace the scarring resting somewhere on the line between my house,
Your heart and into your home.
Where you lay sleeping like a ceiling fan in winter, gently turning as the wind reaches its fingers through the window
Just to hold you, like i held you. Pressed like a rose between my fingers or like stones i keep in pockets meant to weigh me underwater.
These scars will fade away but never disappear, my dear.
We'll raise our fists like lightning to rods to god and
If he strikes us down,
Then he strikes us down.
But first, let him hear us speak:
We are like the legacy of thunderstorms we watched and swore in doorways, "we will never be the same again."
I can feel you healing and i hate it,
(Like a harpist without hands you only bang the strings
You used to love to touch so much)
To hear the dissonance drain violently and then dissolve
Like all the songs i sang but never once could make you smile.
My god, i would kill to make you smile.
And reach out to my hands, soft and frail, to make good on the love that you swear still exists, and still thrives
Though we've buried our bodies in blood (and old lies,
Like, "i'm fine" and "you look so much better than him"
But don't trust the surgeon with your heart,
She's drunk and sips from poison cups, and
Don't you trust the scientist,
He says "life-is-like-a-wineglass" as he spills his drink
Like secrets
All across your dress and says:
"My dear, i must confess, i never thought you ever knew what love was like for real.
I never thought you needed me.")
