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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 - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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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 - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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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 - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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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
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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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 - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Five
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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 - I See Everything
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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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 - One
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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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 - Six
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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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 Last Lost Continent
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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 - Three
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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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 - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
I Shaved My Head
La Dispute
I left the water running
I watched my hair block the drain
And on the bathroom's flooding ground
Built no ark for myself
I longed for end times coming
I understood what it meant
To need to kill to reset
This stranger standing reflected
With my old image blending
Inside the mirror before me
The death of self portended by
All the years that I spent closing my eyes
To try to change what I'd become now in life
To die and start again
I fixed my eyes on the light above
The level rising
And let it swallow me whole
All gaps from floor to ceiling closed
Up and onto my neck
The steady water flowing
Then climbing over my head
I shut them tight to accept
As if in amber suspended
Both arms and legs extended
The pressure bending the glass
Then shattered out and down I went
Forces pulling to the surface of earth
Like some raptured body played in reverse
To start and die again
Two summers past
At the bathroom sink and standing
Shirtless cutting my beard
You came in to sit and talk
I watched you watch in the mirror
Brought the trimmer grinning up to my head
Said: Hey I'd never have to pay to get my hair cut again
Nervous laugh
Said: You wouldn't
Interrupted when the trimmer lowered
Fistfuls of hair falling softly down
To the floor before you
And you cried for a minute when I did
Like a child who saw their father for the first time
With a shaven face
A subtle change
A sudden stranger
Made and then betrayed
The shape turned unfamiliar
First I thought you were scared
That I could never grow it back again
Now I see at least six months passed
Since you'd recognized me
A decade spent dissociating
Backwards from the past
Inside alive and laughing
Still
A minor change in desperation
A minor change in desperation
The mirrored shape my bent reflection made
Shaved my head to force a change
To be un-recognized
