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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 - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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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 - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - 35
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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 - Edit Your Hometown
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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 - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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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 - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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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 - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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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 - 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 - 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 - See You In Vancouver
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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 - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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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 Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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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
Objects In Space
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Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none
Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored
Out of context and then considered it
First the whole picture, then everything individually
Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable
One object then another and then the next
And I wondered what they meant there
If they meant anything still
Found notes
Camping supplies
A book you bought in the desert
“Identifying wildflowers”
Pictures from vacations
From parties
Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops
On that road trip out west
Objects
Everything itself
And then memory
All of it laid out there
From the dining room
The living room
The hallway and the basement and the kitchen
From that room we called the office
But never used
Even the bathroom
Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context
And I sat there for hours
Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room
Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe
There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made
Keepsakes, pictures, letters, ordinary objects, all collected there
A memorial
And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones
All the things you see there but don’t understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly
Invoke someone’s reality when there together in that place in that way out of context
And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw
Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere
Those things
In boxes
Side of the road
Attic maybe
All these things that push and pull me through history
To places I once was, places I might’ve gone, places I ended up going
Postcards
Ticket stubs from one thing or another
A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine
Phone cards and old phones
A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging
That cycles of the moon print
Photos
Old boots of mine
Put them in boxes
And I sat there for hours
In the living room first
Then in the dining room
Moving things around
Picking things up and seeing where they took me
To what place in history
What moment on our timeline
Where we were, where I was, where I thought we’d end up
In this house or on the highway
Driving somewhere near christmas
In the desert or anywhere else
And I put them in boxes
