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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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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 - Woman (Reading)
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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 - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - A Letter
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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 - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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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 - Fairmount
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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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 - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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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 - Last Blues
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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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 - 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 - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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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 - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - Three
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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
Stay Happy There
La Dispute
Spent lovesick and swollen on
Mornings mincing garlic on the counter by the sink
If I could hit the instant replay on only every good day
Would any of it catch you by surprise?
When you say, “something is missing now”
That’s what came back to me
Normal mornings like that set the knife down and forget where I’d left it
Making breakfast
Put coffee on the stove then scour every counter for the knife
Don’t be shy
Don’t be kind
Somewhere snow collects and bends the boughs of pines
But doesn’t it seem a bit wasteful to you
To throw away all of the time we spent perfecting our love in close quarters and confines?
Isn’t it wasteful?
And I am terrified that it doesn’t feel painful to me yet
Somewhere on top of the high rise there’s a woman on the edge of a building at the ledge
And traffics backing up on 35
It’s alright
I will fix whatever is not the sweetness in your eyes
Just sit down
Please
Sit down
Here
At the table and we’ll talk
Somewhere televisions light up in the night
I know things weren’t right
Maybe we were never cut out for the midwest life
Maybe we’d have done much better on a coast
There are certain things I doubt we’ll ever know
I know you were getting tired of my drinking
I guess I was never cut out for the coke scene
You were worried I would end up like your father and
Tired of the smoke and somewhere the wind blows
Somewhere a storm touches down north in Hudsonville
Somewhere the coffee starts to boil on the stove and
Somewhere the wind blows
Somewhere the river levels finally getting low
Somewhere I’m up past dawn till
Somewhere you live here still
Somewhere you’re already gone
Somewhere a radio is playing in a living room
Says the city lacks the funds to fix the bridge
Somewhere the deer are overrun, so they’re introducing wolves back on the ridge
And from here in the kitchen
I can hear the neighbors in the alley hanging linens
And the men collect the trash bins in the street
You’re speaking to me but I can’t understand you
The coffee is burning and
All of the times that we spent
That road trip out west
Through desert for the rest stops the kitsch we both collect
That winter the whole weekend we huddled by the stove
The cabin I had rented
The unexpected snow
That visit for christmas
On television binges
We’ll see friends in Brooklyn
Drive south to Richmond
There’s traffic on the bridge
A woman on the ledge
And everywhere the wind
Everything is happening at once
