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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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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 - Rhodonite And Grief
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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 - A Letter
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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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 - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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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 - Nine
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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 - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - A
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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 - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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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 - 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 - 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
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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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 - No One Was Driving The Car
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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 - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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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 - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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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 Castle Builders
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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 - 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 - 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
Twas The Night Before Christmas
La Dispute
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that st nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and i in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window i flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be st nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!
"now dasher! now, dancer! now, prancer and vixen!
On, comet! on, cupid! on, on donner and blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and st nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, i heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As i drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney st nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.
His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And i laughed when i saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know i had nothing to dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But i heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
"happy christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
