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brief interviews with suffering artists

by mrs. hopewell

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1.
a phantom ball trick and a summer smile "we'll get 'em next year!" was october's sentiment but jackie, where'd you go? why'd you let your anger get the best of you? don't let dimaggio or red barber know that your burdens got too heavy let the sym-phony that set brooklyn free ripple through your blood tonight you bleed red same as the other men
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Alas! Poor notebook! I knew you well. Hold my thoughts how abhorred they were. bridge into the river: say hello to Valhalla for me. We'll meet again don't know where don't know when but i know we'll meet again some sunny day meet me on the porch we'll joke and kick old times over cigarettes. discuss Borges through the caffeine shivers until we find ourselves in another day like our fathers we're just like our mothers fifty's not so far away Alas! Poor Patricia! I knew her well. This anaphora leaves vacant space for all i wish i'd said. where are those lips i kissed so oft? and where is my sense of "me"? We'll meet again don't know where don't know when but i know we'll meet again some sunny day
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you’re lost i’m sure that’s all you’re really good for playing victim as though you really were one it’s tough i’m sure to have to go to rite aid oh no you poor thing you’re always having back pains if you know where your money is go ahead invest it if you think he's not a fighter go ahead and test it it's hard i bet to always be a martyr your father always had been but never really was well guess what i think: i think if you were educated instead of spouting nonsense you wouldn't be so dreadful
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passage to india from the shores of israel you told me forster was a beach read but now i'll drown my self in the proselytizing coasts and put this squabble to rest and you'll sing: OoOoOoO what a way to go!
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I went to Wichita today and I wrote another letter another girl, another letter I think I’ll send it this time They said my name today the one that I created it’s the moment I’ve awaited now I’m finally on the news I went to church today and I wrote another letter, another girl, another letter I’ll write you one more time I went to jail today and now, Paula, you’ll be better another girl, another letter we all run out of time
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Underneath Fenway lights you once told me "everything is falling apart" beer in one hand and vial in the other i said "I guess you have to suffer for art" and you said "Oh." Took a hit from your bowl your sleeves fell down saw you had a couple of scars "the cats scratched me last week, I jumped a fence last night, got my arm caught between a couple of cars" and I said "Oh." (Burning, burning at the twilight, kill myself to know I'm still alive/Drinking, drinking in the morning, fuck my life up know I'm still alive)
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woke up in a basement in a hospital in maine stitches in your sides claw marks on your belly nurse from the other room he says "it’s self inflicted” why’d you want to die? please write back soon dear friend i write you back with impetus: remorse not for me for you and all the shit you went through no longer in the basement they had to let me go i’ve thrown out all my razors i thought that you should know i thank you for your presence you were what got me through auf wiedersehen my friend to the boy that you once knew
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FORGET YOUR HOPES THEY WERE WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE forget your backyards forget your house forget your home you're with me now
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mrs. hopewell's first album. Originally released May 22nd, 2014 now being reissued physically for the first time on Human Sounds Records.

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released January 16, 2015

all songs written, recorded, and performed by Chris Nicastro. Chorus vocals on "nubble" and lyrics on "bill thomas killman" by Ashley Pecorelli.

-"lucid dream" borrows lyrics from Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again"
-"gundam" contains a sample from Jean-Luc Godard's film "Breathless"
-"dante" borrows lyrics from Clive James' translation of "The Divine Comedy"

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