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Bullet Points, by Jericho Brown

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Bullet Points By Jericho Brown I will not shoot myself In the head, and I will not shoot myself In the back, and I will not hang myself With a trashbag, and if I do, I promise you, I will not do it In a police car while handcuffed Or in the jail cell of a town I only know the name of Because I have to drive through it To get home. Yes, I may be at risk, But I promise you, I trust the maggots Who live beneath the floorboards Of my house to do what they must To any carcass more than I trust An officer of the law of the land To shut my eyes like a man Of God might, or to cover me with a sheet So clean my mother could have used it To tuck me in. When I kill me, I will Do it the same way most Americans do, I promise you: cigarette smoke Or a piece of meat on which I choke Or so broke I freeze In one of these winters we keep Calling worst. I promise if you hear Of me dead anywhere near A cop, then that cop killed me. He took Me from us and left my body, which is, No matter what we've been taught, Greater than the settlement A city can pay a mother to stop crying, And more beautiful than the new bullet Fished from the folds of my brain. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152728/bullet-points?fbclid=IwAR35-9JYnkmROZ_fuFBh7AdMMPo29v-8FW-MJfljWkBspivmpFaJQdgn2Rg https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jericho-brown

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released September 24, 2020

All music written by Instar, which are:

Bass: Greg Greenberg
Guitars: Doug Van Bevers
Guitars: Nick Maini
Narration: Eden Kupermintz
Drums: Travis Orbin
Orchestral layers: Clement Belio

Mixed & mastered by Anthony DiGiacomo of Deep Resonance Studio

Poem:

Bullet Points, by Jericho Brown

"I will not shoot myself
In the head, and I will not shoot myself
In the back, and I will not hang myself
With a trashbag, and if I do,
I promise you, I will not do it
In a police car while handcuffed
Or in the jail cell of a town
I only know the name of
Because I have to drive through it
To get home. Yes, I may be at risk,
But I promise you, I trust the maggots
Who live beneath the floorboards
Of my house to do what they must
To any carcass more than I trust
An officer of the law of the land
To shut my eyes like a man
Of God might, or to cover me with a sheet
So clean my mother could have used it
To tuck me in. When I kill me, I will
Do it the same way most Americans do,
I promise you: cigarette smoke
Or a piece of meat on which I choke
Or so broke I freeze
In one of these winters we keep
Calling worst. I promise if you hear
Of me dead anywhere near
A cop, then that cop killed me. He took
Me from us and left my body, which is,
No matter what we've been taught,
Greater than the settlement
A city can pay a mother to stop crying,
And more beautiful than the new bullet
Fished from the folds of my brain."

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Narrative prog. Space synths. Star-death beats. Austin/Tel Aviv.

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