Eight Stories

from Hurricane Alaska by Joplin Rice

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the walls are blue from the TV screen
balloons with paper faces shrink
over the hills about as far away as you'd think
over the hills about as far away as you'd think
teeth fall out like fingers bleed
trains depart and start to screaming
wailing by at midnight by your window
wailing by at midnight like a signal

eraser lips for my mistakes
an empty room is my favorite place
a heavy coat for my bad days
i can't keep the sun away
so what's the point in pointing out the moon?
what's the point in leaving so soon?

pretty cleopatra's eyes never really were my type
blue & gold in a picture painted underground
blue & gold & red & ashes floating down
skin still stings from autumn hail
to hell with it/all right i'm well
i'm an arrowhead: i kill everything i meet
i'm an arrowhead: i kill everything i meet

honey lips for my good taste
an empty room is my favorite place
a ballpoint pen for my good days
i can't get the sun to stay
so what's the point in sleeping til the afternoon?
what's the point in waking so soon?

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from Hurricane Alaska, released September 18, 2015

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Joplin Rice Lexington, Kentucky

Joplin Rice is a songwriter living in Richmond, Kentucky.
He has released numerous other albums both under his own name and as Ezra Triste.
Every band he forms dies.

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