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There’s a ghost living in the polygraph
First a scream and then a laugh
From the waveforms I find nothing
There was you digging up the ocean floor
Treasures unaccounted for
Tell your friends you can’t come out to play

I am one trinket on a crowded shelf
Would you notice if I fell
And broke into a million pieces
Line it up straight and I will knock it down
Burn a forest to the ground
But weeds will always find the room to grow

I could have done better
I could have made a movie
I could have listened in class
I could have learned to draw from observation
I could taken care of our backyard
I could have used my eraser

I could have done better
I could have learned how to swim
I could have traveled
I let my fucking passport expire with one stamp in it
I could have gotten in shape
I could have distinguished myself in a comments section
I could have avoided prescribed opinions and landed on an original thought or feeling

I could have done better
I could have called an old friend
I could have cooked more
I could have eaten less
I could have taught my dog the difference between acting pathetic and learning from her mistakes
I could have had better ideas
I have so many bad ideas

I could have followed through
I could have found a new hobby
I could have gotten really good at I don’t know bowling or poker or chess
I could have read a book
I could have written 300 words every day after work and ended up with a ton of usable material
300 words is just not that much
I could have self-published a collection of humorous essays on the psychological tolls of near constant injury

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from Achievements in Large Scale Topiary, released September 14, 2018

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Monster Furniture Brooklyn, New York

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Monster Furniture is the moniker of Brooklyn-based recording artist Gabe Smoller. Across genre-spanning albums and with a rotating cast of collaborators, he writes songs about dogs, death, containment, illness, and home renovation, finding complexity in the mundane (and with just enough DIY eccentricities to keep things from getting too heavy). ... more

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