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Milk Carton Expressions

from Quitting Tomorrow by Variex

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milk carton expressions

all of these people are so difficult to please. but i’m only trying not to trip over my feet, like my lifeless future in the middle of the street that has given me this opportunity to finally take a photograph of my better days. before we wanted to get away from everything that ever knew our name that we now use to fuel the flame. knowing i shouldn’t have even arrived at this party. i would love nothing more than to go home and wash tonight off me. you’ll be on your way to some place like texas or chicago. i’ll be driving aimlessly with my face on a broken bottle, full throttle. keeping our distance the farthest from tomorrow. your hollow words are too hard for me to swallow. following my shadow between my steps on the pavement, awaiting that escape of my 3 a.m. exhalation.

cut me out, fold me up, stick me in your pocket for another rainy day or whatever. fifteen dollars an hour to shred papers. ain’t nothing worse than wasting words for a paycheck.

now what if i became a high school english teacher or actually wrote that ambiguous semi-autobiographical novel that nobody i know will ever read. would you still spill milk in my sleep? too many faces in line at raymond’s bakery, i had to take a step outside to catch a fresh rabbit rabbit to the dome piece. no holy sticky finger sunday afternoon on these wooden planks. would you swerve into the adjacent lane or into the rail on top of the mountain overlooking the bay? i mean, it would be a more scenic way to go down in any case. and i’ll send you a postcard if i think twice. the pretty colors we rely on to keep us distracted bleed out of our dreams and leak all over the mattress. up to my neck in ashes when this long day’s over. looking like i took the fucking wrong way home. and i did.

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from Quitting Tomorrow, released May 8, 2010

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Variex Oakland, California

Variex is a Bay Area, CA based music producer, rapper, and engineer. He is a co-founder of the New Cocoon collective and has worked with artists like Ceschi, Factor, 2Mex, and Alias. He has also shared the stage with Cage and Sadistik, released an album on Milled Pavement Records, and founded his own label, Red Tempo Records. Variex's newest album, Struggle Sandwich, is out now. ... more

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