Conversation With A Friend In Brooklyn

from New Ways For Old Days by Meridian

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We talk a lot about chemicals and how we’re both so easily affected. Hearts like humming amplifiers with the gain turned up. I examine your kitchen. You read me poems in the living room. You asked me what the light symbolized. I said, “It could be the truth, or really anything.” You don’t get to decide how somebody feels about you, but you can spin it a little bit. Maybe the purest motive is to say, “I just want what I want. I haven’t given it too much thought yet. I just want what I want.” We talk a lot about solitude and how easy it is to feel alone here. Ask me if I still like all the same bands that I used to. Well, of course I do. Now I’m a train passenger, powerless. Steady shaking off the sugar and the sleeplessness. Lips numb with the knowledge that I laid it out the best I could. You don’t get to pretend that you spent less time than you did waiting on a windfall. Does it all have to be so heavy? Baby, I just want what I want. I haven’t given it too much thought yet. I just want what I want. There is a heat rising off every word. Voices resounding sound like nothing I’ve ever heard. I will no longer bite my tongue for getting good at being young. We talk a lot about distance and where we’d be if it weren’t for where we were now.

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from New Ways For Old Days, released October 21, 2022

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Jake, Max, Steve, Tim and Rozco. five nice midwesterners that play tunes for you.

currently spread across Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. occasionally reconvening to make music, drink whiskey and play pinball.

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