The Third/The Fourth

from The Midnight Mail by Immediate Family

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2. The Third/The Fourth

Every man is amazing. Every boy is amazed by daddy's shadow.
What an active growth.
Every man is a mountain. Every girl will attempt to climb that ladder.
What a show.

Dangerous trees, exploding seeds.
(All of which seems ordinary, all of which seems sane.)
Dead distortion, soft machine.
(All of which seems ordinary.)
The third is in progress; wait and wonder.

Every day is amazing. Every moment, a different dirty shower to scouer.
Every night brings tomorrow. Every vein is a river flowing outward.
Why count the minutes? Count the hours.

Ageless youth, forever new.
(All of which seems ordinary, all of which seems sane.)
Timeless beauty, chosen few.
(All of which seems ordinary, all of which seems sane.)
Penis envy, something blue.
(All of which seems ordinary.)
The fourth is in session; push it through.

Should we coincide, come clean. Mean what you say.
With our compromise in place, come easy, come between.
We agree only when we don't compete.

Should we vomit up our meal, we'll eat our waste.
With our compromise in place we shall cooperate.
I agree. (..and I agree)
We agree, and we alone decide the time between.

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from The Midnight Mail, released August 1, 2010

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Immediate Family Portland, Oregon

Immediate Family is what happens when I (Brett) work on something for so long that I learn to stop worrying and love the process again and again and again and

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