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Hometowns

from Towns by Grandpa Rosevelts

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Hometown is a word a little heavy on the o’s,
a little light on the consonants,
and full of space,
merely pricked by lip to lip or
tongue to roof. Even with two trap doors,
the word is still full of yawning.

I eat dry, desert air in my empty lungs,
chewing on the idea of vacant nostalgia,
but merely fall into hometown’s spacious o’s.

Space

is what people move to the suburbs for.

Space

is what people leave them for too.

I space on what I did here for seventeen years,
and wonder if time merely melted into
Crayola Crayon Dalí under sun not meant for man,
remembering surrealist blur of
a loneliness, jarred inside a house of beige space:
careful not to get burnt on the desert outside.

We lived here for my dad to work with outer space:
to send rockets into a cool night sky invisible on gooey
desert-baked asphalt, sticking to my feet
to hold me in place,
despite rocket propelled from H to N,
I breath through hOmetOwn hoops to
finish. To move the fuck on
past the city’s borders into that unknown, unseen

space,

the faceless kind that’s anywhere but here.

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from Towns, released November 20, 2015

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Grandpa Rosevelts Sandy, Oregon

Inspired by intelligent alien friends who like to study the American south-west (because tradition dictates some things), but also north-west, we like words and strings and ambient things, but not fluctuating vocal tones, because then our aliens would go have other, more monotone friends. ... more

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