Stanley Praise Swerdlow explained his song that goes

(April 2022. Decentralized poem written with Billy and his roommate Stanley. I didn’t write much of this one but I like the voices in it.)

Stanley Praise Swerdlow explained his song that goes
women in overalls walking down larchmont
do i really need to say the rest?
women in overalls walking down larchmont
with their 3 year old who will go to dartmouth

it was a really succinct
way of explaining what psychopathology
feels like
is it like beck?
sounds like good weezer
love those slipknot vocals

billy should we want to write a poem?
he asked you my friend
there is a squirrel
that refuses to come down
from the tree

my brain hasn’t decided what my heart wants to do i go to church
and the woman is losing her mind on the microphone

the swinging sheep sleep too much
fire eyed lizards eat bugs but throw them up
jeep’s crash down mountains
subways shut down in the middle of the day
skipped a beat and fell down the hole
alright i’ve written what needs to be written

i haven’t written yet but we should use the 1% to read what we have

yes you can take the vape from my hip
yes my friend my hip is shared to touch
i am weak and sleepy
but you don’t want to end our poem
it is your weekend and i didn’t know that
you are tempting me with chicken
but i know i need to go to my room
i need to be a body alone
the chicken smells amazing though

you need to learn that being a body alone can be done while washing the cucumbers
and marveling at the way the skin peels off just by the pressure of the sink
and the overuse of “the”
after i made a point of it earlier
and begged myself to stop
after i write this you will leave
and then i will be alone
despite my best friend being in My City
but what if i just never stopped writing
and you didn’t get your phone back
stanley was never given another chance
to contribute
is such a pleasure