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From "Nothing Is Ruined" (2011)

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There are no love songs on the radio
But there's music in the street
And there's nothing left to know
And everything is now complete
The ice-cream never melts
Until you are satisfied
The internet is free to use
Until your brain is fried.
And on Friday night the library stays open until dawn
Serving drinks in silence 'til the whiskey has all gone
Is this the end or the beginning?
Nobody's really keeping track.
This is my kind of ouroboros
Where the tail fights back!

Betelgeuse's supernova
Has turned night into day
But nobody is freaking out
They've all come out to play
Because everybody understands
Basic astrophysics
And all the incongruities
In apocalypse logistics
And on Friday night the library stays open until dawn
Serving drinks in silence 'til the whiskey has all gone
Is this the end or the beginning?
Nobody's really keeping track.
This is my kind of Ragnorok
Where the tail fights back!

And very few of us have found
What we are looking for
But we're on the road to get there
So nobody's keeping score
So raise your glasses high
As we ring in this New Age
And maybe this time, all of us
Will earn a living wage!

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from Discrete Packets of Song: A Compilation, released December 12, 2016

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Aaron J. Shay Seattle, Washington

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Sci-fi storyteller and banjo balladeer. I believe in the good kind of apocalypse.

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