Pet Politics - "When I Get Old"

Pet Politics reminds me of Agent Simple. Them both being from Gothenburg has almost nothing to do with, though. Or maybe it has more to do with it than I understand. There's just no illusions about the nuts and bolts of life. There's no talk about "true love" or "perfection", it's just "what I like best" and "my friends and my wife". It's just major chords, that's all. It's just a tambourine, another layer of guitars, and a verse about the city. He likes to write songs about things that make him happy, about things there are to do, and about plans you can make with all this time and space. Perhaps it is geographical, maybe I'm meant to live in Gothenburg, where this will all resonate so strongly with me I'll just Tacoma Narrows all over the place.

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T. D. Reisert - "To Sleep the Sleep"

Even though I am most certainly a man, my love, I'm writing to you because I think I'm pregnant. I know we haven't spoken in a couple of months, and what we had together was negligible, to be kind. In all honesty, I've forgotten your last name. But I am undoubtedly altered, and I fear, expect, suspect, something is growing. I remember the smell of sweat in your hair, your cold cheeks. I feel your dents and bumps, the warped lines of your body, like a pile of cinnamon in my stomach. The mark you left is heavy, I carry it around with me wherever I go. It takes half of my energy, I can't stay out as late anymore, and I need help getting out of cars and up from the floor. It's a burden, I admit, it weighs me down, it's holding me back. But still, despite what younger people think, or some of my friends think, I'm proud of it, it makes me nervous and excited, I've already started to care for it. It makes me think about the future.

[my man T.D.]