The Marrickville Metro

from Max Quinn's Onomatopenis by Max Quinn

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I threw up at the Marrickville Metro, just outside of K-Mart
The concierge looked at me apathetically and handed me a mop.
I treat my body like horseshit
I drink because I like myself more when I'm drunk
I am a circus of short-circuits, a surplus of purposelessness

You were the paragon of why I would carry on

Getting drunk on a tuesday
Nursing bruises in both ways
Inside and out, insidious doubt dogs my every decision

If I had just shut my mouth
But I can't shut my mouth

We sat on your floorboards
Listened to records
All of these remixes make me so squeamish but they're important to you
And you said you were being selfish and I said everyone else is
And then we slept in my horrible bed in a box in the city

You were the paragon of why I would carry on

Getting drunk on a tuesday
Nursing bruises in both ways
Inside and out, insidious doubt dogs my every decision

I'm so tired. SO tired of triteness and this nauseating politeness.
You used to ask me questions
Now, you don't ask me questions
I will purge until the urge surge and swerve and finally drop dead

If I had just shut my mouth
But I can't stop myself

Getting drunk on a tuesday
Nursing bruises in both ways
Inside and out, insidious doubt dogs my every decision
Eating breakfast at half twelve
Sleeping in because it's preferable to being awake, where I continue to make all of these awful decisions.

So I sing shitty punk songs, and sink til I'm sunk. I guess this is throwing up.

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from Max Quinn's Onomatopenis, released November 4, 2014

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