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Undress me like you mean it. I’m afraid I’ve seen it:
the pictures of yourself that you tore into pieces
and threw on the ground like rose petals and ash
hoping God wasn’t watching you then.
How he’d laugh.
You took the trip and lost yourself, addressed the need for help,
abandoned everything you stood for. Go ahead and sit down.
I remember rainy days and laughing, don’t remember how.
Compelled by death. Dressed to kill ourselves--
Baby, we're martyrs now.
But I backed out and you couldn’t forgive me,
cursed the world and my name to anyone who was listening.
Then you went and tried to overturn that open boat
for questioning the sicking feeling still keeping your head afloat.
If that makes me a coward, I’m the one to blame.
I knew death would bring some closure, but it’s not really the same as
Stepping forward to combat that lonesome plague
afraid that martyrs never live up to their name. We needed change.

We swim like dead bodies
arms stretched out
face beneath the waves,
and if you watch
the storm will stop,
and we’ll find our way to the bottom.

I traced the freckles on your back until they spelled out run.
It was the softest warning that there ever was,
but I ignored it. Raised the tattered cloth above the hidden gem
was never one to take directs, dear, or follow them.
I built this bridge to stand, not to burn down or cross
but the sentiment of hatchets in my back has never been lost.
You flooded both ends; I didn’t make a sound.
Even if it killed me, I wanted to find middle ground,
And I did. So you mapped out the places you had been
to prove you weren’t afraid to lose the hell that you were stuck within.
I would’ve done the same, but to be completely honest:
there isn’t treasure at ever X. I promise.
You cast off, a failed effort to escape the
splintered foundation sinking under your mistakes,
and as the current crashed against you, knew that you were lost
and the sea slowly whispered your name against the rocks.

We swim like dead bodies
arms stretched out
face beneath the waves,
and if you watch
the storm will stop,
and we’ll find our way to the bottom.

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from A Graveyard, A Garden, released June 17, 2017

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Idle Friend Masaryktown, Florida

My name was Introvert. Now it’s Idle Friend, and I like blowing out my voice over rap beats. My debut EP came out in 2010, and I released my first album, A Graveyard, A Garden, in June of 2017.

I completed my first tour the same month, and I’ve had the pleasure of opening for incredible artists like Sadistik, Upgrade, Rafael Vigilantics, Castor’s Hollow, Forthteller, and Jonathan Brown. ... more

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