Hour of Lead...

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojBFKzZ8MOs)

The Giant of Illinois - Andrew Bird

Traverse City State Hospital, 2014

Wolf  - First Aid Kit Sounds Like Somewhere  - Lily & Madeleine Snow (Hey Oh)  - Red Hot Chili Peppers Words  -  Greg Alan Isakov Pulaski At Night  - Andrew Bird Land of the Bloody Unknown  - The Middle East Jackie's Strength  - Tori Amos Run  - Daughter Dust to Dust  - The Civil Wars Careless Words  - Ani Difranco I Forgot to Remember to Forget  - Bob Dylan The Only Living Boy in New York  - Simon & Garfunkel The Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner  - Belle & Sebastian Famous Blue Raincoat  - Tori Amos Flightless Bird, American Mouth  - Iron & Wine Heart and Bones  - The Pines Woe Be Gone  - Ani Difranco Nothing in the Silence  - Belle & Sebastian End of Days  - Brown Bird Helplessness Blues  - Fleet Foxes Effigy  - Andrew Bird So Far Around the Bend  - The National Below My Feet  - Mumford & Sons Head Full of Doubt/ Road Full of Promise  - The Avett Brothers Cornflake Girl  - Tori Amos Pages Written on a Wall  - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's Comfortably Numb  - Pink Floyd  Sleeping Sickness  - City & Colour 40 Day Dream  - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Society  - Eddie Vedder This Old Routine  - First Aid Kit The Truth is a Cave  - The Oh Hello's I Will Follow You Into the Dark  - Death Cab for Cutie Bodies and Minds  -  Great Lake Swimmers Hero  - Elizaveta Time  - Tom Waits The Sound of Silence  - Simon & Garfunkel Around the Bend  - Pearl Jam Try  - Pink The Sad Sun  - Deer Tick Bats in the Attic  - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins Laughing With  - Regina Spektor The Weight of Lies  - The Avett Brothers

The Scales Sway - Kites & Crows A Sorta Fairytale - Tori Amos Autumn Sweater - Yo La Tengo Not Quite Happiness - Good Old War If You Could Read My Mind - Johnny Cash Sleeping Sickness - City and Colour Breathe Me - Sia Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez Blood Bank - Bon Iver Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine England - The National Ironic - Alanis Morissette Lost in My Mind - The Head and the Heart Three White Horses - Andrew Bird My Sister's Tiny Hands - Andrew Bird Let It Go - Fossil Collective The Model - Belle and Sebastian Your Protector - Fleet Foxes  Shake - The Head and the Heart Stay Gold - First Aid Kit Dust in the Wind - Kansas Not Dark Yet - Bob Dylan Keep Us Whole - The Lonely Wild Time - Tori Amos Passing Afternoon - Iron & Wine Hands Remember - Seabear Closer - Joshua Radin Circle Game - Tori Amos Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan Call This Home - An Atlas to Follow Tin Foil - Andrew Bird To and From - Elephant Revival Ghost Towns - Radical Face Chelsea Hotel No. 2 - Rufus Wainwright New Slang - The Shins Famous Blue Raincoat - Katie Buckhaven Among the Leaves - Sun Kil Moon Wolf - First Aid Kit The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel Hey Jude - The Beatles Learning - The National My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit Girl - The Beatles Comfort Me - Feist Jackie's Strength - Tori Amos Orpheo - Andrew Bird The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel Seasons Colors - Judah and the Lion When the Roses Bloom Again - Billy Bragg & Wilco Broadripple is Burning - Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Life: one razor's slit from extinction. A fear coddled returns for acknowledgement. July, when even heroes commit suicide. My former self deserves the accolades. Undressing Andrew Bird and touching myself. My former therapist said "it's hopeless". My current therapist admits his love. I'm moving towards my last chance. How have I outlived Sylvia Plath?

"750 Days"

"Zen in Early Spring"

- C.M. Swaney

"Prospective Immigrants Please Note"

- Rainer Maria Rilke