Poisonous Candy Factory

John Yau, “Borrowed Love Poems”

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featuring Casey Hannan, Tim Earley, Coco Owen, Annie Raab, Jillian Youngbird, Robert Gano, Christina Nobiling, Nathan Hoks, Emmitt Merrill, Marcus Myers,Cassie Allen, Siara ReNae Berry, Daiana Oneto, Christine Neacole Kanownik, Seth Landman, Zophia McDougal, Matthew Suss, Brian Clifton,Stella Corso, Lucy Chouquette, John Gallaher, Max Adrian, Crista Siglin,Matt Hart, Marshall Cargle, Troy James Weaver, Christopher Cheney, Phil Estes, Kit Robinson, Peyton Pitts, Caroline Manring, Paul Hanson Clark,Anna Kamerer, Michael Rose, Molly Dillon, Daniel Borzutzky, Suzanne Scanlon, James Sanders, Joseph Bradshaw, and Jonathan Bennett

Ocean, don’t be afraid. The end of the road is so far ahead it is already behind us. Don’t worry. Your father is only your father until one of you forgets. Like how the spine won’t remember its wings no matter how many times our knees kiss the pavement. Ocean, are you listening? The most beautiful part of your body is wherever your mother’s shadow falls. Here’s the house with childhood whittled down to a single red tripwire. Don’t worry. Just call it horizon & you’ll never reach it. Here’s today. Jump. I promise it’s not a lifeboat. Here’s the man whose arms are wide enough to gather your leaving. & here the moment, just after the lights go out, when you can still see the faint torch between his legs. How you use it again & again to find your own hands. You asked for a second chance & are given a mouth to empty into. Don’t be afraid, the gunfire is only the sound of people trying to live a little longer. Ocean. Ocean, get up. The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world. Here’s the room with everyone in it. Your dead friends passing through you like wind through a wind chime. Here’s a desk with the gimp leg & a brick to make it last. Yes, here’s a room so warm & blood-close, I swear, you will wake— & mistake these walls for skin.

presumably because i have incriminating photographs of john darnielle stealing the key to the city, i was allowed to do another tour poster for the mountain goats. the topic of the poster is werewolf. printed by my dudes at industry print shop in texas, available in the cities that are written on it on the dates that the concerts happen, possibly online afterwards, depending on how many people are too terrified to buy one in person. i grew up pretty obsessed with wrestling and i am of a background whose traditions emphasize the dominance of werewolf over all other monsters, so this one was especially fun to do.

in all cases, the first ten shows on the tour sold out on pre-sales alone and the rest are looking to go the same way and the first three shows have been a total blast, we all got saved multiple times all three nights, so a huge thank you to everybody who listens to our music and joins us at the shows, it is awesome and humbling and emotional for us and I can’t thank you enough. we’re also gonna be on the Seth Myers show tonight so do check that out but this post is already promoting enough so please let us return to reblogging old horror stuff or pictures of birds now. see you out there!