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Self-reflection didn’t steal my car keys.
Objectivity like a friend or a disease.
My heart still squeezes, but it
beats like treason through my knees.

Run across the boarder to where the simple sound of industry is tamed.
You have a job I wouldn’t take but you’ve gotta take it all the same.
When the morning wails, and I wake up stale
I still haven’t rearranged. I made a promise that’s grown strange.

“Introspection heals the world.” They say,
so write me a soliloquy to unbind me from my ways.
I want to pray. Like Moses prayed I want the chance to run away
A cog alive, a cog enslaved.

Implicate me in my lazy sin.
Self-aware and terrified I want to begin.
I want to begin. I want to begin to see outside the engine.

Rummage through the rubbish mountain tumble down the hills I threw away.
Plastic rains Poseidon weeps and the air is getting thicker every day.
When excess fails to swell the sails I’ll mar myself to you.
There was so much more to do.

Self-reflection didn’t steal my car keys.
Some sense of gravity won’t bring me to my knees.
My will like reeds Bends in the breeze this is not easy.
This is not easy. This is not easy.

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from SelfRealizedNation: a song cycle for the occupation, released July 3, 2013

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Alma's Engine is creative work by Eppchez. Ey has been know to make music in pursuit of honest reflection and deep connection to others. Eppchez had a period of compulsive song writing from 2011-13. Ey hopes to be back at it when eir wrists heal/ ey gets a band together. These songs, in their open sorrow and musing joy are for you. ... more

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