Are you allowed to show yourself to the door
If you never were shown where it is
You just kick out the load bearing bricks and the wood
And you’ll be back in town before they knew you were his
They’ll never see
The branding, the copyright you only showed me
The twin city nomads keep moving down south
The houses are cheap but the people keep angry
Going walleyed with sentiment and broken by rage
At whoever would deign to get near me
They’ll never know
The wards and the rejects left up in the snow
We will never leave
We will never submit
Unless you’re the type
Who knows what to do with it
So hard to get seen under blacklight and fog
Everyone’s looking at clean teeth and shoelaces
Everyone’s breeding with scarf wearing faggots
And not the good kind who’ll show their faces
We fought hard for that
Not to hide under curtains and cry behind hats
We will never leave
We will never submit
Unless you’re the type
Who knows what to do with it
credits
from CATBOYS- single,
released June 24, 2022
Written and performed by al Riggs
Photo by Colin Spacetwinks
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