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You’re not normal
That’s your gravest sin
You are the dancing bear and
Forfeit the games you win

You’re a lover
A real amateur
You embrace what you don’t know
To know, you can’t be sure

believe your myth, you are the holy raconteur
Labyrinthine mind your curse
You are the unfulfilled promise
This reel doesn’t play in reverse

you made you, a very fine friend
you played you, to the bitter end
no cheap disguises
no compromises

your heart problems
you wore them out and in
fall asleep, in your company
­­the dream, unlimited

you’re no exception
­­­a pauper and poet
you are an empty church
filled by the light in it

like the moon, always changing
reflects, never quite tells the truth
the only place we are truly free
searching, searching, searching since youth

you made you, a very fine friend
you played you, to the bitter end
no cheap disguises
no compromises
no compromises

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from Bushwick Book Club Presents "My Lunches with Orson", released November 6, 2013

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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