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Nonfiction

from Public Library by The Burning Hell

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“Nonfiction,”
He said, “nonfiction is the only thing I read.
When you’ve got reality, who needs to make up stories?”
And the president’s smile shone from the cover of the glossy magazine
He left it lying there when he went in to get a filling in his cavity

I picked it up
I could not resist discovering what old rotten-tooth Robert had been reading
It was a two-page exposé of how what we say is often so misleading
When we say “passing away”, we mean “death”
When we say “rumpy-pumpy” or “barney-mugging”, we mean “sex”

So I told the receptionist goodbye, though what I meant was I loved her
And I walked out the door
‘Cause I had just said goodbye
And it would be strange otherwise

City living
I popped my pleather collar and pulled my sombrero lower on my head
I waited for the bus with a grandmother and I thought about the things that I regretted
Like walking out on my appointment, and being all alone.
And the wind bit through me like a bayonet on a beach on D-Day and I went home

And for weeks I stayed inside, speaking only with my hands
Though I never learned to sign
So I didn’t understand
No I didn’t understand

“Nonfiction”,
The receptionist said “nonfiction’s never been my cup of tea.
I stick to stories about spaceships and 20,000 leagues under the sea”
And I smiled, and I booked another appointment for the next day and the next
And she gave me that secret signal that looked like “A-OK” but actually meant

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from Public Library, track released May 18, 2020

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The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, often including additional comrades and collaborators.

Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks. ... more

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