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Apparently when things come in threes
It’s the most perfect state they can achieve
E.g. musketeers or holy trinities
Billy Goats Gruff or Run DMC

I was a solo show, no co-stars or extras
Never imagined a duo, never mind a trifecta
But everything changed up on Avery Hill
When I heard some kids, their voices grating and shrill

I hid in the bushes to not be observed
As a few teenage boys bullied a couple of girls
Judge if you like, I’m no chivalrous hero
My mettle is measured with infinite zeroes

But then one of the girls went and scared the boys off
With a poorly-aimed rock from a little slingshot
It missed them by inches, but hit me hard on my leg
I yelled out in pain and that was how they met Craig

Yes, Craig is me, at least that’s what she called me
The girl who inadvertently moderately mauled me
Her name was Kathy, or that’s what I gathered
From the way her older sister kept shouting it at her

They argued for ages, one and against and one for
Looking after my injury, Kathy v Eleanor
Eleanor said we’d better leave him behind
Which seemed sociopathic, or at least borderline

Lucky for me, Kathy’s innate empathy
Meant they didn’t abandon me to lie there and bleed
They set up a tent when it started drizzling
The darkness descended, the wind was evilly whistling

Then in the dead of the night something must have gone on
I woke up in confusion it all felt suddenly wrong
The sisters stared at me with eyes big as plates
I wasn’t sure what had happened but it could not have been great

Had I done something awkward or gross in my sleep?
But soon I concluded that it wasn’t me
It seemed like their grip on reality was slipping
Had they eaten weird berries? Were they suddenly tripping?

They started force-feeding me chocolate and crisps
Doing strange voices while moving my lips
Then they marched me through the forest in the wind and the rain
Mumbling something about finding a cave

They dressed me in a boa, pearls and shutter shades
I thought I looked pretty good, so I didn’t complain
Suddenly we came to a hole in the ground
And they said we’d be safe there, that we all had to go down

The next few hours are a blur I admit
Whatever they took, I must have had some of it
At some point they snuck off and broke into a shop
Stole some candy and gin and took a nap and ran off

They came back to find me and I was happy to see
That they were coming down from the pills or the E
Getting crazy like that is not my usual habit
Mostly, I guess, because I am a rabbit

But looking back on it now, it all seems funny
Two little girls just tripping out with a bunny
I always imagined that solitude was my plan
But to be honest it feels cool to be part of a gang

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from The Rabbit / Barbarians, released January 24, 2022
Written by Mathias Kom based on "The Rabbit" by Rachael Smith, published by Avery Hill.

© 2020. SOCAN. All rights reserved.

Performed and recorded by Mathias Kom, Colleen Collins, and Dave Treneman at the Quarantine, Port Greville NS, in 2020. Spoken word part by Rachael Smith. Mixed and mastered by Jake Nicoll.

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The Burning Hell

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.
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