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A Decision is Made

from Boy in a Well by The Yawpers

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A bulge in my belly is what everyone knows
A life that’s breathing, a primitive glow.
A life that’s moving and stretching under my skin,
Outward hand, another reaching within.

A heart moves blood in tandem with mine.
Me, myself, by extension, divine.
Two children, one body, one girl, one son,
What live could I give you when mine’s barely begun.

Your life will be no rich reward.
A (my) mirror that sings a genuine chord.
This is a world that remains not awake,
So here is a child that I must forsake.

You draw my eyes with trembling tears,
Swell my bosom, describe my fears,
Toll nine times with the armistice bell
Before momma gives my (the) baby to the well.

Papa doesn’t want me and stands to condemn
And momma’s convinced I’m an insult to them.
I’m not gonna name you, decision is mine,
I bear the same, I’ll repeat it, divine.

We hide ourselves, you prodigal whore,
You slanderous girl, you fester of war.
Even in your center, your womb carries void,
An apocalyptic child that should be destroyed.

Call the doctor in to induce correction,
Clean the sin, abort insurrection.
With the morning light he’ll poison the seed,
He’ll smother the blight; he’ll sickle the weed.

The spasms come as I lay awake.
This issue is mine, and mine only to take.
Toll twelve times with the armistice bell,
Momma, I take my body to the well.

A rush of blood pours on the stone.
A startled cry, flesh and bone.
Her feet set wide across the ring.
Three meters down he’s hanging from a string.

C-C-C-C-CUT IT

He’s falling.

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from Boy in a Well, released August 18, 2017

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The Yawpers Boulder, Colorado

The Yawpers formed 2011 when guitarist Jesse Parmet and singer/guitarist Nate Cook played together at the only speakeasy in Boulder, CO. In August 2018, the band announced that Alex Koshak would be stepping in on drums as they headed into the studio to record their next album. The band’s name is a nod to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”: “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ... more

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