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thenewgreen  ·  3251 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kenning Blog - The Killing School (Or, Poets Are Murderous Bastards)

    It is not even remotely strange for me, though, to murder people in my poems. I may do it a little too frequently. A collection of murdered or missing exes looks bad, even if it’s only in your poems. It gets a little boring.

Easily one of my favorite lyrics is from Wilco's Via Chicago

  I dreamed about killing you again last night 
  And it felt alright to me 
  Dying on the banks of Embarcadero skies 
  I sat and watched you bleed
  Buried you alive with a fireworks display
  Raining down on me
  Your cold, hot blood
  Ran away from me to the sea