Shake is for 8th Graders - Omar Rodríguez-López

Voice 1: «What happened to your shine?»

Voice 2: «I used to have a shine, huh.»

Voice 1: «And what happened to it?»

Voice 2: «Well, what kind of shine was it?»

Beneath you drips my type

I’ll keep tabs on her wardrobe especially

if the negligent negligee slips ever so gently

off the slip of her ass

A letter picked, jaundiced and paved

your cheap spurs are only swelling with age

I won’t get Tourettes if you don’t get Tourettes

I won’t get Tourettes if you don’t get to rest

Voice 1: «So what happened to your shine?»

Voice 2: «I guess it disappeared… uh, thanks to you.»

Voice 1: «Why me?»

Voice 2: «I don’t know, 'cause you’re the one that only mentions it.»

I haven’t heard a groan like that

since jailbait bars came blessed with rugs

I’ll wrap this lightpost round your devoted staff

I haven’t heard a groan like that

since jailbait bars came blessed with rugs

came their sighs of twisting cables

To have deflected their charms

I am unable to be listed in your regards

if you hurry home I might prevent those scars

A stretch of nothingness on stationary mangled when

the sleepy wheels rolled 6am so early in the morning