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Howard the Duck

from The Great Dead Hope Act: II by Cattle Dogs

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I’m still chewing on my teeth. I don’t want to survive. I want to live. I know that my one refuge has always been my undoing. We use the vocabulary of the dead.

I’m still standing on the shore. I’ve been eroded by the wind, but I won’t be washed out with the tide while I am still alive.

I want nothing more than to surrender, but I am always struck by the odd moment of resolve. We speak with the words of the doomed.

Hope is our albatross. We’re paralyzed by a world built just to break. What is left for us if we’re as doomed as the words we waste? I wish I were speechless.

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from The Great Dead Hope Act: II, released July 15, 2011

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Cattle Dogs Cleveland, Ohio

Nuanced and complex points of view are difficult to cram onto the back of a t-shirt; which may be one of the reasons that hardcore bands spend so much time screaming about absolutes. Confront your own opinions with the same scrutiny you apply to those you disagree with, embrace the fact that sometimes you will be right, sometimes you'll be wrong, but most of the time you will be both. ... more

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