Alexis Gideon: “Just Run”
7.0
From Reunion Song (Sickroom)
Loitercore Out Now
(originally published 2007)
Unemployable, sitting in the park all day, memory’s yellow clearing, now you found your cue. The joke’s on the ones behind the sealed windows up there, in Disabilities Review, the ones who gotta breathe their building (while they’re lucky). So let the Vick’s Vapor Rub on your chest rise and fall, carrying this wind chimes guitar, and silver notes from your aunt’s bell-lyra, the one she carried and struck with a mallet, up and down, up and down, silver precision, as she high-stepped in the red mud (marching band, class of ‘45, impressions brought to you by Casio). Something bracing in the Geritol, whether they make it any more or not: attention span glides up and down and around the staircase in your brain, following in the footsteps of overdubbed rush-the-mic-like-a-heartbeat rhymes on other tracks, not too far from Bone Thugs N Harmony meeting up with Sly And The Family Stone’s (“And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo wah”) “Everyday People” petticoat sass. Also not too far from some other tracks’ musical jokes that drag on a little bit, like this review, but are no worse than the lowlights of Sun City Girls or Residents. Yeah, your headphones can’t plug into this, can’t retain what you read if you read it, heard it—-but don’t have to, not while the music plays, out here where the air “still swims where the wind sways.” (In the empty blowy envelope, there’s a nice spiky surprise.)
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