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ice shrugs
03:36
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The lake
wrapped in ice
shrugs into night
as Scooby
huddles in his icehouse
pumping coleman gas
into a salad bowl
filled with drano
because sound
travels further over water
and gets muffled by snow
the men fishing across
the lake will hear his
excitement
and shout
can you repeat that?
beneath the lake’s
skin the water
rips and swallows
down to forgotten mine shafts
where Scooby’s gear
rests
broken erlenmeyer flasks
matchbooks
brown iodine bottles
because
on those days
the worst of days
code Alamo days when
the county cops are
knocking at the door
the Everything must go! days
past tires handcarts
children on cartons
cars sunk for insurance
the waters
the more primal waters
remembering
when this place was the ocean
and Scooby’s batch
—real prime shit—
jives with the fossils of
whale songs
that get so high
they forget they’re dead
wiggle loose from
the bedrock
shaking out a tune
of squids and glaciers
giant sharks
old age
tapeworms and
tumors
shifting tectonic plates
and the vibrations carried
up
out of the water
will reach Hudson Bay
where the new whales will
listen
and say
can you repeat that?
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repeat
10:31
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this place was the ocean
10:37
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Zack Baltich Minneapolis, Minnesota
I make percussive music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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