Sometimes A Wind Blows

and you and I float in love and kiss forever in a darkness and the mysteries of love come clear

Panic In Their Eyes

Big Railroad Blues

Nettle On Floor Eleven

Extreme Prejudice

 It is all in that moment when I opened my young eyes on it. I came upon it from a tussle with the sea — and I was young — and I saw it looking at me.

Kill Your Family

an active male and a passive female;

feminine ‘giving’ and masculine ‘taking’;

an infantilized (through use of infantile language in ‘I say you are bestest lean in for a big kiss’) and a submissive woman (‘It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you
everything I do’);

a powerful male (‘He holds me in his big arms’).

Management Of Savagery

'Video Games’ is populated by action verbs such as ‘swinging’, ‘pull up’, ‘whistling’, ‘open up’, ‘play’, ‘lean in’. They contribute to the construction of a dichotomy between masculinity and femininity: the male protagonist’s associations with fast cars, the whistling of a woman’s name, drinking beer and playing video games, and the depiction of the female through what she is wearing (‘his favorite sun dress’), the way she is feeling (‘drunk and I am seeing stars this is all I think of’) and her position in relation to the man, summed up by the line ‘it’s all for you’ (the dress, the perfume, the body on display, even finding pleasure in what in a different context could be read as tedious video-game playing).

Ring-A-Ding-Ding

 This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.