R&R by Finlay Mangan

R&R

Mounted the ultimate horizontal protest 

R&R in a two bedroom apartment 

that used to house a family of five

before I arrived in this part of town

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Relaxation is resistance yeah 

consider me the David Hogg 

of this youth movement 

in truth I’m the leader we deserve 

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oh brother 

I didn’t eat today

This is the punishment 

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I made a big pot of Colombian Supremo 

made it watery and left it in the 

Mr. Coffee for months til it grew mold

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Took all my dirties to soap and suds 

left em in the spin cycle 

sat there with a cute German girl 

from Frankfurt 

Or hamburg 

watched my whites circle like 

turbines 

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You’d said something in that moment then but I

couldn’t get Bonnie Tyler out of my head 

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Turn around, bright eyes you’d said and 

soon I was lying like a child in your arms

the old circus soon to fold its tents 

and move on

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