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This Precious Paralysis

by Gavin Gamboa

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To Posterity 01:37
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Distraction 03:20
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Citadel 01:52
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Doubt Box 00:47
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This Precious Paralysis (2016)
dedicated to Ted Nava

The Inertia Variations (2010)
John Tottenham

TO POSTERITY
My most profound observations
Have gone unrecorded. They were too subtle
And I was too lazy to pin them down.
I was always sluggishly scrambling
On to the next thing that would remain undone
Or underdone. It was, of course, within my power
To formulate them, despite the fact
That no evidence of them exists.

CITADEL
Am I empty at the core or just around the edges?
Are there riches therein? I wouldn't know.
I'm weighed down in a warm white glow,
Crushing the stark yellow dullness of the day
Into dust, statically and statelessly drifting
Throughout this haze of rust. Riding the waves
Of lostness across the landscape of a desk,
Into the bulwark of a threadbare curtain.

BENEATH MYSELF
Anything that requires perseverence
Has a wilting effect upon me
When opportunity calls,
Apathy is the natural response.
I cannot even call myself a failure.
I have never tried hard enough
At anything
To earn even that accolade.

LEADEN AFTERNOON (excerpt)
On the threshold of execution:
An urgent need degenerates into a chimera,
A hideous abstraction, an impossibility
Within my grasp. I consider it for a moment:
… … … 

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released January 8, 2016

Piano, Vocals, and Processing: Gavin Gamboa
Text: John Tottenham (selections from ‘The Inertia Variations’)
& Hillel Schwartz (deletions of ‘Making Noise’)

Artwork: Ivan Gamboa • @thebedband

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