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So I Went Through That Same Gutter [Poem]

from The Soft Speak Sessions by The Breaking Pattern

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So I Went Through That Same Gutter

the one that wrapped around the southern porch
where the rain fell slow
and the people spoke slower.
Whether three years post life or three years pre death
it was always the same here.
The children would tumble down the hill
until they reached the creek where the honeysuckle grew.
They would siphon nectar from the brightest ones.
In the kitchen, the old people cooked. Women
drinking affordable wine, the men
expensive whiskey. On the counter
was a glass jar full of jelly beans.
Everybody loved the jelly beans
or at least once loved the jelly beans
you could have some whenever you liked.
The music was full of classics
that every human being on the planet should know
but nobody ever actually does.
It didn’t matter. So soft it hummed over constant laughing
yet here it was, the sound of someone
who wasn’t in the room but was forever welcomed.
At least, that is what the old people talked about in the kitchen
as the children collected their harvest of yellow and vine.

And so I went through that same gutter
the one that wrapped around a southern porch
where the rain fell slow.
Where the rain squeezed itself into the tin pipe
jostling about, pushing the other droplets in a stampede
that ran straight into the ground
straight into the soil, soaked into the earth beneath
where it waited for the light to show itself
and lift it back up towards the sky that it once called
home.

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from The Soft Speak Sessions, released August 6, 2016
Poetry by Derek Hackman of TBP
Music by Brandon Dillman of TBP

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The Breaking Pattern finds a balance between melodic ambience and an intensity derived from today’s modern indie rock. Fueled by flowery, introspective lyrics, the music creates an excitingly imaginative, atmospheric pop genre.

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