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Above the Video Club

by Turtle Turnip

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1.
I started with a headache & a sense of loss I've loved so much that I've forgot to take the time to talk about the wind moves over the world picking up the dusk the sun set behind us my mind is blank yet full of life your features falling into place elaborating ears & face I have taken time retracing my steps backwards through the sand but the tides keeps coming in erases all of them light falling into the creases of the brow my mind is blank yet full of life your features falling into place elaborating ears & face my mind is blank yet full of life your features falling into place elaborating ears & face
2.
*snickers*
3.
For Frank 02:37
Cohasset by Frank O'Hara I see you standing there on a rock in my light mind your body’s smiling as a tern plummets and gulps fishward from hot rocks to freezing water clambering up swooping down golden like last year always golden your tender eyes pull me into the water like a lasso of seaweed green and I fall there the huge rocks are like twin beds and the cove tide is a rug slipping out from under us
4.
I told you once I felt like I didn't know you rather, I would draw you so different each time I didn't understand your jawline until I met your sister three years later on a balcony & I find myself here often shy, tugging at the rope of another person's eye contact tension, & trying to grasp detail in the spokes ebb & flowing round the deep wells of pupils precious metals filled into cracks of pottery & an intimacy found in recognizing
5.
the wires in your irises pulling themselves apart like wisps of a cloud coming down to your tiny brow collecting your thoughts like a weather balloon floating through frightened shards of the fog it's overwhelming I think of a meadow it's overwhelming I think of a meadow fall comes & we gather softening plums from the ground with the landscape receding & the branches were pulling it back out I saw the expression in the cage of your hands inbetween all the stains of the fruit petal imperfections in your bitten fingernails
6.
Pin Pricks 00:58
7.
& I lose track of myself when I'm with my friends does it all balance out like trying to remember where to step in a creaky house & I saw you singing in the stairwell felt bees leaving cranes landing felt bees leaving cranes landing & I hear whispers by myself when I'm away from my friends the cohesion drowns my swells like pieces of my being recollecting in chambers repressing a drought & I saw myself feeling doted towards thee felt my countenance dreaming heart singing felt my countenance dreaming heart singing sometimes it's only a glimpse my friends remind of my favorite parts of myself it's only a glimpse my friends remind of my favorite pieces of myself
8.
Kintsugi 01:15
I reel in memories like the clouds to a puddle leaky hands hold tiny lakes to rain I can only hope one day to hold what I've just found anxiety pressed diamonds to my chest left, reflections distorted like wind on creek water texture & my cracks show up as cranky vulnerability hard to speak like breaking the beat of silence after an explosion of pottery it's all tied together as the sand is to the tide illuminated in old motion gold mending the breaks in shuddered & repaired clay same as detail traced in foam embraced to the shoreline & when my smiles are genuine you'll see it in my eyelid ripples laugh wrinkles underneath
9.
tears at the seams elbows & the knees bugs eating away patterns between veins of the leaves think of me not split by life but made intricate like stories soaked in coffee flowers to come bursting through their crowns I want to hold your finger in a field trample grass to a path leave the wake of our past tell me what you believe & I'll tell you what I fear lay down look at our scars like they're shapes in the clouds if you think of me don't let me drift by keep me like the flowers pressed in your notebook
10.
Divination 04:59
wrinkles in your clothes catching dew sinking in droplets soaking through spread shapes read like tea leaves I don't believe in anything but I still see omens in everything I will bend with the wind let my torso in the breeze learnin' to be a less stubborn being I don't believe in anything but I still see omens in everything
11.
There are patterns in the sand found sentiment in random sediment toe holds pulling up dirt left to ponder the world floating over me with the wind on a string movement of all things oscillating feelings & grass spilling different ways the look on your face all laid out before me trails to cross I see my past both unspooling yarn I look back towards nostalgia & regret I taking it apart take it apart I forget how much of what I see becomes the honeycomb of memories wild radishes & caster beans in my peripheries I'm healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake I am healing by mistake

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released May 3, 2018

Puneet Ghai: Vocals, Guitar, Ukelele
Brendan Schwarz: Vocals, Guitar
Nicholas Farrow: Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Drums
Zachery Abramson: Vocals
Dan Chambers: Piano
Keyana Reed: Vocals
Jim Blackburn: Trumpet

Recorded at the BubClub Recording Hub
Produced by Nicholas Farrow
Mastered at Rarefied Recording

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Turtle Turnip San Diego, California

My childhood was a heat haze of vision.

Sight connected with the idea of sun

light radiant grains of reflected colors and shapes that appeared more bright

(contrasts the photography that my family kept under glass displays.

A faded focus; cool, & simmered down as if left more calm) than I can figure now.
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