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APPEARS ON:
- Crooked, 2010

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:
- "To see or not to see? I don’t know anybody who wants to see everything all the time. A whole lot of crap out there is unsettling, so we shut our eyes and turn off lights and peer through opaque glass, hoping our brains make up something better than what’s really out there. If a nearby personality begins to disintegrate and show us its component parts, we hope it grows quiet and wanders away–soon!–before things get uncomfortable.
In the dark, though, we find ourselves in the dark. There’s gotta be more than this, we think, turning on the light, and soon find ourselves looking out the window and asking questions until we come across some piece of information, visual or otherwise, that’ll help us make it through another day.
Should glass people be clear or cloudy? I don’t know. Warily, I let them sleep on the couch in the sunshine and sooner or later, flies are waking up, another spring is here, and it’s time to open the windows again.
Love, Kristin"

"Glass"
(written by Kristin Hersh)
 
Is this witchy?
My thoughts are cloudy
This is weird: my mind is clear
In this hyper-chlorinated pool of humanity
You're very clean
You're very clean
I give up
I give up
Is this hunger?
I can't remember
This is strange: we're just the same
In this insatiable, unstable subspecies
You're very sweet
You're very sweet
I give up
I give up
Flies woke up, confused, sprung to life
And spring all here and everything
Sleeping on the kitchen couch, sun everywhere
You're very clear
You're very clear
I give up
I give up
I give up
I give up
Why put the light on?
Why put the light on at all?
Why put the light on?
Why put the light on at all?

Fireworks for you in the ozone snow.