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Casual Employment

by Armitage Shanks

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1.
wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour asleep I dream of coils, nichrome heated coils no escape, no escape don't forget to charge the vape asleep I dream of coils, nichrome heated coils no escape, no escape don't forget to charge the vape I'm happier with vapour's tongue, than smoker's lungs wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour wake up, breath in, sit up, exhale vapour, a fruity flavour doing my long term health a favour asleep I dream of coils, nichrome heated coils no escape, no escape don't forget to charge the vape asleep I dream of coils, nichrome heated coils no escape, no escape don't forget to charge the vape I might be biased, I'm sipping on New Zealand's finest
2.
i'd rather die, than meet my KPI it's been days since I've had a day off and I'm pissed off! i'll probably die an early death because of stress i'll be my bosses fault if its because of world war 3 it'll be someone else's bosses fault for some reason, i couldn't tell you why i went to work early first thing I hear "look I know ur on your break but my table's dirty" I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free i get half an hour to myself today, please don't talk to me i paid six bucks for this bahn mi fuck off and let me eat I close my eyes and i see dockets i'm close to gauging out my eye sockets can i speak to the manager stop wasting my time you want a free coffee I want a free Palestine i want to put a needle in your strawberry maybe not that'd be a bit scary (i'm just joshing ASIO it wasn't me) I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free I'd have a hard time caring on minimum wage so I certainly won't do it for free
3.
being shat on by a bird is meant to be good luck well this pigeon shat on everything it didn't give a fuck 3 days of feathers 3 days of chaos, pest control did nothing so when they said it came to violence I thought they must be bluffing did it know it wasn't meant to be there? who are we to say we coexist with birds until they get in people's way tears were shed, a pigeon died for the crime of being stuck inside i lost faith in religion when they went and shot the pigeon being shat on by a bird is meant to be good luck well this pigeon shat on everything it didn't give a fuck 3 days of feathers 3 days of chaos, pest control did nothing so when they said it came to violence I thought they must be bluffing did it know it wasn't meant to be there? who are we to say we coexist with birds until they get in people's way tears were shed, a pigeon died for the crime of being stuck inside i lost faith in religion when they went and shot the pigeon weeks have passed, the centres calmer do I miss the pigeon or the drama?
4.
I don't want to go to lord of the fries I want to cut ties with every vegan small L liberal coz I don't fuck with green capitalism I don't give a fuck about plastic straws how about we ban wars how about we ban pipelines accross Indigenous lands means of production straight to our hands? if only you cared about refugees as much as vegan cheese and what about mass exploitation and deforestation on your soy plantation there's no ethical consumption under... something.... I don't want a war on waste, I want a class war (class war?) class war! I don't want to go to lord of the fries I want to cut ties with every vegan small L liberal coz I don't fuck with green capitalism I don't give a fuck about plastic straws how about we ban wars how about we ban pipelines accross Indigenous lands means of production straight to our hands? if only you cared about refugees as much as vegan cheese and what about mass exploitation and deforestation on your soy plantation there's no ethical consumption under... something.... I don't want a war on waste, I want a class war (class war?) class war!
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Bug Beat 02 02:49
i love my bugs i have green friends my devotion has no ends my friends are green sorry to flex i have pet stick insects eat some leaves for a snack lose a leg grow it back they shed their skin an evolutionary win an evolutionary win wish i could hug my pet bugs look like a stick theyre hard to see but not that hard for me in the sun i see them sway wish I could be them for a day eat some leaves for a snack lose a leg grow it back they shed their skin an evolutionary win an evolutionary win
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unnecessary pain, trying to get off my train hard to stay composed (to stay composed) when the crossing is closed trespassing is electrifying, but too long before rectifying was once a fast path but one year passed was once a fast path but one year passed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ unnecessary pain, trying to get off my train hard to stay composed (to stay composed) when the crossing is closed trespassing is electrifying, but too long before rectifying was once a fast path but one year passed was once a fast path but one year passed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i want infrastructure is it too much to ask for i want sensible transit planning i want infrastructure is it too much to ask for i want sensible transit planning unnecessary pain, trying to get off my train hard to stay composed (to stay composed) when the crossing is closed trespassing is electrifying, but too long before rectifying was once a fast path but one year passed was once a fast path but one year passed

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our debut tape is finally here ! silly songs from 2 angry trots with synthesizers

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released May 1, 2020

mixing by Ashton Anderson and Jackson Phillips!!
cover artwork by Selena Repanis & Liz Luby at Five Star <3

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Armitage Shanks Adelaide, Australia

maisie and grangus = spicey marxist electro pop synth duo <3

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