Blythe Baird - Before the Starving [Video]

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Blythe Baird, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.

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as a child I invented a game in my
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backyard called outdoor survival I
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snapped the necks of a dozen tulips in
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my mother’s garden i whisked daffodils
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into egg yolks with sharpened sticks I
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tossed salads of lavender cabbage and
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pebble croutons I pretended to eat when
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my belly whined
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I refused to go inside I imagined I was
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on an island living off the grid in a
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body of a girl graced with the gift of
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not needing to need one night I tried
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sleeping under a heavy blanket of mulch
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I thought of Ginny grandma’s thin wrists
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and whether or not it hurts to die
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looking back I wonder why survival was
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my entertainment of choice has anorexia
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always been mutely boiling inside of me
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was there a reason I mistook the siren
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of my stomach for an audience applause I
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came inside only to brag look mom look
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how little I can get by on
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you

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