Patrick Roche – Commit [Video]

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Patrick Roche, performing “Commit”

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– Commit, verb, as in to commit suicide,
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parenthetical, offensive, preferred use
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of die from or by suicide.
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To commit a crime,
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to commit someone to a mental institution,
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to commit an immoral act, to commit a mistake,
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to commit adultery, to commit a sin,
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to commit an offense or something offensive.
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To disappear or evaporate is not something one commits
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as a crime, as a sin, as manslaughter,
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as an affront to a divine judge.
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Besides, I have resolved to commit
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only in the most sanctified ways.
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Yes, of course, I make the expected commitments.
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I commit to my love.
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I commit to be something good and worthy of memory.
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But beyond that, I commit to the sun.
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I commit myself to an institution of long life
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and to the institution of a brain extinguished a flame.
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I commit the capital offense of worshiping the body,
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whether mine or another man’s
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as the holy spring I know it to be.
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I commit the sin of pride
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until I make others commit the sin of envy.
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I commit my depression to the locked room of forgetting.
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I commit my anxiety to banishment.
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I commit a litany of crimes a Puritan would burn at.
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And I commit the offense of loving everything
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until the life drains in only
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the most natural and deserving ways.
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I commit to myself, and I am committing to myself,
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and I am committing myself.
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I commit the holy crime of myself,
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and if I am guilty,
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I am guilty of only whatever things I can be proud of,
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like myself.

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