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Shelter In The Dark

by Language of Prairie Dogs

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Recorded in Lewisham and Stretford between 4th December 2011 and 2nd July 2017

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I tell (to death) a memory of the rat - 'big as a fucking pig':
it swaggered between tables as if it owned the premises.
I can't do anything but tell it (if not to death) to wall its room.
It owned that grotty garden that fucking Sunday afternoon.

I have a kitchenette - no toilet, yet - but shower, sofa, bed;
the next rung is self-containment (must aspire). But who said
I'm not accommodating. I fought the mice into the floors
and if they stay there they can stay here; out of sight, out of my thoughts.

The edges of my vision should be still - drifting with dreams;
not crawling with cockroaches. Quick, then still. Every beast
should have a fear and dread of man. This - 'big as a fucking mouse' -
still; steadily looking. I leap from sofa to bed; bleat-

no - command - it: shelter in the dark. Let me sleep - like the mice.
It tracks under my bed. That doesn't comfort. I've obliged
its stolid claim on majesty, as I have flattered rats.
But it should know it in its composition, antennae - from its

armoured hind down to lowered, bullish head -
it should know that it is flattened. I'm rattled. But
that's its only card - the rattling. That translates quickly to wrath.
It should have lived inside the walls. Can only fall on the warpath.

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released July 23, 2017
Written by Language of Prairie Dogs
Engineered, produced, mixed & mastered by Chris Killen & Matthew Alexander Kaufman
Drums recorded & engineered by Buzz Allan
Additional recording by James Aparicio

Dean Anthony Sobers - vocals, guitars, backing vocals

Matthew Alexander Kaufman - bass, saxophone, keyboards, artificially synthesized digital electronic instruments including trumpet and tambourine

Buzz Allan - drums buzzallan.com / twitter.com/buzzdrummer

Jo Rose - piano twitter.com/jothomasrose / jorose.bandcamp.com

Chris Killen - guitar chriskillen.com / twitter.com/chriskillen / hotshorts.bandcamp.com / twitter.com/hot_shorts

Artwork by The Brown Dwarf, from Hubble's view of the Orion Nebula (credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team) // typeface Kindersley Grand Arcade, after David Kindersley: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kindersley-letters-are-things-p06320

Ⓟ Brown Dwarf 2017
cat. no. WISE 1828+2650

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