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Videotaping
Accident Recollections

06/28/06

the most ironic thing ever
is when you came with us
to the beach

and we were going to
record us playing songs
with my little video camera

you agreed to hold the camera
while he played the guitar
and I sang cover songs

at one point you sat
on his guitar case
and held the recorder

we played a few songs
but I felt terrible when
we decided to play

a punk-like song called
“wave of mutilation”
you were recording

me singing the words
“drive my car into the ocean”
shortly after I almost died

in the car accident

I don’t know if you were listening
to the words
(or if you could hear them)

but a part of me was mortified
about what you might think
after you heard me sing those words

with the camera, the Gulf of Mexico
and the sounds of the ocean
in the background.


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