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20 Punk, or a mouthful of sweat glands —for Matt Siegel All you need is a guitar! Mine is red and salivates! That band spent a million dollars on their hair! We use Rust-Oleum on ours! We’ll never rust in the rain! We’re a cliff-dive of hormones and stage fright! Sincerity should leave scars! Our pose is more switchblade than your pose! I miss when gods roamed among us! Music is free! Feedback is nourishing! I have a plate of it every morning! Twenty seven hundred bands played at The Anvil last night! At the same time! Blood clots because it’s full of exclamation marks! They slam together and form scabs! Excitement keeps us alive! Fuck the hegemony of chords! You cannot borrow the safety pin through my nipple to repair your drawers! It’s aerobic to subvert the symbols! Let them fall! Democracy should be amplified to fever! I vote with my drums! Anarchy means never having to say “I will now read the minutes of the last meeting of the subcommittee on housekeeping!” You stole my tuneless screaming! It takes three minutes for the avant-garde to become fashion! Punk is dead! Long live whatever werewolfing comes next! hicok pages i-120.indd 20 1/7/10 3:23 PM 21 Something always comes next! It’s in the womb right now! Put an ear to our mothers! Wear them like headphones! All you need is nerve! There are millions of nerves in the body! Every atom of you is a Stratocaster! Let’s drink beer and think up band names! The Irish Loogeys! Nuns of Syphilis! Who seriously believes garages are for cars! See how I ignore the rules of punctuation! Poets all want to be musicians! Musicians all want to be musicians! So much for the classless society! Rage is to Eros as cunnilingus is to essential! No one wants to be dead who has tried it! But everyone wants to try it! Thus all the noise! The soothing soothing noise! hicok pages i-120.indd 21 1/7/10 3:23 PM ...

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