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Cancer in California

from Nigh Chaparral IV by Nigh Chaparral

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There’s a kid with a kestrel that’ll get black lung
It’s ancestral ‘cause of where he’s from
There’s a hypochondriac who shuns the bums
While all the other kids are having fun

& I can watch the stars
Migrate across the sky
In no time, no time at all

Everything causes cancer in California
You can plead with the angels how they never warned ya
From the gold mines down through to Patagonia
Everything causes cancer in California

& there are disappearing polar bear cubs
& there are all of us who turn & shrug
& the officers carry ornamental guns
& we’re set adrift to sink into the sun

& we forget just who we are
Migrate near & far
In no time, no time at all

Everything causes cancer in California
You can plead with the angels how they never warned ya
From the gold mines down through to Patagonia
You can plead with the devil & wait in Arizona
& you can plead with the angels
& you can search for the answers
Study mindfulness
Wrap it in a pretty dress
Take it up with the courts
& the jesters on the shore
You can wait until it festers
You can rant until we’re bored
You can blame it on the westerns
Yoga mats & empty nesters
But you’ll never be sequestered
No, you’ll never be sequestered

Everything causes cancer in California
From the redwoods down to the old ammonia
You can plead with the angels how they never warned ya
Everything causes cancer in California

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from Nigh Chaparral IV, released May 1, 2020

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Nigh Chaparral Portland, Oregon

Nigh Chaparral was started in Stockholm in the aughts by Jason Breeden (Susurrus Station, Oscilero), Oskar Moberg (Thulebasen) and Sara Johanne (Pikara), tinted by a nostalgia for an imaginary America. It has continued in a similar spirit with others, including Andre Coberly (Night Mechanic), Mae Starr, Monte Trent Allen, Gilles (Rllrbll), and Galen Ballinger (Dumb Balloon). ... more

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