Ben Harper, "The Drugs Don't Work" (cover)
(this is one of the earlier takes, hence the ending of "so f--king close!!" which I find kind of endearing in a way. Also, background noise = high-school that I live next door to.)

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this morning my mother's head smacked concrete.
it made a dull cracking sound, did not bounce.
i touched her scalp and felt a lump start to swell under my fingers
the size of a robin's egg, then a hen's, then a goose's.
i tried to take her to the hospital but she was
determined to continue her day; "it doesn't hurt that bad."so she left, and i ( Read more... )