The Wrong Thing - Xiu Xiu

Charismatic, a trapped rabbit

Carpet beetle, huhu grub

Rice weevil, flatworm

Mealy bug, field cricket

Grass grub, caterpillar

Head louse, utopia

I can’t bear what they say about you

Baptize a goat, sacrifice a goat

Let’s shove in our wrong as deep, as deep as it will go

Soft in the head

And a moth besieged

A life alarmed

With you

Sheaf of wheat for flicking away

Sheaf of rye for flicks to come

No boat back to where we came from

Days spent eating and only eating

Without ease and without reflection

Apples, artichokes

Almonds, acorns

Asparagus, avocados

Apricots

Pulled through the sand

And yet not dulled

A life alarmed

With you

Cynthia, upon the throne

All the cubes and squares go home

Sit by me and do the wrongest thing

Boom are like we

And bunnies and pink are we

Boom go that cars thee

Cars are like we