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Bootstraps

from Empty is Open by Asumaya

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6:21 am, snooze bar for the second time.
Nine minutes, the day begins... again.
There's never enough time.
She wipes the crust out of her eyes, she drives.
The traffic is fine.
The coffee is warm, and she'll take that as a sign
of a good day.

7:38 traffic stops, she's late,
and the car is low on fuel.
She knows what's coming: The lecture, the boss, the rules.
Straight forward following day: The fifteen minute breaks and the usual tools... humming to herself.

She says, "I don't ask for much, just a little slice of the pie. I've always been a dreamer. I got a twinkle in my eye."

5:45 in the checkout line. Stuff for enquiring minds
passed off as headlines.
The bagger smiles.
She suspects it might be a show.
Who knows?
But she knows we're all in the same boat.
Aren't we all in the same boat?

Because we don't ask for much, just a little slice of the pie. We've all always been dreamers. We never stop to question why
we can never seem to find the bootstraps
we're supposed to pull ourselves up by.
The Bootstraps.

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from Empty is Open, released August 6, 2010

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Asumaya Madison, Wisconsin

A single throat and four appendages attempting to multiply like cells. Loops and limbs. Mbira and Bass. A polyrhythmic, mono-member musical entity.

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