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John Jacob, desert rat
naked, grizzled, mud-flap, middle-income, broken-knuckled mother stealing cars in Arizona
hog-fat gasoline intestine, swollen flanks of insurrection
ready, willing, dripping, blowing loads like rocket boosters
when stopped, he says, “That isn’t blood, it’s mustard mister”
Your sister’s in the back seat, high-school dress around her neck

White leather
white leather
white leather

In the morning, when I’m mean like broken marbles
like I’ve monstered down six six-packs, Seagrams Seven, salt-milk smile
you may find me in the shower, taking chrome off of hot-water faucets
trying on pajamas, smearing Vaseline on apples
later in the afternoon, I’m rolling, taxi driver
taking tolls, picking up passengers
lifting all

White leather
white leather
white leather

It’s a dream, it’s unlike any dream
the coffee tables crawl like spiders, armchairs rolling like gorillas
yeah, your father’s in the backyard staking Kafka
mother’s in the kitchen, Salmon Rushdie tickling with feathers both her thighs
it’s a box, it’s unlike any box, I worry at it daily
picking splinters from under fingertips
bloody splotches all over

White leather
white leather
white leather

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from Careful in the Future - LP, track released August 15, 2018
Written, performed and recorded by James O'Brien
Mixed and mastered by Matt Girard

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022.
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