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This Absence a Presence

from In The Lonely by drummis

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Moment 30: This Absence A Presence

There is a new sickness you’re familiarizing yourself with. This one comes with sudden transitions, crossing thresholds. After being gone for twelve or more hours you come home to the porch light you’ve left on for yourself. Past-you is watching out for future-you, and there is some vague hope that, when you pull in to the driveway, you will spot that other you peering out from a downstairs window, hopeful and glad you’re home. But the apartment is hollow, swirling with shadows, layers of vacancy. And this feeling comes after you, latches on to you like some small ugly child, now riding your back as you go through the paces—dropping your bags, kicking off your shoes, getting a glass of water, making that slow climb upstairs. The child is sick but clings fiercely to your neck, chokes you as you undress, and finally it alights when you throw back and slip beneath the blankets. This is who you curl up with at night, this absence a presence. You sleep on the right side, closest to the door, and a clump of pillows and blankets masses to your left, an almost-body.

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from In The Lonely, released July 9, 2015

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drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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