This is an amalgamation of the first poems I ever sincerely wrote. It was 2017, I stayed up late listening to Tempo House by The Fall on repeat until they were finished. I shared them at a youth poetry conference the next day and almost passed out during the guest speaker’s presentation. I didn’t though!
“lifeless” sounds nothing like The Fall. It would be wrong for me to go without crediting them, though. I have a lot of poetic and musical influences, too many to list, but The Fall is really what inspired me to write with conviction.
