Employee No. 1313 Playlist

R.R. 1313 / No. 1313

I was going to do a whole rhyming thing for No. 1313, but let’s face it, she’s the poet, not me. Her playlist leans heavily into her interest in the macabre and metered, with a pretty eclectic mix of genres in service of highlighting the range poetry often takes. Her songs deal with the themes of what it is to create and love despite the pain it often brings.

- D.H.

Playlist

1.		You got your H.P. Lovecraft Your Edgar Allan Poe You got your unkind of ravens And your murder of crows Catty eyelashes and your Dracula cape Been flashing triple A passes At the cemetery gates
2.		Vampires never have to complain Of living a dull circumstance So let's all pretend that we are undead In turn of the century France
3.		And I liked you the best When you a plain simple mess Drinking wine from a pink, plastic cup While the radio played Some soft serenade And we noticed the sun coming up
4.		I don't wanna feel better No one's ever gonna love me like that again I don't wanna get over you I wanna sit with you in bed I don't wanna feel better I'd give anything to miss you again I don't wanna get over it I wanna get under it instead
5.		Ancient text from a past I cannot answer to Less oracle, more victim, but equally blind Preaching self-fulfilling prophecies constantly and Gosh it seems awfully cozy for you to always know the "I told you so" is so close at hand
6.		The essence, the basics without did you make it? Allow me to make this childlike in nature Rhythm, you have it or you don't That's a fallacy, I'm in them Every sprouting tree, every child of peace Every cloud and sea, you see with your eyes
7.		Friday nights Foggy streets and Christmas lights Wake me up on Saturday Grab my hand and float away Into the abyss again And I will always be your friend So grab my hand Take my hand, I can't do this alone
8.		Near or far, no matter how close you are Hopelessly united in entropy Could it be, the presence of memory Is all we are, and all that we'll ever be?
9.		Do you belong to a song? Does it drag you along by the tongue at the top of your lungs? Are you drunk? Have you been drinking? Do you below the overpass go with a fifth in your fist Reminiscing the kiss of a love that just didn't love as much as you did?
10.		A partner in your sorrow's mysteries; For shade to shade will come too drowsily, And drown the wakeful anguish of the soul.