“Letter Home” by Defiance, Ohio [via]
“If we can do it here, you can do it anywhere!” To talk is to brag and inaction comes from fear. If they can do that there, I could do it anywhere and I have no right to complain!
“Trip & Stumble” by Defiance, Ohio
And I haven’t had an honest conversation in weeks and irony rolls off my tongue much more easily and I don’t think it’s mean, it just represents a chilling disconnect from reality.
“Hair Pool” by Defiance, Ohio [via]
Even Columbus looks better on the back seat of a bike / and all my fears get washed away in a stream of blinking lights / and the concrete strip below seems less like a noose / and more like a tie that binds / or at least a tourniquet.
— “Bikes and Bridges” by Defiance, Ohio
“Calling Old Friends” by Defiance, Ohio
“I Don’t Want Solidarity If It Means Holding Hands With You” by Defiance, Ohio
“Response to Griot” by Defiance, Ohio
“Bikes and Bridges” by Defiance, Ohio
we hung up our relationships / for everyone to see / then blind interpretations / couldn’t say what’s right for you or me / and we could find out what we want / and make no apologies / because we couldn’t coexist / any other way.