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Fifteen Dollar Cocktails

by J. P. Whipple (Barefoot John Whipple)

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A spoken word piece about the decadence and decay of the American City.

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Vacant condos
offer pristine views—
sleeping bags
shopping carts
tents

All the pretty people are having 15$ cocktails serve on pretty plates
a homeless man staggers down the street

An American flag waves into the dying of the light
Triggers a memory of when I once felt pride
Home of the Brave
Audie Murphy
Science and Technolgy
Men in Lab Coats
Men on the Moon

Someone took a shit on a potted tree.

For a 15$ cocktail take the freeway from the affluent neighborhoods
Don't stop for roadside attraction
Don't stop to get high with your friends
Don't stop for sex
Keep your hands at the two and four

Clap your hands sales are up
Clap your hands profits are high
Clap your hands for a 15$ cocktail

Cracks grow under your feet
Don't slip up. Don't speak your truth
or they'll drag you down by your bootstraps

For your sins you will be canceled
For your sins you will be sent to your room without a 15$ cocktail

Our thoughts broken mirror
Truth made glorious through catfish angles
A dark age begins with a thousand backwoods preachers
They wave through the tinted glass as they drive through the filth
they mix into their 15$ dollar cocktails

John Wayne lights a smoke and smiles because he thinks he licked them
but he lost himself in the fight
—his stomach full of cancer
—his ghost too weak to cast a shadow

we leave before the credits roll

The sun is down the flag still up
no one takes it in at night
it's just a warehouse for things we don't make
there's only 15$ cocktails for pretty people who put on pretty smiles and clap their hands at meeting where nothing adds up

and a homeless man staggering the street begging to be hit

because he knows nothing ever did

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released February 2, 2024
J. P. Whipple - words and music

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J. P. Whipple (Barefoot John Whipple) Salt Lake City, Utah

J. P. Whipple is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has spent a life drifting across the country singing old time roots, blues, and country.

He is a founding member of the psychedelic band Tycoon Machete: tycoonmachete.bandcamp.com ... more

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