(A monkey dancing to a music box:
code switch to corporate lingo. Speak!)
Q: Tell us of a time you managed conflict
in the workplace. (A menagerie of barbarism.)
(The leopard sinks its teeth into her neck.)
(I touch the Windsor knot around my throat,
adjust my tie [constrictor snake].)
Q: What brought you to our company?
(The real answer? Desperation.)
(A pack of wolves descend upon the weakest of the herd.)
(I want to bare my teeth and eat the rich.
I want to claw my way to revolution.
But everyone has mouths to feed, including me.)
(How does one survive the wild—no,
how do virtue, beauty, truth survive
the corporate jungle? Vultures all around.)
(Rejection.
Rejection.
Rejection.
Rejection.
Rejection.)
(Survive.)
Q: How much of your humanity would you be willing to give us?
A: Will there be anything left?
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Tyler Clark (he/they)
I am a writer, poet, and cat parent from California. My short stories and poems have been published in a chaotic jumble of anthologies, collections, and magazines.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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