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Empathy Threshold

from The Body is Part of The Dream by Brett W Taylor

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Leaves are falling pretty in the backyard of your place. Not seeing, only lying there, confused while we all wait. To find normalcy, we stumble through the house and decorate, missing special touches because we don’t know your way. Flashing back to riding in the car on that sad day, I squeeze your hand, imagining the feeling you can’t say. This place will continue crawling, even when we are away. Shopping, finding parking, eating, bleeding through the day. Like the Sentinelese tribe, unaware of all the ways the world is big and connected and about to die away. Or the starving polar bear who doesn’t realize this place was brazenly destroyed by smarter beings far away. My empathy went deep, but it’s still just a taste. My empathy meets a threshold because I don’t have your faith. Bustling and busy, a completely normal day. But without the open chance to call your phone and say, “Hey, this is something you’d like.” “Hey, this is something you’d want.” “Hey, this is something you’d think is funny.” This is something you would say is sad. This is something that would happen to someone else we know. And you’d tell me, but then we’d go out to eat, unaffected, truly not thinking what they won’t take in. Like the boulder by a tree off the road near El Paso or the beautiful White Sands at a park in New Mexico, where I went when I was younger and felt we’d one day go. I thought the feeling meant something, but the unfeeling world said, “No.”

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from The Body is Part of The Dream, released May 14, 2018

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Brett W Taylor Houston, Texas

Brett Taylor is a musician based in Houston, Texas. He has recorded, released, and performed music in various bands such as By The End of Tonight (Temporary Residence Ltd.), sIngs (Dull Knife), Buoyant Spirit (Miss Champagne), Narcons, and Giant Princess. He is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose works and projects span and bend genres. ... more

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