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With the shrivelling leaves of the rotting tree
With the sibilant wheeze of the breathing machine
With the colony collapse of the honeybee

With the New Year’s ball drop countdowning
With the divorcee’s pawnshopped wedding ring
With the bee’s demise after the sting

With the junk car hauled to the scrapyard lot
With the job replaced by a better robot
With the bee’s wings torn by a petulant tot

With the jacked up rents of the tenement square
With the packed up tents of the carnival fair
With the hive ripped up by a grizzly bear

Hovering in place
Waiting to trace
The pollen from the pansy
To the knee
Perpetuating their insect race
Just like
Just like you and
Just like you and
Just like you and
Just like you and me

With the head of state fleeing after the coup
With the sad wife weeping after the woo
With the Queen’s quick splat under the shoe

With the missing limbs of the basketbase
With the knitting mill worker’s disfigured face
With the drone’s quick death and easy replace

With the miner’s fate of shoveling coal
With the salesman’s state of constant cajole
With the bee born and dying in his role

With the retouched ceiling of the Sistine dome
With the endless slave labor of the building of Rome
With the artless production of the honeycomb

Hovering in place
Waiting to trace
The pollen from the pansy
To the knee
Perpetuating their insect race
Just like
Just like you and
Just like you and
Just like you and
Just like you and

It’s so hard to look the bee
In his five compound eyes
Say that we aren’t that alike
When you both know it’s a lie

It’s so hard to look the bee
In his five compound eyes
Say that time she won’t destroy us
When you both know it’s a lie

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from The Tick of the Clock, the Beat in the Chest, released February 23, 2010

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Felix Obelix Pittsboro, North Carolina

Felix Obelix is the avant-pop project of Wendy Spitzer. The twisted hits from unpopular Big-Note piano books that never were.

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