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Hotel Room

from spoken word by Tourettes

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Music: Gemma Syme and Nick Harte

Singing: Gemma Syme

Poetry: Dominic Hoey

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Hotel room

On the 14th floor we are dressed as the best versions of ourselves
somebodies died in here you can feel it
you’re high off some garbage
siting in a spa bath spewing laughter
talking about how we need education and better drugs
rewriting our lives
with words stolen from some hollywood fantasy
you saw on an airplane once

we’re the same person me and you
just the opposite sex
wrapped in faed tattoos and neon pain
sharing secrets for a cheap high
cos everything is like shitty pain

after the fact we lie in our filth
you read a book called “Love is Submission”
outside morning crawls up the stairs
between its impossibly white teeth
hangs a world where we are
sons and daughters
workers
victims
lovers

and I would stay here with you
living off room service until cancer
but my credit is a momento
from a character building summer
and the only change in my pockets comes in 50 milligrams
and you need 4 to really make the sediment dance

a vacuum cleaner yawns in the distance
we get dressed in last night
and stumble out of here
smiling like we’re too stupid to know how this ends

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from spoken word, released June 29, 2012
Music: Gemma Syme and Nick Harte

Singing: Gemma Syme

Poetry: Dominic Hoey

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Tourettes Auckland, New Zealand

Dominic Hoey aka Tourettes is a poet, author and musician

based in Auckland, New Zealand. Under the moniker Tourettes, Dominic
has released four critically acclaimed studio albums. In a former life,

he was an MC battle and slam-poetry champion. He has performed
his poetry around the world ... more

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