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And I Don't Want to Live This Life

by Jessie Lynn McMains

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"We wanted boys who would jump in the pit with us, who would think our ripped fishnets and blood-speckled skinned knees were sexy. We wanted boys who did drugs and loved the dark torn edges of the night. Only that dirty-sweet Sid and Nancy romancing could satisfy girls like us. Nancy, Nancy, she was our sister and our queen. Crazy, abrasive, drug-addicted, not conventionally beautiful, but she found a rockstar bad boy who wrote odes to her intelligence, her fashion sense, and her beautiful wet pussy. We wanted that. We wanted the Sids to our Nancys."

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A spoken word version of a piece that will be appearing in my upcoming book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Punk, as well as on the companion spoken word album.

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released May 16, 2016

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One Beer Prophet is a smoky-voiced siren from the trainyards of the Rust Belt. Pulling up the dark roots of Americana, she tells the stories of what happens after the train is hopped and the whiskey drank. She is skinned knees and dirt under your nails, the night you fell in love and the morning your heart was broken, 3am and another bottle of wine - or beer. ... more

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