Half Jack

The Dresden Dolls – Half Jack from Dresden Dolls (2004) /brechtian punk cabaret/
((“two halves are equal:a cross between two evils;it’s not an enviable lot,but if you listenyou’ll learn to hear the differencebetween the halfs and the half nots.”
A dull current buffets the curtains and window frame behind me. The sky, torn open, douses my hands and clothes with pelting rain and rivulets of bitter wet. A drop slips down to the tip of my nose; hangs, clings and plummets into the taste of acrid salt and licking lips. My hands are clamped on bars of railings opposite, hard against firm and slippery skin. The sky rumbles gratitude and slices through the night with lightning. Grip hardens, tenses and pulls through against itself. The forces intersect between my shoulder blades, stretching them apart. I long to rip into it, snap this tension and watch it slap to the ground, undone.))