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Leftover Meat

from Love Island by Louis Brennan

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Leftover Meat

There’s no dignity
Eating off a stranger’s plate
Leftover meat
Cold and congealed

Servile and sycophantic
You can tell that I really care
You can be my locus of evaluation
A fleshy meniscus
In a bentwood chair

Is this it?
Living for a lukewarm beer
At the end of a twelve-hour shift
Has someone seen my self-esteem?
I don’t know what I’ve done with it

So is this really happening?
Or is it just part of my act
A simple economic imperative
To pay for the paper I put over the cracks

Making a living as an act of contrition
It’s a race to the bottom
And it feels like I’m winning
Screaming internally through the clinking glasses
Leftover meat for the unwashed masses

But I’m starving here
Man cannot live on lukewarm bottles
Of lager beer
Has someone seen my self-respect?
I don’t think I can find it here

Has someone seen my self-respect?
I don’t think I can find it here

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from Love Island, released October 28, 2022

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Louis Brennan London, UK

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, drunk commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate ... more

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