Battle Creek

from Gorgeous Tom by Archipelago

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Battle Creek

hard skies
hard rain
rolling smoke from the west-side stacks
Battle Creek

I walk
down a street boarded up and older
I love Battle Creek

nineteenth-century industry
twenty-first century loss
an empty elementary school
Battle Creek

cold hands
grey snow swept by a knifing wind
cold times
Battle Creek

break down
break out
there’s prosperity around the corner
Battle Creek

nineteenth-century industry
twenty-first century loss
a crooked maple tree in a downtown park
Battle Creek

plant closed down in spring
part-time shift at Burger King
three hundred graduates from the high school
can decide whether life is really that cruel

make love
make war
make up your face make up your days

hard rain
hard souls
hard to hope, easy to feel
Battle Creek

nineteenth-century industry
twenty-first century loss
smoking at night in the playground
Battle Creek

a farm out past the edge of town
a new coffee shop on Fourth Street
a kid playing her guitar

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from Gorgeous Tom, released August 14, 2020
Billy Harrington: drums
Sam Vail: bass
Karl Sikkenga: guitar, piano, vocals

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Archipelago Ypsilanti, Michigan

Archipelago is a collective based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. We are purveyors of toothsome music and smart lyrics.

There are many ways to be humane in this world, and we need every one of them. Our hope is that listening to our dozen endeavors will help. ... more

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