Everyday

Preview:

I've been listening to Japanese city pop recently. It is a glitteringly chill genre, full of city vibe created in 1970s. I discovered I don't like Mondays this Monday and had been listening to this song on repeat.

Yu's vocal is a contrast against his looks. The best part of this song is when he sings the word "fuck." He drops the note at the end and incorporates a coarse regret but also a let-go. It's not aggressive but sighful; it is a recogniticion of the danger of the thought of love.

City pop is on the revival. Image above is a NFT from the MidnightBreeze collection, #4833.

Poem:

 
Then the
  uncomfortable shoes
  impure faces
  dropped pills
  on the subway bench
  5 stations to catch
  the shuttle from 7

Fuck I’m in the middle

Then the
  new york neon lights
  drowning in the rain drops
  on this winter night
  rims overlapping
  dissipating into none

Fuck I’m in the middle

And the
  amateur priest
  commands run, run
  towards Jesus
  a stream of people
  walking on the opposite

Fuck I’m in the middle...