Hearing the words “Exquisite Corpse” used to mean something very different for me, at a point a figurative corpse wasn’t really a thing. After coming across the artist of Exquisite Corpse, Watsky, I learned what an Exquisite Corpse is. For those as unfamiliar with the term as I was, an Exquisite Corpse is a song or story that was written by a lot of different people; one person starts it by writing a page or verse, and then its passed on to another writer who does the same. The result is a story crafted by the sum of all the writers’ parts. That’s how I see myself, as the sum of the parts of those who have been or are in my life.
The first verse of Exquisite Corpse is by George Watsky, the one who published the song. The first verse signifies the start of an era, for me I see it as the start of High School. Watsky wrote this verse as a sort of prompt for the next writer, and an introduction to the song. He sets the stage in a post-apoctolyptic wasteland of uncertainty, a new,
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That puts Rafael Casal’s verse next in line, which I tie to two very specific people; those people being me, and my ex girlfriend. Rafael writes about a specific member, and most likely leader, of “The Hive.” The identity of the hive had been changed by now, from clowns to robots, don’t ask me how you can get those two confused. Rafael gets hypnotized by this robot through music, and becomes a traitor against The Resistance. This is all too personal of a note to me, as my ex manipulated me into ditching my friends who had tried to help me (The Resistance), and dragged me further into the clique I refer to as “The Hive.” Rafael’s second line is a deceptive line to the resistance, saying “That’s not a robot (Exquisite Corpse, Rafael Casal) …” What he’s saying is that the very thing that turned him against the Resistance isn’t a threat, which much to my regret, is what I had done to my