Welcome at the University on Easy Street

Context

I was watching The Walking Dead (TWD) while I was writing my book about being at the university. The song Easy Street by The Collapsable Club is used in the TWD series. In my book, I compared TWD with critics of necrophillic neoliberals’ society—and the university as a part of this. But the song was still playing in my head. The song and the scenes from TWD—all over again. And I see myself and my friends on Easy Street of TWD. So I sing it for you all.

Song

Every morning I take the Depakine

Same before sleep

So I can work—my work is going well

Like my life: flat and silent

And we all swallow Xanax

Before and after every meeting

To swallow what became and what it is

Right here at the University on Easy Street

Moment in the sun—when drugs are in your blood

I am not alone nor scared—just

Don’t look in my easy—’cause it’s nothing there

Just—life that can’t be beat

Just . . .

I can’t look in your eyes anymore

There is no light there—just

Hazy sadness and fear

Back to my dully work—’cause I know that fear

Moment in the sun—and no future for all

Precarity and survival—and it’s only just begun

So take pills and work hard—’cause the world is a threat

Right here—

And don’t look in my eyes—just