Genesis 2.0 by Loren Berí

Daddy was a basketball star

Mother the diplomat

Saving Bulgaria

Home in time for brunch

Dad invented rock and roll

Last life he was Chopin

He told me I was Georges Bizet

He influenced me again this way

I was on the lazy suz

Spinning moniker Master DJ Jew

When Mom threw away the LSD

The VCR still talks to me


What’d you lose?

I don’t know

Who lost who?

I don’t know


Gran pa pá was Einstein’s right hand man

Gran ma má made all their master plans

J.M. Barrie, her biggest fan

She gave him the cred for Peter Pan

Winston Churchill was Daddy’s God Dad

That’s how I have his black dog

Nero sits beside the windowsill

Smokes his pipe and chooses birds to kill


What’d you lose?

I don’t know

Who lost who?

I don’t know

Forever wants a truce?

I think so

Yet who lost who?

I don’t know


Mum created crystal radio

Her second love Genesis 2.0

Studied Phil Collins on the way to school

I mistook reverb for God

Where was Reverb the day Dad died

We lost him at the free throw line

Scoreboards set him free

If you see Dad tell him I love him

And the next drink’s on me


What’d you lose?

I don’t know

Who lost who?

I don’t know

Forever wants a truce?

I think so

Yet who lost who?

I don’t know

• Alternative
• dream pop
• indie
• indie pop
• indie rock
• lyrical
• psych pop
• songwriter
• synth
• synthpop
• Brooklyn