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Signal Crossed Synapses
02:30
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nail me to the swastika cause the cross ain't costing enough
rupture symbols, taste of hate at least it ain't lost in the cuff
you ain't Boston enough
to toss marathons bombs in the ruff
gone, the wrong interrupts and hanging puppets by the strings
tugging hearts, here's the rub
my marionette's still steel wool eyes
rise until the water level gets lost in your tub
blurred words tossing the drugs
over shoulders like bags of dirt, soiled genes, and a litter of monsters and cubs
might hibernate, when your fate decided it's time to mosh in the club
often, I must change frames
maintain the air of posh inert trust
unearth frost in her dust
stay floating, maybe rot inner lust
like the holes in my best friends teeth
have a bag of sweets, treats, feature feats
Evel Knievel wouldn't want for the rush
so put them spikes down and bleed
here's the need that seeps in your thoughts and your blood
illustrious dreams where the steam causes your top to erupt
your market shares bubbles bound to pop and pocket your rust
it's a locket bottle rocket gold record capsule
perhaps you'll see it's sealed and lost to earth's touch
opposite of crop circle dust
a games proper full cups
of dice where the prophet woke up
to nod and wander propelled upon purple rugs
and note the strongest of smells Pavlovian bells make him long for the sun
sear bacon France is certain you're wrong when it comes
to making ponderous love
ridiculous
i'm wrong with this shub so shut the fuck up
no i will not keep my mouth shut
cinch and cut the riot struts put down the rock and sling
Sisyphus and giants touch corruption on a string
violins erupt and sing they're crying for the sin
of broken brains and hearts and shame
a puppet carving grins
an etching of a broken poem Goliath walked on pins
needles, shards of glass, bloodied grass
cast the bones and beg the past
compromising strategies which vandalize the wind
signal crossed synapses, stroke of genius now collapses
lost the random access, memorized a broken wing
a tires spoke and spring
we've spoke of this before while going crazy on a binge
but the history was purged as we journeyed towards the fringe
the fabric of our space and time now laughs and patches all our rhymes
with codes and brittle subtle signs
erode the pattern of our morning, how do we begin?
emergent dialectic, question liquid logic
linguistics looking for an exit
the conversation was a head trip and it left him with the spins
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Vagabond put down your ho and rake
tramp lost his hand because he stole from pharaohs plate
his mate is now a concubine, don't dare to call it rape,
a harem pet she'd lost her mind, then finds it in the hate
for what she was, in luster's love, at comfort in this place
power in the caliphate perhaps she judged with haste
dear vagabond, a lover spurned why try to broach the gate
the god-king got an army and his dice will roll your fate
the role the hobo had, cast aside for beast of burden,
replaced by ox or bull; machines with algorithmic learning
sweat blood oil toil wheels must keep turning
the stacks of fuel were always fit for earning or for burning
it takes a long time to turn a ship that's grown so massive
titan hulking lumber dumb, suture limb and muscle placid
cause the plastic is a drug as sure as opium and crack is
caffeinated adderall television acid
a pattern's bound to break given scales across time
slither on ouroboros for we will catch your mind
tie you to caduceus twist fabric of your rhyme
spine, there is a truth in us, genetic fishing line
we will play your scales and harmonize with seas
cuddle with the subtle wish of Venus climbing trees
ink we found tattooed to the shavings of her limbs
marks the blanket round the space where our story first begins
tales told of heroes witches monsters beasts and kin
libraries been encrypted, light houses all our sin
dim and hollowed moans echoes bones of Mary's ghost
a story be the law ringing glass aloft for toasts
The speeches were not welcome, snake oil in our ears
We prefer to suckle on emotions language disappears.
Intuition guides the penning of our universal law
The ink is in the file heading, coded in the scrawl
Pinned atop your wall, scrolls beyond the wheels reach
stigmatize the social eyes scanning for a breach
The blackened mirror that you hold a pendulum at best
keeping time, lock step march determining the rests
The staff is now enchanted as is front of house and guests
Service to the wordless burdens shackling her breath
She must avert her gaze when her vagabond is near
He's a fire fly, door ajar, he won't disappear
Conditioned trained to know his place within the glass and cork
She tipped him over urged him on, his story at a fork
But both of them have grown so fond of their respective chains
Servitude and social bonds, compare selective shame
how we supposed to communicate when towers bound to babble
sell your cells roommate space near dwellers lost at travel
i don't think you'd catch me hear are accents distorted words
attitudes speaks loudest here bodies language blurs
laps in judgment memories encircled prison yard
this skull becomes a drug of mine solitary playing cards
the past is filled with facts and the futures are absurd
artifacts with little tact contracting pacts with little birds
so they sing
because the words have lost all meaning
and they drink
think it's the bubbles they were reading?
and they laugh
that was nice it's worth repeating
and they dance
until their shoe soles started bleeding
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Terrible People
03:13
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i don't care enough, pull out the hair shut the door
get lost, stare at stuff, come up with useless metaphors
sit in corners, rock myself, back and forth to sleep
another hopeless sheep, who's counting people
shut your skull, go to peace
ignore your eyelids, they're deceitful, carnival of weasels
needles in the veins of voodoo dolls claiming you don't notice evil
tell yourself, it's all in your head, cause it's easier to pretend
you're listening to babble falling out the mouths of river beds
fell asleep in front of glowing screens, the warmth keeps you from noticing
you're floating or you're drowning when you're rowing down that stream
life is but a dream
lots of thoughts, of what we got and where we've been
and where'd we go, and how'd it get so wrong?
a simple song and we're just burning slow
melting pot is on a simmer, bitter boiled winter lingers
cauldron keeps us warm, so tell me what's dinner
sinner, saint, and primate fate, a painting of our dynasty
winners hate the finer things, trash heaps filled with diamond rings
a sign of our symptom, the blessings of a system
ignored the cost and wouldn't listen
mining all those elements at least you have a phone
cellular circulations circumvents the patients
doctors take vacation, they were roaming out of zone
can't see the cancer for the hyper efficient growth of cells
build a new tower copy Babylon before it fell
hell, adjust the shrink wraps, package gifts up nice and tightly
nightly drop the drink cups, stack dreams more sad than frightening
brain freeze tremor, deceptive validation
frame squeeze remember, that you don't know what to do
detective allocations, blame FAT table 32
i'm a node inside a neural net, fried, deprived an epithet
disguised in my own habits tried to pick apart taboos
close my eyes pretend, there's no me, there's only you
the movies in this skull, crack the screen and come unglued
this body is a vessel, stream of conscious running through
I'm a Hedonist, with heathen mixed add a dash of asshole
the dreams of which, would seem to switch, right before the lasso
tightens up and cinches, it's a noose around the neck
quick, take away my change before i start to dissect
my dreams and memories, a steady stream, of "what's it all about"
is it called life if fulfilling moments happen on a couch?
where's the doubt? where's the love? where's the anger?
it's all in my head, to myself i'm a stranger
waiting in a hanger, most those dreams already take flight
chart daily courses, notions rage, dying of the light
is it life? olfactory, monotony, smell the bleach and fight
dream police win monopoly
but this dream is bright
cause we're walking toward sunrise
divinity and demons making love
the sound is sublime
opposites attract when fear is confined to
the space between your heel and your shoe
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Theater of War
04:57
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alchemist that kicks down rip sounds more than full metal
rearranged upon a table, periodic elemental
unstable and dissentful, rupture symbols, crush the lentil
set up a lodge, layered canvas, but he picked apart the tent pole
sentimental tragic, freak and shout ecstatic, peel out a bit of magic
and scrap the rubber off the tracks
burnt up tight inhaled fumes, turning lights and breaking wombs
vision fights and shakes the tomb saying, "this is all an act"
all the worlds a stage, between a showman and a sage
a shaman and the rage against the dying of the facts
linger bitter kept around spider strings a woven gown
ripped on nails tore it down, the slit reveals her back
at least the small of it, not all of it
she only touched the polished bits
betrayed the rings around her eyes she got while staring through the cracks
ink from the sharpie which held the scent of harpies
the sirens and the art piece
he could only hang with tacks
and she dreamed, that her children would stop fighting
it might seem apparent sibling rivals striking
body screams for the cannons they were lighting
silver screen war theater’s enticing
and she dreamed
vicissitude limerence buckets of crabs choke
clawing at escape artists, retelling a bad joke
wishing food, deliverance, battling dashed hopes
she's humming, her vision rips the hull of a crashed boat
last note she ever plucked string on a cracked bow
slit quiver fingers flipping birds at the bashful
feather flights bring her to the booty the map shows
treasures dotted lines an X attaching his crass soul
wired nets sinew broken flesh on a dance pole
rallying the sun to speak the secret the mask knows
challenging a tongue to bleed when it should ask ghosts
talent beaming underlings breathing in black soap
key across painted dreams, scratching a trash vote
free frost sainted schemes, nervous spine of the rat broke
compass needle lost the wheel, purpose bent every last spoke
observe absurdest artists musing prophets who laugh most
and he laughs while the children sharpen sticks
a golden calf the figure head that guides the ship
is split in half break the idle hands lay bricks
plunge the staff into the clay and then he quips
silly games all end the same this is how we sift
loose noose prison comedy up at the gallows
interrupted breaking news alerts the symphony of shadows
mad hope, dim light, create with vandals
channeling the corpse of your long awaited bride
take her hand with hopes she understood that you tried
shaman song with m&m mini cans for rattles
drum; subtle snare, loose leaf stretched over wood panels
inner battles couldn't handle being penned with cattle
prod the cracked and broken leather sole of my left sandal
wax drops on my toes, forgot about the candle
vigils don't seem to mean quite what they used to
she wants me to explain can only say that I'm confused too
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5. |
Nuclear Faux Pas
03:51
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Reaction to a dream split sizzle fission in my core
mourning pushes past the riddle unsure what I'm existing for
The opposite of solipsist, agnostic faith apologist
Pseudo-vice mythologist and psychonaut mycologist
Lobotomize my hemispheres to give up half a mind
both factions in this skull I can't tell which voice is mine
personalities and penmanship don't betray the host identities
rebellion against gravity display ghost script dependencies
Chisel strikes the middle cascade spider web facade
Disk bulge shiver cord a river slipping from the palm
mirage and trickle glossy shimmer sands dripping through the calm
Searching for some sense before her silent voice is wronged
It visits on the wind roaring stillness of a bomb
atomized vapor singed fury breaking pawns
mushroom clouds, her windows glow; sills sigh and praise the dawn
radiating from her forehead: halo, wings, and song
stand still jump
anticipation stumped
grieve breathe leave
crumble dust until it bleeds
slip away to read
take away the broken notion that was causing us to dream
steam scolded pressure
a lesson in the ledger
eager for the air and the ocean and a measure
of brand new space fresh faced experience
lost in the vision found bliss while delirious
serious the system shook me nervous
branching to the filaments
turn around who's hearing this?
mysterious and furious
snacking lice with apes
hygiene and grooming and bonding and grapes
snake slither scale used to hypnotize my mother
cake sliver braille fused, dipped in lye and butter
Slip stale statements slide lack of consciousness
let me rub the sleep from out my eyes before i try to conjure it's
just too bad
i had this dream all the myths were breaking
try to tell you 'bout the dream, you tell me that the gifts been taking
far too long to arrive or maybe manifest
rest of our lives we could try but never banish it
that feeling, the seething, the bleeding and the famished-nes
she lifts my head to see my cracks repairs them with her bandage kiss
advantage is standing demanding planning emergency landing
in case of a break in the vessel, strain on the spine is too stressful
remember the time that we wrestled
with minor faux pas embedded in major applause
enough to give pause, and rise to a cause
misunderstood though you're certain of the transience
intuitive sparks forest charred that's what you're brandishing
a glowing iron rod pressing runes into famine's lips
floating where sod uplifts the hull of a damaged ship
propped upon pine stilts, because the foundation is tilting
crossing seas of silt, every creeping vine that was wilting
bludgeon time instead of killing it, look inside the paradox
Pandora's hilt bloodied betraying an affair of clocks
(broken arms twisted face bruised battered blessed
hoping an alarm would lift a hammers game of chess
"they all look like nails" it's apparent you need rest
stop carrying that cross, the burden's terrible at best
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