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Cosmic Irrelevance
02:56
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awaken.
cold sweats.
descending the steps.
i stare into the mirror and tell myself:
"you're not going to exist one day..."
and
"what's an 'accomplishment' when we're all just going to turn into dust
anyway?"
then I throw cold water on my face
as it's the only way to sober up from such thoughts.
i'm constantly reminding myself to replenish so as not to expire.
writing whatever comes to mind to try and clear
some of the mess my head left behind.
a missed connection with slumber again this time.
"getting used to being nothing really numbs you.
makes you ripe for worm food.
we're all just shoveling dirt out of and then directly back into
a hole that never fills.
a void."
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Winding Way
03:53
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Lost mind, befound spirit
Resting in place
Between punctuation marks
What lie below / this crude surface
Now requires your devoted service
Blind trust in strangers
Such a ride / you can be taken for
All of the money / In the world
Can’t buy you by
What keeps you up at
Night, your terrors
Your insecurities
I thought of you in a Winding Way
Take us further / from the River Side
Repetition of all
Prior versions of
Yesterday’s paid promises fray
Step on through rotted walls of noise and
Splintered wooden fences
I thought of you in a Winding Way
Carried off into the brush
Whisked away by the stream
Fallen like a brittle leaf
Hand and hand in this we lead
Bare in our offerings
Owned by a bank of disbelief
Fulfillment leveraged by
The ultimate desires of the heart
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Post-Aught Optimism
01:46
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Celebrate mediocrity
Discourage originality
Champion homogeneity
Suppress innovative thoughts
Find comfort in archetypes
Duplicate carbon copies
Stay stylishly subversive
Nothing new keeps you up at night
Exorcise exciting ideals
Wretch at tomorrow’s rendition
Reject anything uncomfortable
The way it was over how it will be
Disconnect from all that drives us
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtains
This is the way we are all headed
If we aren’t already there
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4. |
Migraine Moments
02:35
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Levitate towards a headache
Represent the stream
You create
Your home is open in spring
Learn to check in with you
Find common ground
Propose a caption towards which you can
Gravitate
Call out from the show
You're faking sick
Too thick a lie you’re
Sinking in
Freeform and four score and forewarned you bore
A hole in your head the size
Never seen before
Outside of the lines we all agreed to share
Drawn last once again
At this you stare
You were never let up
Drowned, fickle, sore
Guided by a knot to whose
Noose you wore
Shivering, cold, vacant glare
Thrown up, blurred out, alone
And scared
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5. |
Little Plastic Lives
03:45
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Life is about learning to lie
Through your teeth
Never to dream too high or
Shudder with disbelief
For we are all Kings until we realize
Our crowns are made of plastic
Decorated in lies
Day in and day out we
Break our backs for dimes
While the rest of the world feels free
To chime in
Like they know us
Like we owe them
Life is about learning to come to grips with you
Never taking it too seriously
You’ll never make it through
For we’re all human and one day we realize
Everything we know in our little plastic lives
Is a
Lie
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We gave our hands for those who were damned
over-caffeinated. overworked.
wound tight.
dead flickering light.
purple halogen
illuminates digital inkwells.
the silence is breadwinning.
nerves pull triggers,
they don't squeeze.
in the background the amateur states:
"i feel, therefore I am right."
i'm overwhelmed with too much mortality for one week.
(sometimes I feel like a reptile,
and sometimes like a man
sometimes i feel like kicking the shit out of myself
again and again)
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7. |
White Men's Shoes
03:33
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there was a man who never gave thought to the quality of man he was
or would become
or legacy he would leave behind.
he never once felt guilty about keeping things from his children
or his lover or his friends.
he never gave thought to what others might
think if he cried.
he knew not and didn't care,
of the things society deemed as masculine.
how they dressed, acted, ate, thought,
worked, or loved as.
he wanted, without a thought of what others would say or punish him with
for such behaviors.
that man is fictional.
from no time nor place.
he is just an element of an idea i have expressed without giving a
thought to what it may actually mean.
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