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Aloof
04:15
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I'm jumping off your lift / that can't be right / now outside the mall I sit and fantasize / that I don't gotta show up / but you say: "I know ya...you'll tweeze the shivers out in there right beside me..." / and I can't believe they named it after trees / it's got a sadistic, sudden ring to me / cut off a limb far from the reach of my disbelief / 'cuz ain't nobody gonna slow 'em down / they got to keep on moving /
I don't gotta show up / at the behest of noone / at revolving door / never skip a beat / a bull and dozer they come to roll us over / but I can't stop kneeling at the fountain / subsidized as I step into the white / subsidized as I step into the white /
elegance / this disease in season /
am I born with a heart of steel? / I was so indifferent on how different I feel / feet were hot with a friendly movement / but steel don't speak and he's taught to cool it / maybe she is born with it / the intellect to search and employ / with dog-eyed sunken leaky eyes / i used to come to this stone to get high / let enzymes bring end-times and loosen up /
now even punks untie at the site of this delight / punks of the world untie! /
elegance this disease in season / I wanna make work that may one day destroy me / smash every look and reveal my true personhood / I wanna make shame of my violence / stand up straight and kiss / get ready for the alliance /
paint the pig-shit on my face / 'cuz I got / my key out of a lock / at www.mardigras / butter's on the loaf / and I'm aloof
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Five
04:22
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You say it's bad luck / to not light a candle / I'd say the same of the pencil / that I sharpen tonight / to glide the shape of your name / the once true title of the flame / by the way of the valley of cardstock waste / I don't write down anything /
send you a video of a burning number 5 / to a digital silo / memory grains / increasing / never knowing otherwise / sent through the portal / on the day / to the day we were / decreasing / never knowing otherwise / sent you a video of a burning / burning /
they say it's bad heart / to lay back crossed arms in a shame / this discomposure / is only for myself / I can break my own damn heart most days / look up at the arc of light where it bent / shadows show the wallower / there's auspice over cover / could you hold me / outside that silhouette? / in the great gift / of having you to talk with? /
send you more / I won't send you anymore / send me away /
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Misnomer
04:20
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What kind of lover is your brother? / the more you ask you rock that bulwark / harboured in the meadow / undergirded by charts of chain-link / rusts our forest floor / we can't detain these children out here anymore /
you - in love / you ever run the guns? / when's the last time / that you done wrong? / around the world / around the corner / there's a couple holes holding / intrepid misnomers / heroes and fathers / with a billion followers / teach young man handstand / in a sub-Reddit /
I was in the way while I was on the way / I too was in the way while I was on the way / I was in the way while I was in a way / and there's a couple steps down / so we all again / just get around /
unwieldy / the soul in its cell / rebels when the megapixels hit the fan / hot, young, impresario to fire the flare / to virtue / glory / hectic man gets his solo project /
hid it from my heart /
hectic man gets his solo project / and tracks down the creatures to grit and bear it / double-back to suckle the slurry of all mistrust / and what I was not / but maybe I was
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Over Here
04:26
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I stayed away from the news / and if there was something they needed me to know / it could enter in an amble / blazing in the nude / and I won't feel it on my body / but it's all over / me / and I'm still over / here / with my body asunderland / my mind is a fucking jungle gym / with lungs in monkey wrench / cannot pay the round / oh the body what fantasy can do with it / am I living in this city / or just getting through it? / but it's all over / I've always had that underground river in me /
hanging stats on the plastic chair / on the darkside of my room / to make them nameless / with their distances / breathing from their piles / but now they reach for me and you / but I fear that our backs turned to the caution / would not sooner soothe / than to look it in the eye / and tell it it cannot use / us /
slink my mind mind's grip around your delicate build / but I met that / harbinger there / tousled with the perp in the bed / defy death / to make my / still life / still life / still / still life
seeing our children in masks / so to not let 'em all / breathe in / all the reasons / we make them our second chances /
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S.A.A.D.
04:53
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One of the few times Pepe spoke / was up on his feet on the patio / and he pointed me out as I broke a rule / my fingers hook but I'm a fishy too / now I may never see them all again / I can see her jumping in / my mom / in all her clothes and sandals went / smacked the surface / I sensed it / wiped of the mire / all to survive / to cry in the kitchen /
all through the weeks to follow / the taught skin prison / dark through prism / fashioned a shadow of consequence / and traced a depression / if I had to watch from miles away / and soar over fallout of silent holiday / but lives aren't made up of what ifs / but rather throughlines of what did / if I got time / my only worry / is how deep the next deepest ending will be / if I got time my only worry / is how deep the next deepest ending will be
if I got time my only worry / is how deep the next deepest ending will be
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Umwelt
03:53
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It's time to really come at it with joy / 'cause I really feel like being alight / I was upchucked on natural love / despite the anguish / I wanna be easy / easy /
maybe if I did it in love / the sips and drips into wee hours / what desperation for connection could seem so in instant? / that I'd run up your street as the sun comes up / for one touch? /
I know now that shame wouldn't stick if I let you under that surface / that my voice can sound as it is / and not how I wish you heard it / that my body's OK / and not too imposing / it's the one they gave me / and I hope to share / help / work / hold / mirth /
it's not lost that dread unfurls entropic / but as messily / survival is conjoined / hope is molecular cargo / happiness a cankering vessel / salt /
this one started out with some hedging aim at a voyaging / lover / it's just hard to lose a fast-friend at the same pace you made 'em / I thought i'd say you only see me from the sky, Big-Time / the multi-natch'l eventually leaves communion behind / and although I'm flint-struck enough to write it / I don't blame anyone for what we couldn't ignite / in it / lips parted / the mouth in twilight / lips parted / the mouth in twilight /
sometimes your only defence is a bell / so come ring it / let me know you're coming down /
sorry I did not say to you / what I wanted to say to you / when I lost you friend / never knew how quite best to end / moving is what I like best / every arrival's a particular death /
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