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foster home foam
04:22
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night the dusted dunes with leeches
a swarm too soon to latch
the bees might catch and
tickle pollen suits that brush the hatches
nuclear deserts are full of matches
buried in the sand
they scan the ground for hours now
defeated, empty of any catches
knight the rusted noons with beaches
the ocean rushes moons ahead of seasons
callous climbing tides
a foster home that writes the foam that gnashes
against a land
too far to stand
their anger openly clashes
never to be seen
see this gallantry (gallon tree)
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foucauldian nuf
03:24
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they ban a thousand words
for every pic we share online
locked up in our arms
like we can't afford the fine
bail the belt right off my hips
failed and felt panoptic whips
hide and burden all the same
you pick the cow beneath the rain
it comes as difficult mistakes
in hello moments it's hindbrain
it’s in the answers
jello cancers, call the interstitial reign
discipline with dancing
needled lights and era shade
we feed it
someday let's retire
or fuck off together
ungovern desire
memorize what still matters
veil of disaster
or frail before after
we can have fun
it's empty in the vacuum
of contempt see it's looming
nothing scrolls, it keeps assuming
although it seems snide or post truth fuming
heat abides the rising news
ice is melting ads abuse
we touch a stove a bit too soon
a breeze is seen before it's given
let's epitomize the myth
let's vaporize come with
and let transparency balloon
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aphantasia
03:52
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(in honor of melissa lucio)
they won't see anemone
flailing like a memory
the places i can't paint
but layered like words tapestried
eyes blind and listing
a mental map of after-fact
can i wrestle from the cave
aphantasia like an artifact
and alone my mind conjures
summons and mystifies
a story that once burned
a psyche that atomizes
take off the excess
wasted surreality
imagine a blank slate
unburdened by the third degree
and alone hypervigilant
justice in the undefined
a story that once burned
a psyche that atomizes
a dog that cries asleep
euthanized by latency
the pieces out, a puzzle scrambled
exact-o knife disdainfully
in latitude
in longitude
coordinate the desuetude
did i neglect
do i reflect
a feeling of ingratitude
in current space
the moment's case
misunderstand the multitude
for no one's eyes
imagined lies
a place for one more platitude
the lasting love
the fastest hate
away from all this solitude
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4. |
iknowbetter
05:02
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i pollute the air i breathe
choking on the thoughts of going clean
you taste a solipsistic whisper
a bitter sonder ringing clear
once a tick dream once a never ending (scream)
i put out a lacquer tongue
locked and loaded language gun
strike a match beneath my pride
edges rough and ossified
once a tick dream once a never ending (scream)
there’s enough matter that burns
even time is taking turns
call on nascent demon strings
puppeteer an uprising
suits on a cheap tip
newts in a tea sip
curses leave the throat like a starling dip
shoots from a new hip
boots give a quick slip
verses read aloud in the latin script
suits with a tight grip
fruits rot the guilt trip
curses leave the throat like a siren quip
shoots out a light skip
boots kissed by night snip
verses head the sounds of a news flip
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parking garage
09:50
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a hotel room watches me nictate from the mirror
held up and making more on my sheltered sleep
i smoke a cigarette in the time it takes to earn one
the train tickets for all these passengers
are greater than a day of mine
and we are likely riding to get another
steal the meal from the matted human
that hasn’t unfrayed shoelaces
that hasn’t printed paper or plastic passes
that hasn’t concrete pillars on stolen land
engines idling
sparks the storm
that drowns them in deluge
dollars stacking
drives the people
that light the pile fire
they watch all night and take the train home
head against the window mirroring their fallen features
unblinking, blind
to the beach creatures rising
sand tunnels breathing fresh dawn
carrying their hermetic plans
housed in demolition
a thin line is scooting across the busy coastal lane
the scuttle of shells protecting explosives
made of microplastics and ocean oils
that they stack in the cracks
of concrete pillars
and it was i that cast a burning ember
and even after the mirrors shatter
and even after the rubble clears
and even after the car parts get scrapped
and even after the concussive ringing in school kids’ ears
stops
the insurance will step in
counting crabs and what not
testing microplastics in a lab
reading over contracts that cost more to make than my grocery bill
this parking garage makes more than i do
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6. |
lean_in
03:02
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a wrinkle in time
smooth over years
tempestuous climb
a weathered face slows tears
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cavern ruffles
02:00
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i’ve told fables to the cavern ruffles
we’ve made tables out of matter truffles
you forced labels from the stated cudgels
they gave fables out of cavern ruffles
just because they can’t climb doesn’t mean they don’t feel slopes
just because you feel height doesn’t mean we can’t cut ropes
and they belong
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ekwus
03:14
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as the day ends
a plan comes together;
tying scions and sunrays,
security and stern praise,
our love extends
if they'll be heartless we'll summon machines
you feign forgiveness grace left in silkscreens
a conscience left bedside the memories get bulldozed
a manner can decide the psyche that seems cold
no breaks left for weary all day wracked with caution
there's no need to fear me if you noticed they'll soften
in codes in the safe in the cracks of firewalls
there's goods in the means, in enough, desire falls
take one for granted taken for their theft
take each other unplanted taken history bereft
planning best done in the mirror of loss
naked and hollow in the vision uncrossed
a future revisits the people it cost
the net that is cast catches their life exhaust
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avalanche
04:01
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that day a whisper, that brought an avalanche
the slopes followed, hopes carved
i'll make sure I don't miss her, in growing our branches back
our kitchen noses know the path to follow
never mind the kilter of paths run over
i know it means something
please allow no filter for our snow rover
it chews up all the debris
and that's what you mean to me
at twenty below
the warmest hello
sometimes loud noises might shake down the mountain
our sturdy builds, our foundation stands
think back on last time the way that we won then
the landscape restart can't keep us apart
we'll let new steps lay the tracks for the creatures
they'll lay on our porch, wait for dessert
all through the night broken trees print their features
across our window, waiting for winter
to pass
and that's all we can see
let frozen time go
to spring days that glow
the light time, the long calls,
the late kind of windfalls,
remote work to hand saws,
dancing torque in forest sprawl,
another toke pass protocol,
and fire pits and shared shawls,
our gains found in glade walls,
and i'll wait for us to be
the trust that you know
bound through trials and woe
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spicy peach porpoise
02:22
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the artist calls out another politician
the paint says fallout changes no condition
in time, the last of the ink dries
in time, the winner holds all the lies
next week, the fuckers take another choice
i’m weak, i’m tired of the frozen voice
burning pages, a precipice for blank stares
life in cages, a precipice for nightmares
we’re not meant for this
come and work here
the machine is hungry
keep your hands clear
you’re not above me
like a canvas, we promise to mark and stain
broke engraving, like craving to echo pain
in the morning, touch warning to dreamers
real life bounding, inner grounding silent screamers
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i made off like bandits again
it’s truth, i have stolen
an idea that began as soot
ideal, scorched and rotten
i tasted it, thought of a peach
it burned, just like acid
it’s something i keep well in reach
enough, i can catch it
i made off with your love again
it’s new, tangled up mess
you ask me if i know the means
i give, another face
i think that i could fight for this
it asks, it’s jujitsu
i learn something when on my back
ceilings, aren’t above me
i made off with a message left
it sang, it emptied me
there was a neon emblem here
it broke, gas invades the sea
and i wonder if conscious things
can float, can trace my thoughts
a buoy that i left ashore
it knows, it bottles lots
and we eat peaches (like we’re worthy)
i made off with your love again
it’s old, uses nicknames
you ask me if i know the means
i give, nothing that shames
i think that i could fight for this
it asks, not what you think
i learn something when on my back
my dear, you are worthy
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12. |
rainbow's lullaby
02:47
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now there’s a coffee stain here
and my lungs won’t take all they can
weathered and easily cold
from weeks that clearly grow old
treasuring antiques and scenes
passed ages of paths grinding earth
a slow burn from day in day out
a wick that’s about to go out
tried dreaming, tired nightmares
the old words no one cares
it’s hard enough breaking even
wide speaking, wired all night
the old ways, what is right
it’s hard enough replacing or leaving
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