1. |
Worst of Ways
03:45
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y u gotta luv me in the worst of ways?
u shda told me of yr PhD
in runnin thru my Whitney like yr cares r caves.
i never askt u to be true.
in the history of the human race
not one creature we have ever slain
struggled toward our psychophagous face,
yet on u bitch at my buffet.
y u gotta treat me like i’m over-paid
for doing everything for u for free?
maybe i wuz generous, n it’s an MBA
with an emphasis in screw.
O u mothers of the nearly dead,
grapple tighter to thr favorite doll,
cuz next to my luv tryin to rite my hed,
well, u just don’t noe loss at all.
wen u gonna luv me like the first of days
n throw yr body at the amputee?
spongin up my frowzy like it’s novocaine,
hallowing my architeuth?
is there anything more dismal, dear,
than a limb not led by luv?
so let our epicenic fable steer
yr vertex to my melted ilium.
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2. |
My Lost Composer
06:43
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softest textures dying loudly
crashes thru my haggard psyche,
iridal this glum unmaking,
resonance on silence slaking
conjured to the voiceless traces
wer unsungs grind yr body
into a maze of gravy,
nothing can find its somehow,
u soothed our clamor, so now
i can't hear u
but i hear the deth u do.
as diffusion took yr hand
u kept asking wut's the band
finally it wuz wise to worry
how the flake shd fare the flurry
as u fused into our fingers
hadness devoured u wholly,
mood poisoning all our glory,
life is a failed drama
wretching its raves thru trauma
lying to u
that it needs the deth u do.
have u seen my lost composer,
she of gracious, wild composure,
wut am i to play without her,
butchering ded ringers tout her
luring with their livid lulla-
by, O goodbye to music,
cry, let me cry, i'm so sik,
now gives the stage to never,
caesura resound forever.
why sing of u
wen i sing the deth u do?
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3. |
Beautiful Rain
03:22
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wen will death turn me round
n sho me
the noeing i noe never went away
the place that i go wen i’m the hurricane
the part in my show that i alwz play
cuz i’m desperate, dumb and free.
slouch or stretch
inimitably
to reach the basal tome?
follow me
to the beheader’s breast
n we’ll try to score some home.
bookt my time with that publicist
who can get u on a train,
he took my mind like a bug a kiss,
so shut yr mouth n say:
wen i wuz alone,
i wuz worldwide,
then i put my globe
in a powerdive,
so now i’m alone
but i think i’m occupied.
beautiful rain
that wuz my wife,
beautiful rain
that made me twice,
beautiful rain
y did u go away?
beautiful rain
that broke my dike,
beautiful rain
so weird and ripe.
beautiful rain
defile my fake champagne.
beautiful rain
so wer of why,
beautiful rain
of fighting flight,
beautiful rain
the flames r at my face.
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4. |
Abject of My Reflection
04:39
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I put myself in your shoes,
And they fit like a tired child,
Then I walkt down your bad news,
And I came to your final smile;
It was wide as the liar’s eye,
And I saw that it was I
Who wrappt you up in distrust
And sold you to the circus.
Of love let’s at least be clear:
He hides from his favorite toy;
It’s a jury of your fears;
And she kills like a good ol’ boy.
So sink all your rescue ships,
And lash yourself to my lips;
Ain’t no use in fightin
The fight that we delight in
Even tho we know:
Intimation’s titivated blame
For the need that you can’t understand away.
All our straining can’t relieve the strain
Of another dream without another day;
Nuthin’s gained by knowing what to say.
You laught when you lost my face
On a dive down a wasted well
For the cure for the common place,
Now I feel like a parallel
Deflection of your devout
Desire that I should black out
So you can eat my vision
And shit your next religion,
The redebut of you.
For the crime of lookin like ya care,
All ya lose is the right to be unknown.
If you’re set on torchin what we share,
Well you’ll never find the exit sign alone.
Nuthin’s new is a poor excuse for back home.
Break your silence on me.
Compromise my cervix.
Ease is never easy.
Only death ain’t nervous.
Pleasure in my freedoms.
Let your sure-bets bicker.
Sell your house for seasons.
Mother may I kick her out
So I can see what the loss of her’s about
Less all this glitzy grey dogmatic doubt,
Cuz now I’m livin with what I’m without,
Then maybe love won’t feel like such a rout.
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5. |
Once I
05:29
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once i walkt awhile away from me
i don’t remember wer i wuz
but i can say with sum certainty
i didn’t do it just becuz
someone shamed me for my fixity
i wuzn’t in that hi a crowd
so i think i’d dreamt so hi for me
the only way to round wuz round
round n round
the bodyguard
the writer chased
the easel til he
turned into a
splatter god
whose word
is lethal (to himself)
so wen u label me
u price me out
of ever going
home with u
flower blue
or wither ocher
balance on a
fleeing father
deck yr envy
with a choker
start a war
to find yr valor
all we gotta do
to noe wut all
we gotta do
is all we do (it’s up to u)
once i’d walkt awhile away from me
i started missin wer i’d been
so i doubled back, but wut u see
is all u get for lookin ahed.
every path felt like a parody
of something i’d been left out of
goin nower so its happily
never meets wut after duz.
put yrself in
charge of serving
only spend the
time u cherish
meditation’s
too unverving
congregate
against the cliquish
someone oughta go
n find a match
so we can burn
this sexy eye-hi.
omnivores
r overlords
so if yr hurt
go on all fours
but if yr good
go more hardcore
n be the whore
that u deplore
u don’t noe y
u don’t like it
so u don’t like it
cuz u don’t noe y (yr such a boolin outcry)
now i wonder wut’s becum of me
now i’ve called the whole search off
sometimes, wen we’re walkin thru the trees
i think i see a bit of cloth
but it’s alwz just some trash, n we
pick it up n pack it out
never griping of the drudgery
cuz we ain’t cum this far to pout.
so, bb, if u lose me, shout.
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6. |
Lullaby for Lorelei
04:07
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when i first held you in my arms
and felt all fall before yr charms
silent we a moment met
n then you let yr new voice vent
and I joined in, cry on, my baby girl
who can hush when yr in this world?
when you cry all my joys unfurl
so let's cry together
as i look into yr eyes
drowsy neath the darkening skies
slowly you begin to sing
any sweet old anything
and i join in, sing on, my baby girl
who can hush when yr in this world?
when you sing all my joys unfurl
so let's sing together
we say goodbye with each hello
no love denies we die alone
but when our voices intertwine
I live in yrs and you in mine
now yr growing past my care
i see you going otherwhere
but right before you disappear
you turn and whisper in my ear
it's ok, dad, i'll be back some day
but i hear a voice come from far away
and i can't sleep til i can truly say
if we can cry together
if we can sing together
if we belong together
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7. |
Put Away the Why'n
05:19
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my brain is failing.
at the heart of the death of the earth
is the glory of the human mind.
from scrotiform lip-reader
to under grand central.
the monologues
of the spectacular caregiving accident
craft ever new obsessions
from the parameters of our
iconic intoxication.
maybe i wuzn’t raised hard enuf.
by battling children battling
in fiction for battles beyond fiction,
we catch the final face disease
from the haughty, capricious uniformity
of profitable deadbeats forcing us
to see the good in ppl.
maybe i shd try harder
to commodify my confusion.
art has become a flaming, bitchy detente
between a sexy agenda of lameness
and the latent bitching content
that hates democratic outcomes
because they’re not pretending to be
programatically cataclysmic enuf.
i pounced, i starved, i acted self-reliant.
as of several core deletions ago,
everyone owns an instant hideaway,
the silver lining has replaced coming apart together,
and explosive, non-perishable foods
drag all the literary figures into hot hazards
running amok on shared servers.
apparently, the I have to begin
by giving up on the poem, as the phrase
“stick it back in me, woman,”
keeps forcing itself into
most favored pre-contamination status
under the title…
shake it, you oil-dippt dog.
pardon the mess,
i’m performing surgery on myself.
it’s like the move to mars happened,
but nobody told anybody,
so here we are, half-breathing
the complaining air of over-bookt graves.
i beg to differ, but i rarely do.
the general agreement
about wut’s gone wrong with “i am that”
keeps us perfectly entertrained.
frantic social exterior…contradictory
medical opinions…sustainability all the rage…
fail to impress in non-consensual sporty….
we are all now the great
terrible leader painting ourselves
into an escape hatch whose bitter
non-key judgment is a major player
in the subtl approach to dumping.
will you feel my forehead?
if u can’t take derision, get off deride.
why can’t i find this chicken shit hilarious?
why can’t i sell more aggravating appreciations?
life is only alive to the death in my scope.
howbout you keep what you’re going thru from going thru me.
that’s not really wut ppl do anymore.
i miss everything, even this missing.
here come those bright forebodings of war.
good. i can finally be alone.
maybe we’re still too into tasting
each other to mix our ingredients.
put away the why’n
til it takes u home
put away the why’n
like u mite uncode
put away the why’n
that confounds u
put away the why’n
that expounds u
put away the why’n
put away the why’n
put away the why’n that surrounds u
put away the why’n
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8. |
Yesterday
05:43
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yesterday
stay away
yr a heavy fine
finally
i can see
wer i long to climb
n i need u off my spine
yesterday
wutcha say
u go play in the street?
after all
yr the sprawl
that made life a cheat
i don’t care
how or wer
u die, just do
cuz now i noe
wer i’ve gotta go
to get over u
and if you're there we’ll see who’s who
who don’t wanna stumble on a love they can predefine?
who don’t wanna walk the line for the mine they can redesign?
i never found my way cuz i took it all for you
so i’m gettin over and above if it’s the last thing i screw
yesterday
all you play
is get the kid in the hole
yr the gun
that everyone
calls their bloodied soul
“u want a drag?”
u coolly asked
and i suckt like death
why believe
the guys who leave
wanna fix this mess?
and when ur gone we’ll see who’s blesst.
blesst are the always out of touch for they know they shan’t be groped
blesst are the never call your bluff for they know nobody’s home
good by me
i’ll be in that group muscle
known for making indecisions
concerning the eradication of candor,
so if u need me,
just start up some crowd-sourced hassle
composed of nocturnal omissions
and I’ll come crawling proudly out the pander.
yesterday?
yesterday?
why’d u go away?
i’m not thru
gettin rid of u.
yesterday?
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9. |
Luvchild Meltdown
10:27
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Got my doozy luv mob on the line
Wanna concentrate you to denouement juice
Via an eruption touch of the tender strum
With its cliche hittin au nouveau
It’s maybe too much in the meager,
N its engine coulda cuddled more with its caboose,
But my luv slog’s on the looper climb,
And I’m a peak baggin buck so here I go.
You purge corruption out my corruption scrub
Divest my stress of its standing O-no-vation
Embrace my burning plan confusion toggle
Flash non-com genomes thru my choosy slick gloom
Yr ragged pussy willow captivation
With my concrete cannonball elation
Makes this think-blot in a link-thought world
My changeable prankster shadow womb.
I love you like a summer pitfall cat
The vast nothing coosh of judiciousness,
I love you with the bowled-over strength
You can only harvest once off starvation.
No soil hums richer presets,
Can’t shed a seed with more lone auspicious mess,
I love you nine times outta two primes
More than space loves deceleration.
You mother my bootlick vigor hold,
All’s new to me now as a quiz in punk sleep,
O inner innocent barbiturate deliverer,
O extra large suckle tug fuchsia supreme,
Yr beauty’s a fortress window secret,
Yr secret’s a reflective infinitron skin deep,
You stream my bone-dry breeder baghdad
Thru the zeal of yr yuma crick dream.
You sucker hunch my banyon gliders
On the humpy vapor hub of yr psycho sex
Curdle birthin me out the strappin lore
Washt in sage blush of yr ecstasy
As you stroke and bubble, “Be a good little joy
And fetch me all the lunes the moon reflects,”
So I slup em up in a hunkpapa spilly cup
Til they blow like riled fractal ancestry.
I once had a rescue me later petition
Now I’m yr cash in hand on god spend
Yr my play family in the drag scenery,
Yr the fuck it igloo in my desert quest plot,
Yr laughter stuffs my crank case with afterlife
On yr fly-by arboretum my junkos ascend
Yr a semi-reclusive solace ragout
No collective taint scene can ever blot.
My road swings pancake jesus in yr voice,
Peace hooligans goosh out yr nebulous strut,
This is the most biosimilar form of magic
Known to civilized umbilication.
My third can finally worship wishless,
Maybe keep my cravin in my sucker cut
O yr luv holds my unglued head up
Wen my boutique marrow seeks disaffiliation.
Every day’s that secessional recess
Wer we pull our logo from the dumbluck mud,
No dysfunctional cherry tree’s unsatisfied
No “kimochi, Pakistan?” blithers on high,
The history of spoilsport pillows in b sharp
Frolics so grateful midst cleavings and thuds
And mordant struggle like the smell of brusque shims
Sits so playful, devastated by no reply.
A warship dog with a beat poet skull hole
Skulking the greasy sweets highway shoulder,
Windy wet inspiro forgery litter
Clinging operatic to chosen obstruction,
A crapular lab rat potato school robot
Habitually banging smoke replenishment buttons
So was I palled in perceptive prosaic burlesque
Before your all-cleansing hill country seduction,
Nothin’s free to step on bubble wrapped poachers
Less it wallows half-dead in yr game-keeper zoom
Teaching is learning a timorous majesty
By licking, in riffles of riddles, your tribes
Attempt’s an atemporal asshole throat clash
Til yr showplows get dirty clearing the room,
I see everything stopping transitive traffic
When yr analytics devour my ghostwrote eyes.
You dug the tears outta my bad job grave,
Parallaxed the nature twist in my whims,
I went from man of steel on a chomping stick
To a huron-junto stolen man,
Awkward reflex, loyal spite,
Campy hoarding, hindsight discipline,
Such awkward offspring of art’s old anger
Are welcome wandering slobs in yr swank lapland.
Yr my wild wire empire grounding
N yr my shock sans cloying stutter
Yr my ambulatin festschriften wood
N yr my non-directional chug fluff whittle
Yr the gentle mad salt of westerly
That I pour all over you, my central sugar,
O yr my spirit stuck up a soft spot tree
Gettin blasted on nomadic rain spittle
I smudge-cupped the lushy dawn bum
With my backdraft sourpuss rambles,
Spewed such awe-sick narcotic quitterback
Kiss-me-how unappeasable sputter,
Forcin eluctable toxic need visions
On perfectly carousing basso shambles
But yr the haboob of grassfed children
That squad-flosses my gizmo gutter.
Snarled in mock nepals of self-burger
Thru plaintive torpor my shruggings thrashed,
Bought thickets heralding draggers
Bleeding shovels and clubbing doubt
Into cold crashing mood tong pistons
Bustin liminals on the brash
Now yr evictee groove got my stiffy smooth
As a new baby freshwater brando trout
Death opens his fresh nag princess
N I scoff fat lizards at her wares
Cuz I’m humpin homeless drifts
In the flex gorge of yr cloudberry ovulation
Wer this ethical curd can’t stop
Embodyin re-involvement thoroughfares
As my lumberyarded old growth soul
Sprouts out yr cumulus fungal filtration.
Who wants photocosmic convenience?
Who wants another cheap hugs store?
I’d rather busk for drool without a bucket
The shoreless hotdog seas of marbled mistruth,
I’d rather not look at the Hollywood sign
So I can see what’s new in Labrador
Cuz once I auction off my taught gut
I’m sinkin it all on one sip of yr oxbow sluice.
I’d locked my biker swerve judgment bureau
Outta my own start-of-life proceedings,
Yr shisht misprisions pickt my deadbolt,
Burgled the native unknown into my ruse,
My weak fact-blunted constitution
Had been committeed in sad fad meetings
You shut down with the legwork freedom
Of the corncrib union our blithe stetsons unloose.
Ain’t no quickie hangout in forever
But’s the length of yr hurry-off kiss,
The dark money times is you flash vivid,
All alone’s yr itinerant groping,
In freak-pleasin yr lawman focus
I’m bareback on the shy skits of bliss,
O vulnerable rough-house haven,
O most hospitable cylindrical hoping,
Yr wags open my spain percussion
N I’m born bipedal on the cloister floor,
As I disgorge devotional cells
Into setback’s hermetic doge stone,
Cuz when meak are the hookworm mighty
N you are who you constantly creatively bore
All I know my stupor power’s
Bein jk trance meat on yr lettuce bones.
Cuz u shush me basic and I love u
N u unbrush me Vedic and I love u
U give my tools to the squabblin squirrels
I go build u a snowmobile bar,
Cuz u leave me naked and I love u
Then u won’t leave me sated and I love u
We’re so wichi Maghreb aschenpoodle
No one knows what the clank we are so far.
My unavailable overfond sensations
Were droll as the wicked found food market
There but for a stiff dance with the great chance
At a lame entrance went I
Cuz I’d crackt my own stuck image carapace
Seekin the pith of a care-worn pilot
Now I’m deep as the bedtime mornin after
You truly stop trying not to seriously die
Yr the illicit music that my dabs get into
When I put allied trouble in my microbe way,
You rivet me driftin to all I shouldn’t
By lettin me run rooftops thru all I should
My only collusive criticism of ya’s
That ya stayed with me for even one day
Cuz I’d leave me for you, you verbacious crevace,
O if only, O if only I could.
Giddy with stereotypes of live-long grief
I’m searchin barrels of grumbles for you,
Retrojected from the hapless super group
For cockin my kook, I’m lying with you,
Losin my sense of gamblin floozies,
I’m the uncensored season of wobble you,
Memory’s nothin but the parallel intersperse
Of looking passward thru lichen at you.
My unemployable out-of-body experience
Is yr incipience in my lowballable body,
Yr the nutrify in my brickle words,
The dissolute thrill in the tedious thrive,
Yr desire’s the band of my scattering herd,
I’m at home where yr burly cashews might be,
Ja cozy, the whole damn bed is yr side,
O at last I’m alive cuz I’m last at alive.
Why do we lunge at the counterclaim candy
That falls from the mockups who wave from the hearse?
Why do we clutch at the breakable brushwork
Of some easily foresaid code of release?
O ya, for sure, we must everywhere all
Climb down and get in strange beds with our birth
But yr closer to being what’s never been hoed
Than my missin tongue to my guitar teeth.
You crusht identity into fluency
To finally remedy blank cogency
With a vibe-agility deep in gravity
That renders rigidity raw vivacity
Turnin stridency to serenity
With the urgency in verbosity
Now the tenacity of broke mastery
Is the humbling sisterly of opacity
And sublimity spirals so loosely
In its empathy for discrepancy
Tween the unbeaten subtlety in levity
And the dreamt exogeny facing fantasy
Cuz yr charity’s the thermochemistry
Of my solidarity with fortuity
But my crambo ain’t gotten me half a safe
To all the get-it yr fine fettle’s gotten me.
You pour defiance and I drink
You leak avoidance and I drink
You spill my rockets and I drink
You spit protectorates and I drink
Yr dry as parsley and I drink
You cry so sparsely and I drink
You ball for Romeo and I drink
You swallow Ontario and I drink
O mantra rider O shastra strider
O scrambling star in the qualmstellation
O boundless cheetah O pneumal deluge
O kick in the mint for the good of the crepe
O infant guide O motive sweep
O humane kindred of jiving crustaceans
All my matter wiles to prioring climax
In yr most explodoriforous gripscape
Wut more to oversay to the fickle club
Cept that yr the best torrent trickle buzz
N the reason for my eulogyin
Can be scuzzed up in the pretty simple cuz
U make everything, even the empty things,
So much full a better than they ever was,
O my gimme love, shimmy i’ me love,
O my…O my love.
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