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Dawn
03:00
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2. |
A Union of Palms
03:16
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Shirts un-tucked
Must be the weekend
Let the water boil
Steep the tea in the deep end
Blinds pulled tight
So the neighbors don't peak in
Unpack the candles
Skull sits encircled
Blind faith, cracked glass can't hurt you
Don't fish don't hunt
Resurrect
My urges no disrespect
No ouija board
carve symbols in the wood grain
Times change
seems odd where the mind been
-mind bends in strange ways
a divine sense
time lends meaning to my dreams
and my conscience
popcorn for fintertips
butter on my crystals and the carpet
wipe it off with the fabric of my garments
-It all begins with a union of palms
though we know where we are
we gotta start from the start
looking crooked in the mirrors
aint no signs of a scar yet
and keep track watch veins for the scarlet
Purple smoke sage hangs
dim in the spinning fan blades
range from a cyclical shake to steady quake
maintain candlelight
approaching night in hindsight
spirits from the ether
trapped between your teeth and speakers
-film grain, ready made
smoke stack dusk
picturesque kodachrome
silver bullets all rust
take a photo of your captor
shake the image
it's developing
Lights involved in pinholes dissolve
Spreads wider to the wall
Rides until it falls
Light as a feather
when it's all held together
In a jar
-Praying to the light
Like a vitamin of God
Seems odd
But the pictures not complete until it's on
Click
Brighter than the sky
If you can't hold it then you can't describe it
blood brother cut
Secret kept until you die
or your speech while you sleep
pillow talking when you shut your eyes
wrapped in fabric so white
you left your face on the side
our palms out
slices in the meat
to the bone
when your carving so hard
you're just releasing your soul
now the species you know
human beings that speak too much
chatter till their teeth turn brittle
talk the meaning off
guilty as charged
hard starving for a focal point
so beg pardon harboring thoughts
that go farther than not
I quote pain and despair
wrapped in chains and a prayer
pretend to care and act patient
as I vacantly stare
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Sitting in a parked car
Listening to harpsichord
Wailing at the moon like I'm praying
To the dunes in my view
Or the Bloom from my hibernating vocals
Scratch the surface of my purpose
I'm disappointed in my rap verses
I wish I was a human
Wish I was just tethered to this world
By hands that knew me
Or at least tried to pierce a shell that's hell bent parallel
i'm well vented
Telling all my secrets
Selling all my sound
on the ground looking down
Word that's a spiral I can get behind
Find a habitat to slide inside
Lie for days within a broken spine
Thesis of a text
Lie between your teeth
Lay around your neck
Settle somewhere in between
Working even in your dreams
Sew the seed of doubt
And pray with folded, knitted grieving gloves that you can work it out
Or shoulder fitted fleeting love
And leave it steeping in your mouth
With its gritted sleeping heaving chest
Shallow motions are the best
Rest
Yes
Just concentrate
don't act fidgety
make more sparks
and erase more marks
all set for the sea
with a sail and buffet
trust stays deep inside the chest
where the nest lays
Don't practice what I preach
Just assume that the beast follows
Hollering hollow threats
and wallows indebted of course
Distorted in proportion
Aligned with the time like a sign
Blue mark on your face
That's a murakami style that's divine
As the setting and pace
Auto-writes on the grind to replace
Retrace and save face as the characters change but stay the same
Blank date on your grave
I waited but you never came
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4. |
Father Compass
04:12
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My fingers aching in the morning when the sky seems shy to bend it's light towards the comfort of my pillowed head
Make my blinds test their patience and the need for separation when compared to given space where the moon had bled
Check my teeth like they were tombstones brushing off the names all engraved are just cavities with time lines
Behold the destiny of follicles and print their names side by side within obituaries make their pictures blurry
I'm growing farther from my father's face stretching towards a species undiscovered in the caverns of my macula
They wrap their aching fingers loose in my peripheral like blooming floral shapes that lend themselves to some insanity
Preach to me like I'm in desperate need of snake oil rubbing in the knuckles first palms flat feelings hurt
Shake it off and then approach the world around me like the siding needs a coat of paint or scrape until it weakens first
Survey the grounds crickets buzzing humming blockage through my ear canal that sends a tingle to my inner child
He lives inside swimming dreaming of a future full of color that was promised with a kiss upon his sleeping brow
Paint it till the wind change
Keep it in a shoebox
Heat it over stove tops
Just say that we can be changed
Hoodie out the whole face
Saintly in his Reebok's
Praying to his safe space
I awoke, I awoke, I awoke
lungs turned italics in the shrinking of a quote
Neither shrieking nor opinion of the gears denote a thinking mind through thickening the seamless ness of space and time a wrinkled spine
Would hold my patience trudging nature behind vile curtains while the splotches blind the winter time to turn blind eyes to shouldered weight and birth defined by passion of the rabid flight from day to night
while holding candles scarring fingertips and turning blisters white
a kissing fight with reddened lips lie twisting tongues and raising hips too violent when spirit spits
a painted lady turning vaguely pale under the ticking clock
that burdens shelfs beneath it with it's constant keeping catching up while worried painted seems split
I was moss in the faucet but my speech was too dry to be combined with my preaching side
I was tossed in the pale blue morning someone watching was complaining they were bored inside
I was baking in the crust of an earth still divided by a warming smell of musk
I was nude before a cosmos that gifted me an accent but cursed with one it couldn't trust
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6. |
Bowl of Honeydew
02:47
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Sprint to the park bench moon reads full in the mist
Sits down slides to the left
Purple wings autumn clay shades
where the chimney builds fire through a smoke stack
plays Grey stays beige
Fade breaks new days grace
As an arm outstretched to the core of an apple crunch
teeth til they crackle snack happily dry
All the books I never read keep passing me by
Assume midnight bakes into evenings cracked terra cotta pot
high fracture risk discman skips stop ain't no scratches on it
lipstick marks...
Hatchet scars... works of art
Round of applause smirk behind scarves
Face to Apollo Face it your hollow
Spaces between Dotted lines when you follow
Laces undone. Brace when you run
Eyes in the sun sickening sweet
Pull out your teeth
Smile for me
Teeth yellow in the beast's belly
heavier in thought than I thought
possibility reach screech halt
applause maybe reaching in the vault
steeping in the hops
practice all the preaching
while you're reaping all the crops
Thanks yesterday
Gone by tomorrow's hands
Draped - denim
And a face gone missing
Never stumble on a snake gone hissing
Direct witness to a video existence
Gone blank face
Hi stakes race
Sign language in hand
Speak old tongue
Taste bland
Ain't old age grand
Blue hue hair
Bowl of ideas
I'm a crawl right through here
We're through here
Tossed in the ocean
Big moon ideas
Old skip stone
I'll see through
Too soon
Encore all on board
Please place wings on arms
No way water weighs more than
blood on palms
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7. |
Bowl of Cantaloupe
03:15
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Sweat stains bring salt in the vision
Almond shaped with the lid gone missing
Such an actor where the pistons hissing
And You can't be listening
Smoke in the air Like a
grand dad's soul
Pulled through the portal
Orange sunset Mortal coil
soon to spoil
Graves and grapes
Lazing shapes
Drenched in oil
Air tastes burnt
Sitting right there on the front porch
Burning hell's gate to the floor with a pitchfork
Stubbing my toe on a slow moving tortoise
What's my purpose
Got no focus
Seated by phone books Looking irrelevant
In the restaurant with my skin dipped neon
Shirt off bare cross
Baked in sun drenched clothes pin
Pinched flesh
No meal
What's next?
Summing up the summer with a muffler soon to sputter
I'll be dangling on a wooden moon while channeling a newer noon
While changing into fewer foods is dieting while changing moods
And dying less by letting bloom the seeds of things you never knew
Ahh I don't get wild in the evening
Grieving weekend work or pierced like a werewolf stoked
Choked up chick flicks hung with weirdest rope
Locked in pages Loch Ness
Broken promise costs less
Faux pas got your nails painted
Got your wheels slashed
Shield smashed
Basement got windows get out
New faces get cracked with smiles
Old skin play drums in the house
Old drums war chants through the town
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8. |
Through the Woods
03:48
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It was nighttime light
By the moon skipping coins
In a pond
We see breath in the calm
Praying to a big foot action figure
dissected chest
Where a firecracker rests
In our palm
We weren't even new here
Grandmother's forest
Weren't tourists to the stars
Just a Virgo and Taurus
When the dinner bell rang
Like flies on the venison
Wood grain panel from the walls
To the mantle
Little bit of wine in my cup
Wood chopping
and the sparks from the fire
rise up
stick carving to a point
where the end pierce mallow
and i'm melting on the rock seat
mellow to the memory
remembering a family that's
disappeared presently
a photo with no entity
a polaroid of spirits as the centerpiece
sitting round a table which
is facing down it's enemies
as viewers will impose regret and empathy
upon a backdrop of menace and fragility
that only hesitates when asked directly
Why their eyes all close so heavily
Steadily on decline through the valley of the merchants of sleep and dream well
May you only know peace
You dream loud and the walls will not stop it
A turning of tides flood the blackness of objects
A process unknown that's a viable option
to a dissected chest
and a heart with no palm print
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9. |
Surveyor
04:02
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Counting the sheep but they all look the same
clip clopping their feet as they splash in the rain
unnamed and uncounted were few but
they all knew my name
my briefcase and bounty
a suit and a tie made of corduroy lives in a drawer
where pennies and nickels
realities whispers are careless
and probably lives on the staircase
where feet will then meet and tumble and greet the dawn
you'll fall asleep in this song
as soon as it ends you'll be turning it off
hand covers teeth were exposed by a yawn
and billowing breath and silhouettes stretched
gripping the drawer
make sure the nickels and pennies don't fall on the floor
or you may wake up and discover you've been asleep
all of this wonder may escape your memory
this is how time moves so slow
regardless of interest in science
you'll buy and appliance that tells you when your time to go is
staple it up to your headboard goals
this will then make you believe
the only thing you've ever seen is reality
life is a tongue with pennies and pearls
and death is a shape made of nickels and crows
we were conceived despite all the hesitance
we will then work despite all our craft
we will once die with spite of those living
and we will then live to spite all those past
we were conceived despite all the hesitance
we will then work despite all our craft
we will once die with spite of those living
and we will then live to spite all those past
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10. |
Directions
03:13
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Late day golden clouds
Compass bears the sacrifice
Chamber Music
Sheets of paper
Leafing scattered paradise
Beards of winter
Reflect spring
Cascade the collar into night
Walking onward
Pressing faces
Salted sidewalks
steady paces
Sweaty faces
Dig under the city
Secret tunnels
lit by glow worms in the walls
Embedded strands of spit
An air of listlessness
Like walking through the poppies
Lie down in the darkness
Get these creeping hands up off me
And apply the sunny starkness
-This shade of green calms
shaking fingers
holding this canteen like
it's my home
I always pace in pieces
parts and fractions for the sum
but the floor is nearly whole again
I guess my thoughts are done
Should I destroy my records
while recording an existence
I admit was not perfection
but was close to some direction
Any feelings, thoughts or tangents
would be needed, wanted, handled
with the care I could afford upon
a budget of my teeth and hair
Damn,
I almost melted down
before realizing that to lose your place
you first must hold some ground
I am a man who writes
to fill his time and fingers with a sense of pride
like there are some worlds I can't build
and instead I will just describe
-I am a man who treasures moments caught inside the tufts of fur
Upon his face
Like he must own it
Place the dagger in my chest
If you must make me confess
To wanting something from the world
That wanted
me as a success
But a dreamer nonetheless
Needless to say it's out of reach for me
But efforts weren't the best
Never played my part like I'm supposed to do
Never sent my words out to the ghosts
Like the glowing screens had told me to
flashing like the winter from my window
with a cursor pointing skyward
i devoured months from years
and scoured books to find the dog-eared
pages where I wrote liner notes
and knew if my minds vacant
then my eyes get famous
but I'm better at the jokes
than writing heartfelt statements
so I'll just remain nameless
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Unsung Morgantown, West Virginia
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