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Engine / It's Time
03:40
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summer was over
when the water
in my leaky radiator
froze over
the coolant lines in my car
i’m stranded
in the cold, post show
in november
but only if my phone wasn’t dead,
I could see if my band
was featured in someone’s
Instagram story
I could bide my time
’til the morning
reliving my thirty seconds of glory
& i’m thinking how
friends treat friends differently
if i’m an engine to you,
i have no use if i overheat.
wound up in rubber bands,
insurance coverages,
online presences,
you can drop from any ceiling
and not feel any feeling.
egg drop
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Eight Legged Dog
03:40
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it all ages in blue,
with breathless flicks of lint,
pulled from the seams
of your pocket.
& it forms into lung,
to breath you in.
like a cobweb,
& you’re callused by the wind.
while the eight legged dog
is coming along,
to ruin your grain.
so i’m forgiven,
i’m sap kid
who thickened his blood
to syrup
& now my exoskeleton
that bandages my soft margins
is too thick to escape
it’s too thick to penetrate
& the transmigration spoke
won’t carry me along
but it’s coming to carry you along.
while the eight legged dog
is coming along
to ruin your grain.
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Old Mack
02:35
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four steel stitches in my face,
old mack was a piece of shit dog.
not all hounds go to heaven,
but i don’t know where the bad ones go,
but i’m all smiles
that the teeth didn’t go thru my throat.
i’ve got it tied tight around my face,
blanket soul keeps the sap in my head
not all dogs will bite again
but they don’t want to take the chance,
they wanna put that old mutt down.
& I haven’t slept well in days
happy birthday to my best friend bryce
lets put uh make up on my scars today
and go see manson at star lake
and hope we wake up the same.
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Rattle on the Spoke
03:39
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what they give they take away,
well i’ve been looking out.
fun has a karma,
everything’s great
then everything’s okay.
i’m only a rattle on the spoke,
deflated lung,
rhythmic in its cough,
stepped on like bubble wrap
never to gasp again.
cotton wake & plastic,
with an infomercial smile.
i’ve left the TV on for far too long
now it’s all gone now.
i’m only a rattle on the spoke,
deflated lung,
rhythmic in its cough,
stepped on like bubble wrap
never to gasp again.
i’m only alone in my head,
blanket soul on my breath.
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it’s like they leave me out
just to leave me in
but wedge me out
when i try to wedge me in
twas holiday with friends
but now i feel no holiday again
i’ll pretend its fun
to pretend with everyone.
so many calls on my birthday,
couldn't answer
but could feel vibrate
screen is shattered
looks like spiderwebs
i wont let it take my day
leave work early, fake family emergency
i feel no holiday again.
i’ll pretend its fun
to pretend with everyone.
you say, i don’t do much
you say, i don’t say much
merry go round the sun
you spun barbwire into a crown
so vultures
wouldn’t be scratchin’
their talons
into your halo!
but how can i
excite you again
if i can’t even
excite myself again
excite again
excite again
when my head feels
great but in a numb way
my head feels great
but in a dumb way
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there are ghosts in the air
dissolving in the breeze
shifting thru the idle & exhaust
floating thru the high breams like fog
yeah, its the death of the neon.
our cars are trying to kill us
but we cannot afford to disarm them.
baby, i’m kimchi marinating in motor oil
god will trim the soft margins
for the broil of an eon.
yeah, its the death of the neon.
god
will not
eat you raw.
she’s the breeze,
that’ll set you free.
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7. |
Mara (In The Breeze)
04:48
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she brews tea,
loose leaf
& in the breeze we’re alright to be
shattered like an ornament
that fell like a fruit from the tree
where she won’t attach or detach or climb
thru silk threads within rib cage
hoping to find more than
shallow tones & requiems.
jaggers pick her back
for the insects to spin their web.
oh and what a garden to harvest
in strands of neutral brain cells
that pop & inflate.
little barbwires of trigger word
induce the woke dream
of lost nostalgia.
& in the breeze we’re alright to be.
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Pit of the Peach
05:27
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thru high & low,
one day you’ll be torn from the limb
you’ll plummet on down,
shed your skin.
but it’ll be okay,
you’ll transmigrate,
when the springtime dawn
nudges you awake.
its not everyday you can
be peeled clean
with the bruising in your pulp
decomposing from the
pit of the peach.
friend of mine,
one day you’ll be torn from vine,
& where you point your flashlight,
i’ll point mine.
& despite our indifference
of where we go after this,
i’ll still care where you’ll flutter
when your heart sputters
gives minerals to the weeds.
its not everyday you can
be peeled clean
with the bruising in your pulp
decomposing from the
pit of the peach.
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Comforts from the Cobweb
02:43
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i’m falling behind you
i can’t seem to keep that shit straight.
hey, we’re at the brink,
another awakening.
& i’m chewing on
my cuticles to keep me up,
they’re sweeter
than i can remember.
well its so much joy,
so much excitement,
that it’ll be hard
to excite again.
the feed used to bleed,
into statuses i had seen before,
but now i can’t seem to control,
the habit when i am bored.
but i’m hanging on for another year,
i only listen to what i want to hear.
comfort from the cobweb,
just waiting for the insect to come around.
well its so much joy,
so much excitement,
that it’ll be hard
to excite again.
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