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New to the Unit!
07:27
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there's frost and ice floats all around my glass
there's lots of holes drilled in the heads of the kids in my class
it took some time to find a clock
a place of glaciers where hours stop
out the window on this floor
would be a seven story fall or more!
your death is all around my glass
now we are mutants on ice floats contested in ambiguous space
there's a treatment of course, we make our cuts & re-paste
there's frost and ice floats all around my glass
FEMA camps are coming to your town soon!
you'd better look our for troop movements
because you won't see it on the local news
then i saw the world through these eggshell eyes
an eight year old who had lost a screw was sitting by my side
it took some time to find a clock
a place of glaciers where hours stop
out the window on this floor
would be a seven story fall or more!
oh, but all that broken glass!
now we are mutants on ice floats arrested in ambiguous space
there's a treatment of course, we make our cuts & re-paste
there's frost and ice floats all around my glass
by now the keebler elves, they've all long since died of cancer
because the modern death panels are you smart sense crackers
waiting & waiting
&washing the dirt from my arms as an eel swims
in an endless circle
x
x
but of my reprieve - it could be sudden 'cuz
by now I'm sure you have received a letter
from my embassy
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2. |
Lightning Bug
03:44
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florescent bulbs shed the light
that shines through your sun dress
the pale blue cloth
that clings to your soft breast as you walk
from hallway to hall
&pass that trick mirror you'll never see through
mess hall crafts are the way
that you address your abscess
keep all that glitter on paper plates
there's no need to get upset
these good folks here
will teach you to suppress your faults
there are clinics and cults
i know a cult you may like to be in
the walls here are so made up in all that drab
i thought i was nude though i was just scant clad
yes, that's a beautiful ad -
as though you needed one that bad
the people they are scurrying in & out these three revolving doors
did you perform in your grand exit
as you had imagined?
when you had it shipped in from home
you do now have fashion
you'd have traded a vacancy or an ugly passion
for the most intimate recluse
but the drugs that you used
they were designed to frustrate troubled youth
you swore me out
you made me feel bad for feeling alone
you crawled into &bore out back home
that much i should've fucking known
as you begged, "wake me up before you go"
but when i was finally released
you left me with a small kiss on the cheek
go now, mind the curfew, look up when you speak&
lock your hands& choose your meals carefully
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there was a seasonal flower display
between the textiles &rows of household cleaner
where bright &violent red poinsettias poured out into
out into the center aisle
i brought one home nearly dead, but it grew back
for almost one week it lived beside me
&when i spoke it seemed to speak back
easter candy never reminded us much of christ
yesterday bleeds out until today slumps out of last night
but it's so nice it's nice up here at the front of the store
with your brown eyes held up in the incandescent light
your red hair filled up more space
than every busted packet of fake blood
now caked between the tile
red red discarded ink cartridges all damaged out
repackaged for a landfill
&something about a halloween mask
the elastic band worn out &snapped
you pulled it over &laughed
now when i smile it seems to smile back
celebrate thanksgiving on paper plates
turkeys painted at the bottom
count our blessings by the wine glass
call or relatives by the bottle
in the parking lot you smashed on a cheap caffeine drink
we'll be back here again at four am tomorrow
goodbye christmas, hello bold new year
valentines melting on the sidewalks now
springtimes finally here
&then comes mass death independence day parades
i love the statehouse on independence day
everything moving here
the shelves alive with childhood memories
put happy discounts out on sweatshop tragedies
black bean burgers in the break room
smart sense styrofoam plates
we steal pounds of paper waste
the RTA runs straight to kmart, come on down and buy a belt
new walking shoes, shopping off the short-date bottom shelf
we've got our discounts out!
&troves of dirt on our employer
there was a seasonal flower display
between the textiles and rows of household cleaner
where bright &violent red poinsettias found their way out
outside of the center aisle
the light is gone their scent has passed
it was a fragile circumstance
without true cause out of its pot
i know it will not grow back
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4. |
Rocks Have Souls
02:59
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the catfish swam along the river bank
until it stood up right to walk out of the water
it left its gills at the bottom of a tank
and accessorized in red
it swam back down to visit what had sank
and it grew up tall to give someone a daughter
it checked its mail and started up banks
and when it died, it bled.
would you be surprised to see
a group of trees uprooted
or a trail of matches leading up to your house
where the gutters and the windows
are all ripped out and broken
and your kids are sitting with nothing but stumps around?
you may have left the oven on
to long in your relations
or the lining of your morals has a charismatic hole
and you believe we all receive
an equal shot at heaven
but god has standards and rocks have souls.
what it left behind when it passed
was an open tomb to a casket of stones
a brazen altar in a temporal cast
and all the time that it takes
to grow into the movements of the grass
and the still water blanket that furnished the bones
and now its inside every forest we've passed
and all the crutches they make
someone said in jacob's ear
go build a bunch of ladders
so he stretched out over the landscape dropping structures of wood
he placed them next to roadways
into lots made out of limestone
and he climbed up to the top of each as high as he could
he folded up his followers
and dispensed them over mountains
that skewed the trickling rivers coming up to here from there
and it the same toxic stream
flowing out your fountain
you take a drink and sit around complaining about the air
but would you be surprised to see
a group of trees uprooted
or a trail of matches leading up to your house
where the gutters and the windows
are all ripped out and broken
and your kids are sitting with nothing but stumps around?
you may have left the oven on
to long in your relations
or the lining of your morals has a charismatic hole
and you believe we all receive
an equal shot at heaven
but god has standards and rocks have souls!
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somebody likes the year book
they gave us a whole page
looking back on that picture
i've never had such a date
big shake my world is falling down
can't seem to get back up
i've contemplated so much time in
in a plastic cup
i brought the xanax
it's in a plastic bag
i remember lunch in grade school
these are the kind all the kids had
big shake her world is falling down
ultra close behind
a box of crayons & colored pencils
the things we leave behind
they played it once or twice on the local evening news
right after "latest children's toys include more small parts to lose"
that's a choking hazard
big shake my world is falling down
can't seem to get back up
so i downed all that i had brought us
but i just threw up
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6. |
Winter Song
03:11
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the sun glides high above the trees
who toss their leaves to the summer's ghost
in light of recent weather
i like your apparition the most
so i wrote corresponding lines for the things i'd play
despite my disillusion i mostly mean what i say
can i keep you through the winter
if i keep you inside
can i keep you through the winter
when it snows you'll be mine
the snow builds up around a small town
out on the alaskan plane
desite love's variations
the snowfall always falls the same
so i wrote corresponding lines for the things i'd play
despite my disillusion i mostly mean what i say
can i keep you through the winter
let the snow dust your eyes
can i keep you through the winter
all other seasons aside
the sun melts into ice caps
sorted by the movements of the tide
each movement shows the posture
of the moon pulling weight inside your mind
so i wrote corresponding lines for the things i'd play
despite my disillusion i mostly mean what i say
can i keep you through the winter
if i act nice & i promise to cut off my balls
can i keep you through the winter
it it felt right or at least through the fall
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