brain clatter come along
isolate like something's wrong
you’ll feel the horror of the dishes stacked high
a minute to be alone
a moment then the night tracks home
you’ll feel the missing from the house you just left
you might abandon all those that matter
words dive like vultures, oh god i’ll take the latter
your thoughts breed the swamp monsters always swimming faster
kick the sick dog, don’t bark back you bastard
one man’s forgiveness
can outweigh the next
the shorthanded fall to the pockets below
you shake your head
and draw what you hear
but you’ll never enter the closet you fear
you might abandon all those that matter
words dive like vultures, oh god i’ll take the latter
your thoughts breed the swamp monsters always swimming faster
kick the sick dog, don’t bark back you bastard
the kitchen oven doesn’t heat my food up. if it did i’d bake colors into cake. if it did i’d warm the house up a few degrees, and the mice behind the circuits - that chew on and on relieved.
i picked up meds and called the supermarket. down the aisle, raised up sales. the loaded strangers, they can’t stop regarding - in a sea of judgement that’s cracking underneath, that always sounds so sick.
never thought i’d make a mess here
at the worst i’d gather dust
there’s no way i end the cold war
but i’ll rag myself
and feel the lightness of damp towel made dry
i know a city bar that uses lanterns, to keep the moths out the door. the girl sells drinks - says she’s alive. she hands out bottles through the back, ‘cause there’s too much around, and just enough for the drainage we neglect.
never thought i’d make a mess here
at the worst they’d call the cops
they told me, go and study business
now the market takes the kids
while i couldn’t sell myself to make the grade
to fall asleep i need the tempo, of a slower speed than shame, of a slower kind of process, that makes the moment a teacher i can follow
never thought i’d make a mess here
at the worst i’d stare for hours
we get fired, forget intention
coma dollars
come out clean
guess i thought i’d make a mess here
at the worst they’d call the cops
they told me, go and study business
now the market takes the kids
while i couldn’t sell myself to make the grade
i take a pill for half the day
gone by news cycle matine
never enough i'm never enough
say it loud like they're watching us
sick time awaits
benefit start date
quit for god’s sake
no don’t this is your fate
fish bowl faces passing by
Watching their feed drop from the sky
bloated out i am bloated out
inoculated with neurotic doubt
exception override
critical mass
buried bonafide
huffing laughing gas
a meritocracy dies
middle lane pass
boiled by lies
frogs think jump last
tallied cell walls
moratorium calls
for ammo and tape
abducted camera logs
fashionable taste
enter epilogue
cold fascist state
stacking credit falls
burn all the banks
bake bread on wednesdays, ritual and rise - it kneads you
smoke hard on those days, spiritual highs - it saves you
berry soft on a toothache, drives me crazy to try
seeded song/season sweet delay, sun’s up this fruit won’t die
when i sink into my hands, your touch demolishes my wrists and quickly flowers to support me
when locked eyes up the wall, you pull a path out your pocket, filled with notes from the day
picking up the pods draw a diaphramic pentagram
soaking up the sponge while the dryness cracks off me
tailor in caveat it builds another lectern
color in the dots let the ink dry on option cons
panhandle darkness in a retrograde coke machine
tie a panorama to the steakhouse codeine
the people are drawn to the quarters in the fountain
plastic lawn chairs in the middle of the intersection
tone it down, foot down on the sidewalk crack
pick out the shoebox with monsters neath the coat rack
call a telephone box and tell 'em it's your nightmare
hack up a lung and let the blood fall anywhere
barricade the bombs from the idiotic bobbleheads
lick up the chemistry and snort the bottom fossil bed
tone it down, medication in a vinyl pack
pick out the shoebox with monsters neath the coat rack
calendar gun - time’s lonely friend // home is at the end
crater wisdom - their names are shared // the way they fared
cheshire break me - the greedy flow // the odd follow
chase off dead leaks - no space for this // flood the palace
cut me out of gridlock
safely bronze league - the underdog // the callous fog
suits them keenly - the peace necktie // the warring lies
since it went off - the sirens sung // oracle fun
sub atom cough - the lines of red // the lines we dread
cut me out of gridlock
learn to let the ohm talk
i spent all day under those fashions
harmed to the teeth, grinding your rations
sovereigneering
what casts the shadow, doubted shade?
notion for the ocean to wake up made
era-sure faring (fearing)
you told me last, but you folded time
they called us fast, gravity’s hotline
cosmic curbstomp
stranded bike lane, this night knows it
calm this praising, raining fire’s pietistic
distich aesop
sank the next one, carmine watershed
they make no movements for the bankrupt lead
aggravating
fake news itch you shaking bug bytes
wake whose situation looks ripe
youknowdamnwell
naked comfort that we’ll burn alight (burn alight)
youknowdamnwell
i caught the neighbor posting lies
potholes and dentures, indentured ties,
mountains waiting
there came a grassness with my fever strain
touched on a runway through the shower drain
carefree could-ness
at last
it crashes
thank goodness
fake news itch you shaking bug bytes
wake whose situation looks ripe
youknowdamnwell
naked comfort that we’ll burn alight (burn alight)
youknowdamnwell
if i could touch doubt, doubt it would feel as nice, as nice as it once was, when i was what i was blacked out, lashed out last night, lastly i remember you knew, knew i’d be fine, and i’m fine with it all.
line by line signs, signal wearing you out, wearing thin my disguise, spies in my head in my coat pocket, cut off coat tails, no more telling you about my day, days of our lives, living ain’t the same way out.
hello cyclone, you’re so familiar
hello my clone, you’re unfamiliar
over cold blood, scar tissue canopy, can you say that again, against this chest against all odds, oddly in your moonstruck gods, god the tides about to break, tired ties let me down, sink in under again.
hello cyclone, you’re so familiar
hello my clone, you’re unfamiliar
oh the highest wire is a safety for birds
while the longest tight rope is where i hang my words
and the sunrise forgives me like the chaos unheard
so say what you will even if you don’t keep your word
oh mountains have whispered of heaven’s deserts
but sugar and sin don’t seem to make it work
you’ll tilt and you’ll know the weight that could hurt
when you fall again…
so it’s homecoming
so it’s the nightmares
so it’s withdrawal
so’s my minds prayer
so it’s becoming
so’s your angel hair
so’s the tight crawl
high in the air
and it comes in the waves so the body stays alert
afraid of the day that the faces come to dirt
you’ll call me a sick man from the rages i’ve blurred
numbed hard by the harsh tones of the damage incurred
yet weekly we meet here and discuss all the nerve
of what it took for us to forget what we deserve
sometimes i’ll reach back for the flower and swerve
pull off the path…
so it’s homecoming
so it’s the nightmares
so it’s withdrawal
so’s my minds prayer
so it’s becoming
so’s your angel hair
so’s the tight crawl
high in the air
draw your maps in pencil
draw your lines to fade
draw a blank where you expect
a new world might be made
draw upon a desire path
and all the paths delayed
draw down a compass
and a north star you’ll never trade
take a trip you never meant
take along the pain
use a map you ain’t used to
stick to speeds you can contain
make yourself a legend
in the methods you maintain
there is no right side up
when your heart can't be tamed
cuz you can have your labels
you can call it some possession
but the road you’ll find ain’t a path defined
unless you map out your lesson
leave a hint beside me
leave a trail of crumbs
leave a lot to be desired
in time you’ll see the sums
when the traffic is heavy
carve out a different way
let the fire take over
as you burn brighter than the day
cuz you can have your labels
you can call it some possession
but the road you’ll find ain’t a path defined
unless you map out your lesson
ego pickled psychic barrack causes global leader collapse
in the righteous rain
need tos covet stiff worn adorned plastic paper waded relapse
in their needless pain
carbon footprint muddied shore bank in the green infested waters
in their riches gained
evil creeps in social boundaries building steam in fuckin cold wars
with no heat contained
gaslit kingdom
classic come down
moonlit and numb
classic come down
your electric train of thought
controls the instance
the expected cause of death
minds the distance
in times of chaos, call to arms
bare assistance
you might insist your views
gaslit kingdom
classic come down
moonlit and numb
classic come down
sick of their lies you make the cause
you turn up nothing
they enjoy burning pause
it’s aggravating
you might break the record
gaslit kingdom
classic come down
moonlit and numb
classic come down
crushed up windpipe in atomic winter
snuffed out voices in ballistic nightmare
forgiveness breaks under changes coming
called out death for ignoring my needs
gaslit kingdom
classic come down
moonlit and numb
classic come down
silenced shepherd in the mirror knows me
talked up demons know familiar dead weight
the nerve, and the tick, sleep together
they feel, a pulse so rare
the blood, on a plate, in circles
it begs for garnish and pills
and the iron, is in, your coffee
we are steepled, steeping sheep
and the shepherd, is hard, of hearing
all the pain, the bugs sleep through
the nerve says why, am i still here, in an age, that can’t sense
the blanket doesn’t keep me warm
the tick says now, is the chance, is the sign, is the time
for kicking covers off each other
and i don’t think we’ll freeze
and i don’t think we’ll fight
and i don’t think we’ll flee
is it liminal? is it safe?
is it enough not to hear it plain
and the doctors, say ghosts, replace you
but when i look, i'll know the truth
the nerve says come, sit beside, tell a story, say goodbye
is it malignant i believe it so
the tick says don't, be afraid, beat yourself, treats withheld
you deserve what the future holds
and i don’t think we’ll freeze
and i don’t think we’ll fight
and i don’t think we’ll flee
checking over shoulders, anxious in my head
the broom of the flesh sweeps up stars
calibrating old fears, the people drop instead
it's all the same counting liars
when i eat the rich i taste dust
guillotine the guilty, call upon the gears
machines breed the demons we kill
give up feeling empty, the mission will take years
the land we stole in dirt landfills
when i eat their fish i taste rust
sick the children on them, we'll clean up all the bones
holy ivory empire
cash in all the blood gems, may jewelry be our stones,
novas don't start with slow fire
come down, the acid eats my friends
sickness comes instead
way out, the wellness cig is lit
the embers feel my skin
ashes remind
lashes so fine
infected past time
kindly denied
stay down, in devil poses
i think i impose
lay down, the laughing roses
feel thorns between toes
bury the line
come up with signs
dig into knives
stones in my mind
ashes remind
lashes so fine
infected past time
kindly denied
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
graveyard shift does the palette bleed
from sharpened tongues choking on the feed
earlier came the nested needs
in time buried the likely weeds
if i make enough friends will i frenzy the locusts
if i hop all alone will i die in the grass
if work til i’m dead will i finally focus
if i stop in my trakcs will i know what will last
sink my teeth in the final hour
break my neck on time's roadside flower
lose my senses the notes devour
crinkle paper on rotting sour
some nights darker but I don't fold
the torch inside that she first told
No event horizon, can hold my light that finds her whole
She insights a graver toll
The one paid up for my control
No event horizon, can hold my light that finds her whole
I walk this space and time with her hand
Until I reach the last grain of sand
No event horizon, can hold my light that finds her whole
talked about god being in your chest,
about the tissue kept from your heart.
can i bum a light you said
and at first a dime to get you fed.
came for the blue flame grill,
stayed for a roasted fissure.
peppers painted black,
say i’ve got your back.
that global knock out padded my pocket,
unemployment dollars a bit too much.
we split it even.
funny how family starts to believe in.
had to leave, but it’s not my choice.
saved enough to keep you going.
thousand mile delivery
with clouds lining silvery.
wasn’t there to see you get an apartment key,
but i felt what it meant.
not much savings but we’ll struggle the same.
i’ll never let you feel their blame.
the bills got to be a bit much,
it maimed to say that you can’t stay.
that cleaver taste
and the same old waste.
the legs gave out,
you couldn’t stand it.
time for the quacks,
the records on the fax.
while you can’t sleep my wallet rests easy.
i am cut down to a size that can’t be touched.
thank god for cancer,
death to old dancer.