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Speed Up For LA
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Like any good fearless and conquesting rake, I left a trail of linen lead sheets in my wake. Scrawling on the walls, but did not quite deface. Just making rapid fire tracks through quaternary space. Speaking tongues - an articulate binary. Depositing a payload once carried. Unfettered, on the contrary: this anthropic clown car at carrying capacity. Ascending the uncanny valley. The Cambrian crawl to terminal velocity. A face-warping formality. Nestled into this niche as we’re speeding up for Allie. My anthem is a hymn of devastation, the lock-step march off a precipice of our own making. Sorry mom, but it’s only forward thinking as pure as any motive that could be called motivation. This soiled germ line bent to my will as consecration. Sorry dad, but ain’t it constructive misbehaving? Speed up for Allie. Speed up for LA. Deflowered, demystified. I’m a disenchanted fucker until the day I die. With every hope dashed and bonding tie dispersed, I’m summoning warm bodies to help run down the universe. That she may look up above the festivities at a pulsating nebulous mass like me. Speed up for Allie. Speed up for LA.
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Well we buried God with Hitchens, or so we are told by the teleprompter rolling the final credits slide. Yeah, you better believe they’ll fall on an eclipsed Levant in the path of totality: 1948 timestamp. So Jibrīl’s urgent message to the merchant might very well have been the troglodytic tag, like gasoline on a rag. Insurrection pending because every single loss is a win for the Greener Pastures Division. You know heroes never die: no, not hasbara sicarii learning their scythes in the overgrowth of public opinion to reconfigure broken glass. Perhaps we’ve chanced upon philistines who cannot register the artist from the art, or pawn from legislator. Why don’t you just call on your critical analyses to decommission these tanks soon to be selling souvenirs in Gaza and timeshares in the West Bank? Have the interests been served? Well, then it’s time for dessert, in no way suggestive of the malicious intent of foreign correspondents crafting pesky narratives. We’re nothing if not denigrated and demonized. But pay no mind to the slander - we colonize in defense. And of course, the world always looks less occupied on the other side of the fence.
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Nautical Girl
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Well, maybe I should leave on a greyhound, swearing and swearing on my way out. I have Ellen telling me to live for once and people on my shoulders that I care about. And I know this is all temporary: the headaches and heartaches will one day fade. I was afraid I was missing out on all the real shit. Sitting on these stairs as my soul decays. Well my nautical girl calms my heart right down when my mind is split in two. I’ve felt this restless all my life I guess but I feel grounded with you. And I sit on that hydrant nearly every day just staring like a goddamn fool. I have friends on the way and the very best ones at that too. But the guns that once shot flowers have become graves; I guess I am one too. I’ll build you a boat if you would sail me around. And then you’d tell me what to do. You’d read me the stories that you’ve wrote aloud. She paints a softer shade of blue.
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