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bicycle riding

April 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm » Comments (0)

hop on and we’re off/humbling to have
 
tensions expressed, axis wobble
 
gears translate the force yet the knees
 
torque, something spine twitching impulse realign repeat
 
90 180 rhythm of the street
 
wheels whir a trail of rubber we leave
 
curb jumping, crack swerving, a pass with death
 
steel and plastic flash punch tunnels predetermined
 
but bikes go where they please
 
time to strengthen improve […]



detonate apocalypse

April 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pm » Comments (0)

How does it come 2gather, breath pushing
 
Nerves abuzz, hauled 2 the top of this hill
 
A heap/our fears and expectations/jumbled bones
 
And these masks we contort afraid 2 look self in the I
 
Pressing in against each other, friction 2 heat
 
Smoldering and the pinnacle catches a breeze
 
Lights ablaze, juice sucked out, dance of flame
 
Gravity does the rest



making love

April 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm » Comments (0)

Not fucking
 
Not about sticking this inside of you
 
To substitute these acts
 
To prop up and sustain notions about
 
Who I am, not a failing masculinity that
 
Needs and proves relentless unsatisfied
 
Rub dick raw, useless detached paradox
 
Simple orgasm beat off
 
A preoccupation with this predicated upon
 
The untenable and flawed nature of such an approach
 
Brings us back to repeat the same […]



back on my own again

April 11th, 2007 at 9:00 pm » Comments (0)

Safe to say/things have changed
No one cares where I’ve been
The spiral turns/my loss
Slips out/gets tossed
And you would leave me standing here?
My worst expectation and fear

Lay me low again
Break it down again
Let’s just shatter and explode
Into nothing/Into everything
Throw chance to the wind



light as a feather

April 11th, 2007 at 8:59 pm » Comments (0)

mystery recede revolve come round corner to curve melting gravity arc matter 2 energy 2 matter
inputs and outbursts, braid this fray/dig it up/cut it out
a little change won’t hurt
a little change won’t do
2 strange 2 say 2 stay 2 discover away passing through 2 morrow
hollow marrow parroting parody due borrow, beg
break a leg, drink it […]



awash in probability collapse

April 11th, 2007 at 8:59 pm » Comments (0)

possibility, positive feedback
wry the worm turns snake tongues burn flicker dart
words fail, worlds recede, the tide pulls hissing sea foam
hurled ragged upon the rocky shore.
breath forced out, this gasping for air is a broken form
faint memory and scars linger
teach reach and finger
stars proceed looming quasar snap
broken cages, same old trap
scales shed iridescent
a torn hollow skin […]



your so-called civilization

April 11th, 2007 at 8:57 pm » Comments (0)

Doesn’t impress me much
 
Mad nightmare toxic holocaust
 
Fostering rage and confusion
 

 
Invader power fetish, conquer control
 
This land soaked with blood
 
These streets steeped in misery
 
We are the left behind, the don’t fit-ins
 

 
And it’s our dreams that won’t fit
 
Your wage slave service economy
 
Seems to have leapt beyond
 
Reason and self-survey
 

 
How you refuse to see
 
The commonality, that this experience
 
Is a shared […]



convergence collide disrupt

April 11th, 2007 at 8:57 pm » Comments (0)

 
Static notions bleed out
 
Percussive memory shift this
 
Ancestral longing for justice
 
In the market of unfulfilled needs
 
My children go begging, stained with grease
 
Subsisting on trash how it horrifies
 
Open eyes, festering lies are open wounds
 
Closed too soon, the pus pours
 
Fly festooned, maybe you’d rather
 
Ignore first ask father, hurry on
 
I prefer to linger, fist melt to fingers
 
Breath frost frozen […]



the ghosts remember

April 11th, 2007 at 8:55 pm » Comments (0)

The ghosts
Remember freshly their slaughter
The empire of torture
Arrived armed on boats, iron girded
They came to take to conquer
To disrupt, break apart and destroy
They say we didn’t understand back then
How the whole world is connected
Had to turn it all to shit b4 we could see it
Maybe the natives knew
But who can understand their gibberish?
Learn to speak […]



last time

April 11th, 2007 at 8:51 pm » Comments (0)

last time I saw you standing there
wanna run my fingers through your hair
last time I saw you standing there
wanna run my fingers through your hair

rain coming down
sheets all around
it was cold and wet
awash in grey
I didn’t care
I turned around
And walked away
think about it until this day

It’s the last time
Left you standing there
The last time



open mind

April 11th, 2007 at 8:50 pm » Comments (0)

look at how my hands have wrought
never exactly what you thought – that’s adaptation
a certain consternation
perplexes and perplexing
impurities self reflecting

caught up, we’re all caught up
the modern madness passivity sadness
cumulative cyclical enough enough
i’ve had more than I can stand
gone beyond go between go further now

open mind
open mind
open mind



collapse to primitivism: jumping scale

April 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pm » Comments (0)

Against this austere backdrop we find pockets of humanity thriving, itching and experimenting into balance. Awash in media haze it’s few who break through mental conditioning self-doubt fear and insanity to discard the tired tools of repression. Many are the casualties, incalculable the social deficit — we find ourselves between betwixt hesitating transfixed […]



stranger, prodigal son

April 11th, 2007 at 8:31 pm » Comments (0)

He walks the street of another dead city. Body still ringing, charge building dissipates/slow steady pace constant, the wheels revolve rolling, devouring miles and dreams shift, illusions drift windmill tilt, tattered threads the sunshines through. Familiar recession sprawl, savage disinvestment campaign, monopoly enforced scarcity polarizes and concentrates, leaves behind cheap track housing […]



I get it baby, I’m freaked out too.

April 11th, 2007 at 8:29 pm » Comments (0)

Things can’t go on like this. A reality of pain and fear, an age of crisis accumulated, product of shattered minds the fuel bodies the raw material. This flawed I know and experience. Maybe it’s small, change…insignificant parts encompassed. But we all ride time through space and in reviewing the legacy […]