1. |
Double Helix.
06:26
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In the soupy mist of heaven
That we already have lived in
Is it fair to say that we were ours?
Gaze into a mirror mocking
Every action you conceive of
Rehearse a line you might repeat.
Weave your fingers with a persons
You might have might just recently
And say alone out loud "it is real."
Is it real?
When you step up on a vessel
With no option of operating,
Recline, it either breaks or it doesn't.
Arrive alone in some damn station,
Who knows someone, anybody,
That knows someone with a will and drive.
Come and get me, come and scoop me,
Open every door that blocks me,
Defending her odd wrongs felt right.
Is it right?
Whole lives flashed before our little
Cameras that capture the frames
Passing as moments in our eyes.
She and I were Double Helix;
Completing every twist and focus
That makes spiral staircase escalate.
She and I were Double Helix;
Connecting all the spades and trenches
Making lattice latter climb a point.
What's the point?
Growing old and aching combined
In one thing like two legs of jeans
As the waste makes it a pair.
Orthopedic shoes are something
That I think you would look nice in
If I can hold out to see you wear 'em.
Not worried about the ancient ruins
Our souls reside in,
It Either Breaks or It Doesn't.
Does it?
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2. |
That's Life, Anyway.
05:09
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If wooden things are olden
And a saw brings their dust,
And dunking chains of golden
Into water grows their rust,
Then breaking's not a reason
Not to put a thing together
That's Life, Anyway.
Caution is not a ball-roller
But it's soothed in practice.
Unless, each and all tomorrows
Bring unwillingness to change.
So design all the instructions
Knowing some materials breathe.
That's Life, Anyway.
Like we feel fatter in the winter
Cooped up in our trough of broth.
Looking good for one another,
An easy goal of no weight loss.
And yes, the body it is breaking
And the skin is growing moss.
Youth is poor wish making,
Waisting away is the purpose and the cause.
That's Life, Anyway.
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3. |
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There was a movement
Explained in nimble grace
With other bodies in prime
Especially mine ,
I was a dancer this time
I was a dancer this time
There was a moment,
Colors intertwined
Upon a canvas,
Especially mine I
I was a painter this time
I was a painter this time
There was a novel,
Summed up existence
For generations,
Especially mine
I was a writer this time
I was a writer this time
it was important to me
it was important to me
A stack of lines
Encased everything
Of human time,
Especially mine
I was a poet this time
I was a poet this time
A note made quiver,
Perfect frequency
Ejected between lips,
Especially mine
I was singer this time
I was singer this time
An orchestra rang
Humans' harmony
At the tip of baton,
Especially mine
I was a maestro this time
I was a maestro this time
It was important to me
It was important to me
There was a battle,
Unending and unfair,
Over bodies,
Especially mine
I was a woman this time
I was a woman this time
There was a person
Born unto this earth,
They had eyes and strength,
Especially mine
I was a mother this time
i was a mother this time
It was important to me
It was important to me
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4. |
Pressure Rising.
05:44
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In low light
I try to decide
When to cut the rope
Tethered to you
That loops and winds,
Snakes the scapes
That spread the seas.
It knows the turns,
Rehearsed these aisles
Bread-crumbing to me.
It is laid
With importance
Through this city,
All along the beat up street
Which we chose.
It lays
Limp on the staircase,
Creeps 'neath the doorway.
Leaving all light in the hallway
Wrapping itself at my feet.
It is tied with might from a sailer
Tight 'round my ankle
And pulls or tugs when you budge.
In a will of a resuscitation
When will you cut me loose?
Life like a young girl abbreviating
Whole words she once wrote.
Like an Aircraft Carrier's tight with rope
To a wooden post.
Lifting and launching little soldeirs
Doing a bidding.
Little bombing.
Little lifeboat.
Little life-calling.
Diving and delving into a person
Like drinking oceans.
Pressure rising,
Pressurizing,
Precious rope breaking.
In this light
I try to decide
When to cut the rope,
And let the Aircraft Carrier go
And float on her own.
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5. |
Alternative Warfare.
05:20
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When something offends
An entire race of people,
Try something like compassion,
Agreeing's hard-forward-moving.
So please, support the progress of humanity.
And you know why,
Don't act like
Fucking little kid
With no options.
How long have wars never solved
Believing in diffrent gods?
Alternate Your style of warfare,
Carpet bomb some gifts.
Confuse the ones who hate you,
Respond in a different way.
And you know why,
Don't act like
Fucking teenager
Against the whole world.
Religion and faith, they're ok,
It's Believe, that's the problem.
When you believe your like concrete,
Unmovable, unteachable.
And Change, worse than death
You can't accept
People living anyway they please.
And you know why,
Don't act like
Racist asshole
With a flagpole.
Just live your life
And don't hurt people you don't understand.
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6. |
Cold Grease.
06:15
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The question raised
Then you sky-dived your eyes
As we broke
Not unlike the way grease dries.
Overcame
In a plot without surprise.
Sustained
As reverb in an X's ties.
Can't put away those years
Like discarded tires.
Shove off, set sail, cut rope,
Let your engine work your float
Over the states, the meat,
Forty-eight wrenches one machine.
Like cold grease
Just needs some heat.
Can't help
Seeing coincidence as tape.
Being shook
Violently off a finger of fate.
With her hand
On an ornate
Remote control
Pressing anything.
As she stares at your
Shape from the inside
Of a window used
As a passing mirror.
Like flashing lights
To an epileptic deer.
Check yourself out,
Invent some compliments.
Like any machines gears
Needs a little grease.
This cold grease ain't trash
It just needs some heat.
O, this cold grease Just needs some Heat.
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7. |
Breaks The Letters.
07:12
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Shit was good
In our little walls
With no choice
But the other
Or to go out Alone
Or together.
Endure
and Create our own sentence.
Sit was good in that asylum.
'Till one breaks.
Had our spots
On a couch and in a bed.
Sole to sole
Bicycle motion
To the motion picture in the back
Like the window of down time.
Then sole to mid-foot
In the air conditioned sleep.
Home cooking on Tuesday,
Where we lost and found the libido.
Shit was good
In our sentence,
'Till one breaks the letters.
When your
Times up you need release.
Add two dots
To our period..
Then my hands
Put your stuff on the curb,
Put it out with you.
My shit-van took it all away from here.
Dipped the pen
In the ink of love song.
It was good to feel that cursive.
'Till one breaks the letters.
What's this time
With the loop without the tail.
Need new lines
To guide the tails direction.
When you trace
All it's pretty pretty curves,
Realize
It only ends if you don't connect it.
Say goodbye
To my T's to my I's.
It was good.
'Till one breaks the letters down.
'Till one breaks the letters down,
Own their own they're just shapes
They don't know what they're spelling.
'Till one breaks the letters down,
The loop grabs the first tail
It can feel in motion.
'Till one breaks the letters down,
Which puts down an airy sentence
Worth not repeating.
'Till one breaks the letters
Just some slang on a page
With poor punctuation.
'Till one breaks the letters down,
Own their own they're just shapes
They don't know what they're spelling.
'Till one breaks the letters
Just some slang on a page
With poor punctuation.
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8. |
Reminder of Life.
04:56
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Hear it crack
In the only place it can't
To keep its functioning intact
And roll out it's product
While you wait
To see if it preforms its task
Properly and timely
Like the manual picture.
It's broke,
Like two people paint new eyes
On the lids of the other
Like who's behind is a bother.
I go home
Knowing nothing can be done
'Till the part that was ordered
Arrives in its cardboard borders.
I entered
There you were all asleep
Like some famous photograph
And me visiting its museum
And your weight
And working and bending limbs
A machine rightly functioning
With timing and grace
Which tuned out
The sound of the frantic whips
Demanding faster of the pulse
That moves the ship
So thanks
For this reminder of life
More than gears and steel,
Of breath, inside jokes and strokes
So thanks
For this reminder of life
Which breaks
Or Doesn't
Or Breaks
Or Doesn't.
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