1. |
Youth, Ravager
02:39
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earthquake jaw, knives of stone
erupt from pink ridges
slice through inflamed taut
trash compactor mouth meat
limbs crack length & torsion
sanguine skin stretches
slow motion savagery
all growth is pain
you are young & i am old
your fat boils
you are strong & i am brittle
the scum obeys
mother's trauma brain dust
stress sightless hammer
you wore her, ripped her
bathed in degraded sick
you swelled her feet, spine
now anemic nausea sleepless
your gummy idiot smile
your stink of helplessness
gush from bitten tongue
swallowed psychic slaughter
exploding bodies feed
slobber covered knives
i skinned my sister
for her arousal
they crowned me prom king
youth is a ravager
you are young & i am old
your fat boils
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2. |
My Neighbor's Garden
03:24
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i am a captive child
sessile mollusk slime drift feeble
strips of shredded plastic
freight truck jism choke the trees
piss cheap halloween store
ghosts of the interstate
gently night wind swaying
in my neighbor's garden
sidewalks vomit roaches
squirming gutter flesh
horizon plunging vacant
tooth socket sunset
future home of cul-de-sac
scar tissue grafts
self-slashing rifle barrel veins
in my neighbor's garden
adjacent wastelands
cage feedlot slaughterhouse
cage feedlot slaughterhouse
swollen pipeline spasm
stabbing morning fog
stratified ruptured sky
blood & bone & bruises
lifted on high
watching smoothly sloping
i am not innocent
i flooded salt & kerosene
into my neighbor's garden
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3. |
Long Division
03:02
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it eats around the edges
bright blood slick slip through fences
the graveyard smells of garbage
divide divide divide
a fishhook snagged my eyelid
wet wreck of human fingers
red nails & chalk spit plaster
divide divide divide
bisected flush hot twitchbone
on this leaking nervous highway
unconcerned with why you suffer
divide divide
desiccant chrysalides misshapen
& too sick to change
sense is taken hostage
by the all-consuming thrall
this plan is poverty
naked wretched
survive
this pain is property
distract and
divide
no paid time off for funerals
get used to degradation
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4. |
Army of Amy
02:12
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come join the army
army of amys
we ride the boneyard
french kiss our bootstraps
we succor charity
train in diplomacy
& rip the wings from
your cherished vesper
we soften skin flaps
the color of kindness
we fight the warbler
sight across the bough
we wring the redpoll
out of your dishrag
we hold your kneecaps
to civilize them
we wield heraldic mace
don't disturb our sunday
eyelash
i lash
tongue of braided zipties
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5. |
Render Unto Scissors
03:50
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cathedral sewer ceiling
to folds of rank sky
steamstreaked
with stained glass rat poison
infected sputum shade
they call imperial green
pick the proper tool
& the moment will choose itself
antenna to stir the ashes
so many odors of dust
scissors for the pruning
whetted on empty plates
decay does not reverse itself
queen termite, fat fealty
discolored dripping bandage
cancellation, cancellation
i was told
it is a fact
empirical
when people know
how much pain
they will endure
they can endure
more pain
but how can this
be measured
without hurting
someone against their will?
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6. |
This Will Help You Sleep
02:49
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i don't want your pills
sickness spiral
by throat
by prison
by blisters
nourished by the bile
flogged in heavings
questions
answers
stab wounds
poison on the wind
i pray for fractures
sweat stains
street lights
bedsores
this will help you sleep
big money nightmares
of my dried-up future
toilet treasure
retch marks the spot
the rain brought nothing
but a barely human
carcass stinking
in the drainage ditch
yellow sodium
spitball arches
your fingers
hold open
blood vessels
this will help me sleep
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7. |
Sinus
03:15
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in a scalding steam hypnosis
i sucked wine from a shotgun chamber
black powder & redness
trickled down my breast
to a starving dog
naked shrieks of sewage
cavities stuffed with voided tissue
this is my offering
the milk of every pried up scab
scoured within
rubbed raw inside
hatchet scalp
straitjacket brain
lubing my palm with the mucus of infants
mourning my friends' while strangling my own
science is barren & so is your god
help is not coming
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Sciatica Charlottesville, Virginia
Punishing doom/sludge from Charlottesville, VA, with a lyrical focus on chronic pain both physical and psychic. FFO: Eyehategod, Brainoil, Weedeater.
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