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ZONK!

by Rectangle Creep

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Like a smart person I read it Like a dummy I believed it Put myself in choppy seas Postponing decisions Courting capsizion Charts and gauges be damned These seas are nigh unnavigable Like a bad man I saw it Like a noble man I fought it Clenched nails and teeth Bared at the challengers Invasion of the stalengers
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That Witch 02:48
That which stands on black legs sings That which tattoo brings A vernacular asunder An eighth world wonder A language without ink One that simply flowers From the throat From the coat of arms So static and tartan That oily voice Oblique from a cupboard Hassan and Hubbard Family curses abound And unto which She will be deceiving Until the last spell is cast A simple pilsner at last One which quenches and drowns A death bed coloring book A rogue diagonal rook Chirping in the castle tower
3.
If you’re gonna tend bar: You need to be a manager A server A psychologist And a plumber A yogi would be helpful Set aside a dishrag But then again that’s the Divorced case scenario When evenings are aimless A glass that needs filling These soldiers need drilling If you ride the litigation train Have a ride waiting at the station The conductors are ruthless They drop you on the mail hook Shunt you to the side track Choo choo choo Choo choo choo Choo choo choo Choo choo choo Choo
4.
I’ve been waiting for the package Far too long All my friends have their package They ask what’s wrong Gonna come here any day Didn’t really want it anyway I say: Party with some pizza while I wait For my package to arrive I try to strive Waiting for my package to arrive Why couldn’t I drive?
5.
The problem with this lamp is It illuminates nothing It flickers and gutters Burning there on the sill I need to read when I get there However Charlie Ron Says it’s a long shot The bulb in this lamp is Indicative of something The problem with this book is It illuminates nothing Closed minds close the shutters Like they closed the mill I need to read when I get there It’s a long shot with this lamp Failing to shine still When I want it to it will
6.
Laughing Coughing Who’s to blame? Where’d they come from? Who was betrayed? Laughter is fun Coughter is slum Never the twain shall steep Get under the jeep Transmission on the fly Transmission on the fly They said he was the guy— Laughing Coughing Spewing the sputum Gearing Ted Nugent They said he was the guy But I doubted it I couldn’t countenance it Laughing Coughing Who’s to blame?
7.
With a straight face And comically widened eyes I can’t believe you’d condescend To claim they’re equally Interchangeable Any fool can see Your claims are horseshit Your argument at its rotten root Is a hypothesis rendered moot Fungible?? Risible!! Get out of my boardroom Your idiot countenance belies The decades of sweating effort Our father sank into this spire Of stone Planted at the center Of the world’s biggest city’s Financial quarter O my brother! Fungible?? Risible!! How can I explain to you brother? One is not equal to the other
8.
The drum The ring That was me with my finger Who failed To make The connection Remember the metallic taste Measure the psychoacoustics Chilling sound Emanating from your Tropic of Cancer The cold Cochlear touch It was Rick With his booster dongle Who failed To taste Electricity Savor that woodsmoke taste Of an oak Split by a bolt Psychoacoustics of a chilling sound
9.
When I molt the skin prison Will this world be paroled? Feel the icy chill Of exposed secrets Zip-lining through you Like a bucket-list daredevil If I pass you This wisdom Will it grow in you like a tapeworm? Unfolding origami Blanketing the mind’s eye Stitching every synapse With recklessness and banzai Am I alive? Is this what we have devolved to? Are you alive? Unseen beacon that I am drawn to Are we alive?
10.
In the peeling yellow papers From 1953 Used to paper a wall That’s half-reduced to dust You can read about us In crackling radio transmission From 1957 Announcing famous satellite And its famed creators We were featured We’re worn out Flayed down to a nub The burnt-out fuse We’re old news
11.
Basically everyone’s a wolf With an acid reflex You tame them I’ll name them I’ll climb the mountain of freedom
12.
How are you this morning, Angie? All weekend long— We had an issue with the M-dash I realized I couldn’t hack it Two spaces One of each size What’s the matter, Angie? Is it there yet? What I gave was for Charles Only for Charles Exactly exactly exactly No one knows how to parse the Arcane art of the M-dash Will you watch them closely, Angie? There’s still the chance no one can do it It’s nobody’s yet Everything is handed off No one knows how to parse the Arcane art of the M-dash
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Newest half-hour situation dramedy Gracing Wednesday night On the WB Ain’t seen such sights Since before they took your tonsils Back in 1983 Now this message from our sponsors: Sure thing nonstarter "Derron & Carter" When I saw the first cut I was horrified Remixed and re-released On bluray DVD All permissions cleared Original soundtrack restored Ain’t heard such dialogue Since the time of the monsters And now this message from our sponsors
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One It was decided He would follow the map On a trip west 1964 The Buddha known as Intrepid Thinker Smells summer Lilac trees, San Francisco Bay breeze Gas tank empty A switch is hit Time fucks with energy And undivided attention giver Dies a filthy Echo invades all time A precious witness to face The sliding through Of hot summers One after another How to address a previous life That existed in childhood? With a barren wife A being, being me I wandered West Coast Taking in Everything The day I was born He was 22 Glued to this image A concern to his end Benjamin Rick is pouring it on thick It’s his number-one industry trick Trained at the invisible zoo of human overconsumption Positioned in various placements of Management control staffs Entertains plastic visions of power leashing Starched hacksaw leadership Faking the whip maneuvers at the top Months before the slow decline And so on He said, “Shine bright”

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released January 30, 2019

Joseph Airport Records — JAR-014
Written and recorded by Rectangle Creep
©2019 Tsunami Patrol Music

Dan Jircitano, Jereme Sanborn, and Matthew Cutter are Rectangle Creep

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:

Jason Brown, "That Witch" lyrics
April Brennan, "Arcane Art of the M-Dash" drums
Michael Cartright, "All City Invitational" lyrics
Patrick Cutter, "Package Drive" lyrics & vocals

"All City Invitational" by Champion Swimmer (Jircitano/Cartright)
championswimmer.bandcamp.com

Mixed by Ben Baker at Canadaway Records

Cover collage, "ZONK!" by Jereme Sanborn

Thanks to April Brennan, Ben Baker, Michael Cartright, Jason Brown, Patrick Cutter, Maureen Cutter, Joanna Goldberg, Rae, YOU

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