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Nigh Unnavigable
01:41
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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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2. |
That Witch
02:48
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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
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Divorced Case Scenario
01:37
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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
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4. |
Package Drive
01:19
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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?
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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
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6. |
Laughter And Coughter
01:27
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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?
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7. |
Fungible? Risible!
02:31
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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
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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
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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?
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10. |
We're Old News
00:45
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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
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11. |
Bachman Turner Overdub
00:37
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Basically everyone’s a wolf
With an acid reflex
You tame them I’ll name them
I’ll climb the mountain of freedom
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12. |
Arcane Art of the M-Dash
02:24
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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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13. |
Derron and Carter
01:01
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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:
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When I saw the first cut I was horrified
Remixed and re-released
On bluray DVD
All permissions cleared
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Ain’t heard such dialogue
Since the time of the monsters
And now this message from our sponsors
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14. |
All-City Invitational
02:17
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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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