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A:
Smile like a blueberry drowned
In oatmeal
that sat overnight
Swelling with milk
Night swelling with milk
C:
To be
Internalized like blocks
Into a tower it will never see
B:
Perhaps my ignorance is
A fruit that does not know it's already
Started
Perhaps my ignorance is
A fruit that does not know it's already
Started bleeding
C:
To be
Internalized like blocks
Into a tower it will never see
D:
Whole and pulled
From the stem
Whole and pulled
From the stem
A fruit that does not know it has already
Started bleeding, whole and pulled
From the stem
Pulled from the stem
C:
To be
Internalized like blocks
Into a tower it will never see
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Infinity Is A Needle Unsown, The Zipper
C:
A1:
Infinity is a needle unsown, the zipper
Teeth pulled back into that empty bowl
Filled with the eyes of magma-coated potential. Nowhere
C1:
Teeth pulled back into that empty bowl
A2:
Filled with the eyes of magma-coated potential. Nowhere
Is a place wrapped in silken
Sandpaper, made to polish back the scrapings on a soul
C2:
Teeth pulled back into that empty bowl
Is a place wrapped in silken
A3:
Sandpaper, made to polish back the scrapings on a soul
That has long forgotten the start of its journey.
Pulled away from the taught and endless thread, it returns
C3:
Teeth pulled back into that empty bowl
Is a place wrapped in silken
That has long forgotten the start of its journey.
A4:
Pulled away from the taught and endless thread, it returns
Into the eternal knot from which it was cut.
Infinity is a needle unsown, the zipper
C4
Teeth pulled back into that empty bowl
Is a place wrapped in silken
That has long forgotten the start of its journey.
B:
Into the eternal knot from which it was cut.
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3. |
Step Right On Up
02:35
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A:
Step right up, step right
Up to the carousel of jagged human
Choice.
B:
(How a carousel chooses
Winners)
D:
The twirling amalgamation of hearts
Jumps with the smoothness of a held breath--
The winner wearing a calculated crown
of need, coated in glittering chipset.
C:
Step right up, step right
Up to the carousel
Step right up, step right
How a carousel chooses
Winners)
E:
Twisted into mute circus animals, plastic eyes rubbed
By too many fingers, the other riders
Wonder at how a carousel chooses
Winners at all.
C:
Step right up, step right
Up to the carousel
Step right up, step right
how a carousel chooses
winners)
F:
The other riders
Wonder at how a carousel chooses
Winners at all.
C:
Step right up, step right
Up to the carousel
Step right up, step right
To the carousel of jagged human
Choice.
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Petals are part of this
Held, Content to stay open
What is picked cannot be closed
Petals are part of this
Identity. Like a plucked eye held
Up to the fisherman's line,
Hooks matted between thorns.
Hooks matted between
Thorns. Crowned, this beating organ is displayed as the dining room Centerpiece, a curved wound
A curved wound.
This beating organ is
Displayed as dining room centerpiece
A curved wound content to stay open
A curved wound content to stay, stay, stay...
This beating organ is
Displayed as dining room centerpiece
A curved wound content to stay open
What is picked cannot be closed; so it smiles.
Petals are part of this
Held, Content to stay open
What is picked cannot be closed
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5. |
The Fourth Man
02:13
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The Fourth Man
One man's bones are mortar
The second holds a saw
Third's skull is shattered tile
While fourth steps on it all.
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6. |
Calling Out!
01:36
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Calling Out!
We are crepitation, a dimly lit
Play between shadowed neurons
Flickering for breath.
Or was it a thought strung
Between eyelids?
Calling out that there is no name
For who we cut apart,
These fingers are my own.
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Despise is too heady a word;
So it writhes in me, so self assured.
I pretend this
I pretend this smoking
I pretend this
I pretend this smoking wood.
Despise is too heady a word;
So it writhes in me as a snake
So we arise to embrace the absurd
It writhes in me as a snake.
I pretend this
I pretend this smoking
I pretend this
I pretend this smoking wood is tainted by tears. (I fear).
So it writhes in me as a snake pinned with a dagger!
Swaggering home, swaggering home!
I pretend this smoking wood is tainted by tears
Instead of venom.
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8. |
There Are No Promises
03:03
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There Are No Promises
The moon is an
Ambition
Of Wasteland
Mirrored than.
Unpainted god etched in silver
Filigree
Untold, the moon is an ambition
There are no promises
Just reflections of a sun
Too hot to hold.
On the frontal
Lobe, cratered nipples dipping
Inwards. Pock marks on its face
Ancient, pregnant, and unknown.
Untold The moon is an ambition
There are no promises
Just reflections of a sun
Too hot to hold.
The ash of boldness is better
Cooled in the outsized dream of the void
Beyond this lodestone.
(Too hot to hold)
Untold the moon is an ambition
There are no promises
Just reflections of a sun
Too hot to hold.
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Walksoftly California
Walksoftly are: Michael Cooper, lyricist, bassist, and composer.
He is frequently joined by the fantastic Mark Grider (of Fedbysound) for production, guitar work, and musical curmudgeonry.
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