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Picture this, cause and effect
Movie ammunition from the gun at my head.
5 cent comics now a dime a dozen.
Culture shock as culture defense
Picture this as unlimited
Rage porn treasure trove for a narcissist. Thoughts in this toilet are intrusive as shit. Culture shock when the mirror reflects.
See it. Be it. Save it. Praise it.
Do it right or don’t do it all.
Never question. Be your own man like you were shown.
Yes you’re doing it fine unless you’re doing it wrong.
Did you pay attention? Those weren’t the directions.
Look and listen, but don’t watch and hear what’s going on.
How could you no longer care?
Culture shock from culture given.
Look ma at your boy I’m taking home the silver
If art is how we please the eye,
then music is what we use to decorate time,
adding tragedy is comedy and I see why
I’m just taking a shit and this is the soundtrack.
Give it a flush, see what goes down
Take it. Raze it. Say you’ll save it.
Give it all away then sell it to the addicts. Become prophets becomes profits.
Quarterly earning statements track it and become prophets.
Never let them see the unimportant become profits.
How could you no longer care?
Culture shock from culture given.
Look ma at your boy I’m taking home the silver
Artisanal misanthropy
and highbrow refined apathy,
a cynicism well cultured
are still much more than you deserve.
Years of misplaced hope
The punchline of a joke
But shame holds no relevance
Once you learn to laugh at them
They want you
They need to to care
But shame holds no relevance
You owe them no favors.
If art is how we please the eye, then music is what we use to decorate time,
adding tragedy is comedy and I see why
I’m just taking a shit and this is the soundtrack
Give it a flush, see what goes down.
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On and on we until last call
We always get it wrong
Another system fails and we all still wonder why
The best laid plans of mice and men
Lofty dreams all turned to shit
A foundation of ignorance
Surprisingly won’t fix anything
The beautiful are dumb as shit
Awaiting second death
But smart enough to avoid the rest
A society of incompetence
Alpha Beta enthusiasts
Defining principle with image
All suckers for the salesman’s pitch
There’s wisdom in the antinatalist
It’ll be a better world, just you wait and see.
I’ve done my due diligence and 3/4 experts agree
The herd says fear the lion, cause it waits for you to stray
But the lion’s only sin is hunger, it’s the herd that gives you away.
Everything’s a haiku when you don’t know how to count
Close your eyes to see conspiracy starts with belief in yourself
Another day or any other day, depends on when the pills help
The rotten carcass of a god crawling into the sewer to die alone
It’ll be a better world, just you wait and see.
I’ve done my due diligence and 3/4 experts agree
The herd says fear the lion, cause it waits for you to stray
But the lion’s only sin is hunger, it’s the herd that gives you away.
An inconvenient existence
Is always a convenient sacrifice
You owe it to the herd my friend
To be an offering unto the pride
The pious
And the righteous
Unquestioned faithful
And the proud
Ignore you
Then implore you
To climb into
The lions mouth
For the good of the herd
For the good of the pride
On and on we until last call
We always get it wrong
Another system fails and we all still wonder why
The best laid plans of mice and men
Lofty dreams all turned to shit
A foundation of ignorance
Surprisingly won’t fix anything
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Sure they will be missed,
but at what point does all of this
performative eulogy
become necrophilic foreplay?
I’m of the mind of Ernest Hemingway
when I said he said
a little necrophillia goes a long way.
Ideologues and demigods will pillow talk in deadpan
Androgynous, traditionalist, shout out how to be a man.
A self help pyramid scheme that seems so irrelevant
But there is no bad publicity
There is no reason to fret
Catch them all by the tips of their tongues
And let instinct do the rest.
Sardonic or soft hearted? Your affirmation isn’t clear.
Thinking critically and critics are two distinct ideas.
Drowning in a deluge of self important punditry.
The numbness of depression, a vacation from your unending stupidity
Ideologues and demigods will pillow talk in deadpan
Androgynous, traditionalist, shouting out how to be a man.
A self help pyramid scheme that seems so irrelevant
But there is no bad publicity
There is no reason to fret
Catch them all by the tips of their tongues
And let instinct do the rest.
You’re a marketed aesthetic
Accessorized to prove a point
A designer bag accented
with pearls to clutch
Branded on front
But there is no bad publicity
There is no reason to fret
Catch them all by the tips of their tongues
And let instinct do the rest.
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I woke up today just like any other day
Familiar or redundant?
The question that plagues the modern world
If there’s a heaven and I can get in
It can’t be all it’s cracked up to be
Saint Peter Principle stands before the pearly gates and says
“One of us is rubbish at our job.”
Who’s responsible for this incompetence?
If there’s a heaven and I can get in
I think I’d prefer the solitude
I get this feeling that we ruin everything
And that’s why nihilism feels so optimistic
I get this feeling that we ruin everything
A perfect design or imperfect machine
Are you listening?
I don’t know
I fucked it all up
You’re right
The sun feels so warm on my face today
I wonder what tomorrow might bring?
I don’t know
I fucked it all up
You’re right
I get this feeling that we ruin everything
And that’s why nihilism feels so optimistic
I get this feeling that we ruin everything
A perfect design or imperfect machine
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A Writer Writes
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A.I. rips off people less than your favorite artist
They say a writer writes
but everyone has got a Twitter account
Andy Warhol predicted the coming of the age of influencers
They say a writer writes
but that may have set the bar too low.
A different metric for a different age
They say a writer writes but who still reads these days
Libraries under attack for damaging propaganda.
They say a writer writes
but has anyone considered the children?
Drowning in opinions and facts made up for convenience
They say a writers writes
but no one ever asked if that even matters.
A different metric for a different age
They say a writer writes but who still reads these days
They say writer writes
But how do you weigh the value of the written word?
They say writer writes
Junk mail in a dumpster fire
Lou Bega’s Mambo #5 is about necrophillia
They say a writer writes
Scoundrels, the lot of them.
All the world's a stage, the men and women merely players
They say a writer writes
But you’d think quality would count for something
A different metric for a different age
They say a writer writes but who still reads these days
They say writer writes
But how do you weigh the value of the written word?
They say writer writes
Junk mail in a dumpster fire
A dead man’s walk in prose
Better off used then destroyed
Kill off characters
Incestuous breeding in droves
A valueless gesture
A flower for a rotting corpse
Stupidity viral
So easily digestible
They say a writer writes
But everyone has opinions these days
They say a writer writes
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