Untitled #580 (2014)

mikeyj529:

stephentkennedy:

mikeyj529:

stephentkennedy:

Synapses fire with a war-for-cheap chatter,
that self-same discharge that plasma chars air to vacuum.
and those fires keep rising,
and them flood waters are rising,
but you, you’re ether bound, and damn if that sound don’t just
                                                            R E SOUND.
‘course, me, I’ve got these toes dug to earth,
fillin’ the bits of me with the grit of me,
ain’t for the martyr rush of it,
ain’t cowboy hats ‘n findin’ yourself ridin’ destruction down to earth.
I just find it hard to breathe in the ether,
ain’t thick enough for my blood.

My wavering fingers trace the burning lights
flitting upon distant and cheap shorelines like prized bonfires
they measure a 7/4 rhythm
they keep the waves at sea
but you, the feet of a day’s brutal cutup—holy hell doesn’t that
                                                                    PRO FOUND
but as for clout, I need 100% of pure distillation
a crystallization singeing my brain waves
not for height of the ten miles
not for the wormwood of bohemian thoughts glowing under green lights
I am the anesthetic enterprise from without
for fresh words to chew on.

prized fire prize-fighters in tattered pixelated bandanas,
too many Street Fighter(s), 2 many street fighters to count.
They’ve got those sandpaper fists,
just whittlin’ away at anything, everything.

‘n you up with the pure still,
a thousand facets reflecting new ideas down to the fray,

                                        but,
                                        and,
                                        yet,
                                        so,

that 7/4 tempo gets called by the conductor;

ritardando

And no longer is it about the fists of the angry,
nor is it the fires of the cheap.
The floodwaters rise, and no one cares if they slosh over.

It is not the flit of their fists,
but the grit of their passion I am waiting for.
I want to feel the grass, feel the soil.
Glory is in the dull thump.
Someone who does not repeat themselves, cannot be sure they are heard,
glory is in the dull thump, thump,
that thirsty thump of a taken toss for the traces long since, long since lost,

crescendo,
affrettando,
fortissimo

‘n their ain’t a thing wrong with crystals
‘n that still of the clear where they ferment the new,
but it ain’t, ain’t got that 7/4 beat, that gut-thump repeat, that meat to sink self in.
Only get that from the well-tread, oft-said.

taxidermy tax accountants thrive in their numbers
too few maths to calculate the combinations for a perfect TKO
They talk in tongues of percentages
nickel and diming away the dreams you saved
and I’m with the pure, still,
I am Nagual, a skin walker, an idea between hosts

                                        few,
                                        many,
                                        most,
                                        all,
who do you say is, has always been, the maestro?
Primo larghissimo—
It was never about fire in the lights of purity
nor retaining an ocean’s fury
Who guards the seawall, and why do they care about floods?
We’ve seen the flick of their wrists
and the chip of harsh words we’d do better without
Let the cities crumble into silt
Glory be the resonance
Echoes repeat themselves, and often with varying degrees of hearing,
glory be the shame of a dull thump,
the underwater clatter coin tosses traced to forgotten wishing wells:
Deciso prestissimo!
Let us raise those sandpaper fists
full of the glorious dull thumps to ferment the grit of a passion,
it lacks the structure of every meter, lacks the coin necessary to continue after TKOs
We earn it all upon the shattered crystals.

poco a poco the lithe of it trickles down the spirals of the still,
a hint of whiskey to the aftertaste, because who has a still that doesn’t use it…

Nahual, binary existance, not so much between as interconnected…

and, god, can you feel the lithe of it?
as we’re lapping at the spout of the still,
panting for the proud of the still,
at the sound of the still,
and the still is silent.

                                    drip.

            drip.

                        d
                        r
                        i
                        p
                        .

and the clear is silent.

for all my italian lambast, I feel worthy for the sheets I read them from,
but Nahual, but Nahual.
For all the Dineh my bones may have past known,
not, not Nahual.

taste the lithe.
we interlopers could never taste the thick of Nahual,
so roll the taste of it through our whiskey haze,
get that lithe hint of it, of it,

                    and know.

for all the still of the clear, there is no truth outside,
for there is not fiction outside,
and a binary without counterpart is not.

                    and know,
                    we will not.

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