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chorus
went to a repentance convention,
got the shirt, the hat, the mug,
a Donald trump tramp stamp
clamped to a blood crippled
jazz transfusion,
was no delusion
of grandeur,
Pasteur,
Pastorius,
Jaco, Oscar blade-running bass-line ordinance
[at home]
ate my porridge quick,
was on the press guest list,
VIP slip
verse 1
the panels were alright,
took some notes for late that night,
saw no deliberate deliberating,
booth sections combed with sight:
all irrelevant,
Muhammad’s yamaha,
(Jesus’ horsepower)
some bearded dude explaining how he got there
“Buddha” he said “straight shooter,”
“as the crow flies,”
barber to a Sikh Mughal
earned no cash,
instead created the zero out his ass,
abacus flash parallel to some
Zapotec Math
just a ball inscribed upon the wall of a temple:
rubber ball Spaulding,
used for Michelin incidentals
he invited me to a lecture
on conjectures
of house negro problems in post-colonial Tribeca.
outside, a vendor was selling some New Holland
for some wampum
or prophecies of oil futures,
shell of a man, comb over needed some suture,
think Karl Rove meets Mr. Burns sans appearance of a moocher
I kindly said no, scratched my fro, entered the door
and as I sat a power point showed Justin Bieber as a Sambo
Chorus
Verse 2
The lunch was reminiscent of some new edition soft ciabatta
Jimmy Hoffa would have protested with Bambatta,
remixed the salad,
replaced the soda pop culture with some water
I thought,
“where is the redemption in high fructose Chocolate Davis,
“Harlem salt shakers,
“renaissance with bagels capers?”
Chucked it, stepped outside
before the serving of Yahweh’s wafers
(into the sun)
doubt was the paint of the shadow on my shoulder,
negrometer read incognegro,
poems in the folder
Nero took the G out of identity,
burned the construct down,
bleached his own historiography.
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2. |
Langston
02:17
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esoteric asshole
panflute piper ragdoll
physics unclear lyrics,
havok engine gimmick spirit
nonsensical perceived believed,
them academic standards,
wine taster holders,
check the message after grammar
densely worded orator
hortator,
telvanni lore,
never been a nerevarine
with words,
but a “ therasaur”
outlander in interior,
posterior foresight,
mics, baked beans,
boston grips XLRs tight.
fuck it,
break matza
commentate like Costas,
color coded appearances,
renting hair for the opera
powdered with a side of beignets,
the shade of grey that
eugenicists will praise
infiltrator, they know it, nay
the muckraker reeks of sewage perfume,
exudes the rancor of the digested,
hardened cocoon
the holes have been impressed
in the flesh of the leaves,
the subject’s predicate,
eat the worm, please
500 dollar haiku about a metamorphosis
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creative ADD cools critiques left in the fridge,
left of center freon tipped
thoughts tangibly unbridged
passively inhaling the ashes of those past burnt,
asphyxiating loneliness
sans mental dessert
the insulin of curt scripture drafted in dark,
multi-syllable diatribes masking pain beneath the art
the heart, the spark, its murmurs ignite vision
greater than the ocular prism with UV rhythm
IR, invisible
sees one indivisible,
dented skull from several expelled racial theory visuals
no binaries in libraries
but Vonneguts and sonnets,
indelible like Ellison
eating moon cheese like Gromit.
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3. |
Piecemeal
04:08
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Chorus (x2)
motherfucking realness
molecule machina
dos on the regular
opens the falafel truck
(Baklava biome)
go home, words, you’re drunk,
associating with all types
insinuating schmucks
Verse
quipu soufflé
leave that stomach in knots,
dig a turnip from the underground
and give him dap or not
ate the bones,
phoned home,
and dropped drones on porcelain domes,
ate a dinner roll,
smoked a bowl
and watched some Gary Old
so
serious Black,
rhyming rhythms stay on track,
3 letters of the first name shared,
minimalist rap
matter fact,
fuck the nomenclature stated
I’m greater than cheese graters,
shredding all these whack 2 timing MC fakers
(c’mon)
Chorus
(Turn in song to other, industrial instrumental)
Refrain
GMO Cornrow, church, liquor store,
GMO Cornrow, church, liquor store,
GMO Cornrow, church, liquor store,
GMO Cornrow, church, liquor store,
Fresh food,
Chicken nugget, fuck it, bucket, KFC,
crop 18-inch,
Jesus and his mac ’n’ cheese
(fucking mac ’n’ cheese)
Verse
So,
delinquency,
that’s key for he
She says free hugs are not for me
The book is on a new type frequency
I see the plants just be.
Cathode LCD taken
by Muckraker Jones,
on the phone when we atone, eyes forever in that zone,
the brains of all the youth dripping from that sugar cone,
correction, high fructose, blown,
big thighs about she moans,
‘cause there are half-foods, not a whole, in the ghettos of the mind
See well like C.L.
when peeling capitalist rinds,
hind quarters and land mines
of tin foil hats with Signs,
life’s like Shyamalan,
after the start, a steep decline
up St. Charles on tree products,
rubber harnessed from the earth
in the end they want it gone,
Mother Nature gives no birth
would they reassess the fact
if the green that they grow
Was instead green grass
sprouting from their head to toe,
And their skin was invisible,
Showing complete lack of soul?
Would the roles change and we’d step on them like soil?
Refrain
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4. |
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Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
Elmer Fudd index.
Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
Elmer Fudd index.
black roses grown from concrete sheets
centuries immense in dents of house speakers’ treats deplete
this native preservation, expressive weapons, words that breathe
fibrosis mystics, CEOs, swap genes
free market bars for sale beside GMO beats and leaks
uprooted before the mastering and streamed as complete
executives directing urban runoff tributaries,
estuary, elementary capacity evidently
flagellum magistrate,
urchin, orchid robed mycelia,
underground moss, records for floss
costs and prison gates
sketched in docket, prophets oscillate,
sated lust of waterway,
gate break,
skanking Nixon,
monitor of the hall way.
(What the hell are you talking about?)
fuck a spoken word, a silent one,
post-genre bubblegum,
post-modern pre-conceptions of pastime pendulums
hi-five the lowpass filter muffling the bullshit,
smack someone upside the head and take back the pulpit
Tabernacle assholes puke up less factual
equations, gesticulations, saturation,
mixtape hasslers,
hustlers
but only to speed,
creed to volume of their song list
get this gist?
but none are pissed
change this
No more.
bespeckled devils selling bars cheap ass hell,
2 for one sale,
old english coupons in the mail,
post-fat, post bail
snails pace is progress o’ soup heating pot of fail-safe béchamel—
the “winers” want their hip hop like a pocket pussy
with a side of
cultural assail.
Only for pleasure
with no connection
to the context of construction,
acutely obtuse angles
on the gravity of reduction
been handed pamphlets on conscious rapper
production, instructions for polarity
formation in gradients,
but fuck that
fuck subtext.
ears ain’t trying to flex,
lyric based music now a creative simon says,
a circle jerk of some
Neo-Babylonian minstrel make-up sex,
while Cyrus the great, wilds on the
Al Jolson index.
diseased comedy,
bed pan hospice monotony,
middle aged monogamy
to pop cultural sodomy,
fallow, follow, falling lottery,
numbers on apostrophe,
commodified racial expectations
false anthropology
consumption:
cooperation
buying power:
download nation,
value of a one song:
nonexistent, streaming inflation
no moral to the story (Aesop)
hip hop, rock appropriation
permission never given, asking past
love it, hate it
yes massa rappers
conscious actors
yes massa rappers
conscious actors
yes massa rappers
conscious actors
Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
Hallam J index
Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
D. dub Griff index
Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
Al Jolson index
Neo-Babylonian
minstrel make-up sex,
Cyrus the great, wilding
Elmer Fudd index
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Rhys Langston Los Angeles, California
From smoked salmon to freshwater microphones.
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