Published by Black Market Poetry, this paperback will serve any operator of Grapefruit Radio well in their explorations across Langstónian form and content.
Featuring Rhys Langston's rhyming verse on record, his original art in full color, and auxiliary prose regarding Langstónian scientific history, the Grapefruit Operator's Manual is a carefully crafted multimedia guidebook direct from The Estate of The Lord Chocolate Davis.
tooth and nail for our sanity,
tooth and nail for this bachelor’s degree.
smoking mids, watching
alt-right, left extremes.
Arizona, Antarctica fields;
over-consumption is a black liver,
sloth sin. too much sabbath makes Jack
drunk, jealous, heavy. too much work and he’s dull.
confusion from over-stimulation makes him manic
even full detachment drives him to Riker’s.
Questlove doesn’t look at social media before noon.
under consumption, a pill, an hour, criss-cross, apple
sauce: hands in the lap. of a therapist, their hand’s tight
transmissions in psychic wards, over hers.
could be into healing’s unwinding waters.
[Rhys Langston]
pharmacology in front effects
creative director with the after effects
inclusive of all discontents
exclusive first run in-step
when the prescription is snuff
strawberry blond moustache
smeared jerky Bachelor’s chewed tough
framed in whale bone
excavated from bluffs
this is a fraction of a penny per stream
as avant-garde before antitrust
cloud sound as fermented fish
in nordic playlist cigarette butts puffed
on the fjords of social welfare
iron ingots and settlers
flaxen and fair
now paying tolls and fares
ad homonym homophone
pectin, gum arabica sucked dry
by Norse tongue
like even the God of War
pink-washed the Blades of Chaos
in Pepto Bismol and Tums
sublimated his diuretics
in diurnal rhythms
and David Jaffe’s on the apocalyptic internet
putting premiums on poorly designed polygons
tragically, in other news
the metaverse now needs disambiguation,
the definition of idiosyncratic; a beautiful, raw odyssey through depersonalization and free association against the canon and toward a new one Rhys Langston