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Wreaths
01:48
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Our callus retinas push hues of parade
That never make it to the blue, then fade
We bare our teeth, yet recoil as the prey
We keep forgetting we're not as brave in plain sight, outside
Our parade floats detach from their link at the bridge
Decorating the water below in a carnage of majorette batons and carnation wreaths.
Lethargy plugs up the aqueducts arch
Water stagnates as the currents reverse
Our island just bobs, unremittingly lost
We'll drown here, forgot
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Unemployee Of The Month
02:25
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Full ten hours; he gets up
Irons his shirt and his hands
Sits down with Sarah Lund
Best friend in Saga Noren
She smiles more than him
She misses hers and he misses his
He’ll smoke two packs and eat six
Cheese puffs, sliced ham, and biscuits
Unemployee of
the month for twelve months
Wasted life; worth it?
Jackpot?
Unemployee of
the month for twelve months
Two hours chanting dictums
‘You’ve got to stay busy’
‘The world rewards wisdom’
He hangs and dusts his rejections
One whip for each imperfection
He dreams of nepotism
Crippled by vague ambition
Lost faith in altruism
Laments his blissful attrition
Lateral movement; no jackpot
Lateral movement; no jackpot
Well-earned bath until half three
Checks in with Tony and Chrissie
Oils up and he works out
Suit on after to impress the postman
credits
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Alex
01:50
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The cloak of omnipotence has started to fray
We didn't know how to help you anyway
Alex, put down the scalpel
You're gonna need that skin
For when they shake your hand
As the black bath stings the head submerges
Come up for air Alex come up for air.
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Snap
02:17
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Through a one way mirror we watch the paradigm
of the perfect man star in the perfect crime
reflection's all he has.
How will he snap?
How will that sound?
The daily food tray is how he marks days
we are his clock we are his hands
How will he snap?
How will that sound?
Let's make him hungry!
Make him cold!
HAHA! What else?!
credits
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David
03:17
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David gets home at 5
i'm there already
I hate him for all he has
i'm hiding but i want him to find me
he'll die with the rest of his family
the rattle that shakes the curtain is my breath
i can't wait
and they're all there now
they watch the television
David makes a joke
They laugh
I laugh
It was a good joke, David!
I feel.a little lost now
A bit silly
i want them to know that i'm here
and i'm sorry
and i can't do it
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Folding Proximity
02:04
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As an adult
You need a costume
I’m gonna wear you
As a cloak of diffidence
As a boy
You’re overgrown
Stuck in a costume
Each drop of perspired malice you feel drip
Hangs a little longer
Than the last one we sipped
Windmill arms rotate but can’t grip.
Folding Proximity
If they can’t see anything wrong
You’re not sick
But I swallow until it’s ready
I’m just foreboding in the belly
Windmill arms rotate but can’t grip.
Folding Proximity
And I sit
In your crevice of stacked gulps,
Waiting for the salt.
Hiding is terminable
Folding proximity
You’ll fold.
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The Imperceptible Man
01:47
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born with disguise,
enough for subsistence
born to hide in a passive existence
the imperceptible man
shouldn't need friends
the imperceptible man
shouldn't need anything
requite our gift with your silence
whats your problem now?
are you bored of this?
you we're born with this secret
you're born with it
how am i supposed to hide now?
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Shoulders
01:45
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Honest, it's helping...
Let our spittle fill the cellophane as we breathe
Honest, it's helping...
Baste the skin in our own disease
Honest it's helping...
The holes from the hooks in my shoulders will rot,
And my spine's warped from the chains I hung from
And my skins devoid of all pigment from years of this
But thank you for choosing me,
I owe you everything!
I believed, as I counted the floorboards, in sway with the others, that i was the problem, I was the worst one.
You look from the ground.
Did I forget to smile?
Did I forget to wave?
Please forgive me now
Why didn't you kill me?
I'm sure the hook still fits me
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Servants
01:47
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We were the mast
Sighed out of sky
No waves goodbye
Clowns rolled the bow
Clouds. [Sinking] Black. [Sunken]
Scowls as we’re masticated
Memory’s frown abated
Friends sleep through the mourning
And laugh at our haunting
Soluble sentiment
You never meant it
Don’t compute, don’t come back
Insipid servants
We were the shoal
Coughed from wreckage bones
Diffused control
Dredgers stole the mouth
Clouds. [Sinking] Black. [Sunken]
Friends sleep through the mourning
And laugh at our haunting
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Derm Apologist
03:07
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the flesh eats itself
it bleeds to the frame
a picture of health
shy on display
Alex crawls up through the holes in my back
he speaks directly into my brain
he says "i hope you weren't planning on sleeping for long"
since i've never known
how to respond to him
I just start shaking
and forget i'm alone
Alex's breaths are persistent and close
i try not to wince in the pain but he knows
then Alex says "i know you can hear me"
Alex's hands push me beneath
any known threshold
there's nothing to reach
His fingernails
augment the holes
i'm doing it myself now
i like how it feels
his laughing's maniacal
over the camera clicks
the flashes sting
the photos don't ever develop
i wake in a pool of fever
i look at my hands and say
what have i done again
Alex says "did you see what you did?"
the flesh eats itself
it bleeds to the frame
a picture of health
shy on display
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