For the second time in recent happenings, the scar on the inside of my bottom lip began to swell and heat up strangely, as if it were activating in some sort of way or still healing—the scar itself was almost 8 years old, and in fact— would be 8 years old with the coming of springtime. It was a strange sensation, though not entirely traumatic— and while also fighting off some sort of infection, my body in entirety wasn't altogether well, but the mark to me stood out anyhow, as just the other day after leaving the craft store, the scar had lifted bizarrely, swelling as if some sort of creature under the surface of the skin had been moving around just enough as a reminder that it was there at all—now, something like a week later, it began to tingle and heat as if it were in the process of mending itself, and though when it had been healing, bits of skin and pieces of my bottom lip which had come loose after my bottom row of teeth had gone through nearly to the other side— not quite puncturing all the way through, but enough to indent the outside of my mouth with some bruising and swelling reminiscent to that of having once pierced my lip; in fact— the damage was so apparent that it had created a swollen enough tunnel on my upper lip, where my canines had created marks to make make it easy enough to re-insert new jewelry into the old piercing which had closed over time, and now had been halfway reopened by the blunt force of my teeth connecting with my ex's fist. In fact, I took it well enough that re-piercing the old upper lip didn't hurt at all, and almost made it seem meant to be. Then, in my mind—I was still fragile. Six or so week postpartum and still heavily lactating, with severe depression after having learned of the infidelities committed throughout the entire duration of the relationship had left me in a frenzied state— I worked almost around the clock after being hired at the local veterinary clinic, the doctor of which I had known since I was seven years old, and who had been happy to hire me, and after having already lost something like a hundred pounds, I took to the job considerably well, completing my daily tasks to focus my energy and the duration of my shifts to running the boarding dogs, often saving the larger breeds for last—the greyhounds and labs, the retrievers— so that I could run as fast and as hard with them as I could, and with each dog, a set of squats, windmills, and burpees and jumping jacks before running each pup through the obstacle coarse in the yard, never eating on my lunch breaks really, but only ever stopping to pump milk— so that especially when running, I wouldn't create a mess. I had always over-lactated, even for a short time supplying milk for other children, and in particular—my very best friend, whose choice to quickly resume drinking after her son's birth dissallowed her to continue breastfeeding, and either way, I had more than I needed, besides the occasional lot added as coffee creamer by one such who had discovered the magical and medicinal property of fresh breastmilk.

I was, of course, considerably smaller than I had ever been, probably since the fourth grade when procuring such a scar— and it only seemed at least somewhat believable and fitting that, when asked about the heavy swelling and bruising on my face and lips, that I had been hurt so tragically working out on the pavement— having falling doing pushups, or burpees, or something—to which no one seemed to have reason to believe otherwise; I had, after all, taken my level of fitness to new heights, and, after having lived so much of my adult and adolescent life anywhere between 250-350 lbs, once peaking at something like 380 or even more without the actual knowledge of such (always being asked politely if I wanted to know during doctor's visits, and of course, declining) my chaotic and frenzied state after the realization that the entire fabric of my relationship had been a complete lie, made sense to the outside world—and though without the bravery to actually admit to what had happened, the Doctor, after scolding me for not completing my daily tasks, just the day after this scar had been created, seemed to have let me go, not because of the actual incompletion of my duties, but as a harsh reckoning with knowing that I had lied directly to her face about what exactly had happened to mine.

The years homelessness that followed was due to the eviction received after having lost this job, and though with steady and careful recovery I was able to break free from my abuser, the lack of family support and financial stability combined with this legal eviction on record would see my struggle as a survivor of the physical and psychological violence which occurred over this, nearly a decade's time, seen by the outside world as an antagonist— a sick person, a derilict, a disgrace. It would take years for the truth to surface and as it had, the strangeness of things began to occur as not things in my mind, but things in the world, which were very real—and though while still in harsh denial of any such things besides other, ever having happened, it was this that remained, this scar—now strangely heated and almost swollen as if again I should be reminded that this scar did indeed mark a death of sorts, the life after which had all been some sort of strange dream; a walk through the afterlife, sometimes carried on the wings of angels or even driven by chariot of The Gods.

— Death of a Superstar DJ.

Lights fade,

Fade to black;

Sacred stones and crystals cross eyed,

Just across I,

Desire my mark;

The finish and the start line are one in the same

So as soon as I finish,

I start.

Part I

Do not disclose your location.

No address, I guess.

Stressed and headed for some sort of war zone

I'm sure,

No entitlements and I pushback,

Push to start

—I swear if you keep scrolling,

I'll take your eyes out.

I been yellow taxi'd

Two four door Ford explorers,

Nevermind the o'luck eye,

Cause I am all for it.

Party to the people!

I need water,

I mean, power.

You wanted the Stand Up Special.

I wanted nothing of the sort.

You could be funny.

Suddenly I'm sitting in the middle seat,

My eye on -

Seriously, I might not ever come out in public again

Again

Again

Again.

What are you channeling?

Apparently,

Jimmy Falllon and Natalie.

What in the fuck are you wearing!?

(A blazer and a fish scale.)

What in the fuck are you trying to say?

I'm trying to—

Thank you

I fainted and woke up in LA .

Dang.

If you're going to cry,

You might as well do it at 10,000 feet in the air—

—she's tied to her phone, the ensemble has gone.

Nobody wants her around anymore,

Nobody wants a new phone, not really.

Nobody needs a new friend, not Fallon.

I picked up the one thing I liked

In the whole place

And your name was on it.

Is this fame, or magic!?

Is this God, or a bludgeoning?

I forgot where my heart went,

Steered toward the fountain, naturally

So the water would calm me.

If this obviously-from-denver

New balance wearing motherfucker doesn't get

His long ass leg from within inches of mine,

I swear all the way to God

And all the way to—

Where is this?

—wherever.

I'm gonna reach behind me,

And kill him.

You know you've been in New York too long

When you don't have not a lick of patience

Or time for anyone's bullshit.

you:

Shut it down.

Shut it down!

A slap across the face is just as well—

—Is just as well.

And a swift kick in the ass is

We're back to the Irish,

The turn of the times,

And his eyes are mine again.

FUCK THIS,.

Just listen to me, for once.

I listen to you a lot, voice in my head disguised as

Who is this

The devil. I guess.

Great. So were the devil.

Could be.

Listen to your gut.

Not the greatest idea! I'm hungry.

Look, don't you touch me with those greasy little—

#spirit fingers.

LINCHTIME

*LYNCHTIME.

Goddamn. That misspelling took a TURN.

Let's just—

ITS JANE LYNCH TIME!

That's—yeah.

Listen, I have something to tell you.

Does it have anything to do with—

Get in the box.

Why, what's in the box

Damn. I don't have a lick of deadmau5 with me.

And why is that.

I was [redacted] I don't know..

You — might be the devil.

If— maybe.

In my eyes

(In my eyes)

I swear all the way to fucking GOD

This long ass nigga

With his dirty ass new balance shoes

All the way in my peripheral vision

Is about to be a whole

No leg havin ass nigga

Like that nigga I saw on the train the other day

I thought about your story Ark/Arc

All the stories I didn't want, like Noah's

Throw stones from glass houses.

Gas prices go up;

Every time I see some shit

I wanna throw up

Stomach in knots lately,

Been three years since I seen my own blood

No knots berry farm

I roam the streets very armed

I got scary arms,

Call em Michelle Obama;

Am I wrong or am I wrong;

I love the fuck out to New York,

but I don't belong here,

I just came to write a song here

Got stuck here

It's been two years since I had a

Man, or a beer

I'm black and I'm Queer,

Screamed “fuck Fallon”,

Then he just— showed up here.

Center stage

Now I entered a new dawn,

Turn the suffering on a bit

And turn the fucking lights off

I'm high as a kite,

A bird and a plane

In plain language,

I'm a mega famous alien

Okay then

Sure Sim, it is simple

A wrinkle in time,

Your first wrinkle

I popped pimples,

I'm still sure my high chair

Is right there

I got one foot in the grave,

I'm inside Bearr

I died there

Serious

Take the camera and check the images

Remember this!

I said sit your bitch ass down

Before you get slapped by

The secret president

As a death wish

For fuckin real

Everybody on the godddamn plane

Is about to get bitch

Slapped.

BITCH

SLAPPED.

What the fuck is wrong with people.

I swear all the way to God these toddler brain motherfuckers

Is driving me crazy.

I'd rather hang out

With actual CHILDREN.

At least it makes sense for them to be retarded.

Ya'll ain't got no business being this fuckin whacked.

Criminal mischief,

Interesting, isn't it?

Dismissive,

In fact, gone fishing.

Doors open, open

I'm on the road again, road again

Hands wrapped around my throat again

I'm sure to explode again

Who wrote this?

Take a ballpoint paper and pen to your notebooks,

And you're so shook, you bought

Two whole tickets to San Cristobal

In the same thought

I'm a good boss;

I'm a bad kid,

I'm a great guy

—with some bad habits

I'm a fat blonde

In a bad mood

And that's big facts

This dumb motherfucker behind me is about to get slapped—

SLAPPED.

I didn't mean to hit him that hard, broh

I didn't mean to really hit him at all though!

It's infinite, this bitch just gets under my skin

Like it's Siphilis, it's middles and pistols

Niggas and bitches

Nothing you would ever see

On regular television.

I took an elevator to heaven

I haven't been back since,

I don't remember at all what I left

Under or back there

In the black lands

It's bad earth.

Tomorrow, tomorrow

Today

Tomorrow, tomorrow.

59;/$ l

Tomorrow—

—tomorrow—

Today

Tomorrow,

Tomorrow

How much power can one man have

(Apparently a lot. )

What could this mean,

If nothing at all?

I just wanna get loaded

And run off and rave

I just want a family,

A horse,

And a grave marker

No, don't bury me

I just wanted a family.

I just want to write a good story,

Now I'm stuck in world history

All the well knowing

Now I know I gotta die

Before everyone I ever loved

Or even kinda sorta liked

— as a fan, you know?

“This man will destroy you.”

That is literally what the faraway shady ass voice said about Jimmy Fallon.

So whyz

why god.

Is this dude —

Not even all of a sudden

It's you.

It's you.

Like fucking everywhere.

It's YOU.

Gazuntite.

I move about silently,

Emergency calls only

Nobody needs to know me

Or where in the fuck I'm going

I'm showing you my dark sides

And none the wiser

The only Devil I got my eye on

Is a liar.

So what if God then?

It'll leave this case open

The gate opened up,

And I rolled in

Smoldering

Sometimes I forget I'm the whole world

Just long enough

To be annoyed

By everything in it

But especially myself, and increasingly

WHY THOUGH.

So suicidal,

I got blood in my eyes

Love in my mind,

I wish.

Cause with men

Love isn't blind

Rolling the size

And the eyes in the back of my head

I heard I'm a genius

I'm also retarded

Cause I still like penis

After all these dicks

The vision was just

Fallon in back of a Patty Wagon

How fitting,

Hands fisted and cuffed

In front, instead of the back of him

The Gillian in fact, was Saint Patrick

It's same difference

Insane niggas,

It's getting ignorant

And at this point

It's unicorns

Something going on,

Don't know what it is

Feels like something wrong

Bitch.

How the fuck you walk in a whole ass place.

I don't know.

The whole ass fucking place

Right, I don't know!

And the only thing you touch—

I—-

Has Jimmy Fallon's name on it.

I don't—

Scary huh,

Unfair really,

I'm scared, really so

Seriously don't look at me funny

If it gets weirder and deeper

When I never really asked for this

And I don't really know what happened

I think Fallon did it.

—but on what account?

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