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  • No Time At All

    Fuck all ya'll, your whole team is shady.

    Shady.

    Those are my Fieirce and Shady Tens.

    TENS.

    Quit it.

    TENS.

    Knock it off.

    TEN

    TEN

    TEN

    TEN

    TENS ACROSS THE BOARD.

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    21 min
  • Encrypted Extraterrestrial Frequencies

    Connection, or Coincidence:

    Some 20 years ago the artist that would come known to the world as Skrillex hands Joel Zimmerman, the legendary artist known to the world as deadmau5 a flash drive containing what would come to be an 8-time Grammy award winning album which, due to my own synesthesia, unlocked a hidden algorithm hissing amongst the complex frequencies of this very same album which unearthed ancient prophecies of extra terrestrial jnowñwge predating mankind and causing the space time continuum to shatter irreconcilably, thus altering existence as we know it?!

    WHAT?!

    —AND—

    “AND?!”

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    22 min
  • Anything Metaphorically Speaking

    As the earth moves below me

    Both hungry and lonely

    And thinking

    “if only the world were to know me”

    “You don't owe me anything”

    But I owe you everything

    I'd give you anything,

    Anything—

    Anything.

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    22 min
  • New Recording 666
    Satan likes his coffee black
    Like the way he made the day
    That heaven's gates would call his name
    And gave the keys to the kingdom
    To the heathens & demons,
    Amen
    If this is what it is, then
    "Love wins" is in another dimension
    Attention:
    I've given what I've given,
    Did I mention,
    It was just intuition;
    I am my own invention,
    I am unwhole, by admission
    Down the rabbit hole,
    Float down the River Styx and
    Count to 666 and
    Now I'm Dick Nixon in the 60's
    Hippie sickness is
    Thinking peace exists when ammunitions a vital statistic
    A lunatic assumes the usual position
    To the moon,
    A blue balloon to the innocent
    Love was heaven sent but failed to find it
    None left on this planet
    "Destroy it"
    This goddamned family's mad
    Pass the hammer, a standard
    Tip the hat to the madhatter
    Had her luck run out faster,
    The man that she was after,
    Who laughed at her,
    Probably planned to have her,
    But lost interest in tracking her,
    Has soamy questions to ask her,
    Practically has the answer to the masterpiece she believed would
    Untrap her,
    Alas,
    That's the last short straw she has
    Life keeps passing by…
    I'm like
    "Damn,
    I'm damaged"
    Why am I so unalighned
    Need a psychiatrist,
    but I can't find on one pinterest or instagram.
    Damn,
    I wish I was white,
    Or light skinned
    Looks nice
    Where have I been?
    Incased in ice,
    Like the avatar no one would find,
    I'm losing my entire mind,
    I'm writing everytime I cry like
    Someone inside my computer or Google would find it,
    But I'm just a
    I'm just a
    I'm just a
    Writer,
    Kinda
    I used to be a DJ,
    but God makes mistakes and
    Satan makes me hate my name
    So I changed it.
    He's a puppet on a string
    (Bring me people, feed me demons) and he And he never goes to sleep well he practice what you preach it
    Omn>>>midnight hour l>>bb got me like l
    Flash>>> saint laurant>>el chapo >> trap shit v?
    I am not a Fed
    But iT app makes sense
    I'm seeing read
    I break my bread,
    I'm left on red
    Let's go to bed;
    Let's go to Heaven
    Don't do this to me
    Not now, hanzel.
    What the fuck
    Just get out
    That's that nigga
    ..shoot to kill.
    I told you.
    You know what?
    I know what.
    Fuck, you, dude!!
    Duck, Duck, Duck—
    Two armed guards are dragging Dillon Francis into an enclosed space, which seems ominous.
    —NO—
    He scratches and claws in an attempt to escape.
    —YOU CANNOT DO THIS—
    The Deities have demanded SUPACREE to find Skrillex—via Dillon Francis.
    I will not,
    Yes, you will.
    Two Adonise
    What?
    What's the plural of “Adonis?”
    ADONISES
    not according to Google.
    Well, fuck Google!
    What did you say?
    Nothing.
    Shhhh, be quiet.
    I thought she was asleep!
    I'm not asleep!
    She's never asleep.
    I heard that!
    LEGENDS: Part 666
    Google Never Sleeps
    Why 666?
    Satan: why not?
    I thought you changed your number?
    What's a number?
    That's enough, Satan.
    What happened to, “not today, Satan?”
    What's a day?
    You do listen.
    Stop praying, dude.
    Satan's been praying to Jesus for relief.
    Prayers for WHAT?
    Relief.
    Relief from what?
    His own followers?!
    That fucking idiot.
    —
    JOEL and DEADMAU5 part ways to find SUPACREE.
    What the fuck.
    I told you.
    This isn't happening.
    I FUCKING TOLD YOU!
    AWWWW.
    Look.
    Nothing's in there…
    Just wait, dude.
    JOEL appears out of a portal; DEADMAU5 appears from another.
    WHAT THE FUCK
    I KNOW, RIGHT—
    WHAT THE FUCK!
    I KNOW, RIGHT.
    ___
    What is this.
    This is Skrillex.
    Ew.
    Don't touch it.
    I'm not gonna.
    You wanted to.
    No I didn't.
    But you thought about it—
    I think about everything—
    You are everything—
    Everything is everything.
    [beat]
    Don't touch it.
    Stop being telepathic!
    You fucking WISH—
    I —
    ___
    Ū has been tormenting the DJs—mainly Dillon Francis— in a timeless eternal loop in an outer void created by SUPACREE.
    Are SUPACREE and Ū not the same person?
    They can be.
    So what's the difference?
    Skrillex.
    Oh.
    —
    WHERE IS SKRILLEX.
    STOP DOING THIS.
    AGHHH.
    AGGHHHHHHHH.
    UNH.
    SKRILLEX is thrown through a portal, landing in between the two.
    Oh. There he is.
    Wow. That's incredible.
    I know, right?
    I mean, I didn't think—
    —I mean—
    Huh.
    Hm.
    Is it… you?
    ...yeah, I guess.
    Oh my God!
    I FOUND SKRILLEX.
    What's a “Skrillex?”
    Oh NO—
    Sonny—you're Skrillex—
    Wait, who's “Sonny”
    This isn't happening.
    This is happening.
    I hate you.
    Dude, for WHAT?
    I don't know—
    You hate yourself!
    —everybody does that!
    They bicker
    (Very slow clap)
    Wvow
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    22 min
  • “All The Way In”

    Please. Give me your iPhone.

    No!

    No?

    (Takes I phone.)

    Is there a reason you don't want me having this?

    …no.

    No?

    —it's full of stuff.

    “Stuff.”

    Yes. It's—

    “Stuff.”

    Yes.

    —

    —and things.

    I know.

    Look.

    We had a deal.

    We had no “deal”

    We had a deal.

    This train just goes on forever, you know;

    Whether you're on, or off it—

    So get off, and back on at the wrong stop

    Once, if not just for the discovery

    Of another supermarket,

    Where you shop for strawberries and

    Groceries

    Good flex, God;

    I got a gang of em

    I'm gonna explain it as straight as it gets

    Sometimes,

    You just got to know where to go

    If you don't trust your gut,

    You'll just never get,

    Never get it right.

    Alright, alright,

    I started it

    Alright, right—

    I gotta get it right,

    I gotta get ;

    I'm the worst at introductions

    Oh and,

    So bad at

    Goodbyes

    Oh, why'd you have to leave me by my idol

    Why,

    Why'd you have to lead me by my eyes

    By my eyes

    God, I love the way

    I love the way,

    I love the way you

    Love me

    God, I love

    The way you

    The way you

    Love me



    You forgot about me, didn't you?

    You forgot all about me

    You forgot all about it—

    All about it

    Al about it

    It's not the same, anymore

    Since you gave it a name, is it?

    There's nothing I can do

    To help me, help you

    This is all I can do,

    To help me, love you

    I have to remove you;

    I have to remove you

    In a room—

    Full of beauty—

    In a world,

    Full of woes

    I lose the last dose of you, on my tongue

    Nobody ever wanted it, like I do—

    Like I do

    I lose the last dose of you on my tongue,

    And I'm all full of love again;

    I never saw anything like it,

    I was a modem, still plugged into the wall

    An anonymous post partum unremarkable

    Post-party proclamations

    and eternal damnation for ordering breakfast

    Evading transportation authorities

    Unworried the informant sleeping under me

    Oh,

    Now she wants to song—

    Oh, look—

    And now, she has a song to sing

    A point to make,

    A wrong to ring;

    The man she brings along

    Is bad for her

    Oh, she's gotta work

    (She loves to work,

    She's got to work it)

    What kills her makes her stronger

    What doesn't kill her makes her stronger

    All she does is

    Carry on

    And

    Carry on

    And

    Carry on.

    Mrs Sheffield left flushing queens, for this.”

    Mrs Sheffield left Flushing, Queens, for this?!

    Mrs Sheffield left Flushing, Queens for this!

    Mrs, Sheffield!

    -1flushing queens, fah ‘dis.

    Very well worth it,

    I got all the way to broklyn

    And way beyond my means for this

    It's well outta my means.

    It's out of my hands, now.

    That boy called you “grandpa”

    How is it all over?

    When I bet to God I was,

    Just in your lap at this party,

    And you were under me slippin on some sort of

    Lager or

    Something

    Weren't you?

    Yeah,

    I was just there, too

    I was just there, too—

    I was just there, too—

    Oh, now she has a song…

    All of a sudden.—

    But it's not all of a sudden at all

    It's not all of a sudden

    There's nothing, is there?

    Oh,

    There's something, surely

    I went to bed late;

    But I'm getting up early.

    I see the way he looks at me—

    —take it easy, baby

    We could have the whole room waiting

    Like a stoner at a stop sign

    My bad,

    My eyes lie to me

    All the time

    Driving me mad

    Telling me

    I want you inside me

    My bad

    My bad

    Well, I want you in my bed

    But I haven't had one yet

    I'm thinking Purple Mattress;

    Or is that mids, to you kids

    Like Timmy ho's

    Or my mustang civic

    It's a custom, yeah

    Nobody has it yet

    It's a hybrid

    Like I am

    —I am a bit off subject, now

    (My bad)

    We never had sex in my bathroom

    (That was your house)

    I took a mouse to the mountain

    (My bad)

    My writing is getting more

    Acid-centric,

    Lysergic acid diethylamide;

    I didn't buy any,

    But I haven't the need anymore,

    Really

    I just wake up like this:

    That is, when I wake up

    (I have long nights, kids)

    My bad

    I want to see you very briefly

    Without your briefs,

    You know what I mean?

    Me neither—

    Sexual delinquency in meditated frequencies

    Repeat this sequence

    I keep my deepest secrets

    Where I need it

    Right up my slime,

    Where my spleen is—

    Dreamed it, and I haven't cleaned since

    (Or dreamed since)

    In this

    Endless emission,

    Ignition sequence begins

    When The Lean splits

    Under the blood moon;

    An eclipse.

    I drift off a lot—

    Just thinking of your penis

    My daydreams are not very safe for the public

    I think they're X-rated or worse,

    Even thinking of you as a person,

    Or worse:

    As my husband

    once, as my lover—

    Lovers have all the fun, anyway

    Hm

    All the things that I'd do to you

    After you put me through—



    You broke my heart

    (And the windows on my car)

    What was all that for?

    Now you you've started a holy war

    I've got scars on my arms

    I might love them a little more

    I guess you are what you are

    After all—you're a star

    I'm bat shit crazy, I'm

    Blind, so blind and now I'm

    Hiding in a life I decided I was mine

    I tried to find you

    Tried to find the answer

    Tried to find the time,

    And now I'm fighting suicide against denial

    —I still really love your smile



    I had to know—and so I had to ask; both the ocean, and The Instagram Algorithm—about Dillon Francis—and, to my luck and great dispar, was swiftly answered. Now I could crawl back into my cave of obscurity and begin the elemental essentials to gather and burn all that was left of everything I had written about the the man himself; needing of course to steer clear of nothing now but love—or a lack thereof, as it were.

    Now I understood that the feelings and emotions tied up in this man were indeed true, beyond real in the sense that I couldn't hold back tears, but with some gentle motion I could sway them into music; needing to shed my skin and escape my nightmarish surroundings, I would need more than a prayer—the universe had been calling me to fast; now I would answer in the only way I could, the fresh and awestruck pain of heartbreak I had knowingly caused myself, the only strain to conquer.

    I loved him.



    The running was over with, and the hiding was done for— I had backed myself into a corner; a comfortable wall to curl up in non existence, meanwhile, nothing—because if I could figure that If I did not see it for myself or could not otherwise randomly fathom to imagine, it did not exist, or it could not be.

    Who are you,

    To evoke emotion

    A notation of focus,

    Awoke in the moment to know,

    Vote for a hope,

    Or a rope, just to—

    —hangglide.

    What's two hands,

    What's two fists look like to you?

    What's two feet, what's two wrists to you—?

    What's two lips, two blue eyes;

    In an instant

    What's to listen to the the tune of you again?

    “Please Text Back”

    What is this?

    Another emotion,

    Another world we opened,

    A parallel dimension,

    Just beside the hell we live in—

    Exists all of this

    I'd put it into Ableton, if I was able to;

    The way you make me move,

    And what I feel for you—

    Appealing, if you're real, down to the roots

    And reel-to-real

    I feel so stupid—

    She'll—be everything I asked for him

    She is—the one I called for hoping

    She was—my dream inside a dream once;

    Now, digging my own grave up

    Just to prove my luck, or something

    So, to us, it's only justice, undone

    On the walk to Eden,

    It was all of us;

    I reap what I've sown;

    Nothing comes of nothing

    Give to get,

    And live to eat,

    The answer's “hungry”,

    If you're asking

    But no one's asking,

    ‘And Dillon Francis's is handsome,

    He had to have known that—‘

    I sat at the alter, my ocean

    And read to her, poetry

    I wonder for nothing,

    And want even less, no discussions—

    Percussion in repercussions,

    Patterns of claps and hats,

    happen to manage the panic;

    Perhaps if I laughed a little,

    Or loved a little,

    I'd have sung more loudly as they hung me,

    From the bungalow windowsill;

    It's silly how I'd kill myself again for never listening

    And never listening

    And never listening

    —we never kissed, but always met at intersections, when needed;

    Break bread for breakfast, or brunch, with the Goddess and her Demons

    Never had I saw or wanted a flying saucer— until I saw two of them, off in the distance

    With no one on them,

    But God, I'm honest and stopped it all at once,

    Just to turn on and tune in, and now I'm the April Fool—

    It was just an illusion;

    Another simplistic collision of infinite

    What was your name again?

    I'll have to ask my ex—

    —husband…

    Cause one time,

    someone loved me.

    As it turned out,

    I held more feelings for the man than I had previously thought, or had motionlessly been in absolute denial of for quite some time; there wasn't another option or subject of distraction—I had been stuck on Dillon Francis, or at least the thought of him, even with the startling lack thereof. I needed to love, but it seemed to be in short supply, at least, for me, no matter where I went or what I did there. Still, while The Instagram Algorithm beckoned me to believe one thing, my intuition conditioned me to comprehend another—there was something deeper within myself and greater outwardly looming over the prénsense of this innate attraction—and though it had all started innocently, it had cascaded and begun to collapse into a avalanche of unhandled business and forgotten circumstances—

    I was shaken and needed to be restrung in some way that would hold me together, until the easy way out became the hard way; perhaps if I could project into my reality what it was that nature had foretold, I could extend my being beyond that of which seemed to be an end.

    At least it had been done again, in the severance of the flow of one love, there had to come another—as it's been done in generations through every genre time and time before whichever one this was, mankind had something down to an exact science for once; to withdraw the essence of love from the source of which it comes, leaving one only damaged enough to murmur or hum the would-be some-part, of some-song—if not to be sung, at least strummed out, or at the very least, written as record. Now, though I had lost nearly all ambition, I was entirely filled with enough neglect to become the apathetic, dark and untouchable alchemist I always was—reality back in touch. The final judgement was: I loved Dillon as much as I had loved Sonny, but in another way entirely—so much so, that overall, his happiness above anything to happen was what I wanted—and though I felt I had been ‘Kayla Lauren'd' once more, there was a deeper sense of doubt that with enough creativity, would bring about a world of its own—as if the world that had been created in the infinite “if” of Dillon Francis was large enough by itself to consume an idle mind with even the slightest of combustion; His eyes would drive me wild—and all that I dared to remember of the time we would spend together, is myself becoming lost in them.

    ‘They are green sometimes'.

    I loved the grey streaking in his beard, reminding me of what I was, rather than what I had become in the midsts of it—my soul just as ancient as all the love it was made of—and now I had done it not once, but always; decided I could love anything about any one and multiply that into an infinite, undying and unconditional love—which it already was.

    I'm sorry, God;

    Or whoever's watching

    All I wanted was love

    With the one who would want me;

    Now I'm a ghost, although something is haunting me

    Wanted my glass house, but can't throw a rock in it

    Off in a rocket ship;

    What was the cost of it?

    Nod off on a trip, dripping lips on the window

    A kiss, just an instant to

    lick up a hit of the acid

    I missed wishing just as simplisticly

    To live again

    I'd end it if,

    The reason weren't so stupid

    It's not you,

    I've just been used too much to do this

    Overruled:

    This never happened

    So I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to love him, only

    Cause I had to love myself, for a moment

    The door was open,

    I went walking in,

    Then closed it;

    Only now I'm here alone—

    At least I own it

    And I only wanted

    Love

    From someone who wanted

    To love me

    And I only wanted a hug;

    But I guess I kind of got it

    If you want, you know

    I'll drop it, like the rock fell from my pocket

    I forgot which one it was I fell in love with,

    After all, I'm only nothing

    “It was nothing”

    It was fun

    It was another father, son and brother;

    Oh, no wonder—

    Life is so wonderful

    Falling in love with the digital runoff

    Of someone with all of it

    Everything I ever wanted

    Everything I was, and wasn't

    Just to front the cost,

    Just never good enough

    To come of

    One, again

    All I wanted was love

    From the one who wanted to love me;

    Now all I got is—

    A closet full of skeletons,

    A cause of death,

    And a hot topic,

    If this is Martyrdom

    ‘This is what happens when you dare to dream, then stop believing in it; you become caught between worlds in the catastrophic maelstrom between the world of the living, and the shattered reality you once called your dream'



    now I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a hot shower; a place to call home—I was so far stretched out beyond my comfort zone that again the thought of an instant means to an end became again, a pressing and dire need— I had only scratched the surface here and there and never had begun to break the ice—but anything I had said or done now may as well have been inscribed in stone, everything was temporary, but just fully so, it was also permanent. The looming answer was truly, that either way, I was right—either the slip in my stream of consciousness with Dillon had vanished as he began to keep the company of another more presently—just as in my early premonitions with Sonny had foretold of Kayla Lauren not too long before I would become aware of her—that my dream of Dillon in the presiding weeks accompanied by a dazzling readhead, the inspiration for “Chelsea, Chelsea!” Whispered a daunting truth; that as I suspected, anything or anyone I cared to love would be taken from me promptly; and though in the months since the literal tripping and falling into love with such a character, I had tirelessly worked to remove the romanticism and passion that had pent up within, pushing down and toiling away with the notion of a reality where, after all, my King to be had been all along, Dillon Francis. Though with a vital and vivid sense of intuition I had seen it all, I presumed it was nothing more than a flash of whimsical and innocent fantasy, admirable to those with an eye for love; a spark for my creation, which had been diminished—or so I thought.

    I couldn't help but feel a fool, and baffled myself that indeed, I was in tears—because of Dillon Francis. After nearly months of tearless apathy, I had begun to think myself immune to emotion or feeling—surrounded by a slew of reflections and past companions, I had begun to again lose myself to the motion of too much carelessness, my own needs neglected from lack of finances—and seemingly excommunicated from American Society; I began to fall violently out of love with Sonny, as the universe spun me into a web where I was the fly, and the spider tying me was the spitting image of the damningly handsome once-Apple of my eye; not that I had actually lost any of the feeling for him—but, that the feeling itself had changed dramatically from a writhing passion, to a fury tinged with the blood and sweat of sacrifice in exchange for nothing, and the bitterness of genetic competition—Kayla Lauren no longer taking the brunt of my anger, but falling into irrelevance, Sonny himself becoming the poster child for everything I stood to dismiss, in music, and in general— if I were to convict that I hated him, it would only mean stagnancy, in that I still hated myself; however, strikingly, it was not so—i had begun to love myself quite so, that what I hated was the toxic world where all the men I so admired and desired thrived. Sifting through slides of the lives I wanted mine to mimick, a smile was summoned from under the rock I lived in; hiding from any of the repercussions I may have built to arrive just in time to dull my shine if I became too rampantly outward with my intentions—which, by now, were simple, at best—“at best” being limited again, only by what I could see and know.

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    23 min
  • “Whatever It Is”

    You broke my heart

    (And the windows on my car)

    What was all that for?

    Now you you've started a holy war

    I've got scars on my arms

    I might love them a little more

    I guess you are what you are

    After all—you're a star

    I'm bat shit crazy, I'm

    Blind, so blind and now I'm

    Hiding in a life I decided I was mine

    I tried to find you

    Tried to find the answer

    Tried to find the time,

    And now I'm fighting suicide against denial

    —I still really love your smile



    I had to know—and so I had to ask; both the ocean, and The Instagram Algorithm—about Dillon Francis—and, to my luck and great dispar, was swiftly answered. Now I could crawl back into my cave of obscurity and begin the elemental essentials to gather and burn all that was left of everything I had written about the the man himself; needing of course to steer clear of nothing now but love—or a lack thereof, as it were.

    Now I understood that the feelings and emotions tied up in this man were indeed true, beyond real in the sense that I couldn't hold back tears, but with some gentle motion I could sway them into music; needing to shed my skin and escape my nightmarish surroundings, I would need more than a prayer—the universe had been calling me to fast; now I would answer in the only way I could, the fresh and awestruck pain of heartbreak I had knowingly caused myself, the only strain to conquer.

    I loved him.



    The running was over with, and the hiding was done for— I had backed myself into a corner; a comfortable wall to curl up in non existence, meanwhile, nothing—because if I could figure that If I did not see it for myself or could not otherwise randomly fathom to imagine, it did not exist, or it could not be.

    Who are you,

    To evoke emotion

    A notation of focus,

    Awoke in the moment to know,

    Vote for a hope,

    Or a rope, just to—

    —hangglide.

    What's two hands,

    What's two fists look like to you?

    What's two feet, what's two wrists to you—?

    What's two lips, two blue eyes;

    In an instant

    What's to listen to the the tune of you again?

    “Please Text Back”

    What is this?

    Another emotion,

    Another world we opened,

    A parallel dimension,

    Just beside the hell we live in—

    Exists all of this

    I'd put it into Ableton, if I was able to;

    The way you make me move,

    And what I feel for you—

    Appealing, if you're real, down to the roots

    And reel-to-real

    I feel so stupid—

    She'll—be everything I asked for him

    She is—the one I called for hoping

    She was—my dream inside a dream once;

    Now, digging my own grave up

    Just to prove my luck, or something

    So, to us, it's only justice, undone

    On the walk to Eden,

    It was all of us;

    I reap what I've sown;

    Nothing comes of nothing

    Give to get,

    And live to eat,

    The answer's “hungry”,

    If you're asking

    But no one's asking,

    ‘And Dillon Francis's is handsome,

    He had to have known that—‘

    I sat at the alter, my ocean

    And read to her, poetry

    I wonder for nothing,

    And want even less, no discussions—

    Percussion in repercussions,

    Patterns of claps and hats,

    happen to manage the panic;

    Perhaps if I laughed a little,

    Or loved a little,

    I'd have sung more loudly as they hung me,

    From the bungalow windowsill;

    It's silly how I'd kill myself again for never listening

    And never listening

    And never listening

    —we never kissed, but always met at intersections, when needed;

    Break bread for breakfast, or brunch, with the Goddess and her Demons

    Never had I saw or wanted a flying saucer— until I saw two of them, off in the distance

    With no one on them,

    But God, I'm honest and stopped it all at once,

    Just to turn on and tune in, and now I'm the April Fool—

    It was just an illusion;

    Another simplistic collision of infinite

    What was your name again?

    I'll have to ask my ex—

    —husband…

    Cause one time,

    someone loved me.

    As it turned out,

    I held more feelings for the man than I had previously thought, or had motionlessly been in absolute denial of for quite some time; there wasn't another option or subject of distraction—I had been stuck on Dillon Francis, or at least the thought of him, even with the startling lack thereof. I needed to love, but it seemed to be in short supply, at least, for me, no matter where I went or what I did there. Still, while The Instagram Algorithm beckoned me to believe one thing, my intuition conditioned me to comprehend another—there was something deeper within myself and greater outwardly looming over the prénsense of this innate attraction—and though it had all started innocently, it had cascaded and begun to collapse into a avalanche of unhandled business and forgotten circumstances—

    I was shaken and needed to be restrung in some way that would hold me together, until the easy way out became the hard way; perhaps if I could project into my reality what it was that nature had foretold, I could extend my being beyond that of which seemed to be an end.

    At least it had been done again, in the severance of the flow of one love, there had to come another—as it's been done in generations through every genre time and time before whichever one this was, mankind had something down to an exact science for once; to withdraw the essence of love from the source of which it comes, leaving one only damaged enough to murmur or hum the would-be some-part, of some-song—if not to be sung, at least strummed out, or at the very least, written as record. Now, though I had lost nearly all ambition, I was entirely filled with enough neglect to become the apathetic, dark and untouchable alchemist I always was—reality back in touch. The final judgement was: I loved Dillon as much as I had loved Sonny, but in another way entirely—so much so, that overall, his happiness above anything to happen was what I wanted—and though I felt I had been ‘Kayla Lauren'd' once more, there was a deeper sense of doubt that with enough creativity, would bring about a world of its own—as if the world that had been created in the infinite “if” of Dillon Francis was large enough by itself to consume an idle mind with even the slightest of combustion; His eyes would drive me wild—and all that I dared to remember of the time we would spend together, is myself becoming lost in them.

    ‘They are green sometimes'.

    I loved the grey streaking in his beard, reminding me of what I was, rather than what I had become in the midsts of it—my soul just as ancient as all the love it was made of—and now I had done it not once, but always; decided I could love anything about any one and multiply that into an infinite, undying and unconditional love—which it already was.

    I'm sorry, God;

    Or whoever's watching

    All I wanted was love

    With the one who would want me;

    Now I'm a ghost, although something is haunting me

    Wanted my glass house, but can't throw a rock in it

    Off in a rocket ship;

    What was the cost of it?

    Nod off on a trip, dripping lips on the window

    A kiss, just an instant to

    lick up a hit of the acid

    I missed wishing just as simplisticly

    To live again

    I'd end it if,

    The reason weren't so stupid

    It's not you,

    I've just been used too much to do this

    Overruled:

    This never happened

    So I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to laugh

    I had to love him, only

    Cause I had to love myself, for a moment

    The door was open,

    I went walking in,

    Then closed it;

    Only now I'm here alone—

    At least I own it

    And I only wanted

    Love

    From someone who wanted

    To love me

    And I only wanted a hug;

    But I guess I kind of got it

    If you want, you know

    I'll drop it, like the rock fell from my pocket

    I forgot which one it was I fell in love with,

    After all, I'm only nothing

    “It was nothing”

    It was fun

    It was another father, son and brother;

    Oh, no wonder—

    Life is so wonderful

    Falling in love with the digital runoff

    Of someone with all of it

    Everything I ever wanted

    Everything I was, and wasn't

    Just to front the cost,

    Just never good enough

    To come of

    One, again

    All I wanted was love

    From the one who wanted to love me;

    Now all I got is—

    A closet full of skeletons,

    A cause of death,

    And a hot topic,

    If this is Martyrdom

    ‘This is what happens when you dare to dream, then stop believing in it; you become caught between worlds in the catastrophic maelstrom between the world of the living, and the shattered reality you once called your dream'



    now I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a hot shower; a place to call home—I was so far stretched out beyond my comfort zone that again the thought of an instant means to an end became again, a pressing and dire need— I had only scratched the surface here and there and never had begun to break the ice—but anything I had said or done now may as well have been inscribed in stone, everything was temporary, but just fully so, it was also permanent. The looming answer was truly, that either way, I was right—either the slip in my stream of consciousness with Dillon had vanished as he began to keep the company of another more presently—just as in my early premonitions with Sonny had foretold of Kayla Lauren not too long before I would become aware of her—that my dream of Dillon in the presiding weeks accompanied by a dazzling readhead, the inspiration for “Chelsea, Chelsea!” Whispered a daunting truth; that as I suspected, anything or anyone I cared to love would be taken from me promptly; and though in the months since the literal tripping and falling into love with such a character, I had tirelessly worked to remove the romanticism and passion that had pent up within, pushing down and toiling away with the notion of a reality where, after all, my King to be had been all along, Dillon Francis. Though with a vital and vivid sense of intuition I had seen it all, I presumed it was nothing more than a flash of whimsical and innocent fantasy, admirable to those with an eye for love; a spark for my creation, which had been diminished—or so I thought.

    I couldn't help but feel a fool, and baffled myself that indeed, I was in tears—because of Dillon Francis. After nearly months of tearless apathy, I had begun to think myself immune to emotion or feeling—surrounded by a slew of reflections and past companions, I had begun to again lose myself to the motion of too much carelessness, my own needs neglected from lack of finances—and seemingly excommunicated from American Society; I began to fall violently out of love with Sonny, as the universe spun me into a web where I was the fly, and the spider tying me was the spitting image of the damningly handsome once-Apple of my eye; not that I had actually lost any of the feeling for him—but, that the feeling itself had changed dramatically from a writhing passion, to a fury tinged with the blood and sweat of sacrifice in exchange for nothing, and the bitterness of genetic competition—Kayla Lauren no longer taking the brunt of my anger, but falling into irrelevance, Sonny himself becoming the poster child for everything I stood to dismiss, in music, and in general— if I were to convict that I hated him, it would only mean stagnancy, in that I still hated myself; however, strikingly, it was not so—i had begun to love myself quite so, that what I hated was the toxic world where all the men I so admired and desired thrived. Sifting through slides of the lives I wanted mine to mimick, a smile was summoned from under the rock I lived in; hiding from any of the repercussions I may have built to arrive just in time to dull my shine if I became too rampantly outward with my intentions—which, by now, were simple, at best—“at best” being limited again, only by what I could see and know.

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  • Just Ask Satan

    I wanna make dubstep.

    Dubstep.

    Yes.

    Why.

    Because.

    Why.

    I don't know. I just want to make Dubstep with my black girl magic.

    Half black.

    ...half-black girl magic.

    You can't. There's no such thing.

    Yes there is.

    No there isn't.

    Yes there is--if there's black girl magic, and i'm half black, then there's half black half black girl magic.

    Yess...but you can't use that to make dubstep.

    I can't.

    No. You can't.

    Okay...what....do I need to make dubstep?

    Talent.

    Okay--

    Ahaaaa, just kidding.

    ?

    You need Satan.

    WHAT?

    Yeaaaah. I know. I'm not a fan either, but.

    FAN? Aren't you afraid of him?

    Nah. Satan can't do shit.

    Then how do I need him to make dubstep.

    He's very powerful.

    I don't need Satan to make dubstep music.

    Oh you don't.

    No.

    I need money.

    God.

    Huh.

    I need money.

    Okay. How much.

    Like $20,000,000

    Like twenty-million dollars.

    Yes.

    Ok.

    Really?!

    Sure!

    Like US dollars

    TWENTY MILLION US DOLLARS?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!

    You know know I am!

    FINE— but you know what?!

    Fine?! Wait—really?! What?!

    Ask Satan first—see what he says.

    WHAT! Why would I ask Satan about anything?!

    He knows lots of things.

    NO!

    Just ask him.

    NO! I hate that guy!

    Why?!

    Cause he's Satan!

    Fair.

    It's not fair. People worship him.

    Just ask him.

    Why?!

    Because. That way you get FORTY Million Dollars.

    What!

    20 from me—and $20 from him—

    What the fuck! God!

    —But! He's going to want a favor.

    I ain't doing Satan any favors!

    —just ask him; he'll do it—I'll handle the favor.

    What the fuck…

    Whatever he asks you to do, just come and tell me; I'll take care of it—

    Take care of what?

    We'll see. Then I'll give you twenty million dollars.

    US Dollars?!

    Are you sure you don't want KWD?

    What is that?!

    Too late! USD!

    —AGH!




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  • “As Good As It Gets”
    Confidence don't come in a bottle;
    Could never be a model
    I am not, I am not beautiful
    Like you
    Like you
    Confidence might come in baggies;
    People can't stand me,
    I don't fit in
    I am not, I am not beautiful
    Like you
    I am drifting
    I am shifting
    I am lifting
    Wide awake and
    I am sinking
    I am thinking
    Way too much. . .
    Pretty is as
    Pretty does and
    Pretty is as
    Pretty was
    “She was, she was...”
    Pretty is as
    Pretty does and
    Pretty is she
    “Is she, is she...?”
    Me
    Confidence coming in waves,
    I used to be brave,
    Praying that someone could save me—
    I am
    I am
    I am.
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  • Confidence.
    WHY IS IT ALWAYS CHRISTMAS?!
    BEcause, you're in a movie.
    WHAT.
    You're stuck in a Hollywood movie.
    The Master Sorcerer
    Of the Grand Illusion
    You just want it so bad
    You don't know what you're in for
    Inquenchable Thirst for knowledge
    Insatiable Sexual Appetite
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  • [EJ the DJ]
    I'm lost somewhere, gone
    HIppopatamus
    feeling quite off in the galaxies,
    galavanting
    Gazing at Daisies
    Aces and spades
    Gone from Heaven to Hades for days
    On the A–
    Adjacent
    Recently dismantling adjectives,
    Lampshades and matching curtains
    God it hurts, every day that I think about you;
    But how can i be about you when
    You don't even see me, do you
    Signature consignments,
    Wrong environments and irony is,
    I wasn't invited–
    –but invented it
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