—Broke In Thrust
One more track from Psycho Tandem Mansion, in honor of TANDEM PSYCH playing WHALEHAMMER tonight at eleven o CLOCK!
I’m pretty excited about it. There will be a new storybook cartoon, as well as kickin’ tunes, old friends and more cocaine than you can shake a fifteen dollar bill at (that would be “zero” (0) cocaine. If you’re coming for the cocaine, you should probably come anyway but don’t freak out when you get there).
(Also just to be clear I am not in the band and will not be singing any songs.)
Given the Break
Now given the break in what was you
given the extent to which the crack is running through you
shovels at the ready
metal heads in flower beds
and fill yourself with petals
purloin beauty in the end.
the scuttling dead leaves
are mixed by the wind
with the ashes into which
the dead leaves rescind
into cinders you see into splinters, the trees
and the waters turn bitter and summer to winter
the end can begin
the ascension of sin
at the park watching clouds awaiting
providence or grace
in sprawling bodies of vapor
suspended in space
I never saw a ghost up close
and so I’ll always be afraid of
that which I will never know.
When I’m alone on the street
walking stopped or at top speed
I keep a careful stare away
from windows
in fear of what stares
back from within those
plates of glass
that reflect and distort
my face as I pass
In the distance
celestial marbles collide
in a planetary gamble
the stakes are high
the wager divine
and a ripple
undulates in the fabric
of time
With the glimmer in your eye
the energy you bring
It’s hard to persuade you
of your suffering
Psychic coercion functions infernally
through the legends and myths
that subjugate internally
it isn’t the man behind
the camera you’re afraid of
but the question and suggestion
of a present implication
And by the strain of the stress
on our brain of the fear
seduction of a way out
compels us to live, persevere.
