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Choice Overload Sea
02:56
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A hue with no hex
Leaving new forms vexed
Give it a chance
An opportunity will arise
You don’t need to have a stance
On everything that passes by
Passers by remark
On banal attributes
Flow states leave a dark glow
No matter where I go
I’m reminded of the past
A failed intermittent fast
Turbulent seas trained me for this
Raise the broken mast
For opposing winds to carry us
The slide into disarray
Yields a blinking light
Enticing us to the less trodden path
The marksman misses every shot
Corroded slots carry our coins
Raining nails from every critique
Grains of our former selves
Pollute the silos
Feeding future generations
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Foot Lamberts
03:58
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The times didn’t change
Our attitudes were altered
Empty platitudes from superiors
We reside underground
Avoiding all consequence
Draining lakes with no reverence
Caught in dust storms of ignorance
Ignore me for a year
You’ll live what you fear
Meals become poison
Water won’t wash the guilt down
The silt will also remain
Granular stories told too many times
Gold flakes are worthless when the money’s gone
The meek become stunning
The patchwork is our currency
With a penchant for humility
A stark difference of ability
Is the new inequality
Piketty didn’t predict that
There was no chance of seeing this anyways
Every day is a new challenge
I can’t find parity to the lives we used to inhabit
Spare your charity
I need to solve this myself
Like candles we’ll melt
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Regress
03:17
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The traveling glances put me in my place
The wavering stanzas
Float through the coming weeks
Getting weaker each time I seek
Another city I won’t move to
Penning messages I delete
This faulty table won’t hold me
The salty fables won’t dilute
We could utilize more
Nullifying sensations
Pivoting to the new gods
Fragile resources pulling our levers
Tangent driven until we collapse again
Maps made entirely blue
A loose screw predates its machine
I’m a lone split seam
A diode that quit flashing
Dashing away from anything crucial
The rubble isn’t as useful
Accidental walls encroach
Monitor our nuclear pulse
It reaches exponentially further
the faster we run towards it
Little fuel left
Fumes will only take you so far
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4. |
Pocket Ref
03:09
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In the throes of another year
Traversing the repeating plains
They stretch further than can be quantified
Muscles pick up a signal
Packets skip to before their invention
Electrons sprout new heads
There are harsh truths to digest
An almanac told me the wrong moon rise
Compacted to odd positions
Returned once the embargo
Reaches the citadel
This wasn’t constructed as a life raft
The next flood will only spare
Those born to endure
Crusted eyelids awake to an inverted planet
The vibrant plane casually intersected
Nothing they told us stands up to scrutiny
We’re nails in a hammer-led mutiny
You can’t see beyond this row of cheap windows
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5. |
Search for Shelter
04:07
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Evergreen anxiety
Watered from dry hands
Someone’s watching
Even if these trees aren’t spies
Despised by the dripping paint
Saints won’t prevent the crash
You can’t lie in this meadow
You’re tethered by these cables
Passing by unattended stables
Sawdust ends up in each keystroke
Rusty hinges swing against the wind
Pine needles end up in every corner
Plagued squirrels reach to the heavens
Vague murals adorn the atoms
Each notch is a milestone
Count mile markers to flatter lands
Your thoughts aren’t contraband
Sour notes are all you sing
They roll to another scene
Another green shed
Another vaulted hall
Fall has been canceled
The vultures wait patiently
The body of work keels over
Tides adjust to every skipped dose
This is the place you chose
You didn’t have to flee
Yet you do as you please
There’s been no energy increase
It’s irrigation in dead fields
Cowering under shrinking shields
You can’t unplug from this grid
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