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Dear Mar 2014
she asked
"what do you even write?"  
We write
testimonies
pleas
and defenses
our pen, the judge and the jury
we write of the rythymn and the dead space between beats.
our message is the vibrations that barrel out of the belly of the drum
our words encompass the spectrum of light
we write the fuse
we are the piston
we are the face and hands of the clock, the numbers, and the tic tock
we write you.
we write ourselves.
we write strangers and phantoms and projections.
we write wrongs
we write mysteries our reader resolves.
we write eyes, hearts, and minds
tangible soul tales for the deaf and blind.
Dear Feb 2014
sweet saccharine machine
you don't have to be haunted
you don't have to be
sweet saccharine machine
the world's not your problem
go on. get angry

wrap yourself up in the things that you love
get yourself high
leave your mind below
the train wasn't long enough to carry you home
jump off the tracks
get dirt on your toes

don't let them get your best
those you try to impress
the things you control
are the things you regret
loosen your grip
blow smoke from your lips
tire your hands with poems and prose

my

sweet saccharine machine
you don't have to be haunted
you don't have to be
sweet
sweet saccharine machine
the world's not your problem
go on go on
go on go on
my sweeet
Dear Jan 2014
terrapine trannies on trains going haywire southbound alignments crack in the sidewalk cement smile framed by fake curls the color of old gold
old mold smells the same as new mold
but less abundant
gather here
go there
you didn't stay with me
in that dream i had of the most beautiful place i'd ever seen
you said this is nice, now let's go.
i'd bruised my knees to get to that place
i'd scratched my cheeks and calloused my feet to find that place.
it wasn't like the other dream, that other place with the waterfall and the pond full of oil.
James with his old silvertone telling me of the gaseous things.
it was pure,
nothing with skin had led me there
and i was the only thing that cared to be there
under the tree with the green leaves
like any other
bent down
away from the sun and then back up again
there was no where to hide in this place.
no cotton to lay over your body and face
the ground was uncomfortable and perfect
you are awake in this place
you cannot keep your head tilted anyway but up
but anyway, sometimes beauty is less intriguing than something grotesque.
there is much less place for mystery in a clean place than there is in the depths of a mess.
your voice gets more viscous as your words fall out of place
but the feeling..
it translates through the angles of your knuckles
the nothingness your hands grasp onto
it's something big
your fingers are wide
like your mouth that stutters over your domino mind
you know what i mean.
dont you?
we want you to.
i mean,
come on.
Dear Jan 2014
https://soundcloud.com/spiritbarehear/meta-4-4-time

meet me at the morphosis
suckin on our cherry pits
sun melted away our icycled veins
clorphylled up minds
unconcerned with measurement
leave our woes behind
to wither with our precedents

our guards are on vacation
changing of a nation
through the power of
this entity of love
my love
it's not for me it seems
not to guide me to prosperity
not to satisfy my wants

give yours away and you'll get more of

the winds of change are blowing here
tell your girl she's not to fear
the ending of a page
the boggling of brains

london bridge is falling down
but we'll make a louder sound
to create a wave

we'll struggle a lot but they'll wash away

we will be the living dream
forever to grow
already blossoming
our hunger will sustain the changing of this game

explode implode cause a scene
ignorance is all they're conducting
the pyramid design was fine
8 billion sheep all fed with lies

but the winds of change are blowing here
tell your girl she's not to fear
the ending of a page
the boggling of brains

london bridge is falling down
but we'll make a louder sound
to create a wave
we'll struggle a lot
but they'll wash away
all the greatest songs start as a great poem
https://soundcloud.com/spiritbarehear/meta-4-4-time
Dear Dec 2013
You're living out a death wish
And I am too
With every cigarette we smoke
Every sip of poison that runs us thru

And life plays this ruse
Where it pretends to be big
But it's all bark and no bite when we remember our future in the clouds

We're excited to live and even more
so to die
The road to awe
The greatest surprise
Wonder we might
About what's upon the other side
I feel we already know
We already see a meager slice

i theorize what we'll find
Is the rest of the whites in our eyes
That ****** mother type white hidden beneath our iris
The teacher of our pupil
Blue vines intertwined with immaculate prospects
Having never kissed oxygen

This is not a love story
This is death
This is the illusion of an end
This life is the speck of gold in a deep brown eye
Small and obnoxious
Beautiful and important

I am speaking of the gateway
To behold our unbloomed glory
Dear Dec 2013
stop    underneath    longing  
  nuclear   water  
  ripe    glory  
ghost    wonder
   wild    turned    bones    makes    gold    honey    cold  
  rays    fix    bright   veins  
  pillow    tight  
experience    holds    fantasies  
  spine    notes    falling   breaking    young   brother  
  beaten    trees    bow    reach    shoes
   *******    scream  
panic    dug    beats    goodbye  
  asking   fallen    broke    spite    common    bound    father
Dear Dec 2013
LOVE
like
none other
like
KNOW
one another.
More magical than anything that could happen under sheets
or covers.
Tangible connection collecting energy
until it's as heavy as
a brick of gold.
WE WILL
RESHAPE THE FUTURE
make stoney hearts lighter
Infect the defects
with a
revolutionary virus.
WE WILL
make the boxes we're shoved into
castles for the ecletic.
THE UNUSUAL BECOMES USUAL.
Our ballads of
sadness
depression
oppression
misunderstandings
become our
MANTRAS
for growth and change
into the grandeur
WE WILL
hold the wealthy hands
so poor in soul
WE WILL
feed the mouths that never stopped yelling how
THEY WON'T LET THE ******* GET THEM DOWN
WE WILL
COME TOGETHER
despite
IN spite
of our colourful backgrounds
WE WILL
SHOW THE SUICIDAL A HOME
IN THE VERY SKIN THEY OWN
how to love it so
OFF WITH THE HEARTLESS HEADS!
We will not stand to leave
to leave this life
having already
been dead.
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