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Tyler Jones Mar 2021
Cult hero
Sub zero
Clone collagen
Zoom in heroine  
But dont you sting me bumblebee
Keep it zipped up
Tripping on your tongue
Devils dancing
You’re in a trance  
Let them lick it up
Leave the rest
And maybe a bit of the best
On the cutting edge
Take a bow and get bent
Crash through the door
Waves, walls, make the call
Yeah you know they simply adore
The way you take the bait, switchback and stray
You take it all the way
Yeah you can lead the way
Lines you trace
They wont forget your face
Switch it up and set the pace
Bittersweet tastes
Real tea royalty
They know you don’t play
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
I’ll be your bed
I’ll be your beach
A place of chaos, sincerity and symmetry
We can meet, become or be released
We can be eternity
I’ll be the sand and you’ll be the sea
Unconscious we can be, blend and bend like lenses
Earth that needs seeds
Something to frame
Something to stay
Look any way the pictures the same
In the climate of the shallow
Our hearts hang hollow  
In the company of the deep
We all seek and sink
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Dull lies
Double lives
Parallel lines to read between
Don’t let them see
The lines you write
Thrones you ride
Don’t let them see
Bed bugs have eyes
The kind that bite
Bite back
Your hard to track
But you’re always there
Sea salt and sand stuck in my hair
Yeah you’re always there
Right in the nick of time
We were drowning in debt
Drowning in doubt
******* and strung out
Sometimes the nights get so loud
Shiver
Shake
Shout
Can u hear me crying at the moon?
Let me out!
Let me out!
But there’s nowhere to go
Just a line to pace
A line to Rome
Rushing thru the flow
Red tide riptide took my lover and left me alone
We were just a breath away from losing the whole game
But we saved, yeah we saved just for those strange days
We worked away yeah we worked it out
We worked away yeah we worked it out
I went down and he came up
Kept the beat, kept the party, kept the clowns
Now they’re all around, all around us
Don’t you hear them fuss?
Trust was rusted but now it’s all love! Love! Love!
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Misty morning
You gave me plenty of warning
But I didn’t listen
Addicted to your skin
Cut just right
Loved how we fit
Couldnt get enough of it
Loved all your lies
Tore it all down to find out the meaning
What you meant to me
What I meant to you
So sour so sweet
One more month wouldn’t have satisfied me
They push me
Pull me
Throw things at me
Can’t see thru to tomorrow
Can’t see you
But I feel you follow
Halls crowded or hollow
I let them all borrow
But never give them our gold
Miss your mold
Got thicker skin
But still feel the cold
I shiver to shake it off
But it just collects
Still no regrets
Loved your distance
Do you miss my mess?
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Weeks in the woods
Running from the floods
Endless winters
Sick with the splinters
Sticky with sap
Handle the hacks
Fill the fountain for the beginners
I’ll be the saint
I’ll be the sinner
Icy clear from here
Meet em for dinner
When the wolves are howling
Hungers growling
Growing rowing
Further for her fur sure
Further for her fer sure
Ear worms and centepedes
Shattered chandelier centerpiece
See me swinging?
My ears are ringing
Sounds sweet as candy
Merry go round
Dizzy and dandy
Chasing my tail
Zeroing in on my landing
Everyone’s busy planting planning
Pines stay standing
Outlasting seasons and gravity
They cover me
Can’t see up above
Everyone’s hovering
So I keep shoveling
Chain gain groveling
Can’t run from this cage
Brought my ******* to this stage
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Mindblooms
Teenage train rides
Double triple lives
Speeding to ninth
Everything has a price
Had to come up, bake up back ups
Had to learn to burn, to fight
Fight for myself
Tipped my hat and fell off the highest shelf
Caught a ride in the rain
Got crazy enough to change
Heard a song in seashell
Some kind of sounds that words couldn’t tell
But now I wish at every well
Like I’m ringing OZ’s bell

They weren’t listening so we started spinning
Getting dizzy and ditzy
Dizzy till we forgot how to feel
How to feel real
Maroon and teal
Learning to deal
Skins peel
Lines reel
Tire marks, static and steel
Aluminum ultimatums
That’s all they gave us
Sundried roses in our manic hands
Left the thorns in the past
Sunk in the tar, we take it too far

Learned what it meant to be well
Learned so much I couldn’t tell
Thickened my skin and drilled holes in my belt
Torn, tarred and feathered
Hollow, and constantly followed but it’s getting better
Ultimatums, all they gave us
Bugs buzz all around
Can hardly hear through the sound

Like a bull in the ring, sacrificing
Begging me, baiting me to chase
Eventually we all cave
Strange summer days
Suntans and tshirt stains
Friends, fiends and strays
Facing the change, taking the pain
Living like its our last day
Homesick bathtub bubbles in my face

Smiles and waves
Extra cheese and cages
Can’t be complacent
Spinning till we draw something that stays
Toungue tied telephone games
So many merry unbirthdays
Fashionably late they’re saying “Places! Places”
Musical chairs and ferriswheels

Counting our feathers like sand slipping through our hands
But it is us that’s sinking so fast
Right up to our last gasp
Never lose your grasp of that boot or branch
Never lose your drive
Stay busy if find yourself in the hive
Whips will sting but stay sweet, stay kind
Mind your q’s and p’s
Mind blooms you’ll see

Rushing now with the flow
Oh it goes, it grows, it spits you out right in the throws
But on goes the show
“This is it. It’s all happening.” She says to me
Butterflies and bumblebees
Plant your bulbs in the autumn
To see them bloom in Spring
Tyler Jones Feb 2021
Monochrome
Was my home
Blacked out in the zone
Lost in the rush
Lost in the flow
Flowers grow all around me
But I forget their meaning
Silent film screenings
Soggy shoulders leaning
Highlighters and graffiti
Tunnel vision on new beginnings
Soft sinning
Sideways spinning
I’m not spitting
Just adjusting, fitting
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