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a violet apogee

in complete melodies

the frequencies i hear

can not be contained by anything

love is drifting through the hills

and you are home to its trills

she dreams of light, the fire bright

and full of crystal skulls and eyeballs

dozens of monuments are built

just to mark the moments

when we could have said i'm sorry

merge with the mountains

find the source of fountains

shine the diamond compass

if that's what you are really here for

 

broken dams are our business

feed the swans their luminescent lunch-boxes

duck for cover, its a wonder that we are all together here

that's clearly redundant

the tendency to dream

is the most important human faculty

its a tragedy that the lack of nuclear power

showers the atomic world in rainbows

as forlorn teenagers in the ice-age of America

govern our equipment from their parent's basements

and carouse with comfort upon chairs, cushions and couches

 

a million times the victory

a million miles of rope to weave

a million are the paths to god

and a million more are the souls

who've learned to cope with tragedy

 

i come cherishing and bearing gifts

figures of speech are my playthings

i am furniture remodeled daily

and intuitively placed around your home

the finer things in life are free

so see me there upon your television set

i am electromagnetic static

within the black and white of advertisements

i am figures of forgotten speech

so record the unwatched programs

in your mind’s virtual memory

the hard drive of work and play

creates hundreds of new retirees each day

hundreds of haunted expatriates

knuckle-headed people

that couldn't tread lightly

even if they wanted to

so will you please untie me

and remove these binds and chains

it's time to free the lover from the psyche

for that is all she wrote

 

i am a silent p

i am a violet apogee

i am a cosmic minority

i am a message in your tea leaves

 

but if you stand too long in my shoes

you’ll likely drown in solitude

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Sep 6, 2018
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