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good karma didn’t record


my friend dreamed i died from air bubbles

death is everywhere today

today is death, everywhere, dreamy

time for a change, they say

mandated, demanded by machinery

 

everyone told me i was a piano genius

then one day they told me it was a prank

what i thought were white keys were black keys

they took the blindfold off and i saw

what i’d known all along, sort of

that i'm a bullshit artist

but a pretty good one

pretty good at making

bullshit pretty

 

my parents look older, old, OLD, REALLY OLD, i really looked, i

noticed, i'd never really looked at them since a certain day

they talk about the economy, their stake in the stock market

they want to gain back what they lost, then get out

"but what if it keeps going down and down and down?"

 

contra lost his drum and bass track, the file corrupted

he's nearly crying

everything's a sign

 

the sky is heavy atmosphere

gloom granted, grace, put a good face on it

i take them out to the hume to try and make things feel good

that place i just quit, don't recognize anyone there

there’s no menu meals, only buffet

it’s weird, that never happens

it’s cause of kitchen renos?

 

grandmother died, didn't get any good writing out of that

quit my job to become an artist, didn't get any good writing out of that

still writing, didn't get any good writing out of that

still a writer

 

wouldn't it be ironic if i died of a brain aneurysm while writing thi

 

 

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