The Tower of Song

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With more skat
than a stray cat
can poke his eyeballs at
the punk
in the Midnight Choir
starts to twist and shout
Yet …
the All in All
all too beautiful
for even a bird on a wire
to sing about
Like that
concert hall in Vienna
where your lips
were so warm and wet
Getting a feel
of the real deal
… that love thing
Upon a mission
a royal commission
seeking foremost
the rock solid Kingdom
It all starts from within
Seizing the living moment
Best be in it
to win

And Leonard Cohen
he’s moved on
to the Tower of Song

To find truth
without love
or at least a trace
of faith and hope
like trying to climb
the highest peak
of Mount Everest
naked
without oxygen
or even a rope
Not saying it can’t be done
but man …
sounding much like
a clanging gong
in the Temple
of a world gone wrong
Or have I found
that love thing?
From the mire
of the dire basement
that we’re standing in
try as you might
to sight the heavens
across the endless skies
Far better
in the light
seeing the world
through heaven’s eyes
Heart and Soulful
Holy Mindfulness
is the rightful place
where we all belong

And Leonard Cohen
he’s moved on
to the Tower of Song

I too
have tried
in my way
to be free
If it be your will
then let it be
Yet
here on earth
they sentenced me
to forty years of mayhem
for spying
the celebrants
of sin
Tell me
where does
this world end
and the next begin?
Because
I don’t like your
toxic culture mister
And I don’t like
the choir
you’re singing in
I don’t like Big Brother’s
twisted little sister
The King
of everything
He’s coming back
He’s coming to reward them
The King of hearts
and minds
the Prince of Peace
returning
But first
we seek the Kingdom
Then let freedom ring

And Leonard Cohen
he’s moved on
to the Tower of Song

I’ve been buried
and I’ve been dug up
I call it grace amazing
You called it dumb luck
And thank you
for those items
that you sent me
The stone monkey
and the ink
under my skin
I’ve tunnelled
towards the light
and now I’m ready
First
we occupy the Kingdom
then
let the revolution begin

Yes … Jesus was a sailor
when he walked upon the water
Seeking the lost at sea
and the drowning
The stranger
the gambler
and me

And Leonard Cohen
he’s sailing on
to the Tower of Song

Through all
the rise and fall
the pulp fiction
from hell’s kitchen
I really like
to walk
that tightrope, baby
I really like
to hear
those Sirens sing
But to see that nightmare
of deception
prowling through creation
Jesus told us
yes he told us
Kingdom starts with

Remember me?
I use to to live
without rhyme or reason
Remember me?
I plugged your Hi-Fi in
You loved me as a loser
You’d hate
to ever see me win
With Christ Jesus
my ship has finally
come in
No longer tied
to a kitchen chair
With a Glory
and a broken Hallelujah!
But first
we take the Kingdom
Losing it all to win

And Leonard Cohen
he’s moved on
to the Tower of Song

I’m counselled
by a whisper
from the heavens
Once I was blinded
by visions in a spin
Now it’s …
So long Chicken Maryland
That frozen turkey
who nearly did me in
For now I’m guided
by the beauty of creation
and a thirst
for the Kingdom
where I first heard
those angels sing
Jesus told us
yes he told us
Kingdom begins within

And Leonard Cohen
he’s singing along
from the Tower of Song

~ by David B. Redpath © 2017-20

Artwork;
‘La Musica Sacra’
~ by Luigi Mussini

Photography:
David B. Redpath © 2017-20

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6,405 thoughts on “The Tower of Song”

  1. don’t think I ever listened to Taylor Swift
    just put on Folklore (?)
    she’s cute
    the kind of lips
    that prisoners dream of
    her lyrics suck
    really suck
    she needs to connect with outfielders
    get away from grade school poetry
    she has talent
    but she needs to be slapped by the Queen of Poverty
    a week or two of heavy meth
    diaper rash
    her music sucks
    her lyrics
    she must be deaf
    OK
    I can’t listen to anymore
    good night, Taylor
    you should feel shame

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    1. that gravy train
      of post-modern civilisation
      leaves a stain on your brain
      the post-mortem
      of instant gratification
      Tik Tokking the genitalia
      plugging into the mainframe
      Tay Tay bought a guitar
      to punish her boyfriend
      for being mean
      and a vibratator to break-in
      her vajayjay
      with a spurt of virtual reality
      as Jake Gyllenhaal
      didn’t quite cut it
      yet the song remains the same
      Welcome to the Machine
      is all I have to say
      John Mayer
      heard that song bird
      and plucked it
      Taylor Swift
      you are a gift to all humanity
      Keep on T-Swizzling
      that swifty vajayjay Tay Tay

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    1. Kim Kardashian forced me
      to invest in cryptocurrency
      After I lost the lot
      she apologised profusely
      Apparently she gets all her
      financial advice
      from Lady Poverty
      and not some
      fortune telling Gypsy
      as she would often boast
      Poor Kanye West
      is in the same boat
      It’s such a shame
      as he can no longe afford
      to keep his own name
      let alone any Kardashian pussy
      Some things come only
      with a shit load of money

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    1. Loretta Lynn
      the coal miner’s daughter
      will not be stopped
      by death
      or even Taylor Swift
      Tay Tay ain’t woman enough
      She’s the reason
      those swiftie kids are so ugly
      boyfriends left
      to the tender mercies
      of the Head Librarian
      for a bit of hanky spanky

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  2. himself
    thoroughly disguised
    a fellow clay hardened
    yearns for true happiness
    inside, outside and all about
    and through the magic box television
    optimism has no where to flourish
    its holy root choked by enemies
    not the police, or the FBI/CIA
    rather, young female hands
    womenfolk shy of stardom

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    1. optimism dripping 💦
      from the manicured hand 💅
      of the Head Librarian
      as she forced me to listen 🔊👂
      to Areola Grande 🍑
      saying I would not be cured
      till I finally understand
      pubescent dreams 💭
      and primal screams💥
      makes the world go ’round
      that’s how things go down
      here in Placebo Town 💋
      when I could no longer stand it
      she turned the volume up ⬆️
      and removed my trousers 👖
      as her discipline comes 💨
      in all shapes and sizes 🔀 🔃

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  3. I was informed today that the DVD box set of my life
    was to be shortened
    not the usual extended bonus minutes
    rather the more sensitive “better not viewed” hours
    who am I ?
    (+) a man dwindled

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  4. swimming in pain
    agony and grief smile
    inhaling consciousness
    finding it difficult to release
    minutes become hours/weeks
    voices saying, “it could be worse”
    a swift jab in the eye, those words

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    1. The Noble Halo of Survival
      with the spoils of war spilling
      out cathedral windows
      through broken down doors
      and across bedroom floors
      The Noble Halo of Survival
      by any and all means possible
      is forever mine … and yours

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    1. “If it were done
      when ’tis done,
      then’ twere well
      it were done quickly:
      if the assassination could
      trammel up the consequence,
      and catch, with his surcease,
      success;
      that but this blow might be
      the be-all and end-all here.”

      ~ Macbeth

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  5. all that information
    purified blood
    the raw baby
    vegetative
    soul
    Alice Cooper
    singing about dead babies
    night porter tales about his lover
    tossing their baby out the car window
    I’ve seen them in person but never touched

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  6. the vegetative soul ignored
    an underwear stain
    Momma unaware
    alcohol
    piss on a piece of plastic
    it screams, “Good Lord, you’re pregnant”
    down at the clinic desperate for funds
    they muddle with her insides
    she limps home guilty
    Karma
    an innocent female in hell
    united with her lover
    naked and obscene
    devils playing
    patty-cake

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    1. “To be bitter is to attribute intent
      and personality to the formless,
      infinite, unchanging and unchangeable
      void. We drift on a chartless, resistless
      sea. Let us sing when we can, and
      forget the rest.”

      ~ H.P. Lovecraft

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      1. The workforce that labor night and day to support the foundation of The Old Testament
        feel shortchanged when they hear Satanists say, “Let us sing when we can, and forget
        the rest.”

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      2. WALDEINSAMKEIT
        Pliny the Elder has spoken
        of a lonely human
        bound up in cosmicism
        drowning in the ocean
        of his own
        self imposed insignificance
        as absolutely nothing
        has any meaning to him
        existing only on the outer fringe
        where being human
        don’t mean a thing
        with nothing good up above
        nothing evil going down
        a spirit of denial
        in control of the soul
        nihilism and existentialism
        the twin mythos of Placebo Town
        where Cthulhu
        and Pliny the Younger
        have taken up residence
        at the luxurious
        Waldeinsamkeit Apartments
        conveniently located
        in the shadow of the Golden Tower

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  7. the complexity of reality
    plugged into God
    created by God
    yet, prisoner
    daily He begs
    “do something”
    Michael humanizing
    His presence the source
    Michael, a puppet that entertains
    (+) reality, dangerously limited to perception

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    1. what is perceived?
      who is deceived?
      as duplicity looks down
      from a Placebo Town duplex
      where simplicity is frowned upon
      where complexity has you
      tied up into knots
      where the denizens
      are afraid of questions
      where answers are left to rot
      today reality is where you find it
      tomorrow maybe not
      truth is a constant
      irrespective of perspective
      founded on the Rock
      yet ever a moving target
      never spied in the exact same spot
      simplicity times infinity
      poured through a kaleidoscope
      the solitary confines of reality
      human limitations unable to cope
      defined by abstractions
      suppressed on medications
      like a dope tangling from the rope
      of a system devoid of meaning
      without faith and love
      . . . there be no hope
      God is Love
      in Christ there is forgiveness
      God is Light
      in him there is no darkness
      by his grace
      I am a child of light
      with a simple inheritance
      eternal life in a celestial paradise
      where the flavours to savour
      never taste the same way twice
      I thank God
      for that infinite moment
      when the eternal saviour
      Jesus Christ paid the price
      for my admittance
      as I freely admit
      with a good dose
      of childlike simplicity
      I wasn’t always
      . . . very nice
      I have now become
      a Placebo Town pariah
      but my mustard seed of faith
      credited as righteousness
      will more than suffice

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  8. one can find crafty things said about the mustard seed of faith
    the Reader’s Digest Bible perhaps
    elders cough up rational explanations
    ghastly-sick hanging on the cross
    the first class ticket
    totally bootleg

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    1. the running man
      the falling man
      the crying woman
      the death of a salesman
      desperately selling
      his book of poetry
      dedicated to poverty and shame
      sadly mistaken
      for fortune and fame
      words from a forgotten land
      a signed copy
      stained with desperation
      and coffee
      falling out of his hand
      the lonely death of a poet
      who endlessly wrote
      of things he’d never seen
      of places he’d never been
      ever talking to himself
      forever asking … “If only?”

      “The kingdoms of experience,
      in a precious winds they rot.
      While paupers change possessions
      each one wishing
      for what the other has got.
      And the princess
      and the prince discuss
      what’s real and what is not.
      It doesn’t matter
      inside the Gates of Eden.”

      ~ Bob Dylan

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    2. “My eyes collide head-on
      with stuffed graveyards
      false gods
      I scuff at pettiness
      which plays so rough
      Walk upside-down
      inside handcuffs
      Kick my legs to crash it off
      Say okay, I have had enough
      what else can you show me?”

      ~ Bob Dylan

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      1. (+) please don’t kick my legs
        Bob Dylan in tiny denim cutoffs
        perhaps the most beautiful male
        to ever strum a guitar/utter a tune
        squeezing amorphous anxiety
        into a manageable income

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    1. pOERTRY wORKSHOP
      the hungry and the desperate
      looking for friendship
      must be a lonely business
      being a Poetry Workshop poet
      the loud and the quiet
      rotting amongst the living
      walking amongst the dead

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      1. at least one poet finds it difficult to walk
        many find it impossible to forgive themselves
        the bright lights at night, the constant roar of life
        reality is violently intrusive
        poetry to counter suspicions
        not only what is written
        but also its purpose

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  9. verifiable evidence
    I say nothing
    lessons taught
    no need for a belt
    dark and dreaming
    living in my potentially disruptive bubble
    locked in the physicality of here and now
    overdraft Michael (+) overdraft Michael

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  10. I was asked
    if I have an apartment at the zoo
    tied to a rope, tethered
    personal identity
    misinformation
    people
    minding my business
    eyeballing my calm detachment
    the struggle to survive no longer important

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  11. outside the library
    males protest
    waving their
    library cards
    POSSESSION OF THE PHALLUS !!!
    inside the library
    creatures aware
    of their absence
    a lack for which
    they will try
    endlessly
    to compensate
    (+) living on the border of inexistence

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    1. after I failed to register
      on their DNA database
      the F.B.I. wanted
      to speak to me
      about some death
      on the Orient Express
      and whether
      I knew anything
      about that dead
      Lindbergh baby
      apparently having no
      familial DNA
      was not a possibility
      unless I was an alien
      according to them
      so I went on the run
      but my kith
      handed me in
      and then my kin
      who don’t even exist
      insisted on doing me in

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  12. it is possible that my relatives cut the lumber
    that bastard used to make his ladder
    ( think twice before you commit a crime with anything homemade )
    Lindbergh baby blues
    killed the thing
    within a mile
    of the house
    pulled a leg off
    stuck it up its butt
    must of hurt real bad
    can’t forget the look on its face
    like Bob Dylan backstage with Ed Sullivan

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    1. We have a really big show tonight!
      An Alien orphan walking a tight rope
      whilst not playing his song …
      ‘Talkin’ John The Baptist Beheaded
      Paranoid Blues’. So instead we have
      The Natural Born Baby Killer’s From
      Sweet Home Alabama performing
      their latest hit burning up the charts,
      ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter (unless …
      they’re backing singers working
      at our recording studio)’.
      We’ll then have a pleasant chat with
      our sponsor, Pedro the Petrochemical
      Dispenser, about how to keep all your
      dirty linen whiter than white, as he
      hears your confession played on a
      mouth organ. So, strap yourselves in
      . . . this may take all night.

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    1. that Mercy Seat
      was warm and sweet
      an undeserved treat
      that tingling
      skin peeling feeling
      from my head
      down to my feet
      leaving one begging
      for a final
      hair raising repeat
      I was innocent
      of course
      but who gives a shit?
      at least
      it was my priest
      who got to flick the switch
      saying this will cure
      my wicked itch

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    1. forgetting the ungrateful dead
      forever pointing a sharpened bone
      the freewheelin’ bob dylan
      bringing it all back home
      where survival is a contest
      life and death playing out of tune
      the best and the fairest all lost
      the least left to exist like all the rest
      amongst those astronauts
      who never made it to the moon

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    1. there is a light
      beyond this current darkness
      a spiritual umbilical cord
      flowing with celestial conciousness
      a torrent of life giving water
      for a thirsting world
      a hotline to the mind of Jesus
      hope
      faith
      and love from above
      CHRIST is the password
      for he is my truest friend
      and my Lord of Lords

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  13. think about something and it vanishes
    may be not today or tomorrow
    loneliness
    all the lies
    friends
    no matter how small or large
    that cover their eyes and blindly kiss
    all that we are capable of knowing
    stuffed in a sausage skin called perception

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  14. blond dinosaurs on the moon
    something someone said years ago
    just more paint someone mixed for you
    more material from predecessors
    lies and useless information
    as you grew into those kisses
    heartless love permeated your being
    you swallowed the hook and the Digest
    a zoo of human depravity, an orgy of sorts

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  15. earthbound behavior of Eve
    devil dicks, the worms of men
    a blasphemous parody of a spiritual life
    she thought of herself as a human clock
    sex did not slow or stop the tick tock
    it only aggravated and infuriated
    those not knowing the joy of sex

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  16. just like the moon
    implicit questions arise
    I write about blond dinosaurs on the moon
    yellow stains on underwear worn over a week
    smoking cigarettes and masturbating
    observers watch, parallel to Jesus
    paralyzing prick pain, a tight foreskin

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  17. she displays her breasts daily
    but old breasts are of no concern
    a waste of lips and tongue
    she has no parallel to Jesus
    yet, she permits him to watch
    her narcotic wad
    I push it deep inside
    sperms helping it dissolve

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    1. Down Under
      it’s Springtime
      here in Australia
      the Kangaroos are dancing
      and the Kookaburras are laughing
      at us poor dirt farmers
      labouring in the field
      getting ready for the harvest
      praying for a big yield
      with the rains heaven sent
      This is God’s own country
      if God happens to be
      a Rainbow Serpent
      like the indigenous folk tell me
      They use to say that
      they’re the traditional custodians
      that the land owned them
      Not the other way round
      as that’s white man thinking
      Now they’re saying
      they’re the traditional owners
      and that they want their land back
      I just sit on the porch
      as the goannas sun-bake
      caressing my shotgun
      and say “Good luck with that!”
      With all the recent rain
      I’ve had to teach the sheep
      how to swim
      and strap my pet Dingo
      into a life jacket
      as my horse got washed away
      when the river burst it’s banks
      just as the wife
      prickly as an Echidna
      hunting some Koala for supper
      was crossing it
      It’s enough to make you cry
      There goes my favourite saddle
      Plus her fluffy Platypus
      that was there building a nest
      will be sorely missed
      This land is normally bone dry
      Perfect for snakes and camels
      with sun-dried Emu
      on the Buzzard menu
      No good for raising cattle
      as the Crocs just eat
      them cows for dinner
      In Summer fire falls from the sky
      but for now . . .
      Hades Ranch is under water
      but it’s nothing
      a pioneer can’t handle

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      1. South Florida is jacking up for the season
        giant trucks are arriving with zillion dollar automobiles
        exotic, works of art
        my neighbor had four arrive this week
        there was an armed security guard
        he gave me dirty looks
        he looked like a movie star
        I remember when my neighbor was young
        he had a weekly TV show
        by the end of November
        it will be possible to go outside
        the temperature and humidity are ungodly
        traffic is still light
        store checkouts are reasonable
        everything gets hectic
        more and more hectic
        females drop daily eggs
        they rub against everything
        they are for the taking
        (+) it was cloudy at the beach, beautiful naked people

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  18. litter outside the library
    ungendered pronouns
    BLAME
    equally open to both sexes
    courage to face romance
    frozen lovers and onlookers
    destinations during intercourse
    dicks that inflate
    and know no stop
    fixated on size
    the librarian (her father, her brother)

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    1. the Whordes of Babylon
      whoarding everything
      they can get their hands on
      fighting them back
      from the city gates
      just me and a few companion
      true blue champions
      against the barbarians
      of Placebo Town
      the future of civilisation
      in our blood stained hands
      with all of our tomorrows at stake
      if only we were more
      we could have them on the run
      but I fear it is too little
      and far too late

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  19. dealing with dirty hands / damaged nails
    incantations
    and soiled thoughts
    funeral clothes from 1940
    spider eggs that will hatch in the dark
    odd eyes looking / possibly never blink
    DEATH, a blank slate of existence
    countless spiders using their filament skills
    to scribble personal approaches to romance

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  20. looking at your face
    searching your heart
    roads enter Placebo but do not exit
    at 100mph one sees the dying and the dead
    death is not a whimsical nursery rhyme
    a troubling recognition
    an inability to grasp
    significance

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    1. In Placebo Town
      a most solemn occasion
      at the Memorial to War
      ‘Remember The Placebo!’
      with the names of the fallen
      carved deep into marble
      Mine has been there
      since time immemorial
      as I am the Unknown Soldier
      that the Placebo has forgotten
      but never forgiven
      for surviving
      the Opium Rebellion
      and that skirmish in Vietnam

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    1. enduring a bit
      of harmless conversation
      after some
      dangerous punishment
      and oral debasement
      with the Head Librarian
      down in the Placebo Town
      library basement
      when I noticed this walk-in
      refrigeration unit in the corner
      apparently the Librarian runs
      an after hours funeral parlour
      twilighting as an undertaker
      as she tells me smugly
      how it pays good money
      So being a gentleman
      I complimented her endeavour
      and commented
      that it’s nice to have a hobby
      as she shoved her business card
      in my face with just
      these few words printed on it

      “LET ME TAKE YOU TO
      A MUCH COOLER PLACE”

      now you know why the library
      shuts at 5pm sharp

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      1. ——(+) MEN ON ICE (+)——
        afterhours library service
        you can trust your lover with lesbians in the basement
        you complimented the Head Librarian’s groin
        she immediately started to get erect
        a crotch not always genteel

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      2. 🔻Do You Feel Safe?🔻

        I do my best with the dark money
        Elon Musk anonymously donated
        for me to compose a requiem
        titled ‘In Memory of Life on Earth’.
        Instead I blew the lot on a hot shot
        of Martian heroin … and then told
        him on instagram. If you listen
        very carefully you can hear Elon
        crying in the basement of the
        Placebo Town Library.

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  21. Eve was constantly dropping eggs
    she knew Elon Musk before his birth
    his body alone
    does not make him a human being
    his enemies call him “Baby Face”
    I don’t call him anything
    he is a problem
    but not my particular problem
    hero/villain
    (+) an interest in his ethos, noted

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    1. to get a job at SpaceX
      mixing up the Martian medicine
      I had to complete a course
      in Placebo Yoga
      “Detox your body and recharge
      your hole.” … Elon said
      “Just like a Tesla car!”
      instead I stole a chemistry set
      from the SpaceX laboratory
      I’ve been weightless ever since

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  22. no external realities from childhood
    I hear it every day
    such madness
    loud screams
    a hand stuck
    in a garbage disposal
    backing the car over a pet
    backing the car over a toddler
    Elon Musk laughing about his bank account
    the luxury of having employees poop for him
    “No Wipe Elon” his hands be consecrated flesh

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    1. SpaceX: The Reverse Ovulation

      A generous patron of the Arts
      Elon paid for the hymenoplasty
      I performed on Amber Heard
      before an appreciative audience
      of movie critics & tax accountants
      with a standing ovation from
      Johnny Depp’s lawyers as I most
      skilfully sewed Amber Heard’s
      lips together with Elon Musk
      still inside of her as the tremors
      and magma flows from courtroom eruptions finally ceased …
      to everyone’s great relief

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    1. Blonde mosquitoes
      from the Placebo Zone
      caught in the flow of Amber
      only to have the DNA
      of victims in the dark
      extracted many eons later
      and concocted
      into the prehistoric monsters
      of Primal Park

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    2. fingers get slammed
      in car doors and virginas
      all the time in Placebo Town
      as it’s a sign of affection
      blonde dinosaurs often
      bite the hand that feeds them
      could Taylor Swift taste any finer?
      Swifty with her smash hit vulva
      that sings so sweetly

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    1. this entire existence
      opens up
      into the Multiverse
      touching the cosmic conciousness
      with a symbiotic alpha pulse
      that seemingly lasts an eternity
      and then folds back in on itself
      with a gravitational wave
      of seismic relief
      a receptacle of dark energy
      born to be swift
      but never brief
      with a cauldron taylor made
      for replicating life
      an intergalactic gift
      from the event horizon
      where the horizontally unworthy
      instantly come to grief

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