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an apology.
01:59
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i'm only as clever as my last scabbed over knuckle.
i should keep control of my dull loudmouth scottish alter ego,
or the identical flipside of a supposed schizophrenic's coin.
chewing the resin-ruined end of a pen's gut
and realising my mistake
and looking up
disgust
in a hundred different dictionaries
and still not finding one truly satisfactory definition
i mean, who started this collection...?
it's suspicous at best.
.... and my spare change on the plate is just mutilated fruit
.... and miniscule discs of tasteless communion bread
(i used my favourite word again, i really should stop that.)
i guess i'm becoming a parody of myself:
"sometimes i feel like i'm a spoof of what i used to be..."
"i'm not a ladies' man,
i'm a landmine."
i've dragged rap's
already tarnished reputation
about ten years back.
i might as well rename myself Jewpac and write
"totally serious rhymes about women, money & cars"
i don't play a character onstage....
i save that for when pinned down in the street outside afterward
feebly trying to punch
i don't have a weight to box above
and i slag off the macho...
like the hypocrite cunt that i am
i have said this before, it is old news
(like: "today's flyer is tomorrow's roach")
it's an eerie rewind to like nine years ago
and how clever i was seven later
to go on about broken bottles & Pete Newbury
funnilly enough
the repercussions of that event have echoed onward
for the rightful owner
of the banned bootleg he stole
was in attendance tonight
and i apologised again, completely unnessecarilly
(in his case but not yours)
it's hard writing whilst grovelling without sounding patronising
but i'm truly sorry, i am honestly ashamed.
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you'll rue this day -
i wouldn't piss on myself if i was on fire
or stung by a jellyfish
i'd just grin and bare it like filed down teeth.
saint augustine swept leaves and stole letters from shop signs.
the fringe over dog eyes obscuring its view.
we breed them for weaknesses
that would render them helpless if ever released into the wild.
we're doing to dogs what hitler wanted to do to people...
and you can't even outrun an arrow
like it was deduced a tortoise could.
and your burnt effigy bears the vaguest of resemblences,
a veritable cornucopia no less.
mother says my stomach is shrinking into a knot
that my bitten down fingernails are too blunt to undo.
i am cold storage open myth
a sickly grin measuring eight point six on the rictus scale
mollycoddled by the abhorrant gourd;
a rumbunctious psychotropic.
the acute the astute, the obsolete and obtuse
are all your other options in fickle britain
it's the little things - the pounds look after themselves.
"that's where storm clouds are born"
to wave a rattle at the iron lung babies in pyrex cases
who will spend their entire lives
from birth to dirtbed
in a breathing machine.
i become the black ice on roads
i start a whip-round for myself
because suddenly life wasn't about brick walls
and money and things nebulous
my awareness too pliable
endure yourself parasite universe
pack satchel with loaves and fish
"what a professional."
7-E-1-F-8-0-3:
this description lives untoward an unworldly
and bogged down apprentice.
"shut up with the fireworks"
"it's well contro."
your game genie's lamp is in need of a major polish
run your fingertips across shelves like a figurative mother-in-law
testing and tutting at the depth of your dust.
collapsing infrastructures left right and centre:
"if theres an afterlife i hope you saved me a seat"
i'm wasting time overestimating an underachiever
the defendant something inanimate that moves as it should not
pocketed earthworm repeatedly halved
or a matchboxed miscellanoupede
guile for reasons opaque
the requisite components uprooted obligated and unfettered
as always the important thing to remember
when wearing a proton pack is
NEVER CROSS THE STREAMS
TILL YOU'VE NEARLY REACHED THE END OF THE FILM
it's the burgeoning crop circle of your bald spot lighted.
i have blisters on my sprinkling finger
eating the matter refusing to compound
i'm incinerating every outfit i've ever done anything incriminating
or embarassing in
"just conceptualising here"
a handclap's as good as a fingersnap to a deaf man's ear.
when i was knee high to a... whatever i thought people had adventures not emotions
i never considered that the glands got involved in this hypnolarious! and ridiculous former empire
throwing tea sets into the lavastream
that envelops your distant relative of mud hut.
lulled me into a insincere sense of insecurity
slightly long winded
receded
the hole in my hat.
the beating in your ribcage deflates too close to gnawed bone
i doubt anyone notices those buried up to neck in sand.
i've got to hand it to the blindfolded
i really truly envy you in your mirage niche
cashback swapping football stickers postal orders
this exchange rate is parallel lines in black and white
the barcode battlers are remotely controlled.
to the few gullible enough,
you see the majority is suprisingly not quite stupid enough
to be really influenced by adverts films games and soap operas
you are more like a sitcom
and you need your canned laughter
ha ha ha.
-but if you asked the, uh, "audience" would they nod or shake their heads,
or die of excitement and indecision?
at the fact that someone for once cared about their opinion?
slump foward and sink in
please fill in this survey
the dribble on your pillow
the nasal crumble of your snore
reminds me of scratched non-stick pans
and baking rainbow cake to fill up a rainy day
on which we're forced to
unhappilly acknowledge each other's existence.
so it seems we've accepted the numb frigid
elderly autonomous and backwards defence
a snorkel for shit creek and unneccessary lachrymology.
the accurate the william tells and s.burroughs:
which category do you fit neatly into?
or will we have to bring out the mallet?
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trebuchet melange
05:59
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the intricately entwined metal plait of the pokey
is a three dimensional celtic design in copper wire
we stole the secret of fire
and taxed god's lighter
with a multi-purpose swiss army knife & side cutters
to hold a blackened slice of steel gauze
to cloud up a UV tube made brown from constant use
a pile of ashes, a mouthpiece (no biro sleeves here)
it's shop-bought company-emblazoned semi-legal paraphanalia
decorated with sticker of ginger bearded lego pirate
trebuchet melange from the rip-thru days
of microwaving B & H and watching eight films a day
with the girl nicknamed after a natural disaster....
where are they now?
ruining stonehenge
for the hippies, pagans, druids and crusties?
have they spontaenously combusted?
can they be repaired with duct tape?
or are they too far gone like the two bongs
accidentally shattered during playfights....?
stale smoke in my windpipe,
it's a musical instrument,
add a keyboard, you're away
use it on your dirty mirror glass and windowpanes
he claimed he could feel his whole lungs resinate...
a sticky toffee-like layer of phlegm
that forms knots
like garden hose left overnight in shed
with the slabs, stubs of candle and damp distorted drumskins
and back then we only had two albums
which we'd play over & over until our neighbours knew
every word of system of a down's eponymous debut and, haha, wu-tang forever...
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he used to crank up the TV for the Big Brother theme
and would bang out the stars & stripes every morning
when he learnt he was going to work in New York
i got him back for repeatedly getting his little sister
to wake me up by yelling "MORRISSEY!" in my face
by sticking selected cut-outs of the ex smiths vocalist's face
over various family photos, pictures and portraits
kerrang posters & even the flipside of the toilet lid
once he claimed he could switch off streetlights with his mind
and that he once made it rain
when he didn't want anybody to go for a skate
obviously we were skeptical of his talk
but it was always amusing
deliberately confusing the gullible & naive
he had a logical theory to explain everyone's godhood
called himself an observer looking in from the outward
he claimed he would be famous
and one day everyone would know his name
during one of our regular lights-out conversations
whilst he was secretly taping over
an arguement with an ex that went too far
that i'd video'd for banter
but got too alcohol fuelled after an overplaying
of an irritating magic roundabout ringtone
i still see his tag on the walk up to ben's road
called himself satanico a goth in pink ben sherman
and if it wasn't for him then i never would have heard of
at the drive in or got into cradle of filth or drum n'bass
he took me to my first rave in a sorting office in kingston
that for some reason
had a huge advert for goldeneye N64 painted up on the wall
we saw mansun on their last tour twice
our favourite band at the time
(although their third album was somewhat underwhelming...
we forgave them for making our then-favourite album ever
- six, it's distinctly prog rock esque predecessor)
he would never forget an
obscure fact about an even more obscure band
like myself his brain overflowed with crazy trivia
we wrote gonzo journals and compared notes on
adventures we called 'fear & loathings'
and as my attorney he found my bag when i lost it in subversion
wearing pete scathe masks we ridiculed our whole scene
with Karlos Mandrake founding the HCE
which tongue firmly in cheek stood for the hardcore elite
our half hearted graffiti still adorns this city
some of which was copied by people we didn't even know
much to our astonishment at what we had created.
(the irony is we used to spray HCE on peoples houses
and i always wondered if i was a hypocrite
and would get annoyed if the same thing
happened to me but recently it has
and i can say with all honesty i didn't.)
i took the photo that later appeared in the news
with you giving a thumbs-up
sitting in the stocks on the isle of wight
in a digital hardcore t-shirt
on another carefully planned hiking day
on which ben left his fags at the station
and the unwrapped trip blew away off a cliff
from my first hovercraft ride ever
to watching arachnophobia with sascha
nothing went to plan at all as usual of course....
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your head on a stick.
02:19
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you're performing to an audience made up entirely
of myspace friend requests you denied and the
baying bloodhound crowd begin to lob warm bottles of urine
at your hand covered and eyebrow clenched face.
it's all volcanic erosion for the impediment induction speech
a chloroform and clingfilm compound..... of?
half moored cuticles and social degradation
so you return home milk moustached
to spill black coffee into your TV's all important innards
still wearing the childsized sunglasses indoors
like an unlucky umbrella
you found on top of a mouldering unit
in your unlamented ex-kitchen...
or two catherine wheels on a tit job...
stop trying to be so symmetrical -
it'll never happen so just get over it.
if you're proud of your town you should litter more
thereby decreasing the unemployment figure.
i'm laughing at people laughing at jokes i don't get
which sums up the average reaction to my music.
it's like trying to guess the words with missing letters on teletext
- whatever next?
wave the aerial round your head and pray for a better reception?
whilst the seagulls bob round the seafront
like they're dangling from strings?
hairline fractures on your teacup kind of reminds me of my skull.
i was dropped on my head as a child, does it notice?
i've stopped trying to be somebody i'm clearly not
"we spit on three drains so you don't have to"
the last few months have overstepped my budget somewhat
"supply and demand is actually a ball and chain'
raise the price i have no choice to pay
raise the price the price again
"we are all failed scientists
too lazy to prove our own arguements"
we all like to act like we're all conissours of everything
and i for one really don't have an opinion.
we all like to act like we're all conissours of everything
"we are all failed scientists
too lazy to test our own theorums"
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the P
the Y
the E
the W
the A
the C
the K to the E double T
he no longer has fleas.
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8. |
(self titled)
05:13
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when i realised that i had been bluescreened on
and the backdrop fell away
the cameramen rolled away
leaving an empty set
and the black edge
around my vision flickered
like an image in the wind....
what i thought at first was a leech
once held up to the swampglow
it's proboscis a dripping syringe
my skin stings
why don't you just bite off your tastebuds
& tongue down yourselves?
insects in the city seem slightly more sluggish
yet more intelligent than their countryside counterparts...
not cryptic enough?
mishaps en route to impulse buying of bayonet bulbs:
a can of butane up my sleeve explodes
from the absorbed heat in my black coat
and i bled in the cul-de-sac back road
profusely....
i walked in wet cement in battered trainers hardly waterproof
and now my toes achilles heels are stuck fast in my shoes
and i can't wrench them off or even move my feet at all
it's solidifying round my broken blisters
like a cylinder of sherbert in which
the liquorice is like the sword in the stone
or something.
but when you're so desperate for munch
you'd eat mouldy bread and cat food sandwiches
and shopping trolleys with the padlocks hanging off
these are the things pompey front gardens are made of...
(and a good liar keeps his stories neatly consistent)
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