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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 26 - Open Topic
Drat! I wanted to produce a complete track for this song, but I only finished about a minute's worth before the deadline. Hey, at least that's a complete verse/chorus! (UPDATE: The track is up to 3 minutes now! Only one more section to go, then polishing...) Please check out the track here. I plan to update this link as I continue to progress ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 11: Week 25 - The Catbird's Seat
The despotic Florida sun was almost as cruel a welcome as Roy’s gambit:
“Why are you so cold?”
With a neck craning towards the unlucky blades of grass that bore the stain of the 30 yard line (such that the small lump of his chin sat feebly upon pillowy tiers of fat), yet with dispassionate eyes cast up, tucked just under the awning of a brow ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 11: Week 24 - "I'm the Usain Bolt of running away from my problems."
My intersection partner this week is the exceptional marlawentmad. Please read her wondrous entry first!
Young one,
they cast eyes
weighted with tackle
and hooks
upon you,
that they might lure
and catch you
with their lines.
They fed you
that story
of Icarus,
and oh,
did it sink you-
“Don’t fly
too close
to the sun,”
came their bait,
heavy
and gaudily clothed
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 23 - "If you haven't lived it, it won't come out of your horn."
My entry has been narrated by viagra, my intersection partner. Please listen along for the gravitas that his voice bestows on the piece. Don't forget to read and support his work!
Cornucopias
Never had a knee on my neck.
Guess I can still sing.
Never had someone to protect.
Guess I’ll do my thing.
Never scared to wear a hoodie.
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 22 - Write-off Open Topic
In us, the status
In this, the stasis-
the blithely unblemished birthmarks
that conduct rituals in our blind spots,
that weave their mourning hegemony
(their morning testimony
of our sorcery,
of our dereliction,
of our charming fallacies)
into heraldic necklaces-
each bead sewn onto fledgling, puffy breaths
that coil around our tongues
like lovers we never ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 11: Week 22 - Hiraeth
mixed
Come here.
Yes, right in the center.
Watch your step.
Don’t get snagged along the walls.
There. Do you feel that?
No?
Hm.
Oh, take off your flag.
Okay, how about now?
Not yet?
Your tongue-
scrub the language off of it.
No? Still nothing?
Well then, take off your skin.
Yeah, just take it off.
No, it’ll be fine.
I promise.
I promise!
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 21 - The Way Back
link to the song: https://photos.app.goo.gl/91XNxtt7sPJqdbETA
Take me way back
Gotta get back
Wanna go back
To when…
To when I was a storm cloud
Take me way back
Gotta get back
Can we go back
To life
Above the burial shroud
Back to times
Of a prime
That I never
Could have
Or see
Or touch
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 20 - Boondoggle
link to the song: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ek94BBbsutPkhh7w6
Priceless
A red giant lurks past the horizon
The red tape is all we’ve got our eyes on
The void makes all devoid;
What was, is not-won’t be.
This truth that we avoid:
expendability.
I bang the drums of the doldrums
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 19 - I Can't Get Calm
link to the song: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Fy9Ln1kr9mGJ8jtN7
Meditation Retreat
The empty soul can fly
So empty your pockets and soar
The wise know how to die
What good is this life for?
Oh, our little Dawn
Let us ask you a koan
Oh, our little Dawn
Let us help you go on
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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 18 - Blood Harmony
Note: If you're reading on your phone, please hold it horizontally.
Kauai ʻōʻō
my love! my
O, life!
my love! life!
my on
O ( Read more... )