ir-reversal film

I fear
my aperture

is in millimeters,

not microns-

it causes more exposure

than I want,

so I shutter away

to a darkroom

to process.

See things in a safelight.

But now,

all of my colors

are complements

to the chef d’état-

an abhorrent borealis

of pestilent pigments,

from acrodynia
to jaundice

to cyanosis

to gangrene.

It’s all too garish.

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The Strains and Effects

This is not a test,

nor should a test right now be undergone.

Nothing’s wrong.

Keep calm

and carry on.

This is not a test,

nor would a test tell you that something’s wrong-

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video of the song: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UzTacxmTDfFCqSko7

A Cog Monologue

By my makers I was told

No, you didn’t break the mold

You know it’s best to fit in

Our world works as designed

Your purpose won’t stay hidden

You’ll find your place in time

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“It takes a village

to raise a child,”

and Uncle said no child

is left behind,

but Uncle doesn’t speak Kiswahili,

so maybe

he didn’t leave a village behind

for the children.

Les bobos, boujee kids

of the bourgeoisie

play Jacques A Dit,

but Jacques told me

to follow the beat

of La Coumbite,

to

let the song

of the rake

and the hands

of the throng

break the soil

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Currently recurring themes:

a current of concurring memes

converging on emerging seams,

conversely adverse to our dreams.

It’s asbestos, as best as we know.

It’s asbestos, asbestos, we know.

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My True North

Tried to be a rebel without a cause

Turned out to be a clown without applause

I might be too generic

For a world that's so barbaric

Too full of myself and all of this vichyssoise

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