Good Grieving

At the drop of a hat
There was running
This way and that
Common knowledge open season
Fleeing screaming demon species
Succumb to a downright dreadful reeling

On this staggering eve of an evening
Only natural
Weaving the truth with truth
A sight to see
White wash in the see
Even Stack Lee won't be dead
Or seen thieving
Incorrigible heathens'
Spun out on good grieving
Call it a whim
Hardware and mags to ceiling

It's so crude & slick
Like an ocean on fire
Where bad folks die
In a napalm briar
Blood on our hands
A flooding reprisal
Flame tornadoes tall as the Eiffel
For the end times
Dressed to the 9's
In denial
Alone with his bride
Romeo with with an empty vile

Alone amidst a legion of unknowns
400,000 Call this home
City of hands and masks
Do not ask
Working lines at full mast &
If one tires let it be known
There's fire plenty for the coal
Designed in California
Could've warned ya
Nets won't keep bodies from the ground
Make no mistake about it
I'm holding shares
In iniquity and all that's wrong
I'd talk with you about it
Fiercely
If not consumed
With what's beaming from my palm

Nirvana seems a long shot
At least
12 steps away
You know i'm hitching
On Casey train Mama
Back slider's way
People are strange
When you're in Danger
We all got a part to sing
I like your heart
You love my tag and share
In a dearly departed
Kindred sense of belonging

Put the pedal to the steel
Some halfwit somewhere has the wheel
It sure feels
Like an Allstar cast
Childhood nightmares all reveal
Into a forest fire
How could anyone
Alone discern a truth
In hopes I'll breathe
And feel at ease to know
That your lungs wont...

Karma karma karma chameleon
Think an ancient apparatchik on some new deal let's be real
Gdp fettish
Prader Willi ain't free
Fucking with carbon kinks
Lines off the sink

Locus out of control
Sach up material gold
Nary a chance to slow the warming
Lest we slow our roll

Murder great ideas
Rentier marketing gain
Native lore vestiges
Pipes on the plane
Manufacturing wars
Acid rain
To the hilt with no shame
Laughing all the way to the

Possédée par la rage
Faux prophètes confondent
Plaidoyers ignorés
Gonflé sur un trône
Soif de pouvoir
Au prix notre monde
Trust there's a devil inside
Every single one

Maladie de la peur
Sickness in the dome
Convoitise agonie
So far from home
Ours to embrace
Mushroom Cloud from space
Even still
Willing and open
Overflowing abundance

Dance in the face of annihilation
IT's our right
Just to breath and feel
Even still
Must be joy
Even now
Flooding stern to the bow
Wonder & grace
For the sailing and stories

with ...

Armageddon inbound
Making out underground
With a perfect stranger on the CTA

So long
We have ambled
Through wastelands
Grievous Angels
We scream
Off the promontory

Tooting... shooting it up
Smoking rock
Filling cups
Anything to get off these streets
Swarming with hearses
Merciless
Streets without mercy

A war torn song
Dick and Ron
From beyond
Sing a dirge for the neoconvict
Leasing and purses
Clintons and curses
Contras and hearses no...
Death ain't the worst of it friend

Solitary indefinitely
In the DOC
Death
Is not the worst
Solitary indefinitely
In the DOC
No death
Is not the worst

Every Day is a gambit
You get what you get
Silhouette of a hawk
Or strings marionette
Souls perish in straits
Unequivocally dire
No fortune or future
Bones for a scryer
Displaced encampments
Still hope and desire
Such is the case
For all diaspora
Beg us to live and
Vibrate a little higher

Lay your fear
Into the fire
Feel it come
Feel it go
Peel the laminate from being
Thoughts that cling

Cut rate bargains
For your soul

If the vying and deceit
Keep you from a halfway decent sleep
Be at peace my ladybird

and please know

That your lungs won't fail you

When you laugh
from all that crying in your eyes
Beauty comes to light
Beauty shines from all that's left

When you laugh
from all that crying in your eyes
Damage done so right
Beauty rise from all that's dead inside.