by Teklu Hogan
strange array engaged and playing with fire
do not waste that blood was
painstakingly acquired
abandoned life felt i fell into the sky woke
up i guess but now its just death
and i (k)new
beginnings start with endings
im looking at bad choices im
dreaming im breathing im speaking with
mad voices
and son they just trying
to sound smart pedantic semantics in
the dark
i aint said it raven said it
took it take it forget it re
create it and left
it set it free and i felt it
in sensed in a disconnect
interject mis translated and taken
as disrespect
knowing i bore this
holding stories sacred before us i
hand slapped with a phantom
went back to the rafters
(another)
lonely and yet though only
found myself mixed in with an onerous blend
somber and yet the longer it lasts
singing the song phenomenal in
ominous hymns
and things aint fair to me neither
too much change far too fast
the car gon crash in the front yard
dag
now the lawn all on blast
alarm go off im on
the 100 yard dash
(just another)
none of this sh*t is placebo theres acid on the walls
and fungus steeped in the teacups
(day one)
stopping stressing one of the hardest parts
of the processes
weve gotten lessons from broken
hearts and forgotten blessings
on long quests is distraught
dont ask the wrong
questions
all parts are smaller than the
overall complex is
(just another day)
poor prose behind
closed doors no more or
less sured up than shells found
on foreign shores
healing charms redeemed beating hearts legion
unseen in darkness speak of eaten art
(one of them)
vindictive viciousness kids
live with get it twisted and killed
it ate it delicious get
with this on the side of the road
beholden came to the same place with a mask
revolting broke the mold
and sold it brought the cash back
to the old ones they they stored it in the safe
to save it until
we on one
like when the earthquake hit
they said go to the bank
break it we gon make it
(a day like any other yeah one of them just another day that i feel smothered in)
tomorrow never comes tipped a cup full of sorrow
that he borrowed from his moms
laconic never wrong
walked (a)long haul with a tonic
full of rum
trip fall into a run kept
his legs moving til he stumble over nothing
and suddenly the world is flat cool but never
did nothing like hes f*cking boba fett
chronic sober never that
you could catch him red handed hell deny
it to the end
(one of them)
try it and your dead fry em all
up after he pry into your head
richard pryor on the strip
flying like a lion with his pride up in the whip
(just another day)
never left no traces read aloud a translation
from all zeroes is and aces
gawks all upon they faces left a small bomb
but they dont know where he placed it
(smothered)
and its all good no if you got
a problem you gon want to let it go
before it fester let it grow
wont to bottle up emotion turn
em intellectual
(in)
absolutely negligent mad time spent just
floating by irrelevant
f*ck out my face hell out my space
thirst for nothing dont even get
hungry no you cant touch me
me what of me
i am aware of it
you scared of it
stared at it too long blinded by
shear fearlessness
hear it is now
forever kid
whether or not your brave enough to embrace it
or sever it
no you cant get to me
i see to it you cant see through it
truly
scanning the skies chain smoking cyclic inhalation praying
brain strained open rhyme saying on exhalation i remain
focused to take omens
blaze forward or echo the past
seeing stars bleeding bars openly even
though i see we way far from where we posed to
be
traveling toward the days teach
colloquially
(just another day yeah one of them)