There's no such thing as police
Just men with uniforms, badges and guns
But metaphysics won't release you from a parking ticket
And a wicket's just wood but it means the world if you flick it over
I used to play red rover
Hiding up a tree so they couldn't reach me
I called it winning; they called it cheating
Success is fleeting
But so is failure. Australia loves it's own mythology
A rainbow serpent choking on a noble democracy
I used to play tiddlywinks
Threw out my union jacks and started counting cards
Shuffled the West Pack and contributed to the Common Wealth
A toast to your Heath; the numbers aren't real
But goddamn this bed feels good after sleeping on a wooden floor.
Not done yet folks, here's some more;
So, why did the chicken cross the road?
Well it was a symbolic gesture an exercise of free speech, opposed to the treatments of displaced metaphors, similes with their necks cut wide open, he
Took a burning flag and tried
To get. To the other. Side.
Haha! Rimshot please!
Heart beats like a drum with my own internal drummer.
I pull him out every time I need to make a (chssss) cymbalic gesture.
I hide from my demonic jester
Hearing the jingling in the garden
Cats eyes and bladed teeth
A thief in the night stealing sleeping screams
Maybe I'm a butterfly with elaborate dreams
But I've been dodging barstools since primary school
I was a brain in a vat before solipsism was cool, I could
Fool myself into entering my own narrative structures
Deconstructing the floorboards revealing the broadswords
Because phaedus's knife wasn't big enough
To cut my illusions into the wall
In comes night fall so I light up a torch
With a match I borrow off Rene Margarette
And it burns to a close revealing bare bones, blood and meat.
And there's no such thing.
Read it twice.
I like it. It has a "should be recited in front of a microphone in a smoky room" feel to it.
Quote from: Disco Pickle on August 30, 2011, 01:37:51 PM
Read it twice.
I like it. It has a "should be recited in front of a microphone in a smoky room" feel to it.
Thanks DP. I wrote it with slam poetry in mind, so it's cool that yo get the same vibe.
I dig it! You should record that shit.
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Thanks :D
I'm going to do a vocal of it soonish, when I'm not pooped out from work.
If you can record it and upload, that would be awesomesauce...
I made you a drum loop. You don't have to use it. And if you want, I can adjust its speed.
http://kiwi6.com/file/mb6j51b719
aw shit, I'm impressed. and i've become entirely disillusioned with poetry/spoken word. but this... this is good. 8)
Recorded with apple voice memos on iPod. Uploaded as mp4 and converted to mp3 though zamzar. Won't upload to last.fm though because it says it's mono instead of sterio.
Audiospags, halp!
I've been using http://kiwi6.com/ for temporary mp3 hosting
I can't check it because of computer fail but this should be the uploaded file. A first attempt at any stage.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on September 07, 2011, 02:37:58 PM
I can't check it because of computer fail but this should be the uploaded file. A first attempt at any stage.
:?
Should there be a link there?
Wow. That would be dingofail. Will edit that shit when I'm on a computer again.