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1_Empty Tarmac
03:35
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EMPTY TARMAC
The boy stands in fields struck barren
Watching crane necked at the passing aeroplanes
Questioning destinations
And the small lives that are contained
In those thin skinned cigars that cross his face
With fleeting shadows
Lighter than the dark
That wraps muslin fists
Around his barely beating heart
Oh to cross that tarmac
If he even knew it’s name
And mount stairs that tap out freedom
From this dirt patch that enslaves
Escape this senseless fiefdom
And the ever dangling grave
Headstone spells his name
Coffin’s velvet lining contains
His barely beating heart
The boy lays in bed in darkness
Listening for the boards that creak his name
Questioning when and why he became the target
Of that thin faced man that mother calls in passion
When she thinks that he sleeps
Though little does she know
That same man only has
Darkened eyes for
His fearfully beating heart
his barely beating heart
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ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE
Just running with the kids when it struck him
Vessel burst and he dropped to the ground
His little girl cried out daddy when she saw him laid out
No chance for a last breath, not even a sigh
One minute he’s laughing
Next second feeding worms
She’s alone now
It’s been years since momma left town
From sunshine to the storm clouds of state care
Future prewritten on a rape’s length of broom
Spitting hate for all that abandoned her
The knife fit her hand
He shouldn’t have touched what can’t be owned
Shaped by a fate she could have never foreseen
From innocence lost to the blood
Splashed up her arms and on her face
Her focus as honed as the blade
That will cut her in to infamy
The books they wrote
The theories surmised
They’ll never know her name
They’ll never understand
That the body count Is the tally of misdeeds
Put upon her
Scrawled on corpses
Left on byways
She’ll never be found
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3_Family First
03:56
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FAMILY FIRST
You look sad business man
Is this the flight / that will take you
Back home to your faceless wife
To your two worthless children
To the house you’ll never own
Are those thoughts flickering again
The ones that run blood red
That drip with simple resolution
How better to wipe away the
Mundane stain that is your life’s
Decisions
Than with copper soaked baptismal rags
Boxes upon boxes, ticked and stacked and lived in
Bland cardboard taste tainting your / ulcerated mouth
Tension caused the breakout
Oh how your gums weep
Yet your eyes stay dry
What better way to clean up
Evidence of a mundane life
Than to brush away the mess with
Clotted scalps taken from
What the world asked you to call
Your loved ones
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4. |
4_You Deserve Emptiness
04:42
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YOU DESERVE EMPTINESS
I crawl the darkness and smell the innocence that could be lost
So easily
You're an arm’s length from the shadows
In which I stand
I could take you
I could rape you
Torture and castrate you
Or I could let you live to suffer
Your meaningless existence
And oh I will
I stalk the spaces between street lights
The emptiness below window panes
I see you gather close the chattels
That lead you to believe you are fulfilled
I am close
Or I could let you live to suffer
Your meaningless existence
And oh I will
Those bloody handed
Dried up like those homicide
Dream wet sheets
When I realised that life itself is death
Watching you breathe your last continual exhalation
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5. |
5_A Song For Dan McKay
02:47
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A Song For Dan McKay
Sirens woke me screaming
From another gore drenched potential reality
Family scattered across
That dry lake bed
To be found by any passerby
Subconscious caught red
That lake that never was
Across from the house
No cause to slaughter
That mother
That father
That daughter
That son
Yet my fictional hands are creased with their blood
Like that friend under that Epping garden bed
Face turned to a ruptured pulp
Naked corpse dumped
Behind that car unceremonious
The guilt, the waking questions of
What have you done
Or dreamt
I didn't see that friend for months
I didn't even know he lived in Epping
Until the day I confessed
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6. |
6_The Teacher
03:51
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THE TEACHER
I dreamt of death this evening past
But of death for whom
My taste has no distinctive stripes
Leaving trails like logging roads
To point the searching bronze toward my delectations
They search for the many to explain
The rise in pulp stocks around these
Plantation locked towns
Grim unnatural rows run deep with secrets
As if their needle beds are spring melt
Washing DNA and ligatures
Out to seas uncharted
If those sailors were detectives
They would still never find
The connections
Between that child's uric acid lungs
teen found lynched back in those devil trees
Rural isolation leads to doors unlocked
Those forests of safety are no buffer
From new education
In the field of disappearance
Unwanted
Of torture so desolate
Trust in me
I am enigma
I am the teacher
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7_Death Becomes Them
04:21
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Death Becomes Them
It is only in the silent fields of death that one may find true solitude
Pacing gently the crumbled bricks
That traipse between these grey fallen monuments
To strangers long consumed back in to their composite parts
Taste deeply the sorrow on your dry tongue
Drink from vases filled with rain and wilted blooms
Lingering back behind the services to no one known
Oh that dirt is so soft when at first the spade turns
And what's a little graveyard under the nails
When heaven is as deep as the average man
The pliant softness of smooth skin embalmed
Lust lined sepulchre moistened with seed
Boudoir is spelt mausoleum now
As adipocere creates such waxed delights
Skin slipped gloves are lovers anew
As the doors to god open daily in this earth consecrated
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8. |
8_Vultures
03:27
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VULTURES
(adapted from the short story by Jackson Freud)
Jason photographs the dead
Scanner crackles like a starter's gun
To race the cops, the sirens and gawkers
Aperture set to bleak dismay
The suicide
Murder
Car broken corpses strewn on broken roads
Developed and hung on cork
On the kitchen wall
This is sick she says
And leaves him
To his dead friends
His joyful silence unshattered
A grey morning captures a faceless man
Pins the polaroid to the board
He studies it for
Minutes, hours, days
As the lump he's discovered
Grows unchecked, untreated
He prays the next vulture
Captures his good side
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9. |
9_Duke Street
03:39
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DUKE STREET
The old man stands behind
A grimy pane of opaque bars
And his son still holds the keys
Wishing his feeble palsied waves
Translated to please help me
And his son still holds the keys
That frame nailed shut to keep him
From telling the world of secrets
And his son still holds the keys
Bled and dissected and placed so gentle
In this house of atrocities
And his son still holds the keys
And his son holds the key
And his son held the scalpel
That excised his larynx
Yet his son won’t add him to
His freezer of keepsakes
His revenge is this confined misery
And his son still holds the key
The old man screams silently
As his hunger grows and grows
And his son still holds the key
In this house filled with frozen meat
Choice cuts locked in deep freeze
And his son’s thrown away the key
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10. |
10_The Boy
04:06
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THE BOY
The boy stares down that locked gate
Having trudged the dirt
That stretches miles back like
His innocence was by that thin faced man
Empty tarmac a black finish line
To a race punctuated by torture
Called by creaking boards
No more will he supplicate himself
Now the simple choice of left or right
Will take him from that homestead
Isolated from law by a deep moat of tall grain
Dragging left
To avoid the lack of rights in his short life
He walks, he walks, he walks
Under stars that glimmer then fade slow to brass
Though it will tear his mother down
He’s been torn apart inside and out
And what sweeter revenge than
Hiding the spider
Under the rocks in a yard with stone walls
Higher than skies
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