I rarely preface these, but here I am, doing just that. If anyone out there wants to make this a real song, please connect via the contact form here or reach out on Blueksky (@yeshes.online). ASCAP Registration #: 929282710 Mobility is your inherent right!!!! Is this Nazi Germany?!?!?! Must my papers be in sight?!?! Their jack-boots slapping They walk down our streets Their hatred stamping Our rights beneath… Seeking out the different Getting more vociferant Prison complex so clinquant Always wanting what you got Rights actively they supplant Will you comply? I know I just can’t. Attacking the ideals that […]
Track Title: Trans-Union Manifesto
ASCAP Registration #: 928982668 Lyric: You’re the ones who voted in a crookShouldn’t be surprised ya gettin tookYou’re the ones who voted in a rapistNow ya wanna get all up in ya escapistYou’re the ones who voted out of hateSee how you did it to yaself? Too late!!(Open your eyes, don’t refuse to look!!!)Tried to tell you leopards don’t change spotsYou just wanted to hate and fire shotsNow sluggishly move federal courtsSlower still congress, legislative cohortsCorporate lobby funding their campaignsAll conflict of interest, national shameWorkers now dodge the Doge, The un-elected, slimy gamboge;Suits filed against this coup’s excisionMay a certain, […]
Pure Seed: Resilience
zero is not a number but one is. infinity lives between -1, 0, and 1. movement is the reaction regenerative. universal reality is a mesh of fractal fabric. we are a part, never apart. act. breathe. dance. live. move. we walk a path into the stars; as for long and long told by ancients; our only work is to assure the future. snarled in recursion, we must again adapt. it is already happening, the abrasion, it is already happening, the abjuration, this butterfly tsunami on the hill; placid, vacuous smiles, ‘oh, so pretty’. get thee to the library, the local […]
Lingua Bingua Suckma Thingma
Heraclitus and Epictetus are my two, favorite, dusty, dead Greek dudes (I like many more, but these two are personal canon favorites). Both were known for their ‘odd’ language use and I choose to believe were of similar perspective, if not neurotype, as me. My man, Heraclitus, had a grip on my concept of paradox as the ultimate herald of any existent, Manifest Truth. Standford’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy as of Dec. 2023 sums it thus: “The exact interpretation of these doctrines is controversial, as is the inference often drawn from this theory that in the world as Heraclitus conceives it […]
Track title: Takers
The weight of the world ain’t always divine,Keep my head held up, won’t let it decline.My chin may droop, but my spirit stays fine,Heart rising above, leaves worries behind. Life can be a weight, pressing on the chest,Must say it out straight, sometimes get depressedWish I could go home, right back to the nestBut I never had that option to rest It may look selfish but it’s just the truthIt ain’t help if it drains away your youth When you’re all alone in this universeYou learn to be strong though it makes you curseLean on the wrong one and it […]
street corner maitri
I love you, you stranger on a street corner you of frazzled face and polished shoes with your vente latte and your impatience the world on a string, incessant tugging halos and horns and wing-tip shoes seersucker smoothness and a wall street journal keeping up appearances because you never knew the joneses but the jones for being what appearance implies is such delicious and elusive prey I loved you before I knew you all six years old and careful observer not sure why tailored suits and shiny shoes “meant something” but it must be important because it kept daddy too […]
Vajracitta
My path has ever rolled like an avalanche along; in precious, raw, rough parallels, our movements met and, for a moment, harmonized. A moment’s harmony is not a song, but the moment of harmony creates possibility in all who experience it. My wobbling trajectory, with all its graceless noise, was steadied, albeit a transient state, only fleetingly. I wanted to find the loop, the regenerative feedback, and sought it with panicked, shaky hands. I did not understand that my own trembling shifts created the disharmony. I did not understand that what I saw as devotion and loyalty could be seen […]
Ah, bow dee chee tah
I want to sacrifice myself spread-eagle on a mountaintop; flesh-freed and soul-lifted, flit into the trees, the sky I ponder immortal impossibilities content myself with the 2nd law never dying, shifting forms, a return to the place before I was born The pun of the vas defer ens: halls of the fathers, I smile; life is rarely solemn, too busy bubbling for egress, release The vast differences of life diversity in which rests strength; a lesson that sapient, mammal apes seem oddly loathe to embrace By thinking, too inured to think; in thinking, too short of sight; myopic multitudes, among […]
Swift, the sunrise
Karmic waves, rippling,not yet fully resolved;I feel the weight, tugging.“White shores, and beyond,a far green countryunder a swift sunrise.”It doesn’t sound so bad,for all it feels soin this moment; but thatis not love, only loss,a muttering ego meandering,a maudlin tale of melancholy,a momentary mantra.