Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Queries about Escape


If escape was an option… how many people would line up in hopes of jettisoning their modalities and the beating of their days? If the new standard became the great getaway… then how exclusive would be the framework everybody left behind? How many people would like to slip into someone else’s lives and dreams and aspirations and broken chandeliers that they had left behind in chasing the way out?




Is it a restructuring of actual working modules that we need or a just a renovation of our minds? And if ignorance is bliss, is euphoria the abysmal dark depth of the unlearning? Who wants to regress into the unfolding of the codons and un-circling of cycles to a state of involution? You’d rather atrophy your vision then set sight on frontiers anew? Does it feed you the gustations so alien that you choke on the broadened horizons of your soul? Is familiarity your only last specter of home?

Where and when do you belong? And, pray tell, when will you let go?


There are answers you have unearthed for which no questions were posed to. There were many before us that probably led a more illuminated path of congruent peace and entropy. All of this amalgamates into one ying-yang of fashioned ideals. The obstacle courses created by her for her and by him for me, with a prize at the end, like the dangling of the unholiest of carrots. So feast on the nightmare that shines in your eye with every blink.



And when we find you still struggling to let go of your name; just know this: You have lived many other lives that spun from every misstep you thought you took and your parallels have taken up too much time and space in this alternate closet of vacuum. It is time to father the foster-child that you abandoned in the suburbs of your burgeoning psyche. It is time to dig deeper into the sky. It is time to make your bed. It is time to remember the reveries are indeed worth stopping for. Stop and sleep and dream a dream. Your circadians are aching from the rape.



Monday, November 07, 2011

Curfews & Clockworks

A para-revolutionized poem about the possible change that may befall.

Penned by: Adil Salik for an aural rendition in Late December (aka a hit song)
Curfews & Clockworks


Act 1

On the edge of waiting, at this precipice in time
the verdict will seep in the clockworks of your mind

The racing defiance you spent over me
collides with the fleeting in my brevity

Epilogue

The lights are all off; in hope of the storm
we’ve boarded up all the bad dreams

The restless will break the curfew at hand
to try to level this playing field
If the force of this moment bleeds into your heart:
the potion that renders every instance as gold
These are the troubled and these are themselves the saviors
and that is a secret that’s never been told

Act 2

You can ward off the yearning, wheel away the guilt
but the nagging will eat at the warmth of your soul

The policing of wisdom through the display of force
can never evade all the trapdoors and black holes

Epilogue

The lights are all off; in hope of the storm
we’ve boarded up all the bad dreams

The restless will break the curfew at hand
to try to level this playing field

If the force of this moment bleeds into your heart:
the potion that renders every instance as gold
These are the troubled and these are themselves the saviors
and that is a secret that’s never been told

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Stolen guitar amps & marked subway spots...


Things keeping the boat afloat of late:


~ Stealing guitar amps. (will it work?? the burning question remains... watch this space)


^ Marking exact spots on the subway so the train drops you off next to the stairs/exit.
! Falling asleep in the train 5 minutes before the last stop.


{ Rediscovering Josh Ritter's excellent record Animal Years.


` Helping ishay/meeshu crack the back of the boards.
/ Revelling in Anais Mitchell's record Hymns for the Exiled.


^ Paraphrasing reveries.



` Waiting for the PJ Twenty 1080p rip.
~ Rejuvenating the Dye Corduroy Sound-Cloud page   and this very blog.



` Stocking up on the FLAC's - lossless music is the way to go.  If you're nice, I'd let you borrow some...


Meh.

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Catching Flies - the poem pt. 2



The giving of new names to things much too old
is like a rhythm that’s beating in a marching bands wake
every disembarked dream leaves a mark on the soul
like a tattoo that’s pressed too hard right where it aches

And in the meantime
and in this mean world

All of this abandoned belief is now catching flies
all of these ghost of future past are running wild

Like the waves endlessly crashing on the edge of my town
there’s a silhouette of a welcome sign that’s been torn down
there’s a think tank that runs over all of my thoughts
bleeding the last drop of hope from my sky

(c) Adil Salik