Timed Pieces

12.31.15 from 7.11 - 7pm (written in 19 minutes) === WORD BANK(suggested by David based off a song on Pandora --Drake channel) ==== schizophrenic a thousand times lights on trick-or-treat i’m just fine ~~~ Uncle Richard my mother’s uncle was schizophrenic like, legit schizophrenic he lived in a puke-pink condo, though the paint was probably called ‘flamingo’ or ‘sunrise’ or some other shit-ass unkept promise he’d said a thousand times to me as we looked up at the stars, they’re coming to get me kiddo when he was staying with me and mom and dad and would sleep with the lights on, if he slept at all -- he only drank coffee and smoked, mostly and i was young impressionable, sharp but dumb (this is before he blew his brains out in that pinky shit-ass condo overlooking the Indian River Lagoon where he lived with his fucking ferrets ...who knows what happened to the ferrets?) and it may have been around the time kids came around saying ‘trick-or-treat’ or maybe not (the astrophysicists now say time may be more malleable, less linear like a rubberband, expanding and contracting like the universe is breathing) and for all the fuck i know maybe that was his wormhole that bullet hole through his brain his connection to that other place maybe they did come and get him either way, i’m still here but i’m just fine i’m just fine really, i’m just fine _______________________________________ 10 min (finished by 8pm, started 7.50) WORD BANK useless amazing fortified ready superb ====== fuck all to the useless word list drifters like ‘problematic’ and ‘amazing’ grifters like ‘superb’ and ‘subversive’ let’s all agree here, now to be ready for the second coming the one before the coming before the getting fortified like iron in the pit of an insatiable heart _________________________ 01.05.16 7.52 - 8 pm (8 min) ====WORD BANK++++ -brief -sonic -kingdom -champion -bear mask ==== So what of this brief parlor trick you balanced low, me closer to the fulcrum and a straight line happens like magic a parallel line up in our polar sonic youth but don’t you just want me to be don’t you just want me to be your’re seafoam Annabel Lee in the kingdom by the sea? and you the champion, the man in the bear mask behind a desk shrouded in the totems of an artist _________________________ WORD BANK -aflame -curiosity -backroads -moonlight -ninja === time frame 17 minutes 10.03pm - 10.20pm ==== i’ve always been taken by a good tour guide (present company excluded) my heart aflame with the promises of a new city a history that is not mine but feels as though it makes me, i was born into its curiosity and you are mine now riding these backroads like the ones in upstate new york where the amish live, weave baskets in the moonlight and find themseives some kind of unexpected ninja of God