Look, smile

Look, smile Make sure this is the best you’ve ever been I’m immortalizing this moment, from one to ten

Close to the source So close, of course Want a taste or look Go see for yourself Not reachable by force

Someone broke my microwave Manufacturing scented candles Someone doesn’t know how to flame on They live alone, but never cooked Because they barely ate Interested only in feeding noses

Paid up, took it home Now I need a loan I just wanted to Be on my own

Of course you couldn’t help yourself. I understand, I empathize, to an extent. Until you hit that wall, darling, we were doing great. Why’d you have to go after my old man? Anger the dead and summon my ancestors, it’s a dumb move.

Send me my pictures in that dress You know the one, blue I stress And the white overflowing Ghost’s slumber party

Silly woman, you are Tried to capture me again? Take my light and shine on bright Harshest truth will kill that kite

Obligation Make sense Explain yourself To me, I’m dense

How does a broken-armed queen wave?

I leave you to your own devices With your own devices, big boy I go home to my own devices With my own devices, big girl Then I get the call, a bomb threat A white weapon threat, holy shit

Sightseeing Pyramids, timeless Telephone poles, wireless Communication towers, powerless

Cheating In a philosophy exam How do you want to think When you borrow the thinking From the thinker without blinking

I know what it’s like being stupid I was young too, once, now tepid Do not be fooled, I am not Cupid

My brother’s son has outrun his father’s place. His quiet gaze, hair under the sun. Protect him and let him have his fun.

Swore you didn’t love her, then why were you so attached? Let her be, set her free.

You can buy that book You could even try to read it Then you might know a thing or two

Recipe You know Who I am, stand Ovation round, and

You’ve changed a lot You used to laugh then At my hoopoes reference

I almost forgot I just remembered now I was relearning how to walk How to be human, how to sit and talk

How was I supposed to know? They weren’t there for me, no I only carried the flame then They can’t help themselves

Romanticize My darkened eyes Apologize Your cheapened pride

Human emotion Passing through Stolen concoction Through and through

I don’t think you understand the gravity of the situation. I cannot explain it for the life or death of me. A birthing and a death simultaneously, yes. But you remember neither, naturally. So, then, I was dropped into the middle of the map with no directions, no supplies and no weapons. I got some off of dead bodies, I had to. Don’t judge.

Is this now A nee gaze Show me now Flame’s ablaze

Taken care of You are, always Not a plaintiff Getting their ways

Premonitions Inward missions Introspections Quiet sections

Anyone can do it Paint a painting And a song, sing And a phone, ring Be a queen, no king

Dreams no catch Feels no watch Times no fetch Eggs no hatch

I watched those films alone Carried my headstone along Everywhere I went, it was wrong

No I know the language I think I understand it They’re all the same no? Something always gets jumbled up On its way to me

If I had to choose, redo Fell in love with my weakness, you All the hard luck and bleakness, do Allow it to sit a and breathe

Take me To the top Of the tent

Don’t stay sad too long Show up, see what life has to offer See where the Stork ends up after Dropping its load for safekeeping On your doorstep

I did it all before, all alone, in my own head. Inviting nobody, I was slaughtering dark forces left and right in my PJs.

They were illiterate, so I wrote. They were deaf, so I sang.

It’s not about who I think I am It’s about who I know myself to be Yes, that realization right there The conclusion you were so scared of

Share not Have a lot With a knot Up your spot

Moments Synchronize Data analyze Line up surprise

Go roam the earth looking for better and bigger Go and look up and down and see beyond ether Only one right answer to this equation you know

Open heart surgery In and out so easily I can lock it now, see Throw away the key, sea

Mind reader Thought breeder

Reflect everything but that, my dear mirror. You’ve gone too far this time. *