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lyrics

Boiling the same water
over and over again;

mind wanders back
into the attention on
hopefully-hypochondria or
the not-yet-confirmed state of emergency.

Boiling the same water
over and over again;

Not-sure if-sick
not-sure if-wrong;
Things have been going wrong
without leaving the room, even.

Everything is a sign
a fallen lash is not a wish.

Playing the same sound
over and over again;

Playing the same moment
over and over again;

This shot from memory
causes some wonderful burning
in some parts of the skin.
It worked the first time
so repeat
repeat
until it’s exhausted
and the feeling is no longer felt.
So I can say
it is just not there
or it was never there
or you’re confused in your current state,
why don’t you take your time to figure it out
why don’t you diverge from going the same way with every option you’ve ever known

The playback of this image
ignores my own thought
my own hopefully-not-there
and my own worrisome.


I’ve read my writing
that I didn’t write for that
on that
and it is still all on this
I could read it all like that
and now it is the only way
to read it.


I’ve ruined my own thought
with whatever went wrong.
If it has gone wrong
I don’t know
who can tell;
who can tell the placebo won’t work
or,
the one who tells ruins the function.
And one can never cheat on themselves again;
which is great in a way that you
quit lying to yourself,
but lying to anyone brings only guilt
and hard feelings
and thick air.


There’s an elephant in the room these days
there’s an elephant in the room after this conversation
there’s an elephant in the room
after a strange feeling,
there is a lot
in this room
that I haven’t left,
yet things have gone wrong
in the meantime.

Is the wrongness driven by ignorance?
Can wrongness be induced at all,
or is it aligned in entropy,
stirring itself up as the chaos just has to happen?

One can ask questions
but not ask for things to happen
and for anything to go the preferred way.

One cannot ask for answers,
it’s just out of the realm
of the inquiry.



The cusp is the point between two pitfalls
but
quit blaming the moon on
yourself.
There is no edge to repetition.

A growing doubt-
can a thought grow,
is the pass-by image
a seed or delusive matter?

A beginning of the delusion,
moreover

start on over


Boiling the same water
over and over again /.../

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from The Drowse or the Age of Constant Fatigue, released June 19, 2019

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