Jessi Jeanne Reath - Timed Pieces [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

12.31.15
from 7.11 - 7pm (written in 19 minutes)

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WORD BANK(suggested by David based off a song on Pandora --Drake channel)
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schizophrenic
a thousand times
lights on
trick-or-treat
i’m just fine

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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

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10 min (finished by 8pm, started 7.50)

WORD BANK

useless
amazing
fortified
ready
superb

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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

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01.05.16

7.52 - 8 pm (8 min)

====WORD BANK++++
-brief
-sonic
-kingdom
-champion
-bear mask
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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

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WORD BANK

-aflame
-curiosity
-backroads
-moonlight
-ninja

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time frame 17 minutes
10.03pm - 10.20pm

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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