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A Reprise for 'Poor & All Unsavory'

from Can't Wait 4 The 80's To Be Over Again by Tread

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I can't live without the game, the rap game that I play,

the verse is like faucet, if it isn't flowing, then it must be dripping,

my life feels like I'm high on a whip-it and unzipping my beginnings

as to tie up all loose ends, new friends, a new family, and loose sands,

on a very wet beach with the Tao Te Ching preaching to no one in particular,

"this is what Lao Tzu says," presumably as he's chewing on a bamboo stem,

I'm not any tamer than zen with an x, but I'm cleaner than the Thames,

walking on dirty water til I cross that mare nostrum into Bethlehem,

can't begin until it's over and the rain evaporates my shame in the blinding light of a spring day,

when there's a negative assertion about working on the surface while rehearsing

all the wording I need straight and solid before I can weaponize it all for flirting,

circling my failures like a vulture posed as a savior of the culture,

burning out my rubber while straight choking on the sulfur (or the sulphites)

in my wine while I whine that I'm fine but the grind still grates me to brittle little

crime committer seeking acquital, and I'd like to say I'm centered but I think I'm only

stuck --- in the middle with you, bones, muscles and sinews, coming apart from the tissue

life's a story to be continued, in a grim mood, or a granular complacency,

I'm just swimming in the adjacent sea, the one that's rippling next to me

as I add a sign above the motel of my life that says, "sorry, there's no vacancy"

cus in desperation I chase my vocation refusing to capitulate to my basic vagrancy,

cus that's what all the people in my life with good jobs and mortgages preach that I need to succeed,

but indeed, I'm nothing, boner jam slam, forget my age, I'm twentysomething and I'm nudging

a curmudgeon to instill some optimism, or at least a sense of brahmanism while I drop all the lingo,

part of my abiding pioneer spirit must come cus I'm a quarter gringo, have you ever heard me sing tho?

if I put my songs on YouTube, I'd be joining a legion of Ed Sheerans, tis the season to watch re-runs

except I'm pouring over Chronicles of the Crusades, trying to learn each space in time

like I find sheet music in combing thru the decades, one by one, it's a campaign to capture the hills of the brain

with the flag of new knowledge, can't afford it but somehow I'm still in college, creating a collage of credit deficit,

student loan just the preface of a life full of debt death slavery, make me poor and all unsavory...

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from Can't Wait 4 The 80's To Be Over Again, released January 26, 2019
Instrumental: "Summer Nights" prod. by J Roes.

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