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The Book of Maccabees

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

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now it's time I clock in to start rhyming,

signing my own arrest warrent and realizing

I'm the man with the power, the weirdo of the hour

gonna make them normies cower til they start to sing

my songs in the shower, and it still ain't enough cus they

there for the cadence, there for the flow, there for the ancient

references to Socrates and Plato, mind designed like it were

Play-Doh, salty to the taste and sticky soft to the touch tone,

once you get the message you can put down the cell phone,

once you get the image you can take the time to Google upload,

before you implode on social media with a broadcast nervous breakdown,

there for the masses to take in as entertainment right now,

watch the world fall apart in real time, or listen to me narrate it for you

through my prose poet hip-hop proverb riddle rhymes,

I'm the walking talking aphorism, pithy truths shine thru my lyricism,

intertextual forever in my observable empiricism pointing out that this

given system ain't a given, just a secular religion in praise of competition

as essential virtue with a touch of torqued ambition, every time the market busts

and comes back in a rush to boom it's like their Holy Christ has arisen,

over and over and over again (x2)

merry go round on a marriage gone mellow,

sittin' with a group of estranged spouses trying to teach em to play cello

in some adult classroom workshop, some adults classlessly dancing as the beat drops

and the rhymes sop up what's left on the verbal platter,

doesn't matter without matter, need this herbal habit just to mute my inner chatter,

tripping me up with thoughts tellin' me to feel happy, bouncing back they make me sadder,

but if I could keep a chipper smile like the other chaps and call it happy apathy,

trapping me inside the beat, revolting as I read the book of Maccabees

sifting thru the loose analogies, and here I find my favored fantasy

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from Can't Wait 4 The 80's To Be Over Again, released January 26, 2019

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Cosmic poetry in infinite motion until we realize there is no end, after which he keeps on rhyming
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