• Some spoken word stuff I came up with. I would like your opnion, please.
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So I've been thinking about hitting up an open mic with a few spoken word pieces I wrote. But before that, I was hoping for some C/C from you guys. I originally posted a few pieces in the creationism corner, but that thing moves slower than molasses these days, so I decided to try to put it in the GD (If this is a gross violation of the ToS, please move the topic. Mods are gods.) There's three pieces here, all influenced by the poet Rives, and rapper Aesop Rock. The three pieces are posted in chronological order. Please indicate which one(s) you read, liked, and what order you think they should go in. Thanks in advance. (currently awaiting an influx of boxes) [release]Build Me A Home:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ build me a home build me a home of brick and wood and everything good with a front porch swing and incredible things a view of the morning sunrise directly after cloudy nights and a wealth of good neighbors to carry me through to the morning light - alright Perhaps you could find I am living in a dream sugar coated and loaded up with the malicious and greiving but please allow me a moment to breathe i swear to god I have no god, but I didn't mean to spread the seeds I only meant to build a home - Build you a home I would build you a home that can't be overthrown Made of made of tempered steel, barbed wire and bone You don't have to see a soul again, not even the ones you want to let in So allow me a moment to spread myself thin, then grin, bleed, cry, fly watch me build a brick wall up to the sky Then you'll see why You'll cry for someone to build you a home a real home not this sorry excuse for a rag and bone broken in, ready to moan Find a lover, another drone, a worker bee so you won't have to find your own - way to get through the day, tattered, wishing your wounds could be on display maybe I can garner some sympathy from the all powerful right wing look what I've been through, what I've done and seen I've ingested the taste of prophets soldiers and childeren who sing Imagine the shock when they look back and scream "gluttony!" - You'll see And don't you ask "why hast thou forsake thee?" To the man in the corner, behind the curtain, or the people that seem affiliated with me You know how it went, maybe it was clearer when you slept, but when you stood you asked "do I dare disturb the universe?" and you would break the time and space in half while people die, sit back and laugh "why has god forsaken man?" they scream stuck in a dream, reprimaded for eternity just because they might succumb to the human condition, worn and ready for a new rendition of their plan be it in a church home or prison you look down and decree it will not be forgiven and while time and space could rip apart, given the division might live within a beat of the human heart - You break free. - No longer there to closely monitor your antfarm, your ants get scared "to whom now do we pray before we sleep?" then an insect stands nearly overwhelmed by the weight of command, extremities tingling as he rises on the sands he speaks his gospel of god and man, saying "we were always alone, Or did you not see the pane of glass?" - So we build a home. [/release] [release]Storytelling:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hey it's me again And I'm here to tell a story. About a family I once believed was close But loooking back was really just as fragmented and fucked up as it is now. See, there was a time when i was like 2, where I believed in the plutonic family Mom, dad, 2 kids and a white picket fence It's the best way to raise childeren, or so they say. Like go to junior high for your first school dance with sarah, the girl who nobody could imagine bore any ill will Pick her up on the back seat of a bike and put on that smug face while she gets hot over your new ride You get on the seat, and put her on the handlebars and ride away to the dance where you dance ...or slow dance. But either way, in the plutonic family, everyone had rhythm Or could restart a jukebox by knocking on it. At the malt shop Norman Rockwell studio In the middle america cockpit Skip To high school Junior year You just got that car you always wanted you know, the one with the loud motor To prove that you're a social guy, not just that one loner Speaking in one liners This time the sockhop roles around and you decide it's time to paint the town red or at least as red as you can paint it at 16 maybe you just want to have sex for the first time But who's judging you? Not I So you go off and paint the town, and have sex or whatever And for some reason, it's ok. Like you have a chance with this person You just added another member to your life dream and nobody makes you choose between romantic love and the platonic family Go steady Skip to adulthood and get a career the kids never hear about All that matters is the money's rolling in and you can get those kids in and out while mom stays home to watch the little ones and paint that fence white Alright Back to that two year old His dad suddenly found out he was gay, and that's not the problem He gave his son adversity and something to overcome But he left a family in ruin Financial ruin Which the mom took out on the little boy by constantly snapping and serial dating Serial dating skips to the substitute dad which mom claims won't be that bad Along with a couple men she claims follow the same fad But if we recall school, the sub never did as well as the teacher I guess we can call him a mistake not /the/ mistake Enter the mistake. A blonde little boy who test's the family's sense of give and take Luckily, he's accepted right away like the 50s sock hop prom date But god, the bonds of flesh and blood are strong And when the two heads took part in the mistake you could see how the first kid's heart would break He resents this life, and what's at stake Because he once thought he could save the world Though everyone asked him to put on the breaks This time we're in reality. Everything till post junior high was a fallacy it bothers me so will skip on to the prosperous things Let's move forward to high school Junior year again This time that young boy is starting to make friends Despite the fucked up home situation skewing his mental equation of balance between the mind and the phallus He finds a friend on which to cling Someone he loves And a sense of well-being and i don't mean to string you along but that boy we're talking about is moving on some family trouble still exists but soon it'll be gone because he'll run and he won't look back in quite some time Until he can save the world with a different rhyme Or at least find a moral concept he can redefine [/release] [release]Courtesy Of MrS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've had my share of white nights and disgraceful affairs, but my nights never ended with a day; as that golden sunshine ray of hope would turn into an ashen gray My mind swells and crests like an ocean wave those evening lights still play across my mind's eye like a projector projectin' projections of a straight-to-memory classic. It's fantastic Got the weaker minds turning spaztic with a burning yearning turning their heads while they shutter and gasp their last breath See, these memories pull with a force larger that "g" could ever be. And this may seem a bit selfish -- keepin' this whole damn thing for me, but there is another side to this equation. An x-axis rotation flippin' this industrail station to civilize a former nation And it's got me scared to the point of shakin Like we may never see the recreation of me to we. Still it pulls the same towards infinity; towards a place where E doesn't equal M C even with an extra 2; where all space and time exists between our finger tips And the cars and bars and wallets are straight to memory classics not because theyre reminiscent of the good old days and has beens but they make an impression like an iron oxide brewed between acids See, my memory is mainly made up of fallen leaves and ocean scenes and smoking weed and spreading seeds Of Bill Mahr style doubt from major motion picture zeitgeist trivia to the religious zealots at the door to door test for clout and whatever you do, keep the bad man out he doesn't believe in god our jesus he must be one of the meanest people to walk this earth Like I try to prevent women from giving birth Or by general definition, I'm most likely to commit a crime See, these people's minds are short and stout like nursery rhymes That bend our minds and try to distort our grasp of time Like we need another crusade in order to let god's hero be conveyed We don't need another hero, homie Gallop off on your my little one-trick pony Try to fill the void when your annoyed fill that pit in your stomach with your crony And don't try to win me over by trying to fix my pseudo depression with a riddle Sorry to offend, but sometimes life bends in the middle So now I Got a fulcrum where there used to be a pillar And now I got no 9 to 5 but still labor days flicker and now I gotta sit through an empty delusion drifter Trying to tell me I should accept christ to become that much richer see, I don't really feel your persona distortion ordered by martyrs who martyr self for martyr's sake I'd rather get back to the daily grind and test the balance of my balance And see what I can give to the give and take. So i can show you what's really at stake. [/release]
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