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Syzygy

by Eighpse

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Not the Point of No Return 04:59
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Verse 1: Bubbling sands, mainframes braingames, refrains Elliptical limits to our inimical gimmick trains 日常のどさくさに So as not to get got 圧倒されないように、 by Everyday wind-and-grind, 制御予防対策として you may refer to 下記の概要に the following Guide to 参考にしろ Oppression Prevention Measures: まず First –– カラフルな靴下を The colorful socks 履きましょう。 must be properly rocked. 次 Next –– 「仁義なき戦い」と Graffiti: 落書きで書きましょう。Battles without Honor and Glory Stay skinny but gritty WORRRRRD to Giacometti Scrappy & crafty vigilante Keeping it heavypetty&sweaty–– Man, we’re ready for confetti–– But steady as Heaven with a machete だから虹の向こうに消えても so even when the serpents 死の谷の蛇　　は、 of the valley of death disappear beyond rainbows, 『ねじ　まき　鳥　クロニクル』が Yeah, though The Wind-up Bird Chronicle 灰まで焼かれても、 blazes to ash, 請求書で化けて they return, disguised as 焼け跡に蠢き出るだろう receipts slithering out 理念からかなり of the charred ruins–– 離れたぞ far-flung from IDEALS 困惑の絶壁 @bewildermint’s precipice 婚活の潔癖症 ^fastidious Spouse-Hunting お〜い、ジェンダー無し男、Oi〜Gender.less Males 無政党の無政府主義者 party.less anarchlings 無名な　鯨　　 [on] anonymous whales 宝石無しの指輪 [in] jewel.less rings 麦茶はいかが？ Care for some wheat tea? 喉乾いたんやろう Certainly you’re thirsty? 使い古された陳腐な論説が hackneyed hypotheses 遠のく蜃気楼 fade to distant mirage から、桜　・　花火 from that: sakura ・ hanabi Mountains of mist These are the pivotal myths That like command me to exist [Chorus of Immoral Relativists] If you return from the point Of no return, then it Was probably not the Point of no return I guess, ignorance is bliss But insolence is a bitch Impotence is a brick Pitched in a limitless abyss Where Smith becomes スミス(SUMISU) Verse 2 available in the book Syzygy (Awai Books, 2020; Jordan A. Y. Smith)
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Naked Angels Didn't Descend 05:26
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Gospelflash: …The prophecy predicts there will come a day when our geographical nomenclature will be made manifest. This is the story of what happened when that day arrived in Los Angeles, California. God’s architecture always works with the bricks we’ve built. And He always sends emissaries in forms the locals will instinctively worship… naked angels didn’t descend – they came crashing down, crushing traffic in the fashion district laughing out hymns chortling out poems brass saxophone bones blown wild by the zephyrs networks overloaded fires—wires—lepers— delphinium wavelengths peace to twelve-steppers grease in a hot pan slices of chili peppers chefs left breathless streets sleek with asbestos tears of adoration flooding over the misfits ‘cause such fun when punishment comes from rebel mythics cryptic triptychs depicted the scene, silk screened dreams on denim in three screens: one – the angels’ wild tresses and shredded dresses two – wings melting away under the stresses three – God’s stern words burn infernos of discipline cold packs of lecithin Heaven blessing the medicine feminine level exceeding the circuitry of earthly gentlemen exploded into ephemera mediated on camera thank Allah for surgeons among the Los Angeles rabbles babbling mantras crashing the Playboy mansion bunnies bugging the smug plugging into the Charlie Manson foyer to parlor, a star in velvet smoking jacket Like: what’s up, doc? hair clean but unkempt face obscured by lingering smoke ribbons and mint, a chin here, eye there now the hint of a smile, bibliophile in the wreckage of carnal knowledge compiled (other verses available in the book, Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)
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Death So Pretty 04:46
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when the orgasmic blooming of lilies floods its pheromonal licking on my long-neglected flesh protecting thoughts enmeshed in sex, solid loyalty preventing all success in terms of venting a dirty thirst whose quenching leads to all these videos I’m renting dementing atavistic bliss with technological affliction sneaks these film techniques into the core of my addiction so the more my friction goes accompanied by acts of film it seems it’s harder for reality to penetrate this helmet a shell that, though attached to me, has grown there quite unnaturally (an adverb that of course excludes all natural catastrophes) disastrous inundations flooding suddenly down on an unsuspecting populous –METROPOLIS DROWNED– desperate pedestrians seek shelter in vain setting fire to their umbrellas to help evaporate the rain gods collaborate with maniacs mainly at risk from trying to lift. this. bliss and catch a herniated disc) switch the channel— zoom out— regain my breath’s steady elegance I can smell those lilies, and the rest is irrelevant then in a death more eloquent than a fireworks display I inhale deeply hold it explode and fade away… (other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)
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Poison the Lions 04:13
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[speak softly and carry a big ego anthem:] poison the lions just a bio-liability Lie to me, babe, don’t Mess with my fragility the senility I’ve managed to acquire at this age praying’s enough to fill Bibles with psalms of sage sayings carnivorous idols to Eros arrows in the quiver sniveling chicken livered villains quivered as they came hither until oral contagion of a raging neural river went through various catapults until the end result was equivalence rivulets of ambivalence slither in drops of sweat like rhinestones liquefied, So we dignified The grieving by leaving Their minds blown if I’ve flown twenty thousand leagues over the cuckoo’s nest to steal poison tip rooster claws from a clandestine voodoo fest It’s cause docs said no, That’s no answer, no option the Frodo of tetrodotoxins for the dodo of outfoxinG keep the oxen yoked keep the jokes at the brink eviction stinks but life’s a straight bitch when you’re extinct those who think it might be kinda dope to go deceased: go .creep. across the sleeping savannah to stammer your gossamer doubts into the .cold. .dead. .ears. of the .king. of the .beasts. (other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)
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Uglycide 03:50
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1. BeautyMan Declares War: Murder the Ugly They fuggin bug me— All pudgy and dumpy and beggin Me plz fuggme Fill jugs from the jugular Juggle the avuncular punks, perfunctory junk Pummeled with fuck knuckles Junkfaces, Disgraces of imperfection Fated to catch wreck with Secular introspection So there’s a speck in my 愛(eye) one more reason to dance I’m just trying to fry chicken With the dick in my pants Murder the ugly They fuggin bug me All pudgy and clumsy And mumbling “I’m Gumby, Dammit!” On my planet— That’s right, I got a planet— We got us some values No panic and no havoc Fact: Ugly causes mayhem, — Amen! — Layman’s terms: _If Uglies return, we straight slay them_ 計理部長の発言: [One more Ugly, we need drugs to hide Two more Ugly, the world is uglified One less Ugly, the world is purified A million less Ugly, we love the uglycide]
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Revolution of the Wolves 06:14
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As a little baby boy I was abandoned in the woods I struggled to determine who was evil or was good I was pre-Manichaean, dude— a nudist in the raw— when a wolf who was a Buddhist scooped me gently in her jaws talk about a diamond in the rough, all undeveloped I was protoplasm, spasming, in Heaven, still enveloped in a haze, and the amazing thing: she fed me power pellets and Scooby Snacks and taught me how to stay away from booby traps –But who’d he ask to help when it was time to change his diaper? I didn’t wear a diaper, I was training as a sniper With the vipers that inhabited The holes around our cave Learning death as a profession from the lessons that they gave A viper with the venom piercing leather, melting denim cuz when in Rome, homey I’m binomial as Leningrad and Petersburg, I’d feed the birds and when they started eating I’d pounce and kill the leader and the feeding turned to bleeding it was savage, but me needing me protein and me so greedy, she taught me how to dance and bring the rain to the Kapiti plain and my graffiti curled in funky types of letters I taught them to the wolves who thought me craftier and better than the average animal and when I came out with the wheel we began to gain dominion and to manufacture steel the factor was appeal to the violence of the wild harnessed by the brilliance of a wolf-raised human child... (other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)
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Clearly Not Merely a Blank Space 04:32
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It’s clearly not merely a blank space My dear, there’s no fear in a blank face Legible expression Indelible digressions Mostly postmodern With techno-retrogressions Let語of obsessions to Step in the mess of history 歴史の中心に historicocentrificity 付近の僻地 marred to lard margins 素敵な景色 my, but the vistas are splendid 激烈な儀式 extremism of the ritual 奇跡的なセックス miracles of the sexual のレシピ the recipes 販売されないよ will not be marketed 発明しないと some invention required 唯一な方法： singular method: 自ら考えよう extemporize ex nihilo 語義論と音素 ‘twixt semantics & phonemes の間の論争 let debates be waged 論争から戦 debates into skirmishes 戦から戦争 skirmishes into wars 神話が消え、 the myth vanished 親和性が見え、 affinity now brandished 辛辣な批評性が critical acidity 冷静に冷える cooled into serenity 言えぬ　呪い the unspeakable spell タブーの文壇 taboo’s salon homies 遺伝子は啀み合い the moment 始めた瞬間 genes mingled singled-out for celebrity wedded to prejudice no exodus from heredity Is it Elegy 陰 Ebony, Or Rhapsody 淫 Blue? half of 身 finds amnesty the other half of me’s「喩」 more halves 愛 have to excavate, harvest, and steal, replicate and detonate for marvelous appeal— for surreal, 日本民族の領土で In THE LAND OF THE JAPANESE 神隠しされて、 Sen-&-Chihiro’ed, @マックロクロスケ(makkurokurosuke) Spirited away 少女(SHOUJO) #AnimeLivesScatter Though I’m @マッシロシロスケ Fried in savage batter Cozy as ジブリ(GHIBLI) プロ(PRO)as a虫(MUSHI) Badass as ガイナックス(GAINAX) Cool as a 胡瓜(CUCUMBER) or 扇風機(ELECTRIC FAN) 空気(kuuki)を読めるの not only can I read だけでなく the air, I inhale the 空気(kuuki), Exhale a whirlwind to knock through Walls of bureaucratic Bricks while dickheads Can fit naught but arithmetic In their thick heads Sick beds filled with 舞unmoored attitudes Caucasianゴジラ, blasted flat on my ass, and, dude, lassitude grooves in these humid latitudes reducing my finest drivel to sniveling platitudes that’ll do for尚 time to work and repeat commute or retreat with the fishbowl elites wishbone in my 寿司 hope in my お好み outside but in the glow of my Drunk Poet(See God) homies (other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)
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Thing of Novelty 05:21
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Something novel just for Novelty’s sake Sacred as property for a Poverty State 新たな何かを novel somethings 生み出したくて I am yearning to birth 新たな誰かさん novel someones 初めまして： have greet them all first: .... 誰も分かるわけ no one stands chance どこにもない of understanding it, nowhere どっちも嫌いなわけ neither one detested どうして はない no whys in sight 特攻隊になる balding mid-life squardron ハゲ 叔父さんの会 destined for Special Forces 災害を起こさずに cannot keep their hand off いられないみたい faster disaster rudders 壊したいこと と some shit I yearn to break 消したい音、 some sounds I yearn to erase 歴史の失敗を trace historical defeat 平和の元に into the origin of peace どこにもないって言った expressed into a song 歌に尽くす said to float inside of nowhere 首吊るす鶴の noose around the crane’s neck 罪を許す its sin forgiven 呟かされても even when confession 懺悔の恵み is mumbled, begets blessing, 韻の 陰部 踏みながら treading rhyme’s genitals 津波組　 team tsunami 黒百合墨絵 black lily sumi-e 蕾を咲かす buds in blossom くるみ割り人形 nutcracker body の身を散らかす fractured, scattered, バラバラ事件(dismemberment murder) の パラパラダンス(parapara dance) Milano の ミイラ(mummy) Roma の ロマンス(romance) Morocco の ロココ(Rococo) Sicily の 獅子(lion dog) Barcelona の 女(mujer) Valencia の 騎士(caballero) 同時代ゲームで contemporaneity games 負けても平気 I lose, it’s still cool 定期の不景気 periodic economic slump 誕生日会　で　ケーキ birthday cake フォークを持ち上げ、 lift fork, 差し込んでみると take a stab, 金属　に　当たる strike metal, 聖書のデビルの bible devil 伝統の変貌 genesis metamorphosis を連想する鳩 its symbol is the dove 新たな何か novel something: 無人機の謎 drone enigma 新たな何かを novel somethings 生み出したくて dying to excavate 新たな誰かさん novel someones 初めまして： relations initiate: 新たな誰か novel someones 生み出したくて dying to excavate 新たな 革命： novel revolutions: 確定、落成 decided, consummated Something novel just for Novelty’s sake Sacred as property for a Poverty State .... (other verses available in the book Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith, from Awai Books 2020)

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from the book, Syzygy, by Jordan A. Y. Smith (Awai Books, 2020)

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released December 26, 2020

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Eighpse Tokyo, Japan

poet, performer, writer, translator, curator, creator, professor. author of Syzygy (2020). co-author Sea of Trees: Poetic Gateways to Aokigahara. co-author √IC: Redux. Editor-in-Chief of Tokyo Poetry Journal.

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