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Fuck Naming it
05:49
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Bounds on predicted paths of aerosols like kissing streams
Abuts an orphaned regimen and folderol but busted seams
Brazen advertisements flash outside to nobody in particular
Hallucinated funerals in luxury yogathleisure
Hey, you're rinsing off the day with yesterday
Hey a sigil on it's way this may dismay
Bounds on predicted paths of personnel a rasping breath
A patchwork pantomime of our capacity and gross excess
Constrain the sequelae to no avail and last until
Ambulances, helicopters then the glasses clink filled
Hey, you're rinsing off the day with yesterday
Hey a sigil on it's way dismay dismay
Bounds on predicted paths of emperors like residues
Abuts an orphaned sheaf of complex miracles but the bills come due
A permanent contracted state and hopelessness oh that's the grift
You must now report to the consent factory, time for your shift
Hey, you're rinsing off the day with yesterday
Hey a sigil on it's way this may dismay
Bounds on predicted paths of mental health, unwell unbound
Multiplying fractions together in our masks, unsafe unsound
Hey, you're rinsing off the day with yesterday
Hey a sigil on it's way dismay dismay
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Cally or Beru?
03:50
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Hard for me to ask pertinent questions
Hard for me to organize ideas sequentially
Hard for me to lose my patience, in fact
Hard for me to articulate why I like things
Grid imposed, damn won't do
Ground laddder star canopic jar
Hard for me to consume the opinions
of someone so fucked in the head
Just keep scrolling, scrolling, put it away in my pocket
Hard to maintain a repository of unfinished ideas
Jump of the page and hide under the pillow
These piles of rags to love and cherish
Hard for me to explain what's holding me back
Grid imposed, damn won't do
Ground laddder star canopic jar
Hard for me to accept specific criticism
Hard for me to journal about my day
Extremely hard for me to tell a lie
Hard for me to cease body-focused repetitive behaviors
Grid imposed, damn won't do
Ground laddder star canopic jar
Hard for me to explain my political orientation
Hard for me to describe scenes of import from my life
For instance, when I moved to Albany
My first apartment was behind the 20 Mall
Western ave and New Karner road
That first winter I went up the Northway
To meet up with a friend from Delaware
In a mobile home in Halfmoon
I bought some weed
My friend told me
My girlfriend at the time was cheating on me
And had a pregnancy scare
But didn't tell me
I was pretty tilted
But I told her I would take her back
If she quit smoking cigarettes
I was a real stupid piece of shit back then
And maybe certain things just resolve themselves
Hard for me to know if I'm getting any better
These piles of rags to love and cherish
Hard for me to explain what's holding me back
Grid imposed, damn won't do
Ground laddder star canopic jar
Osiris teaching Bayes' theorem to toddlers
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3. |
Can't Evaluate
03:16
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On every surface
There is a message
In every message
There is a context
Beside the context
There is a motive
Atop the motive
It's a battle
Is it mine to win?
Oh, it's gonna look good for me
But I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it at all
On every surface
Is a reflection
In every reflection
There is a point source
Just outside the point source
The flux is analytic
In my analysis
It's a battle
Is it mine to win?
Oh, it's gonna look good for me
But I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it
I can't evaluate it at all
It's not a number
It's not a time
It's not a value
It's not a feeling
It's not anything
It's not anything
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4. |
Metta Meditation
07:14
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Settle into a comfortable position
Begin by taking a breath with awareness
Being present for the full duration
Of the in breath and out breath
Notice the breath
Rest your awareness
Where the breath is most present
And if your mind wanders
Without judgment, return yourself to the breath
Now allow your awareness
To move to your heart center
As best you can
Try to find a memory of a strong sense of loving-kindess
Either from someone or toward someone
Not to find the perfect image or experience
Or be concerned if you conjure many
But to recreate tender feelings
Of prior experiences of loving-kindness
As best you can
And allow these feelings to grow in your heart center
And now in your mind's eye
Bring into focus
An image of someone you care about
A person you already have
Existing warm feelings towards
Or feel love for
Or have a sense of positive connection
It doesn't have to be a perfect relationship
Or one without conflict
The idea is to find an image
Feeling sense of someone you know
That you already have warm feelings for
And as best you can
Hold the image of this person in your heart center
And from the feeling of loving-kindness
In the center of your chest
Extend warm wishes to this person you care about
And repeat to yourself silently
May they be at ease
May they be content with their life
May they be joyful
May they feel safe and secure
May they be at ease
May they be content with their life
May they feel joyful
May they be safe and secure
And extending warm wishes of loving-kindness
To this person that you care about
Held from the very center
Of the source of loving-kindness
In your own heart
Allow the image of this person you care about
To gently dissolve from your mind's eye
Resting your attention back
To your heart center
The well of loving-kindess
In your body
And now bring to mind an image
Of a person you don't really know
Maybe on the street or on TV
But don't feel any connection with
One way or another
And again as best you can
From your own heart
Extending warm wishes of loving-kindness
Towards this person you hardly know about
Emanating from your heart center
And saying silently to yourself
May this person be at ease
May this person be content with their life
May this person be joyful
May this person feel safe and secure
And again
May they be at ease
May they be content with their life
May they be joyful
May they feel safe and secure
And again
May they be at ease
May they be content with their life
May they be joyful
May they feel safe and secure
And now
With warm loving care
Turn your attention now
Back to the sensations of
Your breath in your heart center
Allowing the image of this person to fade
This person that you hardly know
Release
In this moment
With your feelings of warmth and kindness
Knowing that you can carry these feelings
Throughout your day
Warmth and kindness
Knowing that you can always find
Your heart center
When needed
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5. |
Second Adolescence
04:16
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Get to the banya, to the banya
Ask attendant for the venik
Let him hit you, have a moment
Take a cold bath and egress
This swell is my second adolescence
This shell when the newer ink is dry
Cracked open and emergent is the essence
Twice as old and about two thirds as shy
Adjust the focus with the thumbscrews
Watch the feature enter viewport
Supernova supervision
Superstructure imprecision
Hadamard gate phase transition
Watch eutectic boil over
Understanding undertaking
Underlying facade breaking
Trues and falses on the lattice
Apparatus getting sober
This swell is my second adolescence
This spell that my sisters bless the sky
A skull for our sphere and its projection
A domain for our function to apply
Be your own womb, be your own womb
You're the teacher, you're the student
Transcendental transformation
Transitory transportation
Order razors, epilator
Drink a seltzer charge devices
Same dimension same abstention
Same corruption same eruption
Higher calling dreams I'm falling
At your service feeling nervous
This swell is my second adolescence
This shell when the newer ink is dry
Cracked open and emergent is the essence
Twice as old and about two thirds as shy
This swell is my second adolescence
This spell that my sisters bless the sky
A skull for our sphere and its projection
A domain for our function to apply
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6. |
Wages Against Housework
03:40
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Until the oscillations cease
The oscillations must increase
The characteristics of the tail
The usual descriptors fail
The opportunities arise
And distributions can comprise reality disguised
The hand over your head protects you
Until it doesn't no more
The operator's self-adjoint
For whom the cruelty's the point
Observe the diagram commute
A topos honest and astute
Abyssal force field consul cult
Enclosure's past and end result
Encroaching void priesthood exult
Colimit Christ consult
The hand over your head protects you
Until it doesn't no more
Wages against housework it's too late
To save us wretched souls from fate
Collecting ash from forest floor
Of state space fire must explore
Do pushups to train your physique
Do pushouts satisfy mystique?
A clarity of purpose speak
Kaleidoscope technique
The hand over his head protects
The hand over his head protects
The hand over his head protects him
Until it doesn't no more
The hand over his head protects him
Until it doesn't no more
The hand over his head protects
A circle of protection hex
The arm recedes and infests
The hand over his head protects him
Until it doesn't no more
The arm recedes and infests
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