FloodMaster of Greasy Lake

By Mute Serenade

Elasticity-
Electric mind pulled apart
I'm surging
I'm falling
To eventually spring back up.

Twisting, I,
Look through the window
Half you, half me,
Depends how I focus
Touch fingertips
Through cold
Thin walls
I'm falling
To eventually spring back up.

Days seem like hours
Hours like years
But it's all so fast...
I am on the train
I am on the horse
Looking through windows
Or maybe just tinted bottles-
Either way you're skewed.

Beads on the ceiling
Everyone is pulling
Their chance at glory.
This carnival-
Everyone is so strung out
Holding to the drunkards
To eventually spring back up.

Sparkles of
Blues, greens, browns
Randomize,
Collage-
On fluorescent flashes
Vision skews through wet windows.

I have passed them,
But, to be a passerby, I
Have simply left them
To collect dust until it rains.

Like Las Vegas on paper
I thread the needles
Pretend to pull strings
I am the only one
Who catches the flicker.

Is this the indifference I'm searching for?
Or white labelled answers?
I'll give you my signature, sure
I'll laugh across the table at jokes that aren't funny.
I will, your honor, strive toward a better me-
"Complacency"...

Electricity-
I, the Typhoid Mary of the scene
Somewhere
I know
There's vibrance
Now, to remember where i left it.

I'm tearing through the wires
With a
Tick...
Tick...
(silence)
They all look the same
Colorblind

(I'm not really color blind)

Are these...
Dead wires?
Dead dreams?
I could get light from a damn potato
But you say
"Run for the defensive
Allow them to test you,
Sweet Christ,
Don't forget-
-Codewords-
-This is important-
-Remember-
Just Breathe."
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With much humbleness I award thee-
Floodmaster of Greasy Lake,
Cornelius,
Cantankerous nickelendiming kirk,
Infamous Motherfuckin' Captain of beautifully Fun persuasions,
My sometimes spurt of manically strange inspiration,
This is my poem to you.

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Copyright 2004 Mute Serenade
Published on Friday, March 19, 2004.     Filed under:
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  • carlosjackal On Sunday, September 17, 2017, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    Aaarrrrrgghhhhh! I need to upgrade next payday....This was one capt of a dazzler of a piece and I had great fun reading it. This was the perfect dedication to Kirk and I bet he both loved and felt humbled by such a magnificent tribute :)

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, September 17, 2017, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    Haha...Only just seen Kirk's comment below! He was indeed humbled and, yes, he is the fucking FloodMaster who put the damn in "damn straight" then sent it spiralling to oblivion! Totes amazeballs tribute spiral stream of consciousness.

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, September 17, 2017, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    This shall be back to bookmark this.

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, September 17, 2017, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    "I" not "This"...Dang!

  • carlosjackal On Sunday, April 1, 2018, carlosjackal (3011)By person wrote:

    At last, I've finally done what I said I would! It's mine! On reread, this is even better than the first few reads back in September last year. *raises a glass* TO THE CAPT! :)

  • Kinkypoptart On Saturday, April 16, 2005, Kinkypoptart (555)By person wrote:

    long... but good. ~*~Tart~*~

  • dropsofhate On Monday, January 17, 2005, dropsofhate (45)By person wrote:

    i like this a lot.

  • blue On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    :) ~B

  • sulkylime On Monday, April 19, 2004, sulkylime (191)By person wrote:

    heh.. so the capt is the floodmaster of greasy lake? well i'm the floorscratcher of sulky central :p

  • flying_fox On Thursday, March 25, 2004, flying_fox (573)By person wrote:

    Totally agree with you MS. *stands on table* Oh Captain my Captain! Great write for agreat man. Fox

  • capt_funguy On Saturday, March 20, 2004, capt_funguy (778)By person wrote:

    i'm a humbled understatement... i'm a deer with the head lice ... stream of oblivionation ... fuckin' wow ... floodmaster


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