| Well, he collapsed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome on the E.R. floor,
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| panic attacked, anaphylactic and ataxic
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| The way he spun his butterfly risked all six his phalanges, Roman candles at
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| both ends in his synapses
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| And the method with which he recycled his humors Trojan Horse’d his blood-brain
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| barrier and raised the LD-50, yes, yes
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| And through flight-or-fight revelation shame, the Black Box Warrior,
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| he skipped this town and headed straight down history
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| Shields himself from reason in a Kevlar baby-blue Tuxedo quilted from the
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| finest fibers, flesh, and fiberglass, and flowers
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| His ego a mosquito, evil incarnate/good incognito
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| Pops placebos for libido, screaming «bless the torpedoes»
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking
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| down
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| Well, he was wearing stolen rubber shoes and wrapped a poison ivy noose around
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| his Lotus jugular when they came
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| Well they found him with a map to every victim of his love and a tattoo of a
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| blue jay on his face
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| And they waited for his vital signs to lie and let a flat line cry a hymn out
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| in Hungarian Harmonic
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| But he cocked his noggin, through his stoma sang «for Auld Lang Syne,
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| happy birthday to the succulents, I’ll die your hydroponics»
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| His rib cage was a hornet’s nest, palpitations set the beat
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| His vagus nerve a turk’s head knot, an axel hitch, a carrick bend
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| He wondered if Christ-Consciousness would charge a cancellation fee
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| Auf wiedersehn, au revoir, he gripped his wits right by their ends
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking
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| down
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| Hello, welcome. |
| Why don’t you take a seat? |
| Get comfortable, relax,
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| take a second if you need to. |
| Now what’s bothering you? |
| Well, why don’t we
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| start at the beginning?
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| Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals of conscious
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| existence? |
| Did you have xenon orchid sinews spilling down the outer center of
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| your blooming Escher/Mandelbrot head? |
| And how about claustrophilic tendrils
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| clapping caskets closed on seven-knuckle thumbs, did you get along well with
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| the Gideon Bugler pineal glands, your projector eyes casting sci-fi's on your
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| STR’d strands? |
| Tell me about your nerve to steal nerves of steel from under
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| Bacchus' bloody nose. |
| Did Namibian Himbas tie-dye you, your ears pierced with a
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| Phineas Gage flagpole, did you die before your day?
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| Thursday traction, Tuesday titration. |
| My hope is to assess through my objective
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| report of your subjective conjecture whether this proprietary bled of expertise
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| and seasoning works as well as this transorbital ice pick
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| Holistic ballistics, you got a better idea? |
| It’s about the best we could come
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| up with. |
| What, you think ideas spread because they’re good? |
| No, they spread
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| because people like them. |
| So here we are once again. |
| Holding, as it were,
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| a mirror up to your mirror
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| I guess it’s just something people do
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| A bloody knife to split your infrastructure, wine to rev your motor function,
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| coital machinations of the dead
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| Well you mainline your animus, karate chop your abacus and learn to be an
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| animal instead
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| But I never did think you better than this, your modus operandi causes
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| Nazi/Skoptzyism and suicide
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| Why to thine own self be try when it is you who are the problem,
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| not the things you do but something sick inside
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| Lithium and Dialectics, boy you really is defective
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| CBT don’t seem effective for that Cluster B, accept it Offer up your innocence,
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| please ignore the side effects
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| You’ve lost your mind and almost lost your life before, so you’ll be fine
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, there’s no more looking back
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| And why would you want to look back?
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| I mean, it’s no good looking back
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| So try to look forward, now
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, if they were gonna get you boy, they would have by now
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| For what? |
| For what?
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| For what it’s worth, there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking
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| down |