1. |
Good Tenant
02:33
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Transcendental trip-hop
Transient witch-bop
Experimental colonist
Disenchanted affect
I will be
Be a good tenant
No shortage of vibes
Looking for Berlin?
I think it’s somewhere in Brooklyn
*I will be
Be a good tenant
(A good tenant!)
I will be
Be a good tenant
A good tenant
So I’m about to go and play a show
And I’m looking for a street cart
Trying to throw up on stage
I’ll make it worth their while
Looking for a lover
Not looking for a gallerina
I’m a good tenant
And a really hard worker
*
Licking iced coffee
From the seat of a fixy
Foodie aggregation
(It’s a) workshare vacation
Single-malt mildew
Laundry soap microbrew
Exterminator speed date
Garbage chute exfoliate
GPS timeshare (good tenant!)
Pissing in the tupperware (a good tenant!)
Livesream broker’s fee (good tenant!)
App-based autonomy (universal tenant!)
Rustico culture? (so many tenants!)
But think of the exposure! (good tenant!)
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2. |
Scroll It Forward
03:24
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If you ever
Have a box grocery selection
Drone-delivered to your condo by surprise
If you ever feel tiny blockchain fingers
Softly keystroking your thighs
Can you hear
your personal-pan NGO donation
Hosting a one-time
membership flesh drive
Can you hear the global dot-gif recall
The call to abstraction,
Facial decal it all
*Scroll it forward
Don’t send it back
Scroll it Forward
If you ever
Face a different kind of circuit
Calling you in (not calling you out)
Through the digital divide
If you feel willing and stable
To wade through your family chat therapy
on cable
(Pay-per-view!)
They’re saying it’s a pyramid meme
Eternal herbalife essence
Swipe clean your guilt
Don’t try to hide
*
(Cha-cha now, y’all)
It’s a Mavis-Beacon-Teaches
Mentorship rodeo
It’s a straight-to-DVD-edition of
Cops Gone Wild
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3. |
Minimal Labor Jam
04:58
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4. |
Pig Is The Product
02:18
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It’s a self-help thing for cops and yuppies alike
The divined and entitled urban renewal guide
Tell me more!
Helping to improve
The delivery systems of pacification
Poetry and propaganda
In a perfect public and private hybridization
*The pig is the product and the pig is the shooter
In the shrine of commodity there’s no broken windows
The pig is the product and the pig is the killer
The pig is a player in the share economy (Tell me more!)
An artisan of poison with a radical autonomy
The pig is an animated protein growth
Unproductive calorie and killer with impunity
The pig is the product and executive producer
It’s a self-help thing
For cops and yuppies alike
Some of them rule with pedigree and some of them rule with might
At once the pusher and the product,
Well-versed in the divined and entitled urban renewal guide
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5. |
Tapeworm
02:56
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Poking out and poking around
Making a home without a sound
Unwinding and unfurling
Your incessant wiggle’s got me whirling
Oval in a circle
It’s your mouth from above
Flat fiend for my leftovers
That’s the body that I love
(I open my mouth and you jump inside)
You are inside me, my little friend
Slithering through me,
you end where I end
You’re such a good worm
Learn as you squirm
You eat what I eat
You’re my tapeworm
Body in a body, livin’ for free
Breakfast, lunch and dinner—
It’s an eating spree!
Hairs in a bunch and organs in a knot
Healthy flora, keep out the rot!
Microbe helter-skelter
In the jaws of love and shelter
Like a glove in a glove
That’s the body that I love
(A worm is great company!)
I am inside you, your little friend
Slithering through you,
I end where you end
I had to learn to be a worm
To yearn and squirm
I eat what you eat
I’m your tapeworm
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6. |
Follow Your Tears
02:11
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*Forget your love
Forget your fears
Forget your dreams
Follow your tears
Such a charm now,
working for a vision
No harm now,
Working on commission
Cultivated lifestyle
You want it, you buy it!
Affirmation NOW
Creative-class riot
Looking for a share
Optimistic, looking to keep all my hair
*
Alternative entrepreneurs,
Sometimes they think they’re strays
Hedging their civility,
Privilege always pays!
Turn on the lights, turn on the TV
Turn on the phone—
Can you see me?
*
”So, if ever you grow weary
of this lifelong hazing event
Called ‘career’
Remember the perks:”
Adult babysitting with a coat check
Installing a shower on the deck
Valedictorian of your creative class
Dreams of Marin County rain
On contemplative glass
Multitasking present tense
Infininitely renewable
Universal sentiments
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7. |
The Alien Codas
01:38
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I’ve got a friend and they’re just like me
Pissing in the wind and thinking they’re free
Beholden to love and too easy to trust
That’s just the thing with people like us
I think it’s high time that we figured it out
We do much better when we’re consistent
When possessed by belief we’re easier to trust
That’s just the thing with people like us
Life is an underground lottery organ transplant
You’ll do what you can, outsource what you can’t
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ATTENTION, ATTENTION, ATTENTION
Landlords, neighborhood tour guides, pigs,
Ye products!
Blockchain agents of Violence
ATTENTION
ATTENTION, ATTENTION
The void is open!
Here at the Marketplace of Ideas,
Only Death is possible.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
But what death it is!
Oh, the choice...
Such exquisite choice!
Everybody has an idea
Worthy of the Marketplace!
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9. |
Your Job
03:16
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You can see it appearing before you
Yes, it's your career
Voices in the timeclock cry to thee,
“You, one day—top-tier!”
Love at first sight right
From your standing desk
A shaft of light demanding you confess
An action of the mind
Is to take your time
From clocks and coin
let the heart unbind
Everyone a witness to
the love-labor industrial complex
Perfect experiment perfect hex
*Your job
Will ask you to forget how to love
Your job
Will ask you to forget yourself
Your Job
The Very Best Job will make
You and everyone you know
A cog and a shell
Shopping cart now empty
(Refill required!)
Refill itch
It’s a-creepin’
Eternal stasis
Oh, how you tempt me
Filling the void
Only as fast as it deepens
Cycle of pain and payment
The perfect cycle
The perfect experiment
without end or consequence
*
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10. |
Neighborhood Tour Guide
03:03
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Caravan open bar roving renovation
For convenience the trade is steep
Subject pays for their own re-education
Out beyond the content heap
Insights arrive stale or sour
In your room with affordable view
Count the winners by the hour
Keep countin and there’ll be room for you
Signalling white security
Exotic neighborhood tour guide
*Every living thing
Will one day lose touch with every other
The neighborhood tour guide
Will never learn to be a lover
A machine designed
To acquire and beckon
The curators and funders
For whom community’s a word to be uttered,
Something to exploit and re-discover
Know thyself know thy cultural investment
Value of your time, value of your place
Event planners, body-snatchers—
There’s evidence
Steal the headset off their face
Tenants of Earth seeking relief
Each one a sac of blood and teeth,
Waste, noise, water, and bone
Perfectly constructed for holding a phone
Self-help savior
Wild white fantasy
They’ve run amok
Non-contributing community
Out of luck
And fresh out of immunity
Their last chance to liquidate
And do something meaningful for society
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CH Rom New York, New York
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