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Shift (Manifesto)
05:12
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Placation vacate(18) years after not being here
Knots so taut to reek rot(ought) to seek shelter from
Hell firing circuits obscure trust to feral dust
Wiser words have been spoke(n) - kin of eggs yolk
Inferred from untracea(ble) (bal)loon breasted fables of
Mires purged dubious lingerings in jovial dirge
Damnation placate these spears skewering sayings of seers
Sharper spurs have been broken by motionless gestures
Perplexed in two engines conjectures
If memory serves mutilation for those holding serfs
Undulation patience phages
Silence stains and stones in stages
Slates for dissolution range in
Acclimated gyral plains
Inferred from intuitions razor
Suchness could not yield such favors
Fingers crossed and pupils waver
(Ver)acity for too few trails
Change is so reined in rain so is change is so reined in rain so is…
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Hanging by a thread
It was always like this
Only now that they've gone
Nothing left but to hide it
Words fall apart when I speak
Not that anyone listens
Thoughts like clouds waiting for
Sunny days or thunder
Standing there on your solid principles
I'll dangle round' til someone cuts me down
All alone watching the water flow
I would drown if I could just let go
By and by I'd hoped
To harden my insides
Then I'd leave you alone
To build yourself a real home
But the sea showed me that I am weak
I'll close my eyes to all that I'm seeing
All alone watching the water flow
I would drown if I could just let go
I would follow
Looking down
At the water
Far away
I could hold on
Give and take
Wash away
Hanging on
I'm only
Hanging on
Moon shining a shimmering light
Stars Above
I'm sleeping in
Rest a while
My reflection shining on all the waves
How does it matter?
Letting my soul fall into the water
Bearing the weight of
Wanting your love all for my own greedy heart
How does it matter?
Lavender sky in the morning after
Into the greater
Bottomlessness already found, 'ready found
How did it happen?
How does the sun rise above the mountain?
How does it matter?
Wanting your love all for my own greedy heart
All of the beauty
Blaze of the light once it's seen through the dark
Coming up through me
All the pieces fall apart, fall apart
Oh my heart
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Heartbreak Champion
04:22
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Drip Drown
05:42
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The space between
Exodus and Odyssey set me free
‘Cause my mind’s under siege
Gotta lead all these ‘thus so’s’ and ‘fuck no’s’
Through asymptotic tides and undertows
No parting seas
Odyssey and Exodus a moment of consciousness
And when you really feel the heat
Can you move the ground beneath your feet?
Can you catch the punch-line of an amplified pantomime
With one ear to your chest
One to the junior-high grapevine?
Give it time
Drip drown, drip drown…
Acknowledgement
An organ harvest for the common sense
Astonishment
An ontological accomplishment
It’s what we feel underneath the last onion peel
Little spoon to the tomb where wounds and boons bicker ‘bout who’s real
Omniscient vision blurred
Acceleration swerving through this learning curve
A monument
To platitudes exchanged in confidence
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Tethered to time tacet terminal
Intellect’s teething toy that takes its toll
Spinning round the shell that houses thee
Door to what will always never be
Empty steady begets plentiful
Heavy shedding all the joy it stole
(Falcon storm or song?)
Matter-factly from trembling hands
(None yet may be wrong)
From fractured fingers the flowing sands
Pressure on your eyes the colors glow
(In the eye that sees)
Hues of stars – with their structures bestowed
(Not its seeing thus can it be)
Mundanities ever mysterious
(Multitudinous mirrors for that tower’s seed)
Fertile beacons of radical trust
Exhumed rudimentary reverie
Found beneath thee
Disconnected dots all dreaming
Dreadful certainties weaving
Fragments from familiar motion
Refuge in what comes undone
Understated secrets seeping
Out from lapses in between
Pulses’ pregnant poignancy
Extending far beyond the yous and mes
Goallessness oh humblest glory
Blissfull nauseous tumbling
Fickle finitudes dividing
Deathlessness’ ever widening
Windows spinning sky betrays
Becoming’s cunning masquerade
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Matthew Daher Detroit, Michigan
Detroit-based artist Matthew Daher’s creative work is an exploration of mental health, empathy, spirituality and masculinity. His practice is informed by 17 years of experimentation in ambient, electroacoustic, jazz, hip-hop, and folk music, meditation practice, and creative movement practices. ... more
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