V1 — Establishing Shot
ariel — is sheltering: back home
with her mum & dad — her, uncle, aunt
a couple cats — her
senior graduation has to wait
until corona pass
her, academic living folded, fasst
auntie yelled
supper’s ready: go & wash your hannds !
it’s a:
bowl of broth
dumplings
for the year of balderdash
her — uncle took a couple cans
of food: & mashed, it into bowls
for catss
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V2 — Ariel
ariel — views it, like — zoom out
we must believe this — timely — wrinkle — smoothes out
despite the moral compass moving
due south — ooh, child
add — to that — the office — oompa loompa
shoots his fool mouth
itchy
twitter finger: zingers sting ‘em:
then’he, pulls out ..
impacted by the — bloody — badges
quick to draw the — tools out
skin tone — is a trigger
the uniforms — will shoot out
the judge — is in, cahoots
adjudicated — cop is — ruled out
one-sided systematics —
perhaps, the final shot
asphyxiation, viral shot
fix the nation
time is up
this soup is hot
what you think about a — coup d’état,
uncle chuck ?
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V3 — Uncle Chuck
morosely — uncle, chuckled
the news he crumpled up
spooning — broth & — dumpling — up
said: ay ya, what a cluster fuck
some aware of, what is what
others: stuck — thunderstruck
bunked — inside — a — bunker
pushing — playing — tonka trucks ?
sheltered — nose to mobile
phones are — up & tucked
acting batty — localizing, echo talk !
up is down ?? — down is up ??
enough’s enough:
shit i used to think the sixties was the generation’s ‘buckle up’
flash — forward — thunder — flash — bangs ! — flung — under trucks
volatile —
flashpoints — when viewpoints — knuckle up
the juggernaut — of prejudice has run amok — it’s evident
it’s: thumbs down — then thumbs up — for knees down
necks crunched
blooded up — shit is backwards
that’s when the, thunder struck:
sparked a fiiire in the atmos, fear
versus monger, some jolted, woken
some bolted
to the open streets
the soul, it weeps
if only — we could
only see — the only path is ..
em path y — but we, only see — what we, only see ..
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V4 — Auntie Iris
auntie iris — said it’s
up to us — to be the — anti-virus
she said there’s systematic malware
implicit bias — lives — inside us
until we see the moldy seed of thought
it divides us ..
auntie iris — said it’s
up to us — to be the — anti-virus
she said there’s systematic malware
implicit bias — lives — inside us
until we see the moldy seed of thought
it divides us ..
she was like: who will we — deciiide to be ?
this: the age of moral — reckoning for human beings
to look — inside of thee —
telephoned it in so — idly
might now we’ve come to
age a higher being ?
let’s fly our mental kites —
untie the string
tiiime has come — to fire kings
the riot of rebellion — unwires rings
level out the dire hierarchy
ready, aim — let’s try to swing
beyond the air — lift & drag
ourselves — to — new, new — frontier
if only: E.T. — could land already — where they at, seti ?
roswell greys — could make — an earthly tiff — rather petty
breakthrough, listen — is the mission — get your — facts, ready —
the many bickers — over borders — bankrupt — last pennies
what’s a red & blue, thing ? —
really ain’t no view, thing
when it’s aliens & humans
homo sapiens — seem puny
we’re so tiny
acting toony, moody — self-centered lunatics
universe:
is a beluga — we’re just tuna fish
now: whose turrrn, is it — to do the dish ??
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03 JUL 2020 | Copyright © B. Yee
Lyrics from the album, APART_MENT, 2021, by Gene Wilderness