train of thought / masquerade

once upon a whisper not a shout
customizable bore and sacrificed fear
utterly bland like all the rest here
gotta check it out get it checked out
so anyway here's music for sore ears

derail, derail (to no avail)
let it slip, let it slip (just a little bit)
gotta run, gotta run (the dance is on)

when trains collide the safest place
back at the back not back on track
and just in case enchase this phrase
it sounds like martian ack ack ack
so anyway go back to outer space

such potential tap, tap, tap
(just a bit, just a bit)
give me prizes, clap, clap, clap
(let it slip, let it slip)

on stakes as high as are as dee
makes all things always out to be
like snails impaled once more curtailed
i ran and slipped again derailed
so anyway just a fairytale

(the obscure experience of being
so well-adjusted and -behaved
that no one ever ever everest
from the highest mountain to
the deepest deep is deeper
you got to love this language
definitely a keeper more like
half a dozen in a trenchcoat
also that rhyme's an odd one out
so anyway where was i)

(2023)

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