06-30-2013, 02:53 AM | #21 |
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Perfect, sounds good. I was also looking into smashwords.com, pretty easy to use and it puts it up on amazon, Barnes and noble, iBooks, etc. But we can figure all that out after you're done designing it.
@dead man @TopicalDood5 @Seyance Make sure you guys get get some stuff to us soon. Ideally I'd like to have this done by October (if not sooner). At least in time to advertise it when people are in the holiday buying mood. |
06-30-2013, 09:55 PM | #22 |
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A Stitch in Time
At this point the ancient terminus is rusted and worn Where conductors have ushered hundreds of bustling hordes Running, feet stomping like thunderous storms, people hustle aboard So packed you couldn't bring another speck of dust on the tour But there's nothing - just you and yourself at Station One & the sky's sallow glow as shadows grow beneath the fading sun Your face is numb, & your mind, you're powerless to control Focused on the billowing smoke and the towering commodes It's souring your soul, you've only heard stories and seen relatives That return, and seem as they've been treated with dream desiccants You breath, negligent to the bells and the large light approaching The silhouette on horizon reminds you how hard life is becoming The desolate silence is numbing, you retreat deeper in thought Uncontrollably sink into a dreamscape until your hopelessly lost This is the place, you remember it, it's perpetual excellence Only this time this place is even more dressed up in decadence So special, the scent of it, the smiling faces and shining sun You'll see every single tooth before the time is done The vibrant sun, the arctic chill, whichever you recall is stronger You take a seat to stay, stay just a little while longer Denial conjures strange illusions, the clocks have frozen in place You'll stay forever in this apartment or this rosy estate Worries floating away, and one last time a toast to freedom Your senses dull and then you laugh as if you're s'posed to need em Perfect hues in glowing sequence, in a dress she flips her hair It was always your favorite color, that sexy, golden mare Over there, the perfect place - you'll bring it with you 'till your dead And then a bell, and then a whistle, and SMASH you've hit your head Dizzy and jolted back to the present, a disasters presented In passive aggressive.... Daydreaming, forgetting you've hopped in your cab That's bringing you somewhere impossibly fast You glance at the window - totally unseemly and strange Did you miss your stop? While you were daydreaming away? Blacktop Dreams Trace the concrete vein of the mausoleum To the womb of the city in a stage of ovulation Where the pavement's often sacred - past the steel titans Past the art school martyr until you reach where real life is Where you feel lifeless - and the struggle's plainly contagious A thousand hearts anchored in a graveyard for slave ships Men emblazoned with a makeshift mark of the beast That runs through their blood and makes it harder to leave Hard to charter their dreams, so they resign them to fate And sit through crackling static and try to find an escape.. Blazing trails in his throwback - today he's Clyde The Glide Envisions the court but his soul's trapped in a survival guide So he tries to hide from a looming fate shooting HORSE at baskets So he puts on two-two and his shoes: worn and tattered Then the dormant magic comes out and he can hear the sounds The gray tombstone backdrop eclipsed by a cheering crowd That's nearing loud as an imaginary Jordan drains a three He's gotta match - nervous, he bends his shaking knees Recreates the scene - of the duels of Ninety-Two Takes a bounce, looks down the line... and shoots A city studded with cardboard huts and commonplace vagabonds That speak to men in dialects like a modern day Babylon Lips spray erratic songs - the stanzas scripted on faces The lyrics bear down on their eyelids - intrinsically painted The Missal of vagrants - recited upon their bed of brick A dream becomes a specter and then tends to stick And mock their intended wish that's been forcefully twisted Into airport nightlights that define an aborted existence The source of the kismet is the curse of the dirty ventricles of the cast iron kingdom submerged in thirty canticles Of these deserted animals as they hum the same old song About a dark-clouded ceiling fan .. as the rain goes on H... .. Now his enemy fades away from the elbow he follows him up to a taunting chorus of "Hell No" Twilight brings us several scarecrow silhouettes Draped in smoke and dust - some billowed threats The reason for the pillow debt - heads stuffed with feathers Of the same birds that drink blood together.. That's why their cuffed and tethered to the bird cage Locked up by the zeitgeist that decided to turn page On this disturbed age - a road less traveled turns to a beaten path Trying not to succumb to a soul unraveled by the heated wrath Of the street, in fact - the playgrounds capsule felony Jump-rope with the noose to a shrapnel melody A lack of revery - they're hanging from their family tree Bloodz in the blood - can't fight what they're damned to be O Now the reverse lay-up, a staple of Maravich He tries to spin it in, but the crowd screams and laughs at him The urban wasteland's a labyrinth, and theres maps in syringes A Red X and a dotted line that can bring fact to existence When your trapped in a vision of dust and cadavers There's only one golden key to adjust the aperture And it lies in rusted catheters or a cold line of escape That gets locked in a vein as they're defying their fate But it silently scrapes at the walls of the heart And turns every empty skin sack to something falling apart That's the ominous start to the strung-out puppet addled century The city Zeitgeist goes from chaos to peace back to entropy It's the blackest destiny - actually, it's the one way to see the sun But most are back on the tarmac before freedom's won The bleeding lungs - the song's played on a broken organ Of a population choked up on smoke in hopeless portions R ..behind the backboard - almost impossible, but Jordan does it Clyde's nervous, in a hole.. but he thinks the score is nothing And this city is virtually an enormous castle Surrounded by many denizens torn and scattered Forced to battle for the scraps of the red meat From the window of the tower that falls upon dead feet The poor are sore and their breath's weak - packed in a moat Of muck and mire - where the sires casually row In boats that actually floats - unlike the alien dreaming Bread crumb surplus brings these rats to extraneous breeding They're scraping the ceiling - in a low riser east of the castle Harvesting destiny so it's simply just feed for the cattle A road most frequently travel - paved with public housing & food stamps & the upper class's disgust resounding What's astounding is the tightened intrinsic manacles That define empty pockets as a whole different animal S! Now the simple foul shot - he's gotta make it to survive Or he'll face the fate that he hates to recognize.. He lets the ball fly through the air in the thick of certain misery Like the arc of his shot could change the curve of history . . It's spinning downward - a ray of hope - a magic reverie? But as the ball floats downward, he turns his back to destiny . . He hears neither a CLANG! nor a SWOOSH! .... So he doesn't stick up his chin nor hold his head Just walks back into the city with an open end. Last edited by Soulstice; 06-30-2013 at 09:59 PM. |
07-01-2013, 06:51 PM | #23 |
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First time I read blacktop dreams, soul, that was epic.
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07-01-2013, 11:14 PM | #24 |
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dope idea. I think if u use apple or amazon and shit blows up niggas will steal ur shit real quick like
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@Seyance no need to make it a pdf, you can export straight to ePub from indesign.
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i want destradamus to get on this cause he's my boy and probably my favourite writer. I'll get in touch with him.
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07-03-2013, 03:54 PM | #30 |
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@Seyance sounds good, get him here.
@Storyteller post some links to three pieces that you consider your best and we can determine. |
07-03-2013, 03:56 PM | #31 |
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07-03-2013, 04:13 PM | #32 |
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i can personally vouch that Storyteller fucking sucks. do with that what you will.
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07-03-2013, 04:26 PM | #33 |
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Was never asking for a voucher o any sort statin good or great... Simply just opening conversation to collab no intention of any sort towards myrmidons just strictly collating. Wanna be one of the best then surround yourself with such company ... Easy
@oXus you must be English
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@Storyteller this isn't a thread for collabs unfortunately.
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07-04-2013, 01:58 PM | #35 |
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@dead man get on this! You too @Seyance, we're waiting on you guys! And @TopicalDood5 feel free to add another couple of verses.
I've thoroughly enjoyed reading what I've seen this far, I'm excited for the project. Is there anyone else we would be down to include? IE sacrifice, 3pa, vulgar, English? Those were the names that came to mind for me. Lmk |
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I will add some more shit. adding others would be cool, whos english? remind me
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07-07-2013, 02:10 PM | #38 |
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you know eng bro
ephemera or w/e.. ingles.. british dude on RB who wrote really non-traditional poetic-ish shit. never joined SS or anything
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......pt 2
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oats man im scouring the archives as we speak.. i will periodically be putting work up for editing / review
what are you thinking of contributing verse-wise?
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