Cut It Out Ty

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Do I Have To Explain Everything To You

[the Cut It Out Ty series]

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This Week's Autobiographical Komic Kartoon Klub

[leisureland]

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Everything Is Random

This was supposed to be the career-making breakout year
but the hurdles multiplied and the rebels revolted

They said ‘do what you know’ but that turned out to be
so tired, boring, and mostly just already done already

Being comfortable in my very own skin is
most likely much more work than ever it was leisure

Loyalty is all I ever had to offer but
I did not make the rules, oh wait, I did make all of the rules

Nothing can ever go back to the way it was
Time is a runaway non-stop flight on a one-way street forward

Like vague figures in the fog or a Doppler-shifted subwoofer
is desire, moral order, and the certainty of any future

We create(d) the literal under the figurative as an improper fraction
The shapes and the sounds are all wholly manufactured

The world has been ‘going to hell’ since hell was invented such that
all potential and possibility and ideals are temporary and replaceable

Unless we cut to chases and shear the protective layers
science and magic and hope and faith are all the same prison

Consider It Your Debt Repaid

This Week's Autobiographical Komic Kartoon Klub

[leisureland]

Mr. Buzzy: The Magical Kazoo I Play ($1.00)

I Play The Kazoo

I play the kazoo in the marching band // check me out when you come out to the parade grounds to watch me play some buzzy tunes in step with all my peoples.

I play the kazoo for the heroes of the past and the champions for the future // we see through all the knots and avoid all the attractive whirlpools as one.

I play the kazoo and drink all the tea and eat all the almonds and stop at all the stop signs and pay all the taxes // despite all the critiques and the snark I am still a believer.

I play the kazoo for justice, fairness, equality, the children, the blacks, the women, my friends and family, and this dying planet // everything I’ve done and everything I do is for all of you.

I play the kazoo because I really want to play the kazoo because I’ve always played the kazoo and because I will continue to play the kazoo because I am the player of the kazoo.