so please
believe in me

when i say
smoke glass stained

bright image going
down down down down

… never did

give nothin

to the argent man. It’s harder to work out what doing it anyway should feel like now that the clouds are beginning to turn the hackneyed tide of bloody battle. I continue to drink the provided specific sugarpoison and it continues to try to do its job, which is to paralyze:
see para- + lyein “loosen, untie” (from PIE root *leu-, to loosen, divide,

Cut Apart). Can you still hear me babe?

*leu- forms all or part of: absolute; absolution; analysis; catalysis; dissolve; electrolyte; forlorn; loess; lysergic; resolute; resolve; soluble; and

Solve.

Catalytic is ‘a change caused by an agent which itself remains unchanged’, so although it sounds like the opposite of analysis it is instead exactly the same but just a little more specific; a white steamboat chugging through the muddy upriver.

The definition of Armageddon is you are about to be left behind as the train heads on towards that metaphorical dying cornfield of some private iowa or idaho; we are not back in the trees ever after.

Look out mama, here’s a white boat full of chemical sound and deflecting fury, neither solving nor signifying nothing. Daddy’s loess in my hand feels reassuring and his last advice rings in my ear: red means run, son, numbers add up to nothing.

Only a fool would say that and the first shot is hitting the dock
now.