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001-ANTIFRAGILE
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antifragile
stronger when you break me
disproportionate strength to tension from disorder
this is not the end state
stasis complacent
wind comes
don’t build a wall build a windmill
back to your comfort zone you keep running
far too afraid to shatter
broke my iron house on the cliff
where the waves
paint rust as a mural
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002-STONEDARK
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I’m shattered in a glass house need to get to sleep
stone’s throw from a bad dream
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we are hiding from the glass
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003-MIRRORLIGHT
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I been in my feelings
you’ve been hiding mirrors from yourself boy
chainmail glitters in the mirror-light
jade sky blooms on the ceiling
I was in the mirror that you looked away from
I know that you see me
chem trails fade underwater
lost thoughts wash onto beaches
sworn oath sinks in the mirror-light
minerals fall from the ceiling
your eyes turn away from the green sky
while I lie deep in my feelings
yeah, I’m in my feelings
honesty is healing
I was in the mirror when you shattered me
you were in pieces
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004-MOONCHASER
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fuck it, I’m running on borrowed time
might as well rinse every last drop of wine
in this grape juice youth I’ve been blessed to get
every second is a death in its own vignette
every stress on my breath it could melt away
even if only for a moment
I taste this shattering
plans change, I change
my range stretches in obsession
yes I’m out of the loop, out of the group,
out on the roof, with the moon, and I’m chasing it
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005-WINDOWSONG
00:59
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*window opens*
*wind rushes through, humming melodically*
*drum loop plays*
*drum solo*
*rushing wind noise is reversed, reverb added*
*window closes*
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006-NEVERBESAFE
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I’m shattered in a glass house need to get to sleep
stone’s throw from a bad dream
we could never be safe here
splinter footed half step bruk up mi feet
mek di next step weaker
we could never be safe here
all haffi tread, but some with bare feet
I fall to my knees
the shards are deadly, hard and heavy
in the sunshine I still feel the snow, it grinds against me
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out of the loop, out of the group,
out on the roof, with the moon,
no shirt, no shoes,
no hope, no clue how to do this
clueless, foolish even
too naïve and true believing
who could see us making stained glass
from the wounds and leaving windows maskless?
bun your praxis, we’re too fractured
practise flux, erratic, tactless
tacit truth define in absence
ah shit, we could never be safe here
if we keep all our view of who we are in constant breaking
antifragile
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007-ICANBEFRAGILE
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I can be fragile that’s alright
I can be hurt and it’s alright, that it’s not alright
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tears carve faces like valleys
the tundra erupts in a violent storm
I tell myself the blizzard is normal
in the clattering, grinding, biting jaw
my teeth shatter
I tell myself they are sharpened for war
I don’t want to feel the ground
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008-NOSPACE
01:00
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ain’t no space to exist in the chainmail
let alone full plate armour
I gotta be harder, innit?
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we are taught to be strong
we ain’t taught to be wrong
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009-NOTLOST
01:00
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bodily building in disrepair without inhabitant
paradox
stable as a derelict entity
envious of felled willows who don’t have to get up again
buttress of kitchen floor, cuttlefish camouflage attempted
a sticky one, I think I still exist
dissociation grey, not my favourite shade of wallpaper,
plastered on reality in several lumpy layers
that smother cupboards, appliances and furniture in chaos
hard to wash the dishes when the blade is remnant
in the stillness of the storm's eye, hollowness blossoms
roots consume questions when they're lost and forgotten
petals dipped in burgundy or bright red machismo
lusted after by aggression
ego stuffing alter-ego into pillowcases
his carcass is slept on, disregarded, unequated
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010-NOTIME
01:00
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come too far I’ve
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there’s no time to say what I want to say
my voice was stolen by the thunder
my body is a temple to the saint of self-destruction
wipe my eyes like it never happened
antifragile, stronger when you break me
wait?
my ability to pick up the pieces
does not justify being shattered
it is a survival mechanism
not a birth right
it is a product of limited time
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011-NOTGONE
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I’ve come to far
I learned to fly
I’ve come to know
I won’t survive
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012-DOWNINFLAMES
01:00
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staring at the green sky after a thunderstorm,
grey clouds dancing and collapsing,
falling down in flames
I'm looking for the moon
my anchor, my mirror to the sun,
whispering like a ghost in the daylight
I'm always chasing that which hides,
never closing my eyes
to feel the emerald fire on my skin
the warmth of the glow; impermanent
but in this moment
it is the only thing that's real
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013-ENDCREDITS
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14. |
NEVERBE(-Side)
01:00
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15. |
SAFEHERE (B-Side)
01:00
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16. |
WIN-TWO-SONG (B-Side)
01:00
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Samiir Saunders Birmingham, UK
I’m a multimedia poet based in Brum. I am obsessed with communication, compassion, intimacy, and the Internet.
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