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Concrete Floors

from Weird Summer by Sankofa

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Of the beats wingclipper sent, I voted this "least likely to get rapped on." Fortunately, I was wrong and its energy struck me as the perfect way to close out this project. I sat on the track a while, then combed through one of my two flooded notebooks and found the baptismal font line, which set into motion that entire first verse. Verse two came about as I drove past a bar that had since been condemned and that made me start thinking of my only visit and seeking to capture the power of that experience.

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Holy water Mountain Dew, baptismal font the sacrament
A lack of laughter captured in this sack of skin and saccharin
Accidents happening inside the sound of the cackling
Trying to drown the rat within and failing, of course it had to swim
Remorseless sword, imagining glorious wars of legend status
Providing petulant wretches a pail to fetch their madness
We dredge the marshes for the skeletons of lesser varmints
To build the proper reliquary for the next alarmist
So rest in garbage to clown shows, odes to the freshest garments
This weapon’s sharpest as the crow flows to the next I target
A festive harvest giving scarecrows a blessed carcass
My breath the sound of boots cadets connect in marches
The echo fades, becoming whispers in the concrete
A theme transmitted in dreams, as seen in long sleeps
Sheets hold close, tales told by the frail souls
Blood spatters on the petals of a pale rose by the railroad

Pantera karaoke, screaming into the corner drunk
We came though through the front and exited the rear, sort of stunned
Bar patrons paid no attention, they were busy flicking ashes
Shouting this and that to each other over the grips of passion
I’m slipping past it in my car, the doors now boarded up
Condemned signs stapled to the plywood, a morbid touch
The raindrops on my windshield can’t quite cleanse the sight of it
A caved in roof likely caused the loss of licenses
Now where do regulars go to forget the life they lead today?
Probably down some blocks to The Rock to fetch that special glaze
I don’t remember where we ended up after that spot
Probably at Curly’s with office chairs and the deck, propped
Some moments leave greater impressions on us than we could imagine
The thousand loudest words obscure the picture, keep in a caption
The thieves and the has beens, beefing with police in traffic
Weaving in and out, a stumbled route completes the tablet

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from Weird Summer, released June 20, 2020

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