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Richard Dumas

from Mystery Album​?​?​? by Sankofa

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The miscellaneous lyrics that hit the craziest
Can’t quite predict that rhymes that might just stick to your soul
Participate in this, but used to feel the rage with a glow
A fan fanning flames, I can’t explain, the wages of growth
Advance the stage to play the back and that’s the way to rap
Uncle L with the dope cap, I play the gap
My vocab beyond a flex, it’s the just the way that I speak
A constant quest to see contagions and glee,
beyond adept, familiar with the stench of that piranha breath
Strip clubs where the flesh peddled is the Gaza dead
And disgust is just something that we ignore
Posing pretty as reflected in insanity’s sword
The plan is reborn, tourist trap with fantasy tours
So hop aboard the bus, there’s more to us than vanity bores
Or brandishing hammers with patter that the battery scores
Claimed to starve, yet denying all that manna before
So what gives?

Falling from above in the clutches of a dove
Dying on the vine with the sustenance begrudged
Moonshine battalions hid the musket in the tub
Still waters run deeper than the thickness of the blood
The clearest vision making clarity from watered Christ
Picture Pontius with his washing bowl, crop it right
The spear sticking in his side, might have bought them ice
Mary Magdalene with magnums of that proper type
Admired first Hawaiian shirts, Ferraris and the fireworks
Helicopters on the island, sly proprietors
Reject before ever knowing what we might observe
A kind of cursive, cursed with 9 diversions, tiny birds
Sometimes the nurses work the shifts that end up frying nerves
Pick the tunes and lick your wounds, but best to hide the burns
Testify the life we might survive to escape
Souls spilled to total strangers, been designing away
Yet somehow friends and fam get no time of the day
Expensive plans that never land, and that’s the life of the gray
Cement that stands long enough to hold engraved initials
Lady liberty, thorns on crowns now replaced with missiles
The mule that bristles at the yoke upon the oxen closest
Opportunists parasailing in with constant notice
The fossil rooted in his ways of stone with thoughts of Dumas
What could have been if he was reachable by Coach Lucas

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from Mystery Album​?​?​?, released October 15, 2023

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