To A.

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I Promised You A Garden

I promised you a garden
where our fingers
would paint the sky
where your solemn beauty
would be enough
to make me cry

I promised you a garden
where your hand lay in mine
a place among the clouds
where you and I
would never rust with time

I promised you a garden
where every flower
sung your name
I promised you
eternal sunshine
but gave you endless rain

I wanted to give you a garden
but I keep waking up
by myself in my bed
I never gave you that garden
but we at least we those nights
and Ponts des Art instead


Sorry for Me

I'm sorry about that song, the one I promised you
The habits that I'd kill, I said I'll kill'em all for you
I'm sorry about my promises those that were just lies
For pretending to be asleep while you silently wept
through all those nights

I'm sorry about the the mindfuck bit by bit
You were looking at my right hand
while my left did dirty tricks
I'm sorry that I became
the cloud swallowing your sun
Silence made you cringe
I'm sorry I used it as a gun

I'm sorry for my inclination for destruction
in any shape or form
The white noise in my head, honey
resembles apocalyptic storms
You said mornings right around the bend,
Can you see the light?
I'm staring out our window babe,
All I see is night

I'm sorry about getting high when it just got med low
My emotions are like awkward hands
that don't know where to go
Like how I always shut my mouth
instead of sayin so
Somehow I thought a lie or two
was better than a no

I'm sorry but you always made feel
just like a junkie or a thief
or any other shitty thing
I ever did to find some peace

 

[ControlDaddy]

This intentional pairing, is my favorite of your works now that I have read them all. A bunch of lines have become friendly earworms and me a happy host.

a place among the clouds
where you and I
would never rust with time

I promised you
eternal sunshine
but gave you endless rain

You were looking at my right hand
while my left did dirty tricks

I'm sorry that I became
the cloud swallowing your sun

I'm sorry for my inclination for destruction
in any shape or form
The white noise in my head, honey
resembles apocalyptic storms

My emotions are like awkward hands
that don't know where to go

I'm sorry but you always made feel
just like a junkie or a thief
or any other shitty thing
I ever did to find some peace

 

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@ControlDaddy you did the Burroughs cut-up technique - i'm honored! :D

 

[ControlDaddy]

@ControlDaddy you did the Burroughs cut-up technique - i'm honored! :D

I must have been imbued with it coz I dunno what that means. I will take it though, after looking him up, he wrote Blade Runner, so I am in rarified air just then.

 

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I must have been imbued with it coz I dunno what that means. I will take it though, after looking him up, he wrote Blade Runner, so I am in rarified air just then.

Ohman, I hate to do this - but Philip K. Dick wrote Blade...

HOWEVER - Burroughs was so much more of a no-fucks-given badass than Dick in my book. Both are beasts, but BUrroughs Naked Lunch, his acclaimed Junky and weirdly overlooked The Soft Machine, makes me wee-wee tingle. Plus the fact the he was one of the first, true grit junkies to write about it, openly homosexual during a time it was no-no, he may/may not have shot his wife during a drunken William Tell game.

 

[ControlDaddy]

Ohman, I hate to do this - but Philip K. Dick wrote Blade...

HOWEVER - Burroughs was so much more of a no-fucks-given badass than Dick in my book. Both are beasts, but BUrroughs Naked Lunch, his acclaimed Junky and weirdly overlooked The Soft Machine, makes me wee-wee tingle. Plus the fact the he was one of the first, true grit junkies to write about it, openly homosexual during a time it was no-no, he may/may not have shot his wife during a drunken William Tell game.

More correct than I you are, but not perfect. My research shows that Dick wrote a book that the screenplay was based on called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Burroughs wrote Blade Runner (a movie) in 1979, and Ridley Scott bought the title for that and used the term for his main character's occupation. Very confusing!
I have to admit skimming Naked Lunch in High School but dismissing it as nonsense, but this might be before my first psychedelic experience. My hunch is to start with Junkie though, for some reason.

 

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More correct than I you are, but not perfect. My research shows that Dick wrote a book that the screenplay was based on called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Burroughs wrote Blade Runner (a movie) in 1979, and Ridley Scott bought the title for that and used the term for his main character's occupation. Very confusing!
I have to admit skimming Naked Lunch in High School but dismissing it as nonsense, but this might be before my first psychedelic experience. My hunch is to start with Junkie though, for some reason.

OH SNAP! THat's what I get for being a know it all! Glad to be schooled by you, C.D!

YEah, first time I read "Naked Lunch" it made no sense. Getting older, a bit more, but still a loopey-fucking-book. Genius language, though.

I promise, Junkie won't disappoint!!