Hard Work & Warm Water
2 Stoned Birds
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A painting and its amateur replica Are most easily differentiated if situated parallel The strokes are close, but not close enough The colours are off, the perspective warped The meant-to-be smiling expressions distort Like my face in the mirror when I'm deep in thought Not everyone kept a diary, and yeah, I realised that quite late You get used to your own bubble and coping mechanisms and frenzied states Where, amid blurred eye-lash and delayed, emotional whiplash You see there are words on the page Characters swirling of their own volition taking centre stage Running on half-rehearsed monologues About the playwright's continued discomfort Towards committing to the one thing they've always wanted to discover I'm going to write a book! I said, 5 years ago, likely 10 too But I was at DJCAD and before that, the little favourite of the art department at school Unexplored novels and untyped diaries were stagnating I took validation from all that painting And drawing feverishly Savouring the portraits with colours placed correctly And the erratic application across more expressive pieces Swamped in all the multicoloured endorphins releasing Hiding the more pervasive, good-student mentality That swelled up, mouth-open, gaping at the feeder Waiting for any positive comment from parents, friends and teachers You get a faster reaction if you show someone a picture Compared to asking them to read the stories scribbled in your jotter To enjoy creating art, I feel I must admit I had to ditch the struggle of trying to monetize it I feel like I'd been tricked By voices who never really knew why my art exists Or why I was drawn to it initially My dad always said Why don't you draw something nice Why don't you draw something happy As if pondering Why is it always sad Or Why is it always scary Or weird or lacking In decency or continuity Or ability to be hung on someone's office wall or in a post"-Spark-Joy!" Hall Do another Scotland drawing What about painting cows People love seeing highland critters just wandering about on moors Or hares Or thistles Or fucking stags with distant stares People love displaying pretty animals but I prefer my beasts with a glare My art is weird, my art gets strange And that's not something I'll take offence to you saying It's expected and recurrent As for me it's far too easy to turn A delicate illustration into a perverted mutant My eyes demand more, the same as ma mouth I'm pretty reluctant to trim a sentence down I will ramble and ramble until I pass out Until I'm out of oxygen and I fall south But hey... I've never fainted once in my life, so expect to see me around To hear me hollering loud My thumping feet mashing up and down Like seagulls on grassland, I'll be making a vibrating sound To summon those tasty squirming words up through the ground And chewing them up and spitting them out Satisfying little syllables caked around my mouth I got syllable cake for breakfast Too many years of being silent, and not talking Too many years of talking, but not saying anything In speaking and writing I'm making up for lost time With every extended, self-gratifying rhyme And rabid stream-of-consciousness-infected lines Therapising myself, can you see that outside Of this odd, flesh being bumbling through life Stumbling on the ways our stories could align Excited for solutions we'll inevitably find That allow us to calm our hyper-stimulated minds Take a long, deep breath Watch our crazy worlds combine In a way that makes me happy And so overwhelmed at the sublime And grateful That with you I get to share mine
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