Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly (๐ด-๐)
A.
Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly ๐โ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ ๐ผ ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ก ๐ฅ๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐จ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ Oh let me be only utter beauty I shall go quickly ๐พ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐ธ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข . . .
B.
C.
แด แดสษชแดแดs แดสแดแดสแดแด แดแดสโ
WE ARRIVED AT THE ๐๐ธ๐ด, AND PENNED IN, ๐ท๐ธ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ธ๐ท.
Theyโd said Iโd heard you were dead but the rumors were persistent.
Premature.
Kept a score.
Three or four.
Devil may abjure.
The faces are a blur.
Judge in a hurry.
Jury in jest.
Fire your neurons โtil they clear out their desks.
Clear your head.
Nobody believes in you until everyone always did.
Thatโs just how it is.
Itโs a bitch.
James Quentin Devine ๐
๐.๐.๐.
D.
E.
WRONG GUY
EXT. LAGUNA BEACH
looked at me she said โiโve seen you on televisionโ
i said โcouldโve beenโ
she said โwhat is itโ
i said โiโm not sureโ
snapped her fingers
she said โthe show with dr. drewโ
i thought of loveline
but iโm far too young
as ever
snapped her fingers
โcelebrity rehabโ
shit
โhaha nopeโ
that one wasnโt me
sorry lady
F.
HIT THE SEARCHLIGHTS, WEโRE FUCKING COMING
A tedious provocateur and a struck star walk into a bar.
A done-deal made.
Theyโre driven off in a car.
Long-limousine riddance.
In the after-hours of glances and glowers.
Nights passing in strangeness.
Cutting up in the pulp of pages.
โโโโโโโโโEver just break something on purpose1 . . . ?
G.
H.
โFEEBLETON DEADโ by SCALED ALPS (Preview Mix)
๐ฆ๐
From the forthcoming EP โPeak Arousalโ:
Thereโs always an easy way out.
You could take it if you wanted to.
Do you?
๐ฆ๐
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโexitโs over there kid (go on through)
I.
J.
THE UNTITLED CHAMPION
Paranoid until proven right.
Illumed diffuse evening light.
Domed confusion.
Lower glyphs.
A Druid a Dyad A Sylph.
A sphinx.
A slight.
A helping hand in a cramping vise.
A CREEPING VINE INTERTWINED WITH THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN SET ALIGHT TO THE PERVISH DELIGHT OF PASSERS-BY AND BEYOND.
A TOAD KISSED TWICE TO PRINCE,
THE SUMMONED SCUM OF A PUCKERED POND.
A TOKEN A TICKET.
TRAMP MOUNT VENUSIAN THICKET.
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO WICKED.
A QUICKENING TAKEN IN SICKNESS AND HATE.
LIQUID FARGONE, ELIXIR SURFEIT.
Perfect, Perfect.
At last!
An alibi.
K.
L.
PRINT PERSUASION
You canโt hold it in your hands.
Just scope electrons.
So if you want the Real-Feel,
instead of the waifu pillow,
you gotta order it.
Over, hard.
The debut issue of ๐๐๐รฉ ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง, a magazine foolish enough toโve published me, is available in rapidly-dwindling quantities online and at select shops in L.A.
M.
OCTOPUS
Needed to get a grip.
So I went looking for you.
Couldnโt find you.
Not anywhere.
Sucked.
N.
O.
Rap Music is Fucking Dead (I Feel Like โ06 Nas)
โUHM FULLINโ LOOOOIIIIK โ98 DYLAN KLE-BOLDโโ
Liโl Slurz da VaporTrapper is way, way too close to the microphone.
Plosives poppin when itโs โposta be pussies, Slurz.
The Autotune strains, ungodly.
โSlurz witโ a z.โ
โA zed you say?โ
Slurz doesnโt know Iโm from Angerland.
โIonno fuck you talnbout.โ
Slurz is โfrom Chicago,โ but he is lying.
He often does.
โYeah I stay out in Chi-Raq.โ
Slurz doesnโt know Iโm an investigative journalist.
A trained sleuth.
Out for bounty.
Out for truth.
Slurz, you see.
Slurz is from Lake County.
Up north.
For what itโs worth.
Grew up red-brick and leafy.
Wanted for Liโl.
No account, really.
Just about.
Heโs all-fabbed, totally made up.
Accentโs fake.
Fake as fuck.
Heโs wearing a wave-cap.
Thatโs not okay.
Right?
No.
No, no.
No fucking way.
But he is.
So what of it?
Streams himself on the daily.
Stoned studio sessions.
To an audience of 1.2m followers.
Liโl Slurz is a new media star.
โIs you a FBI agent?โ
Slurz has a new album coming out with his cousin CussBoy Gives No Fucks (CBGNOFUX
T-shirts have been getting kids kicked out of class all the schoolyear-long)
๐๐ท ๐ธ๐ถ๐ธ๐บ
so
BE ON THE LOOKOUT . . .
โโโโโโWHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK IโM TALKING ABOUT . . . ?
P.
Q.
As-Yet Untitled SCALED ALPS Song (Preview Mix)
From the forthcoming EP โPeak Arousal,โ we present yet-more ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐.
I took a long time with the lyrics on this one, so I hope you sit with them โดโ
R.
ASS SCENE ON TELEVISION
Iโm in O.G. Helmut Lang button-fly playing hard to get.
Float like a butterfly and sting like a fighter jet.
Privy like a corsair.
Kid mohair donโt go there.
Dress you down in proverbs, probably.
Prepare.
S.
CLEARANCE
They will not be speaking English, if they speak at all, but in the future, we, such that โweโ are remembered, having been lumped in, chronologically, with our forebears, flattened, will be known as โthe deforesters,โ those who felled trees, the wasteful ones.
T.
HELLO MY NAME IS CURIOUS FURY
Grant me license to be me,
O Fortuna,
Such that I might sing a song of thee.
It is hard nowadays to have any particular certainty.
That anyone is not in fact a ghost.
There is the perpetual temptation to delete fucking everything.
Root-host.
We chafe tectonic.
The lovely and talented.
U.
BIOPHOBIA
The urge to piss rose in him.
He had nowhere to do it.
Indignity summons anger.
A demon appears.
Forms.
Shadowโs abandon.
Flail.
Windows unveiling.
Floor to ceiling.
Flirt with feeling.
You can be a real chameleon.
V.
CURRENT EVENTS
Rivers seized.
Universal reversal.
Tribal expulsion.
Peers fall to the wayside.
You could be next, should be next.
Vultures creep an empty nest.
Infiltrate til no oneโs left.
That which is left is behind in the sense of an ass, and in scent too.
Burning sense.
Permanent high school.
Exclusionists.
Illusionists.
Contortionists.
Extortionate.
W.
THE FUTUREโS FOR RENT
No one believes in me.
But they do think of me.
Object obsession.
Paid possession.
Sole position.
Statuary stance.
Hedgemazes and headmasters.
Mind games and ghettoblasters.
Rolls-Royce crush car.
Overturned and burnt.
Unsalvageable elegance.
Grey eminence.
Slivered spurs.
X.
(Cont'd)
Electronic monitoring is in process.
One day a lumpโll take over your entire body and divert its resources and starve you.
Y.
AS SEEN IN A DREAM
An orgiastic scene.
Thine and thine and thene.
I can make up words.
I can make up meaning.
If you do the hooking.
I can do the cleaning.
Z.
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I AM A FATED CHARACTER. โโโโโIT IS OK. โโโโโTHANK YOU.
โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโSELECT ME?
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