J. Neutral

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Steely Dan - Dr Wu

youtu.be/ImtdntJQfSs

Black and white, minimal skyline with a few clouds, a few light posts, a few trees, and a lot of empty space.

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#urbanlandscapes
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#vss365 - #beetle

Seventy-five percent of us — humans, monkeys and noble plumed ducks alike —
find ourselves in dismal shade, out beyond the divine gaze, as it seems the Creator in cosmic order, has blessed His favored quarter, showing His inordinate fondness for beetles.

‘poop ball’ 👏👏👏😂

#vss365 - #deluxe

I sit around moping about phonies and ‘fuck’ all over the walls, unaware that the park ducks are in fact deluxe ducks, pricey imports for polite society: on the sly they undermine the moral authority of my already insipid takes and tastes, fuckin’ ducks! make me the real phony.

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Lyle Lovett, If I Had A Boat

youtu.be/hpM8FjO4Vko

🖤🙏

A black and white landscape photo of a mudflat at low tide somewhere out near Dangjin South Korea. It’s pretty flat, featureless except for the textures of the sand bar and the overcast sky. The ocean is on the right, and there’s a question mark shaped rivulet reaching in toward the left.

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Shins, New Slang

New slang when you notice the stripes
The dirt in your fries
Hope it’s right when you die
Old and bony

youtu.be/zYwCmcB0XMw

A prose poem on a background photo of some plant or weed or something: Me, perennially misunderstood: lizard greens with human undertones; halo of fragrance hints at earth, wood, old bones and the musky updraft of a duck’s sentient descendent convergent with (or at least conversant with) monkey brains stood on two legs. Nowhere home calls me — I reside in no one’s family.

#vss365 - undertone

prompts: influence / tip

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‘Three Blue Turkish Rondos’ shows the influence of a popular 1977 arabesque radio orchestra recording, while gold tipped sesame leaves lain carefully in the plating of the metaphorical (though still unfortunate) ducks signal a change in course, if not in time or taste.

A lot of so-called Christians out there in MAGA-land are about to perform some serious rhetorical acrobatics to try to pass this off as ok.

Shocking 😂

Christianity is fine unless it’s soft power sabotage on behalf of American imperialism. Seems reasonable to me 🤷‍♂️

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Yo La Tengo - Sudden Organ

youtu.be/wlhg3iY1IUw

*groan* 😂

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Boat pitches —maybe starboard? Or port? of the land, me, terrestrial at heart I wouldn’t know— Tinkerbell springs a leak: the basso continuo washed into the waves still thumps with those buoyant hairstyles they sport. I hide in my inside out #raincoat, oilcloth shroud, with hope to sink up

Ah, really? Ok, I didn’t know that, thanks. So everything is still shit because of him… but differently! 😂

Just sad that this has immediately turned into ‘what asshole thing has Trump said about the Nobel Prize?’ rather than being about Machado and her cause. Everything is shit right now because of him.

Awesome 😂

“Cascade of shit” 🤌💯

#vss365 - libertine

Suggestive glimpse of ripples on the surface of the pond: racy fronds, cattails and pussy willows; hind quarters high to feed mid paddle n’ splash, there, you see even the ducks are libertine — you wade, fade in marsh modesty.

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Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

youtu.be/obRVlFCVlAg

prompts: smooth / station

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Smooth, waxy leaves these palm fronds; rough hewn beams akimbo; noughts, in fact nought, only a winning line of crosses; stations set up in the round eliciting particular agonies, mysteries, and some final joy for a pair of Semitic Marys: one amongst them subject to assumption.

#vss365 - #ashes

For ashes I’d blast ancient withered stumps leg spin, a recidivist hack, trapped, incarcerated by way of silly mid; dry track of Indian caste, inflated expectations before drinks, a penal regime’s numbers Duckworth cooked; a long wait, a long tail — and then bowled over the sea.

Assuming we make it through all this, I am so looking forward to these creeps getting theirs in a trial or human rights hearing. I hope they never sleep well again.

Wow, a mere two comments in and apparently no one is listening.

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I would free #associate myself into an oblivion fugue of phantasmagorical self-aggrandizement on the stained couch of resentment and old bile, confess everything I’d done to a dubious, leering Austrian doused in flammable sherry and caramel spittle. I had gone clear. But was it enough?