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NARCISSYPHUS

by Tavo Carbone

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Small minded raw egos product-drive dense conversation On a lifelong Socratic vacation. It’s not just my imagination Running away with impatience. What’s with the dramaturgical promulgations? Today the sun has shown what sons can father on their own. Fishing for praise at every orientation. Elaborate means withholding an inactive imagination. Neutron-ic star composites of syndication. Colorblind racist in little lamb clothes, What’s become of our salvation? Further risk your life in a new vocation At a penitentiary style location. Jump off the burning train, derailed before a station. Gather up ashen soot to prolong anticipated elation. Step off the stepstool, place yourself on a throne. The all-seeing sun has shone On sons who know now what they own.
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Joys in sequence so infrequent. I’m wearing sequin stockings. Fill your cup with the blood. Strut forth with the stuff. Make it up as you go Shopping til you drop to and fro. ‘Bah’ says black sheep, ‘I’ll sell you my wool off me, just Leave what’s grown over my eyes’ The soul is Black, The heart is Red, When your scalp is White. Unfair days won’t soon get better Shearing the shorn with hands held together In a corporate cradle that affords to do better. Put the joys in a sequence.
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Several promises ago when the sky hung low In your hands you could place all your natural thoughts On a race that you grope to relate with / belong to, As you were innately taught When your hands were your hands, not merely Dutiful promotional thumbs. Withstand what you can; No one more special but For taste of importance can win and then become More productive with never idle hands. As productive with your hands As you conduct them to be. A city makes demands its plastic children understand. When the dog whistle blows look to the collar in your hand. As full of life as playing dead gets your eyes roll over hours And seek affectionate pets. Oh how good try diversify morally impactful class sniffing nod. Brand yourself in the sunset with a cattle prod. You’ve done a good job!
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Let’s go to the place where the joker’s a priest and All you can eat is right at your feet. You’ve long been well on your way. Get on humble black’ n ‘blue’d knees to pray For your way or the highway. In the end we’ll be untraceable cosmic dust. Let’s have it our way always. Find me a place where apes have no chests. Darwin is ashamed in new ways. Put your foot in my mouth to see what comes out your way. You must come with me so we can go together and perspire. Society nymphomaniac-ally requires Dependent Compacted Complicit Compliant Complacence. Adjacent to the indignant nation, ancestral shame Resounding-s from the mountaintops that Each selfish reflex committed is Impatient Disruptive Adolescent Repugnant and Brain-dead. Self-appointed translucent caped savior, Fuck your neighbor in your own image Behavior.
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The spirit is too weak. Mortality weighs heavily on me Like unwilling sleep and Each imagined pinnacle and steep; Of God-like hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking towards the sky.
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Been blacked out for a long time but It’s all white as far as I can see.
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Drive your body like it’s yours. I am sorry, I’m a zombie. You understand? But of course. Must be confusing selves with you as I do when I need onhand people To project my idea of Self onto. How could you be so untoward? You deserve a fat reward For such an atrocious expialidocious bullshit job. Use the eyeballs in your skull. Is it not wonderful How the world looks at you As you see them do? Through and through You have them looking at you As only they can do. Here’s to you - Frame your freedom in a fence. Judge your own evident impotent ignorant malcontentment. Common sense can no longer befriend your Uncompassionate zombie existence.
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Stick your petunia in a rifle that shoots blanks for the people. Disproportionate equals with no space to run. Professed young wisdom means something When you suck up to Buddha. Could you would’ve you should’ve, but Now you can’t stay calm. Keep your calm living among classless fathers and moms. Endear engendered pigment qualms. Clasp the palms into a chapel, For religion’s sake we will. Here comes the steeple and Out run the people. Not just some or for one but everybody’s person kind of people. All of the people. Sounds like people. Not for some or just one but every person’s kind of people. All the people.
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In moments you thought you knew Red White and Blue dismissed a clue. From hand to mouth to foot to face All wronged rights were sold back to you. Show them what you can do. Why ask a mirror if change depends on you? Shock and Awe sold my self-worth-less city To a pious fascist corporate whore. Tell us when to open the door. Strip down at the mall for spared change In a poisoned applecore. These are moments only you can know Reframing reasons soon wished away too slow. Show them what you want to. Don’t ask a mirror to do this for you.
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Released Jan 21 2019

"A nightmarish collection of beautiful orchestration and playful weirdness...His unique brand of lyrical poetry will catch you off guard and is at times laugh-out-loud funny -- His voice is striking, often sounding like a downtrodden Disney character from the 1930’s. The depths he’s discovered in these recordings (especially fun in over-ear headphones) are a perfect compliment to the Trump-era hellscape -- " - Jay Purdy (Philadelphia PA)
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Neutronic : adj. (physics) Of or relating to a neutron or neutrons; consisting of neutrons. Also: specifically concerned with or employing neutrons in nuclear reactions.

People are the true flowers of life, and it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden.
- Lord Buckley

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
- Ed Koch

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
- Lucretius

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
- Robert Moses

Colonialism: The policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics , religion and health.

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released January 21, 2019

All Music / Words © Tavo Carbone
Engineered / Mixed / Produced - Benjamin Mayock
Co-Recorded / Arranged / Produced - Tavo Carbone
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TAVO CARBONE Voice, guitars, piano, organs, bass,
ukulele, accordion, glockenspiel,
percussion (power drill, shaker, dog leash,
housekeys on cheesegrater, samples, indigenous
tribal instruments iPhone app), slide whistle,
mellotron iPad app, keyboards, radios
ADELE MORI Cellos
ALLEN SHAWN Piano on 5
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Like a Sick Eagle © Charles Ives (first sketched in 1906, published in 1920), words by John Keats. Recordings of Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Pluto and Jupiter © NASA, Voyager recordings. Basic tracking recording/arranging by Tavo Carbone in Queens 2015 & Brooklyn NY 2016 at 202 Carroll Street (Cellos, piano on 8, electric guitars on 2/4/7/9, all clocks/keyboard/radios/wake-up call on 10 in 1998). Queens NY (bass, loops, iPad mellotrons, ukulele, guitars, percussion, keyboards, etc) 2015-16, Bennington VT Lamb Road & Jennings Mansion (Piano) 2016-7, Athens NY (Organ/Chimes/Guitar/house sounds on 2, 6). Vocals on all tracks & Electric guitar for 2 recorded by Benjamin Mayock in Hinesburg VT. Vocals & Nylon Acoustic Guitar recorded at COS in Burlington VT . Electric organ on 1 & 2, Piano end of 6 recorded at Akin Studios by Coach. Drum software, programming on 2, 3 - Coach. Wake-up call at end of 10 - KC. 0000402598 is the serial number of Tavo's high school alarm clock. Artwork © Tavo Carbone 2018. Collage source material : © LIFE magazine & © The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1978, "America's Fascinating Indian Heritage" series. Photograph of Eagle reading newspaper © TW Collins @ TW Collins Photography. This recording was initially tracked at locations in NY and VT that embodied a fleeting sense of home. Recorded on 4-track machine and various software-s, beginning in February of 2015.

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Experimental Folk Distopic Songs sung on voice/gtr/pno. Tape+CD orders or booking: email or Insta-DM
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