Jeffree Skewes #137 On message

They write love songs
long winding roads all in time

musically scoring spaced
a language notably marked

by codes designed to play
with minds and hearts a harmony

whatever else their stories written spoken
to audiences this art comes so close to life?

witness alone the intention calcination
time spent the negotiation listen we're in

a wild hoax of expression signaling
humanistic virtues not really attained

but for moments suspended animated
escaping from daily life the grinder

milling alchemy finer toward what's at the core
or perhaps the slag on the outer edges of sentences

rolled gold fantasy or thrilling excitement hardship
troved as mental lakes replayed reimagined retakes

by now this journey's pickin-up passengers
coast to coast and we're on board whizzing past

dressed-up it's so much fun committed
invested to a journey on a road to nowhere

another page one more versed situation
lying awake dreaming

our place in reading has its part to play too
and so happy to meet everyone how do you do

this being the alive business
unfolding as it were in stories

without ever leaving the space of our hearts
nothing can be retrieved or returned

so here in this moment at least
unlived life is started