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Irritability
01:24
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He lived this way, taking small regular breaks, for many years, apparently in the spotlight, honored by the world, but for all that his mood was usually gloomy, and it kept growing gloomier all the time, because no one understood how to take him seriously. But how was he to find consolation? What was there left for him to wish for? And if a good-natured man who felt sorry for him ever wanted to explain to him that his sadness probably came from his fasting, then it could happen that the hunger artist responded with an outburst of rage and began to shake the bars like an animal, frightening everyone. But the impresario had a way of punishing moments like this, something he was happy to use. He would make an apology for the hunger artist to the assembled public, conceding that the irritability had been provoked only by his fasting, something quite intelligible to well-fed people and capable of excusing the behavior of the hunger artist without further explanation.
"Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka.
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Soul Escape
02:55
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the skin on my fingers was rough
and I liked the sound of graphite
too much to forget it
my back always hurt more in the mornings
than it did at night
my hair refused to grow past my shoulders
my teeth liked to grind themselves
like pieces of metal scraping together
scraping my brain mass
it made a sound of comfort
after all
we were all searching for a soul escape
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Mother
03:16
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Stargazing
02:28
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at the end of the day
it doesn't really matter
I wake up in the morning
and forget it
I am seeing specs
of color in your eyes
no one noticed before
and when I come home
I try to keep my eyes open
but they close
and the next morning
I need to remember it all again
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A Hybrid
02:04
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I will forever envy the lambs that get slaughtered before they grow into sheep. I want to be forever pure. I want to be the cross breed in your lap, and listen to children try to explain my existence. I want to cause you extreme confusion. I am not the one to share answers. I don't want pity. I don't want mercy. I want the knife to my neck. I would beg you to cut me open; but I can't, and I don't want to. I want to stay the same.
Besides, my blood was meant to flow.
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Mirror
02:32
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one day
you will find someone nice
to understand you
and see you
better than you can see yourself in the mirror
one day
you will find someone brave
to take you hand and watch you
from the upstairs
while you paint your abstract nonsense
and chop your black hair off
and on that day
you will have a soul to hold
a pair of eyes to watch
as you unbutton your white button up
and unravel the weight inside
and on that day
you won't feel any shame at all
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Hunger Artist Novi Sad, Serbia
Experimental/noise project from Novi Sad, Serbia.
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