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The Library of Everything
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- The architects of language built the prison from the floor plans
- But left the blueprints in the margins of the poor mans war chants
- So the chorus that you swear by was assembled from the orphans hands
- Borrowed anthems, borrowed lanterns guiding borrowed caravans
- Through a borrowed night, the stars are just the property of Morgans brands
- And the morning after never gave the mourning man a Normans chance
- Clocks are just agreements between strangers on the violence of the hour
- Seven billion people share a breakfast but they cant divide the flour
- Half are tending to the fire while the other half devour
- What the first half spent the season and the soil and the shower
- Growing roots that told them they would never reach the tower
- And the tower never answers cause the tower has no power
- The grammar of the galaxy is written in the calcium
- Of creatures gone before the Romans built the Colosseum
- Pangaea never asked permission when it cracked the medium
- Between the land and sea, the continents proceeded
- And what we call division was the earth completing
- A geometry no cartographer had ever found a reason for believing
- Still drew the lines in ink and died defending what was leaving
- The apple knew the physics long before the sitting
- Every law of nature is the universe committing
- To a promise, Newton named it, but the naming aint the fitting
- Gravity existed in the absence of submitting
- To a language and the language is the ceiling and the splitting
- Between the wilderness that knew and those who called it written
- Television raised the children that the buildings couldnt hold
- Sega Genesis mythology, the stories never told
- In the manual flipped it to the back where all the cheats were scrolled
- And memorized the konami before the prayers were enrolled
- Cause the church of entertainment had the youngest of the old
- Congregation genuflecting to a screen both warm and cold
- Education is a hallway with a thousand numbered doors
- And the teachers only carry keys that fit the corporate floors
- So the curious get restless and they pace the corridor
- Looking for the handle that was never in the floor
- And the handles in the asking and the asking is ignored
- When the answers on the test sheet and the test sheet is the lord
- The light that fills the ceiling came from somewhere past the patents
- Rewritten in the ledgers by the lawyers and their rations
- A genius turned to ghost, the voltage filed in fractions
- The courts of commerce always force the vision into abstraction
- The system never honors what it cannot parcel into factions
- Then sells it back to builders after doubling the transaction
- Maps are made by those who moved the borders after conquest
- The legend on the corner shows the symbols for the context
- But theres never been a legend for the absent and the lost flesh
- The cartographers were careful never drafting what the cost meant
- So the document of record is a document of commerce
- And the commerce is the compass and the compass is the hostage
- In the knowing, but the knowing was a kettle calling better
- And the kettle was a parable for staying on the pedal
- While the bicycle keeps moving and the moving keeps the metal
- From the rusting, and the rusting is what happens when you settle
- Time is made of wax and only needs the right conditions
- What we call the permanent is subject to revisions
- In the presence of enough heat thats surrealisms mission
- Dali hung the clocks to melt because the clocks were prisons
- And the prison guards were calendars and schedules and decisions
- That convinced the mind the possible was blocked by its omissions
- Silence isnt empty its a frequency worth mining
- The deaf compose by touching what the hearing keeps declining
- Beethoven lost the surface but the structure kept on climbing
- Built the Ninth in silence thats a whole life worth of divining
- What the body thinks it needs before it starts aligning
- With the deeper signal underneath the obvious designing
- The Library of Alexandria is somewhere in the server
- And the server farm is burning through the power of the burner
- That the planet spent a million years converting into vapor
- Now converting into data at a rate that has no paper
- Wide enough to document the loss inside the labor
- of building something infinite from something finite, later
- Great Wall of China built by hands that never touched the palace
- And the palace never worried cause the wall absorbed the malice
- Of the outside but the outside was a mirror and the callous
- Truth was every walls a frame around the fear inside the chalice
- That the builders of the palace raised on Sundays with a solace
- That the gods of the dynasty would keep the cup in balance
- James Brown on the one beat, thats a sermon in a snare hit
- Every function of a culture is embedded in the care that
- Goes into the rhythm that the rhythm section dares it
- To become a living document, the people who prepare it
- Never write the liner notes and history wont wear it
- But the body always knows the frequency and hears it
- The ocean doesnt know its name but knows exactly where its going
- Every current in the water is a sentence being spoken
- In a language pre linguistic, anterior to broken
- And the breaking of a wave is just a word thats been unfolding
- From a sentence formed in fathoms where the light was never holding
- And the light was never promised but the water kept on flowing
- The candle and the spotlight share the physics of the burning
- But the candle lights a conversation and the spotlight lights the yearning
- To be seen from farther distances, the gap between them turning
- Into everything that separates the intimate from performing
- And the performing isnt living, its the living re informing
- A performance of a life designed to keep the living norming
- Carbon is the alphabet the universe prefers for writing
- Hydrogen and oxygen complete the words for inviting
- New arrangements, new editions, with the new editions re igniting
- What the previous edition burned, and burning is the lighting
- That makes dark material visible, illuminating, brightening
- The oration is a weapon and the weapon has a record
- Cicero could bend a senate hall with just a lecture
- Laws that fed the legions came from syllables and texture
- Of a voice that knew the crowd, the demagogue instructor
- And the crowd was just the hammer and the orator the conductor
- So the music of a nation is whoever built the structure
- The shortest distance through a line requires going through it
- Payton never ran around he ran into it, truest
- Form of courage is the impact that you choose before you view it
- As an obstacle, the path is in the moment that you pursue it
- Not the moment after, not the preparation, doing it
- Is the whole philosophy, the rest is just reviewing it
- The flag was made of fabric and the fabric came from somewhere
- And the somewhere is a country and the country is a prayer
- That the founders of the country hoped the future wouldnt tear the
- Seams apart, but seams are where the pressure always tears there
- And the tearing is the testing and the testing is whats fair here
- And the fair is just a carnival and carnivals dont care there
- Fingerprints are maps of what the body went through forming
- In the womb, unique additions, never twice the same adorning
- Every human is a limited release without a warning
- Label, fragile, handle carefully the factory is morning
- Every morning is a different run, a different day of dawning
- And the dawn is just the data that the darkness kept on storing
- If the answer to the universe is forty two then Douglas
- Adams was a prophet and the prophet was the ruckus
- That the question always makes when it refuses to discuss its
- Own irrelevance, the question is the compass and the crux is
- Knowing what to do with all the beautiful and fuss that
- Comes from being conscious in a cosmos absent justice
- or full of it and only fools refuse to keep adjusting
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