ATROX – LOOK FURTHER

In the shade, in the cold, a grey pastry, a sallow dough. A giant lump of some ý/&%/ substance.
Wallowing in an over-sized glass jar. Quivering, gurgling. Reminding of muddy aspic. It looks so “/)&/”ý%. It makes me feel so ?)#/&?=`*,
Like a giant mite about to burst after gorging ichor. Taking *ý&()?*ý#”%& shapes. Stretching flabby limbs. Worming out of the jar
towards the yellow light.
Excreting a trail of milky pus through the surface rendering.
Outgrowths form in no time, Read more…

ATROX – NINE WISHES

Deep down in a smiling bucket swimming clouds.
If it was up to me this house would be almost seven hundred years old and more than thirteen kilometres tall.
I would sit in a rocking chair, creaking along with an out-of-tune piano and an orchestrion that always tricks me with ever-changing tempo
I’d be able to walk in the ceiling. I would eat nebula for supper. I would wear a necklace made of strung hailstones.
The well outside would be Read more…

ATROX – NINE WISHES

Deep down in a smiling bucket swimming clouds.
If it was up to me this house would be almost seven hundred years old and more than thirteen kilometres tall.
I would sit in a rocking chair, creaking along with an out-of-tune piano and an orchestrion that always tricks me with ever-changing tempo
I’d be able to walk in the ceiling. I would eat nebula for supper. I would wear a necklace made of strung hailstones.
The well outside would be Read more…

ATROX – LOOK FURTHER

In the shade, in the cold, a grey pastry, a sallow dough. A giant lump of some ý/&%/ substance.
Wallowing in an over-sized glass jar. Quivering, gurgling. Reminding of muddy aspic. It looks so “/)&/”ý%. It makes me feel so ?)#/&?=`*,
Like a giant mite about to burst after gorging ichor. Taking *ý&()?*ý#”%& shapes. Stretching flabby limbs. Worming out of the jar
towards the yellow light.
Excreting a trail of milky pus through the surface rendering.
Outgrowths form in no time, Read more…

ATROX – THIS VIGIL

We’ve been blind pretending we can see
Been as dazed as dazed can be
We’d turn up to the light to see what the darkness looks like

Let’s share this vigil

I would sing you a lullaby
If I wanted you to fall asleep
I would tell the truth
If I wanted you to fall from grace
I would make you murder me
If I wanted you to fall apart

ATROX – BURNING BRIDGES

If you can’t cope with the answers don’t bother to ask
If you can’t cope with the sights don’t bother to look

Once you’ve seen it you can’t make it unseen
Once you’ve heard it you can’t make it unheard

You just stay ignorant
The easier it is to fool you
All you’ll know is
That you just don’t know

- Relax my intention is absolutely not to tell you that…
Lalala I’m not listening
- Don’t worry I can assure you my intention is not Read more…

ATROX – CHANGELING

Do not leave. Leave me weak. Do not leave me alone with this loony they say is me.
A mooncalf – I am in panic, I am manic. A changeling. Pinioned, crippled. I am, believe.
I can’t come to terms with the terrestrials. I can’t come to terms with me.
A lifetime’s worth of tears gathered up in me. I’ve been on the verge of tears all my life. How can you be me?
I’m postponing my life again as Read more…

ATROX – METHODS OF SURVIVAL

At times I’m so preoccupied running
I forget paying attention to where I’m going
At times I’m so busy reaching ecstacy
I forget paying attention to all other needs

We’ve all got our methods of survival
These are mine

Shoo away the annoying dandelion seeds
Chase a katzenjammer violin up a tree
Startle the birds so they take off
With the entire lake in their feathers

At times I’m so busy avoiding trouble
I forget paying attention to what I miss out on

These everchanging methods of survival

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ATROX – A MINDS ESCAPE

Mesmerised

A minds escape
Rejection of reality
Mesmerised
A minds escape

ATROX – TRANSLUNARIA

Borrow my imagination for a little while. How can I comfort you? You say you like it this way. Night or day – it’s the same to you.
Until that day I plant mercury globeflowers in my garden and until that night your beams make the flowers explode and spread your seeds.
Comfort? Yeah like putting plasters on a limb consumed by leprosy. Comfort? Yeah like sticking the head in the sand.
I conjured a miserable creature for you. Read more…