Feed me the ooey-gooey caramel fear
That sticks to the back of my molars
With the threat of choking me to death.
.
Pile my mouth full of candy corn
Until the only breaths I can take
Are stained with the stench of sugar.
.
Pour bloody cocktails down my throat.
Make me swell with the sweetness
Of a different life well-lived.
.
Give me the knife and let me carve
My own happy jack-o-lanterns.
Let me stuff them full of spite.
.
The shadows creep out of my soul,
Slither across the moonlit ground.
Dark living in the dark, redundant.
.
Redundancy doesn't bother the immortal.
It doesn't bother the monsters.
The shadows don't mind.
.
So feed me the ooey-gooey caramels
That make me tremble with terror
And bring on the night of the ghosts.
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Silver Daux
Shadowed souls, cursed magic, poetry that tangles itself in your soul and yanks out the ugly darkness from within. Maybe there's something broken in me, but it's in you too.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (8)
i love this piece
Spooktacular! (Sorry!) great poem, Silver!
Hehehehehehhehe now this is my kinda poem! I freaking loved it!
Wow amazing poem.
Your persona has a wonderfully hybrid tone, credulous and imploring on one hand, bitter and cynical (even about their own words) on the other. This line is especially perspicacious and jaded: "Dark living in the dark, redundant."
This is great. Started out so sweet that I wanted the caramels, until I got to the third line. Then I busted out laughing and didn't want them anymore. Then the darkness set in. Really, really well done.
Halloween in its all it sweet glory!
Came for the Ooey Gooey, stayed for the awesome poem. Well done, Silver!