[Rhys Langston]

Hypnotic trance, slam dance

Igneous rock-

Star pants

Five-sided demands

Pentagonal defense

D flat major

On a war path

The sample line

Marching to Zion

Signed and rhyme

On tracks designed

A hero of one’s and zero’s

Binds the keys

Cuts strings

Then sterile

Colored playback

Circle race music track

Sour diesel oil change

Puff puff pass

Smog check passed:

Liner notes with ink black

3000 miles swap residue

Hue so dark

Tone walks the blues

Opaque Y chromosomes

Find homes

Mastering the mix of

City grooves:

Bruised headstock

Cop corner—stop—

Beat is dropped

First measure clicks

Spot the prison composition:

Arrangement sans volition

Sans volition

Superstition plus addition

[The] conductor ran up his tab

Swapping drinks with his buddy

Addiction

Gave up his keys

Just the white ones

Besides a flat tire sustained, rung

A stumble out the door

Then drunken yelling

“Johnny got his gun!”

Intoxicated by sound

Volume per drink

To the nearest round

Calculus Johnson EQ’d the bill

And drove him home through town

[Samples]

"We need money, Red Beans, Benny Rooster, Pomani."

"Vivaldi, Hendrix, Debussy, Sly Stone, Sex Pistols"

"We need money"

[Rhys Langston]

Meanwhile

22 stops between homeless man and cop

Lyrics in blues bar structure

Black with a mic

One dropped, popped

Hit the floor feedback pause

Pick it up

And we’re back

No cut to commercial

Bones of consumer, neck snap

Wishbone milkbone milk toast

Eviction of jazz

Black residences

Hip hop underground

Rail road tracks

Following north stardom

Sold down rivers past Khartoum

Paparazzi kept out by a border along the sun

A Nova Scotian Nubia and an ocean translation

New world cultural mirrors

Appropriating the creations