The Alex Show - 39

When you live amongst the shadows, you adapt to their form. Darkness encompasses you. It becomes your life-force, your oxygen. Without darkness you are nothing. 


ASIDE: A peculiar thought considering that the absence of something is nothing. However, within my born days, I have learned that "nothing" is far more eminent than most "somethings."


I have lived amongst the shadows, and I can tell you that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The faintest glimpse of light is only a false hope, for all it does is blind; the faintest sound, blaring. The sense of touch, however, is unparalleled. It awakens me, and transmits my shadow into a true and tangible form: a wall-clinger. It is here that I can make contact. It is here that I can act upon what the shadows have taught me: the only veritable way to defeat the darkness is to embrace it entirely. And I must say, the pupil has become the master. 


In every respect, I am now the world's deepest dread. I am now what you all must live amongst. I am your reckoning. I am the darkness. 


- afm

Two Bottles of Cola with Wonder Woman in the Middle

I've watched this scene play out/ again and again in my head/ and it always ends the same/ The decrepit victim/ holding his head in his hands/ Where should I begin/ The unusual suspects/ have all been placed/ in an orderly line/ outside of the station/ Count down from 1 to 10/ Where should I begin/ if the start of the trail is linked to the destination/ 


I've watched these buildings burn/ I've watched these walls turn red/ Consumed by the flames/ of the innocent/ When does fear set in/ The unusual suspects/ have all been spent/ wasted in alleys, buried in the cement/ Count down from 1 to 10/ Fear will set in/ once you open your eyes and recognize its existence/ 


Count down/ Count down/ Count down/ Count down/ And once you hit zero/ awake and arise with the dead/


There's nothing more dangerous than desperation/ There's nothing more dangerous than disputation/ with me/ 


- afm

The Greatest Piece of Fiction (That I Have Ever Read)

Time stands still for a moment short.
I remember what was said on that September night.
Don't go down, for the spate won't fall
Till September turns to blistering red October skies.


The colony is tapering out like a fire,
But soon it will desist. 
In time it will desist.
The movement of malformed machines
Take back the mantle of steel.

Time stands still for a moment short.

I remember what was said on that September night.

Don't go down, for the spate won't fall

Till September turns to blistering red October skies.

The colony is tapering out like a fire,

But soon it will desist. 

In time it will desist.
The movement of malformed machines

Take back the mantle of steel.

Once a cop, now a sheep. 
Once on top, now beneath
The rubble of the colony.
Once a God - a machine -
Now a cot made for sleep
Like a dynasty collapsing to ruins.


The sun chases your smile,
But your mouth is always closed.
The abyss which you created
Moves further past your nose. 
I will build ladders to towers to unknown dimensions
If only to see you nod,
But you're just a pawn used to aspire,
And you're still as fake as God.


You're just a pawn used to aspire,
And you're still fake as God.


- afm


circa 2008

The Alex Show - Episode 38

FLASH FLASH FLASH SPIN SPIN SPIN


_______: It's not what you say, it's what you don't say.


FLASH FLASH FLASH SPIN SPIN SPIN


You asked God why, 
And waited for a sign, 
So I struck you like lightning, 
But all you did was burn.


- afm

Red Cloud

Sleep.
Sleep away your days.
Buried in your daze,
You'll dance around this sphere


Cornered here
In the Earth
Where your thoughts
Are dispersed
Amongst the rulers
Of a mortal birth.


You'll dance around this sphere,
Disregarding fear
And the world above.
You'll live a life within a lie.
You'll reach your peak.
You can't deny
The fall.


It will catch you.
It will catch you.


- afm