Outis - "Placebo Heart" | A Slam Poem

Announcing the release of my new slam poem "Placebo Heart". Over time, It has become clear to me that the people who thrive in the western world are those who continuously accelerate the status quo. So long as you're excessively caught up in mundanity, you'll have a virtually bottomless supply of food, property, and a sense of belonging.

In this poem I express my disillusionment of said ways of civilization. 

I enjoyed creating absurdly fictitious sea creatures and mixed metaphors to express my disillusionment and reveal how hypocritical the average person is. 

ex: jalapeno jaguars, artichoke sharks, drowning an alligator, etc.

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Lyrics:

What's a poet to do when he hears music coming out of airvents?

There's a splinter in my soul and no muse can care for it

But is a fisherman off duty considered an empty fine line?

I don't know what to do when questions become answers

Or when authenticity becomes primitivity, stuck in a time warp

I'm just trying to navigate my ship to the ever-changing port

But it's flooded with jalapeno jaguars and artichoke sharks

So I'm stuck with this placebo flashback for a heart

Yo your darkness plagues me with bad lies and artificial experiences

There's no brighter side of the crass, just this rough patch

So I'm paying homage to the art of articulating things

So feel free to see the outside, but ignore the core of it

The top half of me's vibrant, but the bottom feels dead

We're only related in the sense it's biologically accurate

And any problem you got with that isn't my job to deal with 

So I'm smashing the heads of water snakes with golden chains,

Using my bald ego to drown alligators in wailing waves!