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Double Sided Mirror

from The Anchor by Z the Stranger

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I’m numb to all this. When you watch me, are you sure you’re not looking at yourself? I live behind a double sided mirror.

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Why make this so complicated?
Conflagrate the congregation.
End the conversation. My saliva's pure capsaicin.
If I dream of killing shit then I'll ignite the room I'm staying in.
You're taken aback when I'm blazing a track.
I can see you can tell that the flow is amazing. In fact
I tear holes in space so I can enter the Matrix
Come back equipped to end your basic shit.
With or without a woman, I'm winning.
The winter's wings in the wind
When the wicked wordsmith has written
With a pen of penance.
A menace. You better run.
Never the clever one.
I'm sinking the setting sun on anyone wishing that I'm done.

You give me a nice laugh
Whenever you think you can fight back.
I’m standing on a tower of accolades: High stack.
Get your rope and pickaxe if you’re attempting to climb that.
I don’t want to be known as somebody who can write raps.
I tried that. People think it’s comedy.
Comparing me to Yachty in a context that’s anything but positive
Just because that’s all they comprehend of the genre I’m in.
Fuck being modest about it. I’m on my own path.
Never been wealthy, but I’m not sitting on my broke ass.
Never been pretty, my face looking like a dough ball.
I’d probably get rid of it if I could afford to blow cash.
(What about the whole cast?)
The schizo and the soldiers
And the children getting older
And the hydrophobic loner?
Am I wrong to say the distance between them and I is justified?
Maybe I’d see it differently looking through some other’s eyes.
Otherwise, fuck it. I’m moving on with the music.
A classic is out of mind and on paper. I put the truth in it.
I’m writing this letter to the tribes of people confusing this
With anything other than a union of streets producing shit.
Never to be missed.
You want to drive the game, but you're using Lyft.
Nothing personal but you mean nothing to me, kid.
Looking ugly. Still I call myself the beauty king.
Feeling moody? Swing
Out the box. A gut hook on your conscience.
My hands are so catchy, they’re stuck on your head. Got your body rocking.
Never thought death as an option.
I wanted to be gone, but instead I took it all in the process.
I’m numb to all this.
When you watch me, are you sure you’re not looking at yourself?
I live behind a double sided mirror.
I’m on the clear side so you won’t see no one else.
Expect no help

When it’s so complicated.
Conflagrate the congregation.
End the conversation. My saliva's pure capsaicin.
If I dream of killing shit then I'll ignite the room I'm staying in.
You're taken aback when I'm blazing a track.
I can see you can tell that the flow is amazing. In fact
I tear holes in space so I can enter the Matrix
Come back equipped to end your basic shit.
Never taking a seat.
I’m playing for keeps.
You’re saying “the weakest” and aiming at me.
You sound so entertaining to me.
It’s raining. Another nor’easter’s coming. Be prepared to be
Scared when I’m in your area
Storming. This is a rarity.

You give me a nice laugh
Whenever you’re trying to write back.
I’m turning away from your shit like a one-eyed jack.
You’re setting up the cameras. My flow is the time lapse.
Remember I was feeling king of hearts.
Now I’m the ace of diamonds.
I feel like I’m rich in nothingness.
I can pay you in silence.
… I’ve never been so inclined
To walk up to the queen of clubs just to ask her how her life’s been.
She says she used to move weight using two spades.
Now she’s using her two spades to move between two states.
A man and a child here, but her family’s miles away.
Better save some money however she can to stay alive today.
The father’s a joker. Not intentional. Just a trite display
Of one who isn’t right to pay the price. I wonder why she stays.
It’s no concern for her. She says she’s living right this way.
“What’s life if not a fight against the world? This is the part I play.”
We’re all actors.
Our script’s written in the masks that we wear to be protected from the masses.
We only open up laid on top of a mattress
‘Cause otherwise, opportunity is gaseous.
(Fuck.) I’ve been trying to take the mask off.
Future imprisonment. It’s all something that the past caused.
Caution: caustic thoughts are all in process.
The Loch Ness Monster wants a body to chomp in.
Slowly it will make it’s way out. Stay sound.
Quicker now. It’ll hunt for any challenger.
Anyone thinking they’re hard enough to try to display rounds.
I pause for a minute and at once I see
That the monster wreaking havoc looks just like me.
I see what I’ve become, and you can see too.
The mirror’s flipped. I’m not on the side I can see through.

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from The Anchor, released May 12, 2018

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Z the Stranger Rockland, Massachusetts

Allow for all to breathe air as clean as Eden. I will drown in the River Styx and keep the planet eternal, along with all the love in it. Your own beauty is yours and no one else's. I will inject the earth with the divine milk of a ghost's breast and the living will never go thirsty. I still remain a stranger to everyone. ... more

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