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Poseidon

from HUBRI$ by Kokayi

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Icky drowns (a metaphor for depression and survival)

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Funny how these waves break
Trends of your mens and nem
Fulcrum on the pressure
Got your finger on that lever
But when fear is like your synonym
How you gon’ maintain
When ship-to-shore’s a long way
You bout to walk this gangplank
The tide keep coming
You ride no drummer
bide time wave runner
23 skidoo no slope
Seadoo no hope
Your humanity’s like vanity
Vanishing manatee
Choppy seas equating dog
to weaker knees
So listen young I’m saying

You keep surviving
You keep on striving
Now even though you’re lost at sea
These waves colliding
And when the tides in
You’re diving in way too deep
You say you’re riding these waves that’s tidal
A wipeout ain’t so easy
I see your trident
You live with Poseidon
In the sea, the see, the sea

For nautical miles
The prodigal child
Is lost in the wild
And tossed in the vial
Deepest blue trench of the isle
The stench in the cloud
The smoke in the lungs
The fork in the tongue
You speak and I hum
The hurricane coming
You thundering son
And raising your flag
and pointing your Gun
Scalawag yo-ho and a
Bottle of rum
Now listen
Swearing that you black beard
Barely growing facial hair
Ain’t pillaging no villages
Your skirmishes is scrimmages
Scabbards ain’t sharpened
These harpies they got your harkening
I’ll lash you to the mast
and be the lighthouse
In your darkness

You keep surviving
You keep on striving
Now even though you’re lost at sea
These waves colliding
And when the tides in
You’re diving in way too deep
You say you’re riding these waves that’s tidal
A wipeout ain’t so easy
I see your trident
You live with Poseidon
In the sea, the see, the sea

On some Davy Jones locker shit
Heart up in the box
Cuba gooding with the bends
DeNiro in his socks
Charlize upon his arm
The men of honor
12 steps to freedom
Life preservor when I know that you are sinking
You see now
Larger fish in small puddles
don’t make concentric circles
They just flop about and gasp in deep
in trying to breathe by virtue
There ain’t enough like oxygen
within the flotsam and the bottoms end
It’s easy to feel
I think you need an
Ocean
so jump on in

You keep surviving
You keep on striving
Now even though you’re lost at sea
These waves colliding
And when the tides in
You’re diving in way too deep
You say you’re riding these waves that’s tidal
A wipeout ain’t so easy
I see your trident
You live with Poseidon
In the sea, the see, the sea

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from HUBRI$, released December 16, 2019

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Kokayi D.C.

Preeminent Improvisational vocalist. 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Grammy nominated artist, producer, author of You Are Ketchup and other fly music tales.

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