Fair Warning

from Wonder, Doubt And Curiosity by David McIntire/Greg Segal

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GS: "Fair Warning": This one got a kind of Crimson-metal treatment, and I purposely felt, rather than counted, the weird meters that the three instruments overlap each other with. It's sort of an unconscious musical tangle that somehow functions coherently, and presents a face of composed assuredness, while the underpinning is full of doubt, bluff and flying by the seat of the pants, as the poem indicates.

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This is Fair Warning!

I will not accept the language that you place upon my tongue

I will not accept the lies that you place upon my lips

The misdirections and obfuscations that you try to insert

will not cleave to my consciousness

I will grin and bare my teeth to barricade against

the misnomers you wield with shameless abandon

I will refuse your constructions and deductions

they do not hold sway

It is my intention

to hold you accountable

for the uncountable

It is my perception

that my reception

is insurmountable

I will refuse your assertions of reality

I will continue to deny what you claim to be true

The words you use drip with falsity and fear

the lubrication of lies

Your language serves only to perpetuate deception

your vocabulary consists only of misdirection

your sentences permeated with ill intent

will not penetrate my understanding

I do not accept your language

I will not retain the lies

I do not accept your language

My mouth doesn't stretch to that size

my tongue will not speak your language

my mouth will not form your words

my lips will not shape the sounds

my ears hear only a whirr

I will not accept the language that would only soil my mouth

I will not utilize the untruths that would blister my lips

your sinister dictionary is quite contrary and

I will not accept your language

I will not accept your language

I will not accept your language

(c) David McIntire

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from Wonder, Doubt And Curiosity, released May 18, 2014
written and performed by David McIntire (poetry) and Greg Segal (music).

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