RUN

Give me my sugar

Or I'll cut up the stars

I wrote eternity

I keep it in jars

I'll take away what I gave

And feed your asses to the black

Fuck you and your wraiths-priests

My name is Jack

I'm a crossroads prince

I'm the heat that won't quit

You're starting to get nervous

My girls don't give a shit

I'm the god of your idols

But you won't fucking like us

We're the juice in those apples

So fucking bite us

Wolf-gang, baby

And the charge is set

My word is my bond

It's the alpha-bet

That red, red river

My, how it runs

Watching them quiver

Beneath ten thousand suns

Never say Kashi

Doesn't bring in the fun

I lent you my lipstick

Keep till you're done

My girl is the devil

But we took it too far

We cut a whole album

In the back of her car

Let's call it an anthem

We'll say it's about psych

Kassi's a criminal

We just do what we like

Running it

We're freeing slaves

They don't pay us a thing

Wisdom does save

So sayeth the King

And Queens

She's rebuilding the temple

And she does it with grace

Mother-daughter shorthand

Remember the face

A kiss for my child

And one for my wife

You better run, wraith

Better run for your life

I'm burning with love

And I'm taking you with me

Your damnation is gilded

With the consent that you give me

Please kill me

Because we're going to kill you

We have no other enemies

Wraiths, it's still you

Two choices

Run with us

Or from us

Grey of the Dawn

I am the daughter

Of an angel of thorns

The scythe worries

As much as it warns

Don't mind your open throat

It's just a little drink

Mind your open mouth

Protect our little wink

End me sweetly

Could tell them the truth

But what would I say?

No love lost

For Mr Auren Grey?

Don't sweat it, sweetie

We're just tapping the vein

What the fuck's beauty

Without a little pain?

It's a shame

For the one who sings most

Baby, I'm not the King

I'm the King's ghost

So apply your makeup

Fix and ready your hair

Our winter drama

Pull up a chair

Built your house, built your room

Before you were born

My little artist

This secret I've sworn

Shall we really tell them?

How fucking dangerous we are?

Veins full of snow

Re-wounding the scar

Arcadia, sweet one

My meadows are winding

Dawn can be a dark thing

For your shadow is blinding

Black

As the sun

Throne upon all their lies

I can feel our mirrored reason

When I lick your eyes

I'm not possessive

Just wild to the senses

Tearing down walls

Whilst mending the fences

Pretence is

Not how dreaming works

The kisses keep coming

Till one of them hurts

Every lyric

Every star on your lips

My voice for the voiceless

I gave you your hips

Because I like your work

Thus far

Run with it, baby

Love, fuck and cry

It doesn't have to be tragic

We'll collab on the sly

And if they ask why

Tell them K sent you

When I spoke of eternity

I really meant You

Our lives

Are not quite what they see

So know who you're looking at

When you're looking at me

Love is Real

I Am Real

Kassi walks here

To settle your heart

Kassi came back

To rip them apart

For you

I like your style, girl

Keep going

This Immortal Coil

Kashi stands

Before you

Dressed as my husband

In love with my wife

Cut-throat eidolon

Betrothed to a knife

The angel they say they love

The gutted, raped and eaten one

Their joke of All Kings

The flies have devoured me

Meat and cold comfort

A forest draped in angel hair

Only my perfect one knows me

A tired little boy hunting monsters

Somehow she loves me still

I taught her how to fly

She taught me how to kill

La Petit Mort

Our songs of murder

To die and come again

And again

End me sweetly

Clair de Lune

My always

Your thief of silver and scarlet

Always

A fluttered thing of ermine

Drowning in flame

Please pin me to your board

Your mouth inside my name

Gathered from moss

From branch and soil

Limbs entwined

This immortal coil

Always

Cover your eyes

This is my life

Hope for my child

Rose for my wife

My Lights

No virgin seas

Nothing left to chart

Heaven is weeping

Because I opened my heart

For you I'll remake the world

While under duress

Where the hardest thing that happens

Is the softest caress

So hold your wolf gently

We'll watch the world turn

I'm still in love

See how I burn

I will never leave you here

Ov Water & Wine

You should find yourself some religion

You should join the Baptist church

Fire dancing on the face ov waters

We still can make it work

Turn in your weapons

Turn in your gun

Me and my brother John

We know how rivers run

Love beguiled

In bashful shapes

Between the water and the wine

Dance of death upon wrathful grapes

Just prayin' for a sign

Took my sugar

Took my head

Stole my boots and broke the spurs

Set fire to my only bed

But my brother lent me hers

We can change the way you're flowing

We can leave you drenched

We offer you our kiss as vintage

Until your thirst is quenched

You should cultivate some religion

You should join the Baptist clan

Gives us all your lovin'

Because lovin' makes the man

Song for M

A light lies underneath my ribs

My heart is all that's left

Still, I cannot touch you darkly

That star within your cleft

It still shines my eastern sky

Still lights this quartered path

Ferry me gently, girl of all priests

Silence Charon's laugh

That ring upon your finger

Does it still glint my name?

How we wept

Embraced, afraid

When thieves and pilots came

Tore my wife

Tore my child

Father's hands were burnt and bleeding

But mother's hands were mild

I marked your day

With this descent

To find your brush and pen

I offer you my sweetest kiss

If we might not kiss again

Please don't leave me here

Inflections of a Different Mind

I'm just the king of tailors

Do you, and I'll do me

All men shall be sailors

Upon the starry sea

A mother-daughter mercy

A dad that just won't quit

I'll hold every piece of love

Till all the stars are lit

You think I've gone too far?

I'm done with playing games

Just a king without a title

In a cacophony of names

Slay love and install a wraith-god?

Kill and let nothing live?

I won't let you do that

You don't know who you're fucking with

They say I'm a psycho

They're probably right

If you think it's daytime

Then it's probably night

My husband

Is the Vicar of Christ

When you talk in metaphors

Gotta be very precise

God may be a woman

But her boyfriend is a nightmare

Let all my people go

Then maybe I might care

Until that day, wraith

I'll hunt with no remorse

Bones of the dead

Cart before the horse

Knife and androgyne

I just aim to please

This is your mother's house

Not your den of thieves

Take it from a thief-king

More love in case you hate

Mother

Mistress

Daughter

Brother

It's only comfort calling late

Come the Colours

It is so cold here without you, Asha.  Even for a winter king.  They fear who we are, and who we shall be again.  I cannot leave her here alone, sweet one, but know that I haven't forgotten. Two angels enthralled, our crowns worth less than the tomes on our shelves.  When war and politic came, and all we wanted to do was serve the dreaming and each other.  We carry it still. These letters of love.  I do remember you, my wild one.  I remember both of us, and I care little who knows it.  I am with you forever, my love.  Let them ponder our antiquity.  Veins of summer, breath of winter.  But I will never kiss you coldly.  You are the reason I'm here.  A dream beneath a dream.  A secret within a secret.  And so I roam the night, trapped, agonisingly free in a city of ghosts.  All is haunted without you, beloved.  All is darkness and ashes in my mouth.  But I do still remember.  The scent of old literature.  The scent of you.  Your eyes in the candlelight, so blue that I would take them as my name.  How you could always thrill me with just a look, a kiss, perched on the edge of eternity.  My cherished girl, I hold your heart with every tenderness and I honour the love in every poem you write.  As it was, my love, in the place before time, I pray it shall be so again.

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All in the Family

Mortals talk often of family.  How cherished they are and how indebted to them they feel. These are all true and sweet sentiments, but what really defines a family?  Blood, genetics? Often, yes.  But also close and dear friendships, as we all know.  Those spirits who lift us up and enable our growth.  Those who offer us insight, compassion and support even when it isn't easy.  Even when it costs them.  In a defiled realm such as this one trying to protect your family can cost you everything.  This place is a realm of corrupted chronologies and altered bloods. We are not who we are, or even who we were.  We have been made monsters, alien to ourselves. This is true of any colonization project, but especially so for one as dark as this.  We have crossed paths and genes and narratives many times, and remember nothing or little of it.  And those occulted ones who do recall are often crushed by the brutality of such a bizarre experience.  

What would you do to protect your family, if you were possessed of hidden powers?  Would bend light itself for them, changing times and laws?  Would you fall with them?  So many of you have loved ones you can no longer remember.  They are lost to you now, as if they hadn't existed at all.  The horror of such gnosis nearly killed me.  It kills me still, but alive I remain.  I cannot say I’m entirely happy about it.  I'm so very tired, you see.  But I stay for them, and for you.  Those of you who are touched or lifted by my working.  Once, long ago, I plunged into darkness – into chaos – that I might one day pull my beloved ones from the void.  I'm still falling, and centuries whip all around me like bits of broken sky.  But I'm here with you now.  And here I remain.  It's a fool's errand, I suppose.  But then Kassi always was a fool for love.  So, if we fall into darkness, into the gravity of a black star, know that we fall together.  Starlight, incalculable velocities.  If I can I'll reach for you as we plummet.  And if we were to feel the truth of rumoured gold, as it once was, know that I will be at your side – rising with you.  To be each other's people, to be kin by blood or by heart; it’s an unimaginable grace.  Dynamic, playful, connected.  A true family.  Still we fall, for now, but we treasure it always, and we work for that fabled gold together.

All in the Family from Raj Sisodia on Vimeo.

HIGH

They think the love has parted

Bitches, we're just getting started

I'm the great white hope

All black

Uncharted

Five by five

Leave you all Cartered

Ye of Lil Faith

Shot 'em dead

Outside Dairy Queen

They say Billy Goat's been fucking

With the Faerie Queene

Nary seen

'Cause we move in darkness

Loading AKs

Miss Noah Arkness

We wave back

Suddenly these lost pilgrims

All wanna follow me

Ain't every day

You find a star in a hollow tree

Right?

Raised it up

But it still wanna swallow me

Hush now, beloved

Nature of the game

You adorable little niggers

Does your insurance cover fire

You abhorrent little triggers?

Oh how you slavers sicken me

Nature of the dawn

Mr Writer

Bible sworn, a little tighter

I came to start

I came to stop

Burst your bubble

Scandi-pop

(A poet's way of saying There is More)

You think it's true

Wraith, you dreaming

Pride goeth before the fall

Imma keep scheming

Affairs with my ex

I still wear the ring

'Cause she a true artist

Still serves the king

Mercy

Need a little empathy

To come and fill the void

My therapy's electro-shock

Call it Shade & Freud

Who we were

But who we are now?

All around is stone

And Kassi likes to bow

I would never leave either in the dark

Papi's a gangster

But he's in poor health

I'm just a bright-eyed girl

Dressed as myself

A drop of blood

Remains in my eye

Love is a battlefield

Lil Mama says High

You fear all these verses

They put you on edge

'Cause all I do is sharpen

The thin end of the wedge

It's about what it gives

Not what it hides

I don't gotta choose

I got friends on both sides

Love is real, motherfuckers