What do you think the lyrics to Aesop Rock's "Catacomb Kids." It is a rap song, but Aesop Rock is such a good poet.
Lyrics (copied directly from the lyric book, free download at definitivejux.net):
i was a dark, dumb student. no hookey rookie, daytrippin
? on visions of chickens that look like R. Crumb
drew ?em, they grew him in the royal dirt of suffolk
county?s flooring with the blood of an alcoholic clergyman
in his forearms. long island was porn stars and
puppies pushing sniffles, fit into the aforementioned
or slip through the pinholes. ?zook? slip through the
pinholes, crispy the godsender, who thunk over a quarter
plunk to local mortal kom vendor. broke the formal
squad sensor, root down, feelers out across the marsh
before it was “awesome cars!”, my calling card cavalry
cook in a ?85 dodge aries, with gas for huntington and
back barely. equipped with super-soakers full of piss
and an uncanny knack for constantly upsetting pigs by
doing stupid ****, the kid pilot his ring king dummies to
king kullen, where they hollered “**** the world!” from
a parking lot in the suburbs, a couple spray cans and
a little litter, but they?d look at us like swindlers with
them ricky kasso jitters, so **** ?em, a glutton sunk
into the alley for props, but things will still go bump
when them halogens pop, believe, or be there when it
happens, the shaking of the plates off the mantle, the
snaking of the flames off the candle, the lady of the
lake off the answers, the mating of mistakes ?til they?re
de-planing cadavers, now it?s rest in peace lou peterson
who?s heater sung disturbingly to further re-evaluate
your beast of burden?s urgency, damn doggy, good
times, thanks. i wrote your name in wet cement by the
brooklyn banks.
[chorus]
activator, made a fire, made a wheel, made a snack for
later, catacomb kids cuddle a fantastic labor, when the
town speed freak sleeps trap the traitor, he will ask for
paper, say i?m an activator, made a roof, made a weapon,
made a flag per acre, by the snotty little nozzle of
a latch-key neighbor, when the folk push aggie over
some dap with ?gators, he will catch the vapors.
a couple playboy mud-flaps and hell on his heels,
beautifully echoed in the pace at which he shovel his
meals, like not a farmer among us had a harvest survive
the winter, so dinner split a lima bean in triplets,
pick a winer, it took a couple summers pukin? pills
behind the dumpster, as the largest pez dispenser on
record recouped his numbers, one shoe in the soupy
gutter, one shoe in a velvet heaven, where the mermaids
harlem shake up out a lake of melted weapons,
he could dance pretty with the hooligan nation, who
are impatiently awaiting zookeeper facelift, extra,
the days of yore painted similar uber ape ****, we?ve
merely updated the ancient 8-bit, yeah, i?m dumber
than a cow on a roof in a flood who?s not as dumb as
the watered down beef from the burgers that jumped,
i?m dumber than a taz on a beach chair with a martini,
who?s not as dumb as a tat with the same scenery,
sparky nails pigs, stigmata for all, good sport, garbage
pail kids unite at the mall food court, and chase cheese
fries with binaca, they had shut the school down early,
there were bombs inside the lockers, no concept of
the problem we responded like a snow-day, and would
clobber **** to flotsam ?til the cop said it was ok, ok,
show the squadrons back into their boxes like his
breakfast club of hotheads show no progress to the
doctors, and i walk into the office coughin? awful ether,
often flaunt a parking meter fever knuckle up for love
and rockets, it was rain of the razor laser, day of the
cloudy howdy, flight of the shelter melter, you can bow
without me, i?m an...
[chorus]Possible interpretations of Catacomb Kids?
he certainly has a lot of strong visual and a strong cadence to his poetry
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