by Kaero Davis
Bitter Lemons
Yeah, I got a real raw deal this lot,
Better make a meal of it before it decays and rots,
Make the most of it – give it all that I’ve got,
And be sure to never stop once up on top,
Take these bitter lemons,
Turn it to somethin’ to get sellin’,
Crush these little bitter lemons,
Turn it to something worth selling,
Taking the ancient, beaten up path,
Breaking the barriers – pass the aftermath,
Standing strong through to the very last,
Blast on through for the final laugh,
I’m takin’ this Hell,
And makin’ a name for myself,
Yeah I’m takin’ hold of this Hell,
And makin’ a hell of a success for myself,
Ride this rail on to the end,
Follow this trail round it’s bends,
Make up for all missed amends,
See if I can’t soon ascend,
Take these bitter lemons with all of their Hell,
Make somethin’ worth sellin’ – a name for myself,
Crush these bitter lemons – ahold of all it’s Hell,
Squeeze somethin’ worth sellin’ – some success for myself…
Take these bitter lemons,
Turn it to somethin’ to get sellin’,
Crush these little bitter lemons,
Turn it to something worth selling,
I’m takin’ this Hell,
And makin’ a name for myself,
Yeah I’m takin’ hold of this Hell,
And makin’ a hell of a success for myself,
Exit Scenario
“I know I’m not so different to anybody else, most definitely not any better – it’s just how we decide to deal with things that determines our character. Some of the most beautiful, intelligent, kind and caring, compassionate people are often the most damaged. And unless you’ve been afflicted and previously tormented – you’ll never really understand. Things can be and most often are difficult to explain unless you’ve had a great deal of time handling these experiences in the matter and been lucky enough to cogitate them long and well enough to understand any of their reasoning. But it does help reading into things a little more to try to grasp a handle on it. We aren’t alone, there are others like us – and such things like group therapy or an interaction with others unfortunate enough to feel what you’re going through, can elevate your spirits just a little more and surprisingly opens your eyes just that little bit extra. Journal entries and poetry help me, reading different accounts and being witness to countless other scenarios has helped also. I like humour, I feel it’s gotten me through no matter how dark it is – I feel desensitized to it and have an amount of immunity to it – though I fear others not so much. So, I’m taking all my bitter lemons and placing them on display for all to see, for all to read, for all to feel and above all – desensitizing those who haven’t yet fought through irrational thoughts on all stigma we face dealing with each our own individual paths. And hopefully, enjoy some laughs along the course of the journey.” – Velb.
Enter Scenario
“A business man is a man of solutions. He could just about sell anything to anyone and it starts with a kind of relativity. To find a way in which what you’ve got will benefit others. Having an explanation to how whatever product will solve any underlying issue the client has already. Relating to them in a way that the product to sell will benefit them in ways and for things they wouldn’t normally have explored before. And if they have, then the key to sell is outlining why this particular product is superior to the last previously encountered. Feedback of course will help excel a successful sale. Examples where feedback can enhance the perspective of uses – heavily emphasised on the audience. And it doesn’t often have to be a reliable feedback to help to sell. Actors can and often are employed to better sell the experience of the product. And actors explaining the success of the product will amplify the rate at which is determined whether or not a product will sell. Positive talk – repetition – emphasis, and more will determine how it sells. A spiel, knowing what to say – a carefully crafted script often memorised well – the what to say, the how to say it and the when are keys. If the seller believes he’s got a product he knows will absolutely blow the audience away – he’s going to be a higher rated seller than his colleagues. If he can sell with a selection of appropriate key words and an exceptional enthusiasm – he will have the preference, he will have a better go with the customer. He’ll need to rely on the anguish the audience has already encountered with similar products and emphasis a like-anguish to get closer reception, preferable responses to the relativity but then swing away with something new, exciting, interesting – refreshing. If you can excite this in an audience – you’ve got a chance above the rest. Being good isn’t the goal anymore – being better at it is. What sets this product apart from the others in its’ range? How is this any better than the other? Why would I feel any different about this compared to others?
Sometimes it takes good thought projecting out the answers to all the questions – sometimes it requires knowing everything you can about the market – but it also takes persistence, it takes knowing everything about what you’re getting into, it takes being wily with your words, covering all the questions. You’ve gotta be a real silver-tongue, a story-teller – might even go as far as telling lies… well, maybe – but sugar-coating? Yep.” – Ruek.
Build Me A Business Man
Build me a Business man no one could resist,
The supreme of all wordsmith’s ever to exist,
A slick, suave, sophisticated talker quick with wit,
Touch others deep once and make their eyes wide lit,
I’ll find the sharpest suit,
Cover over my tattoos,
Shave the ragged beard off my chin,
Switch my grim attitude to win,
Smile a wide tooth gleaming grin,
And sling the sweetest deal spin,
Assume their wants are as much a need,
Flawlessly surpass any challenge I meet,
Once I’ve learnt all the lingo,
I’ll soon be cheering bingo,
Have them folk all rolling in,
Fighting for the best bargains,
Build me the Business man no one would resist,
The ultimate of wordsmith’s to ever had exist,
A slick, suave, sophisticated talker quick with wit,
To touch others deep just once and make their eyes wide lit,
Everyday a deal’s done,
I’m lookin’ more like number one,
Making marketing look easy,
Less the greasy and the sleazy,
I wanna be the go to man,
To satisfy and shake their hands,
Highest quality on demand,
The finest in the land,
To have something everyone desires,
And sell with the courage most admire,
That the best quality is never returned,
Such a quality well afore yearned,
Rebuild me as the Business man no one will resist,
A highly sought-after wordsmith to make the sales bliss,
The slickest, suavest, sophisticated talker quick with wit,
To only touch others once and make their eyes wide lit.
Exit Scenario
“Sweeten the sound. Soften the blow. Give ’e more than they need to know. Sugar-coat it, tell of all the things they can do with it, from it – the experiences whether planned or spontaneous. Tell the audience things they can get out of it that they normally wouldn’t think about. Inspire them. Tell them it’s popular, and if it’s not – tell them it soon will b
e at the rate the sales are going. I will be, I want to be – especially as an artist and writer – if I wish to sell my art and my writing – I’d have to explain how my art and literature would/ could benefit another. Especially when there are millions of others out there to contend with. Thousands already at the top of their game and thousands more on the rise. I would have to take the time to define what it is about me that sets me aside from the others. And when there are competitions – there will be challenges – as well as the ground rules to participating in the game. You’ve just got to do it exceptionally better than the rest. And if you don’t – if there is no easy way – then it’s a matter of getting creative. Rise to the challenge but in your own special definitive way, own what you do, do what you do best, better than anybody else. If you specialize in a particular genre of something – get further creative there – think outside the box – or inside, reach out to the darker, less travelled recesses of the mind and draw from it a creativity never seen before. Draw out that which you are uncomfortable with in general and get to broadening it out. For now, I’m going to stick with what I know and run with it as far as I can. And when I come to rest – survey the scape in my mind I rarely visit and practice outside my realm of the ‘norm’ in the time I do have for myself. I will practice all I know and eventually I will have built myself a businessman.” – Ruek.
Enter Scenario
“Sweet, sweet coping mechanism. The only problem I have with you is when I don’t have you. Occasionally I can handle going without but only when I’ve made peace with mental preparation. Your sedative properties soothe me, slowing the erratic pace of my brain down – giving me a kind of calm patience, making it easier for me to rationalize in those moments I might normally blow my stack and lose my shit. Somehow this beautiful Green Botannica simultaneously soothes the nerves and mellows me out and I am slowed to a more collected nature. I can rationalize and be in a peaceful, more elevated state.” – Xugzeid-Mein.
Copia Mechannica
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Soak into my system like once long before,
Come back to me, peacefully restore,
Beautiful green Botannica
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Blessed be are the stoned,
Arise my high, let me atone,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Open my mind for fresh insight,
Walking from darkness into the light,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Distract my thoughts for negative strife,
Amplify my love for nature and life,
Beautiful green Botannica
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
You’re a risk I love to take,
Worth more than gold in weight,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
You know I’ll never hesitate,
To receive your tranceful euphoric state,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Your satisfactions never cease,
You’re my pain and stress release,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
You’ve less credit than you deserve,
Always easily soothing nerves,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Let everyone wish to participate,
Allow the communes to initiate,
Beautiful green Botannica,
My sweet Copia Mechannica,
Where minds and spirits can elevate,
I will never deviate.
Exit Scenario
“The kind of person I am gets so agitated so quickly. Reckless, careless, vicious, critical. And I can’t often contain all that within myself. I don’t have any knowledge of any methods or strategies I can use to alleviate myself of pressure and stress – I don’t know of any techniques I can employ to deter my mood and behaviour becoming insanely out of control. Because it does. On occasion the emotion and anxiety build within me and I have no other way of safely releasing that explosive negative energy apart from doing just that – exploding. And I am extreme – intense – saying vicious things, over-reacting outrageously so (it seems,) full blast. I figuratively strip back all who stand in my way to a bare sensitivity, vulnerability and none can do more than naught about it. They’re caught completely off guard and often undeservedly. BUT, as God is my witness, Marijuana seems to settle that rage, soothe that fierce blaze within me and calm me to a peaceful state, and I am compliant, coherent, and far more capable of getting along with others. Less of a hazard to myself and others. It’s always only temporary and I know, but while I can’t seem to get therapy – I find it’s a fucking good start, maintaining within me that capable, stable, centred mind. Rational, patient, calm, and at peace. My coping mechanism, my – Copia Mechannica…” – Xugzeid-Mein.
Enter Scenario
“See this? Yeah, it’s my ride, and it’s the best there is out there. You’re jealous aren’t you, well – hands off! I paid high price for this. Right – that’s it! Go away! – I see that look in your eye – you want it all for yourself, well – that’s never gonna happen, I don’t think I can trust you now GO – BUZZ OFF! What? Are you deaf? Are you stupid? Get out of the way I’m coming through – you heard me douchebag – MOVE IT, aww now you makin’ me mad pal – I said scram – GET LOST! No – you’re not allowed anywhere near it, No, stop – don’t! I’m warning you quit it! Bugger off!
(Pulls out a pistol and fires at the nuisance. *THUD* the body falls and the shooter turns to face the audience.)
“Let that be a lesson to you, leave my ride alone – I sold my soul for this, I’ll die before I let it slip through my fingers. ’Cause it’s a hot arse ride that’s why – now, hear my song I made up about it. It goes like this;” – Tooki.
Creamin’ Demon
Yeah – I’m a devil with a hot arse ride,
I shred and spit out rubber fish-tailin’ a slide,
Got a sick soundin’ system cranked right up inside,
Yeah – everywhere I go I skite about my pride,
It gets me to where I need to be like lightening,
I’m sure many folk will say it’s frightening,
And as I accelerate – my grip begins tightening,
The higher the velocity – the furthermore exciting,
When I’m behind the wheel I’ve got no fear,
Not very long before I’m up your rear,
Its’ pin-point precision is marvellous to steer,
Your reaction time must be fast at passing others up near,
It’s the kind of machine you’d bargain souls for,
Anyone would cream at the sounds of the engines roar,
An Ace of an oasis that anyone ever saw,
Its smiles all round with the foot flat to the floor,
The interior is cushy and as soft as a feather,
None are as superior to provide such pleasure,
The paint on the exterior glimmers like treasure,
My connection with this beast cannot be severed,
Yeah – I’m a devil with a hot arse ride,
I shred and spit out rubber fish-tailin’ a slide,
Got a sick soundin’ system cranked right up inside,
Everywhere I go I skite about my pride,
It’s the kind of machine you’d bargain souls for,
It’s got this demon creamin’ at the engines roar,
An ace of an oasis that anyone ever saw,
Its smiles all around when the foot’s flat to the floor
Exit Scenario
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nbsp; “So, there you go, I’d die for it ’cause it’s so glorious but you’ll never drive it, you’ll never get a ride in it, it’s mine – mine I tell ya, ahahahahahahahahahahaha, now go away. That is all.
(The guy approaches his car and starts rubbing and stroking the machine, making cooing and purring sounds and blowing kisses as if provoking acts of love to a woman. The cars’ engine revs up a couple of times and we the audience, all hear the growl through the exhaust. And the curtains are then drawn closed.)” – Tooki.
Enter Scenario
“I have a theory that the world, the primitive ways in which we think, haven’t yet evolved at a critical mass as much as our technological ways have. For as long as there have been the greatest thinkers – there have always been those who object, scrutinize and set forth merely to cease any new means for development of evolution – or for the matter of the ceasing of intelligence. Millions of stories exist for moral support – fictional works not to be taken seriously as a whole but sincerely for the sole message portrayed within each fictional account or interpretation. The moral – the lesson in which the conflict is appropriately, responsibly, sensibly, and maturely corrected between the protagonist and antagonist. And for as long as our first beginning lesser forms – cavemen, we’ve told stories of heroes and villains, but since the dawn of our existence we had a more primitive attitude towards the tolerance and co-existence alongside various races and tribes separate and very different to ours, the one we’re used to. We shunned any radical forward thinking back then – people did it around the fabled times of Christ, Einstein, Hitler, and all through the times to still even now. The difference is we barely know what the hell it was like in the distant past, corrupt governments and world leaders – makes me wonder such things like – why Edgar Allen Poe was poisoned. His killer was never caught, no proper toxicology examinations existed then nor any after his remains in modern times – and a theory of mine to that was he’d stumbled on a secret and threatened to publish it and then soon after wound up dead. For all we know it could’ve even been an affair gone wrong between him and his lover’s fiancé – nor how terrible the political status might’ve been in the United Kingdom, to have overcrowded jails that convicts were shipped elsewhere. Could’ve been something like how Australia was settled by the convicts from out yonder there. Apologies, I meandered. Throughout time the world hasn’t managed very well to throw out the lapse in the civilized world. Not all of us are as honourable as we claim we are. People lie and cheat to save their skins and get ahead. How can they ever consider receiving any karma of negative energy for the waves they make – the ripples distorting the peace in the calm. How can they never realize it’s come back around on them to rectify what destruction they’d left? There is no honour in hiding behind any sort of blockade – in any sense – to shield you from your own undoing. And people don’t think about it often enough. Most of them probably couldn’t care that it does, just because it’s happened too often – and they won’t ever adjust their attitude according to their luck. People have got to learn to take a ‘no’ for an answer the first time – if need be. So long as there’s a reasonable explanation. Who wants to be respected for being an arsehole? I couldn’t ever respect anyone being an arsehole, justifies their sickest hypocritical selfish desires. And to sell your mates out for a temporary moment of saving your own arse – or to get ahead of them, one up on them? How fucking dare you be so low? You’re not thinking any bigger.” – Buo.