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Bottom feeders, and the bottom line,
Underachievers now undermine,
It's critical mass-market meltdown.
My bold ball-point can't be too fine.

Noisy neighbors share a wall.
Throw a stone, they've got the gall.
Lives in concert, no concern.
Who's going to pick up the bill for this free-for-all?

They can't step back, no interest in a separate path.
We have to bask, can't help but ask,
Why can't the babe throw his own bath?
Succumb or go, the principles over the undertow,
The function or the flow.
I'm declined for the demographic if I demonstrate the math.

Whitewash, wide appeal, wide load,
High-tail it down the low road.
Never started a niche from scratch.
It's rash, the steps erode.
No savior to dispatch,
And they fall. Faith can explode.
The flame has met its match.
The muse got burned, but it never showed.

Fashion, culture, style, grace,
Changing times, a timeless race.
They lapped me while they lap it up.
Yet it's my blood, so I've lost my pulse and pace.

It's not a heart that's beating. Who could keep their footing,
Or their finger on the rhythms? Compression or compassion, the rates are off-putting.
Inching forward, striding back, the reckless self-reverers
Never notice—always view themselves in vanity, in mirrors.

They can't step back, no interest in a separate path.
Remove the mask and face the task,
Just throw the babe; there was no bath.
Succumb or go, the principles over the undertow,
The function or the flow.
I'm declined for the demographic. They have demonized the math.

©2015 Brian M. Weidemann

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from Buy Popular Demand, released November 27, 2015

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Brimaxian Portland, Oregon

A persistently versatile mix of guitars, keys, synth strings, and more, in the rock, acoustic, and alternative genres. Dense, poetic wordplay sung by a semi-amateur baritone. Wry wit, hot guitar licks, and the occasional augmented sixth chord.

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