Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Solitude Paradise

30 Jan 2010 · 2 min

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A dark spoken-word monologue about suffering and decay gets interrupted by a sarcastic heckle about yoga. Speaker A describes streets dripping with sin and skin burned by darkness; Speaker B responds with profanity and a joke about downward dog, clashing existential despair with absurd humor.

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withered and doubt and the streets drip with sin Drip all around so I can begin again. To propose But not in a way you would like. Suffered enough. As the dark burns my skin upon the ground, all cradled in glass, broken but tough. I jump in a hole deep within. Step it up, step it up, 'cause I am Bro's ski is stuck up.
Fuck. There somewhere. This must be just like living in paradise, eh? Yep, downward dog. Get some downward dog.