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Salomé:

In Every Inch In Every Mile


A poetry book by Criss Jami



1 - Constellation In Preservation

2 - To Spring In Summer And Fall By Winter

3 - Münchausen

4 - Cicero

5 - The Piano Plays A Tune In Sync With You

6 - Moral Overload

7 - Éminence Grise (Won’t You Teach Me)

8 - Mea Maxima Culpa, Cybernational Coma

9 - 9th Circle

10 - Da Capo (Hellström In Love)

11 - The Other South

12 - In Limbo, We Try Again

13 - Wintervibe

14 - The Blind Man Says…

15 - Shatter Me Sinfonia

16 - Jump The Gun

17 - For Veritas Aequitas

18 - Calm ‘N Calamity

19 - Self-Lover’s Rhythm

20 - Master Of Gorgeous Disaster

21 - Zeallové

22 - Vesta Vestalia

23 - The Method, The Madness

24 - Hypnotica Erotica

25 - Lovecraft Theme

26 - Wahrheit For A Sycophant

27 - Physics Of The Foretold

28 - They Call Us Antichrist

29 - The Story Has To Fall

30 - To You (Her World Is Nuked)

31 - Chiaroscuro Sketch

32 - Carpe Noctem

33 - It Was Legion

34 - Restrictor

35 - Crimson Peak

36 - Countdown To Kill Me

37 - Cyberpunk Dreams

38 - Only When You’re Sane Is It Black And White

39 - Belittle The Heart

40 - Dreaming Lotus

41 - Sola Fide

42 - Heretic Light

43 - Heart Is Trailing

44 - Political Kiss

45 - My Marionette

46 - Dead Is When You Can’t Let It Go

47 - Hedonists ‘Til We Die

48 - Bet Your Life

49 - Heartening Heart

50 - Surrender Your Heart (So Love Me Now)

51 - Cutting No Edge

52 - Blind Me With Your Vanity

53 - The Sacrificial Wolf

54 - I Walk The Mire

55 - Bohemian Conformity

56 - Everything That Was (Wasn’t)

57 - Solitary Girl

58 - Haze

59 - Between The Devil And The Crimson Sea

60 - Red Seas

61 - Occam’s Razor

62 - Virgin Garden

63 - It’s Okay (No Answers)

64 - Live By The Raven

65 - Romantik Paradoks

66 - Let Me Take Your Pain

67 - Fade To Gray

68 - Center Of War

69 - Free Her Love

70 - Cult In Culture

71 - Life And Death Game

72 - Can’t Lose

73 - In The Name Of Stolen Bliss

74 - Thin Ice, Thick Flames

75 - Teary Potions

76 - Pixels

77 - Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile



Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.



Constellation In Preservation


It’s prospective

Should you care for hope

It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be

Like a guitarist released from jail

Sends a voicemail

“Let’s play this city like a harp from hell”

Let’s say “it’s in me”, our hearts won’t fail


Andromeda chained lady

Constellation in preservation

Your enemies made you

The everything the nothing

By nature pain is dropping

And the savior is here

And the savior is here

And you’ll turn around little lady

You’ll look when you’re waving

When you’re waving goodbye


It’s infected

Do you want the smile

Misogynist, narcissist, pessimist

Yes it is the deadliest terrorist

To you, it was

Now crawling along lost all of us

Now singing a song of thoughts and lust


Andromeda chained lady

Constellation in preservation

Your enemies made you

The everything the nothing

By nature pain is dropping

And the savior is here

And the savior is here

And you’ll turn around pretty lady

You’ll look when you’re waving

When you’re waving goodbye


Can it hate us can it break us

Treble the enemies

And lose the key to me

Throw it away and set us free


Heated like a soul fallen from grace

And it’s hated, the sight of his face

Heated like a soul fallen from grace

And you won’t hate it oh God’s face


Andromeda chained lady

Constellation in preservation

Your enemies made you

The everything the nothing

By nature pain is dropping

And the savior is here

And the savior is here

And you’ll turn around oh baby

You’ll look when you’re waving

When you’re waving goodbye



Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ~Albert Camus



To Spring In Summer And Fall By Winter


Every season there’s a reason it’s

The construction of a winner

In the spring, next spring

Baby reborn sinners


It hurts to see you hurt

And the night we were on the monorail it worked

Is this for you or me

And you signaled I’ll know when I start listening


To see the ends of the earth

To speak Venerean words

You favored my patience

Though I still hated waiting


And since you’re mute

Yes I’ll say it for you


Silver bullets and a stake in the heart

But the cross still awakens my heart

I’m the freak of nature that’s all

Darling it’s not the way that you are


The spring comes and maybe (‘til then)

Your asylum is what makes me (win)

To spring in summer and fall by winter


Oh the spring comes baby

Your asylum is what makes me

To spring in summer and fall by winter


You stitched open the eyes and

Left a few

I used on the mouth

To spite you

It’s how I know that

I want you

So again I’ll show that

I love you


Silver bullets and a stake in the heart

But the cross still awakens my heart

I’m the freak of nature that’s all

Darling it’s not the way that you are


The spring comes and maybe (‘til then)

Your asylum is what makes me (win)

To spring in summer and fall by winter


Oh the spring comes baby

Your asylum is what makes me

To spring in summer and fall by winter


Spring in summer and fall by winter

Spring in summer and fall by winter

Spring in summer and fall by winter

We spring in summer and fall by winter

And the spring, reborn sinners



Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.



Münchausen


Showing your portrait of me

It’s a joke that’s unfortunately

Something I wasn’t and wasn’t meant to be


We pretend an answer

Even when it’s right

The intent is the cancer

It’s not the insight

A longing that we know not what

Sehnsucht

With equal force

Like we war by the gun


‘Cause love is boring when it’s not on the run


Münchausen what a syndrome

To get a kiss in the center of the room

Oh yes I know you

Though I join you

It’s the festival of fools

And you carve me open with the metal tools


No need to see how it goes

The beginning’s like the end

Oh you’d find coke in the snow

Just to start an argument

And you won’t let it go

Every time

Every crime

Marks a monument oh, oh

A longing that we know not what

Sehnsucht

With equal force

Like we war by the gun


With no remorse like we’re drunk in the sun


Münchausen what a syndrome

To get a kiss in the center of the room

Oh yes I know you

Though I join you

It’s the festival of fools

And you starve me always oh yes it’s true


To hear my own name is nothing but pain

You know how the blood’ll flow

‘Cause hypocrisy’s the ladder to fame

As the honesty’ll watch it grow

A longing that we know not what

Sehnsucht

With equal force

Like we war by the gun


Scarification, the skin is coarse and the innocence gone


Münchausen what a syndrome

To get a kiss in the center of the room

Oh yes I know you

Though I join you

It’s the festival of fools

Where you carve me open with the metal tools



A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.



Cicero


I read your mind of a woman, heart of a child

Been that way awhile

I see you smile little lady part miles through the Nile

Vile, I’m not your cross but this love isn’t timed

Was I lost or do you love to hide


To thrill to chase

Your will’s my race


Stretched and skewed

Tap of the 8-ball and the cue

Scratches fall through

They are the scars of you


Cicero

The tongue-tied blush through the letter

Cicero

Love is verity the parody that gets better


I know the wise see the wise

Grow a beard dying hair white

I took a feathered pen an Ascorti pipe

I tried I’m crime over matter, it’s has-been

A Château shattered, you’re godsend


To thrill to chase

Your will’s my race


Stretched and skewed

Tap of the 8-ball and the cue

Scratches fall through

They are the scars of you


Farewell but easy on the goodbye

Sweets to the sweet

Farewell no endless week

No senseless pain will hurt you and me


Stretched and skewed

Tap of the 8-ball and the cue

Scratches fall through

They are the scars of you


Cicero

The tongue-tied blush through the letter

Cicero

Love is verity the parody that gets better



A letter does not blush.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero




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