Lost Puzzle Soldier. Lost up in one it.
All of it seems like an elaborate puzzle… a labyrinth.
The fickle pickle Queen with her tongue stuck out or in her cheek, or up her ass.
Impossible mega and mille foille like the crepe cake.
Debt all Prizes: Samson Rex Jawbone.com Fiat 500;
Still he finds dyptiques everywhere promising prizes… speakers and weed and cars and women and guitars and bars and stars.
Could it all be in his head or is it a confederacy of dunces?
He hides in plain sight. The Alien, the free, the mason, the mea, the gold, and the rough diamond found at sunrise in the impossible grenade of Sunlight in fractured gold across the wall like his father’s paintings writ in fire.
The Casket Concept:
Mos Def likes making little effigy diptyques of married couples kings and queens little red little blue queen red king, or the reverse it doesn’t matter. There are rules but he is making them up as he goes along, or hacking them without the rule book little red little blue married couples as if somehow that could save the love of a Sly Fox…
And perhaps in some universe this bull shit works…It’s a pleasant thought…
So many couples Mos makes… But she keeps talking shit to Mos, but Mos won’t hear it. He’s Def you see? Mos Def hears none of that shit and fuck all the markers anyways.
Gas tanks and bic lighters and magic markers and nail polish and hacked in special ways to wear crowns or stand a blue grease lead and a red grease lead on the pin of a tack as a hack for toggle or piston: Put it in the right hole it will toggle the switch the ark will launch and go right up to space to the station, but he doesn’t want to leave withour Sophie. Red, purple and green. Black and white…
The combinations become infinite and how does he have so many lighters? A rainbow of fire in his back pack?
Spray paint. Old bottles of Scotch put down in art to talk to father.
Shelter From The Storm
And in the end it is a football game that unites the men of the ward. A perfect game that plays out into overtime when The Redskinss finally scalp The Cowboys. Mos Def feels like he finally gets football. It’s like a novel for people who don’t like fiction.
