Byzantine

from Supine by Nathan Fordyce-Wright

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I am a Byzantine businessman my jacket's lined with
silk road of powdered rinds, holy ghost or radiated minds
I am a Byzantine businessman of sanctified
transactions crystallised, witness my expanding storefronts rise

I am an Ottoman autocratic businessman
can you see my cannons dance atop my growing horde of coinage grand?
I am an Ottoman autocratic businessman
am I the only man capable of seeing out this plan?

I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?

am I Gaulish? am I Jewish? am I a Barbarian?
am I Frankish? a Mercian? out of history I'm wrote
I know no business, know no trade, so let me ply what you have made
give me a culture to believe in or let me fade away

I need a loan, I'm fucking broke, these bastards choke me 'til I croak
my lungs are aching, ventilating, hooked up to debt, a debt unpaid
I am un-country-fied, disillusioned business sigh
here is my resume, blank for everything except my pay

I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?
I am lost
am I American?

am I a Capitalist pig?
a swine?
a reeking line
that's hoovered up
by snout so fine?

am I a Communistic
poser?
Socialistic loner?
talk so good but the
action's nowhere

am I just simply mediocre?
a body waiting to get older
am I just simply mediocre?
a body waiting to get older

I am lost
am I American?

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from Supine, released February 16, 2024

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