THE PLANNING ANIMAL

Realized by James Quentin Devine Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles, 2025.

001

The Planning Animal and the Gods' Roaring Laughter

            Fiendish beings and their doings.
            This is all a confused experiment.
            Bunch of people who don't like each other engaged in sabotage.
            And at the top fraud.
            And at the bottom fraud.
            And everywhere godless and neon, lit up stupid.
            Pulled faces grotesque.
            Prison morality.
            Kneecapped mobility.
            Everybody's limping on stumps.
            Stilts.
            Eggshells.
            Crackling leaves.
            A conspicuous Porsche.
            A spot of vomit.
            A corner store with a curse upon it.
            Liquor.
            On a blade sign.
            Hanging low-lit.
            Low-lives.
            Cashed chips.
            Slain cheap.
            A head to mount.
            A bargain to beat.
        

002

Rap Fragment (lowercase, authentic)

"i need money to buy a new body / i wasn't trying to hurt nobody /
i'm a stick-up kid / stuck-up and haughty"

003

How to Get to Outermost You?

            The muttness of crowds.
            Soldier ants entrenched.
            Muffled trumpets in the clouds.
            Songs stanched.
            The stain of time.
            The obvious rhyme.
            A wrinkle.
            A crease.
            Amiss.
            Unaligned.
            The open-mouthed doubt.
            Rapacious.
            Murderous clout.
            Salacious.
            When every cliche's broken and scattered.
            Salutatory.
            A guesthost a servant of patter.
            Purgatory.
            Piss-soaked from a kicked bladder.
            Royally oiled.
            The upshot's nothing matters.
            As the stance happens.
            The final bout's chairs and ladders.
            By chance if you're asking.
            Days gone by.
            You're chained to the ceiling of the sky.
            Pinheaded angel.
            Cupped in a lie.
            Flight harm.
            When the screens starve.
            When the images eclipse.
            A wound's expression.
            The juice's overflow.
            The prick's excess.
            Casual impersonal fraud.
            Innermost light.
            Internal audit.
        

✦ Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2025.

004

Candlelight Vigilante and the Lunar Tribunal

            Holding court in the street.
            Issuing edicts.
            Verdicts.
            Ultimately, sentences.
        

005

The Poors of Deception

            Melancholy money.
            Mad-eyes and Christclaims.
            Cons figured and flagrant.
            Long derision.
            Mockery's longue tongue lashing.
            Civilizations splashing.
            Races lapping.
            Waves.
            Undue late.
            Under all.
            Stars glow.
            Clustered consonants, constellations.
            Stars show.
            The way the light.
            The weight of truth.
            You are with the stars now.
        