I’ve always found these opening lines from El-P’s Tasmanian Pain Coaster incredibly evocative, leaving me with a vivid image of a real encounter:
Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange
So I ignored the blood on his laces so this cat could save face
The dunks and the gaze stayed in an off grey haze
And the lump in his pocket talked to the ox that he clutched safe
So I saluted him there, waiting for the A
Trapped on the empty platform without the option to escape
Gave him the standard: "Yo, what up man, how you landin'?"
And the hypnotized response was no surprise: "I maintain"
"Yeah we all do, that's the standardized refrain
But on some really real man, good to see you, really, what the dealy deal?"
I shared these lines with Invideo, without context, in order to see what it would produce. I’m a bit preoccupied by how it has attempted to literalize the scene in a documentary narrative:
Mark Carrigan 