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The Defeated Perfectionist

from VIII by King Rest

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lyrics

Empty gaze upon a slab
Of exquisite mineral
Billowing ocular fog
Sensing grace beyond the peripheral

Pondering real forms
Teased to abstraction

Hard of aural sensory
Sharp creative acuity
Instrument in hand
Squinting in second sight
Eager to begin
Anxious of each strike

Crippling fear to be beheld
Postponing lessons in failure

Arms outstretched
Palms in supination
Perception zeroes in
On in- and exhalation

From inner vision to enaction
A muscular contraction
Mallet to chisel
Chisel to stone
Tangible impression
Takes a shape of its own

Lesser effigies along the way
afford the masterwork to incubate

Calloused hands
Patient craft
Damage and progress trace a blurring line
Out on a limb
Disciplined
The ouroboric autodidact borrows time
In the effort to design
At long last
the neophyte is taken to task
Chip against the grain and the hourglass
Legacy
The impetus to act

Fingers brush along a marble bust
A totem to a face the artist's dreaming of

A witness to art so exists in a vacuum
Moved to tears merely by touch
Impressed like a pinscreen, an inner illusion
With fidelity of the utmost

If invention has a mother this child is prodigious or something synonymous with it
Strengthened by handicap, not in spite of

Thriving gift of the wunderkind
Growing closer to a state of readiness

A talent that is still blooming
The paradox of mastery

Brass mallet raised above the head
How long in the making now were these first steps to breaking ground?
Crooked stroke breaks the latest draft
Fragmenting what’s left of this confidence

Retreating back to old ways of analysis paralysis

Shake it off
Draw the tool again
Reclaim the mistake as part of art’s process
Or run that time aground
Idle hands encased in kid gloves
Seems the devil may unsheathe as one cruel joke
Just to shut it down

Thought on the fritz
So it begins

Arms outstretched
Palms in supination
Perception zeroes in
On in- and exhalation

Creative erosion in measure
A demolitionist's endeavor
Diminution of the medium
Calculated ruin

Abrading architect
of tactile images

Calloused hands
Patient craft
Damage and progress trace a blurring line
Out on a limb
Disciplined
The ouroboric autodidact borrows time
In the effort to design
At long last
the neophyte is taken to task
Chip against the grain and the hourglass
Legacy
The impetus to act

Tragedy in the making
Spanning near a century

Grey matter fading to black
Cognition undergoing attack

Cataracts of the mind's eye
What it means to be truly blind

Bested by scant acumen
Life's final chapter
A scribbled mess
Take back the pen

Turns the chisel to her own temple
Cuts straight to the convalescence
One last will, all her own
The defeated perfectionist’s coup de grace

Calloused hands
Patient craft
Damage and progress trace a blurring line
Out on a limb
Disciplined
The ouroboric autodidact borrows time
In the effort to design
At long last
the matriarch is taken to task
Chip against the grain and the hourglass
Lunacy
The impetus to act

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from VIII, released March 25, 2020

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