A Page Made Magnus (Lyrics)
by and now Miguel
A Page Turned Magnus
and now Miguel
A Copy of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, printed in Madrid the set comprises the 1608 third edition of book one and the 1615 first edition of book two. Photograph: Daniel Leal.
A Page Tuned Magnus (Lyrics)
Lyrics
E-vapor ate his throat, envy mindless hope
Unforged fable, dope. Under
Rocks? Slips out like he made of soap. Y1
now Miguel faked the unforgettable joke. That
Death plays, the unruly of blokes an ancient senior
More noire than the goats and Baphomets
See he’s in homage with the Hobbits2
A page3 made mage no Suge Knightin’ em
Can’t Sir. em cause there ain’t no sirin’ em
Audio SP the ace, standard play in space
A lox Spector. amulet watch hexer
Digital magick3 subtle hat trickster, sir4
Un-hack the constitutional man-trix5
Article a6 Chapter 12 is the basics. I’ve
Read around well to evaporate it. Chopped
It and sampled and rearrange clips
Record and Mix I own Masters no slavery tip
To serve mankind, the twilight of ‘626
That raw white sugar and also indigo blue7
Opioids that Britten smuggled onto China’s seas
Dope is mean, also green, so I magi this regime/
FOOTNOTES
- 1. Sea water foam bursting through rocks. Under the pressure, I spill out. “Be like water” - Bruce Lee. “Y” Spanish for “and.” ↩
- 2. A reference to the author (and rappers) height. Shoutout to all my Five Foot Assassins, A Tribe Called Quest, RIP Phife Dawg. ↩
- 3. A mage does magick, see: I’m pulling from image of the below note. Also, the word for mage in some Indian traditions is, mantrik a person who practices mantras and spells. And well, Mantronix too right? There is more to be said here, but I'll leave it fairly open as I’d like to save space for footnote 6.
↩ - 4. Here is a hint, sir. This bar’s flow is a reference to Jay-Z’s, “Thank You.” One of my favorite songs. ↩
- 5. This is a Matrix reference as well as a subtle Mantronix reference. But, primarily the misogyny, specifically towards Black women, is being touched on here. Learn the craft, understand the pitfalls from other artists that practiced anti-Black misogyny. Break it down per my lines preceding to make things wholesome again. Harmony Holiday’s Serious Delirium has a cool article that unpacks this a bit which I read after writing this piece. But another layer here is around sequencing in production, swing, and using multiple time grids—see Dill Time—is also pointed to here. Tapping into the Afro-polyrhythmic roots is a form of un-hacking the hack jobs of overly processed inorganic art. Also, keeping with the magick theme, A mage needs to reconcile with the toxic masculine magic of patriarchs. Reclaim femininity by honoring all ancestors. ↩
- 6. Reference to Twilight Zone, “To Serve Man” and the year of its publication, 1962. Referencing Civil Rights and Decolonization struggles. ↩
- 7. The empty calories that foiled the global economy of the plantation system. Void of any nutritional value. ↩