The Citizen Diptych consists of two separate images which contrast each other in order to create value and meaning. These images and there meaning are derived from out Lyrical Listener Lyric which we wrote in English.
Read Me
S-H-U-G-A-R.
Sugar.
You spell Sugar.
Sweet, the knowledge you wish you had, close but cannot taste you spell what burns in your head behind your sheen eyes-
Shugar.
Their laughter turns you into a cavity of your former self.
T-R-O-U-G-H-T
Throat
You spell Throat.
Being ridiculed you shut, you choke, you hide yourself as your eyes glaze with salty tears
Trought.
You fish for sense and only seem to reel in endless laughter; casting and baiting in a four walled fishbowl classroom
You Cast.
And you Kast.
And Kazt.
And Kafd.
Until you find your own lips pierced without resentment at the end of your line.
Flailing in pain and in anger you stare at yourself
Burning the words you can’t see into your own flesh you stare at the end of your line.
Staring into glassy marbles, searching for reason, you ask
Are you okay?
***
Your friends ordered their lunch without fault
the waiter turns to you with pencil in hand, taking only seconds to write their orders
You’re nervous, people are watching, the waiters brow is raised
You’re asked what you want.
You want to strangle yourself, hands clenched around your trought as you look into the eyes of the you on the end of the fishing line–
You’re asked what you want.
You ask for vanilla ice cream as you hand over your menu
it’s what your friend ordered, it sounded alright, not many toppings
Nothing extra
Not too much Shugar.
***
Your seven year old fingers point to the screen
You ask who that is on TV
She’s an actor.
she too is special
Like us
Like you
But mom, She’s so famous
How is she so famous
You ask her to spell special
S-H-U-G-E…
Not how they taught you
You’ll catch yourself
At the end of the sentence
Of your own line
Spell it the way I taught you
S-P-E-C-I-A-L
