tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65834745430842015152024-03-13T07:57:22.706-07:00astral daysgotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-41258112854537777542011-10-27T23:16:00.000-07:002011-10-27T23:17:35.580-07:00terra<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">terra, you were tearing pictures out</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and throwing them to the sea</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but come </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">on, raise your voice to me</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and carry yourself</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">because i cant do much for you, i'll tell you all you mean:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you're beautiful and we are only human</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i am the product of somebody else's grace</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i am an object, a caricature of my father's face</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i'll be honest--i've never felt at home</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for fathers or forests torn down in my wake</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and halcyon, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i've been drifting you along until i find someone new</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm still afraid</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">that knowing is not safety</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i mean what i say; I'll grow up and move away</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a social debt,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">time well spent</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a sun to light my nights</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a coma-death</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">demurred when </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i slept through the night</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm still afraid </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">that knowing is not safety</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you're beautiful, but</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">youth is not a panacea for failure </p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-58629982851988272722011-08-13T22:24:00.000-07:002011-08-13T22:46:08.178-07:00a garden unplanted<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Leave your roots to dry.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Find a place to lie down.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">When the green turns to brown,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">will you still be around?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Because I spent years under the ground,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">no soil to call my own.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm a garden unplanted with seeds to sow</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and gravity can never keep me from your arms while I'm still young.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Now, every moment that I spend in-between enjoying myself and second-guessing everything</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">is lost and squandered on time that was never mine, then chalked up to a promise I made to another one time.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-40888492552633767622011-07-06T13:18:00.001-07:002011-07-06T13:18:56.211-07:00unboundI dreamt a mountain of ice,<br />and water cascading down my fingers.<br />I dreamt a pillar of flame:<br />it purged our names and left us orphaned,<br />made us orphans.<br />And we were unfettered and unbound,<br />then passed off as elated--calm again, but frustrated.<br /><br />So, hate the children you raised and make the home that you'll stay in.<br /><br />"I owe to all to you,"<br />my head just can't stop thinking.<br /><br />For architects i haven't met yet,<br />you engineers who imbrue the burden of truth:<br /><br />I owe it all to you.gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-70382301543013769392011-04-26T05:40:00.000-07:002011-04-26T08:10:50.189-07:00no harmony (iii)<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;"><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I was a home boarded up, light begging for admittance.<br />Uriel, you're giving me nothing to work with:<br />knowledge, art, grace--all eclipsed by your view of the maker's face.<br /><br />I hid under covers for weeks, years,<br />built tiers upon tiers of complacency<br />to mile-mark heaven.<br /><br />i searched the books of men,<br />finding nothing to sink my teeth into<br />but vanilla words and vanilla pages.<br />i followed the songs of sirens,<br />only to be dealt the realization<br />that i sing off-key:<br />no harmony to keep my voice from resonating eternally.<br />i bestowed the rite of silence hoping for enlightenment to find me,<br />yet still i shout myself hoarse.<br /><br />but passion is an untuned piano: its black sharps mellowed and yellowed with time.<br />still i lied flat on my back and prayed for rain.<br />i heard static rapping on the window, "come, grow deaf with me."<br /><br />but there was no body under the blanket line:<br />just a husk ripped in half, torn thorax and tendrils withering endlessly.<br /><br />there was no movement<br />there was little movement from hands, eyes<br />fingers turning pages making up for lost time.<br /><br />somewhere along the line, i stood up and unearthed my roots<br />groundwater spilling everywhere, i walked down the hallway<br />where i heard timpani drums.<br />beating me from the doldrums<br />dull drums from the other side of the wall<br />a voice from the firmament:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"I don't mean to put you on the spot, but i dont mean to bother and i probably should've knocked. i've noticed your robing misanthropic, groaning and grumbling about little to nothing.<br />yet you left a light on<br />something radiant, something promethean.<br />And since you've acquired fire, you've desired nothing virile, nothing to entertain."<br /><br />but Uriel was never there to shine.<br /><br />so i sang songs,<br />lyrics weakening gravity then pulling me toward the center and spinning forever to meagerly endeavor that heaven is attached to string, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:small;">heaven is attached to string.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">since when am i a tailor<br />i can sew nothing.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p></span><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-67008466033858338082011-04-26T05:37:00.000-07:002011-04-26T05:39:58.346-07:00morning fire<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the morning's fire is sated by your voracious light</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the sun called you a liar, but you took it in stride</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and now you're sleeping still and i'm worried sick</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you told me not to worry, to forget your bullshit</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm in your waiting room</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">waiting for your time to come</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i drew the shades at noon and prayed you were wrong</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'd sing every midwest song to keep you here</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"gloria" to often ring in your ears</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">no brave morning leaves you unafraid</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-27238674381701084182011-02-23T10:37:00.000-08:002011-02-23T10:40:57.794-08:00good housekeeping<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">marilynne, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">if you are the written word, which word is your own:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"human," "connection," "piety"? </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">why leave me</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to defend your word against the word of a thousand others </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">who believe that you, despite all your worth, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">are frail, insignificant, and kneeling in your own cathedral </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm not knocking on the door; </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i need no shelter.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm pounding on stained glass,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">discordant in my fervor to ask</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to sanction my sanctuary</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in a book on a page in the name of </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">some downtrodden mid-west man. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">funny how alive you are(,) then.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you're not what you write,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but will you save my fucking soul?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i've heard you speak into microphones,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">hush your voice to seem pensive,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">speak to the camera for the camera.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">spend fourteen years cleaning your own messes</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">break spines with your literary concrescence </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">even still, you've taught me that the human is the condition</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but if i am the human corporeal, tell me where when how</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">do we go wrong am i wrong</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to believe that </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i don't have the words you do, i don't have the soul you do, i don't have the worth you do--i don't have words. </p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-47933953423683612882011-02-23T10:25:00.000-08:002011-06-07T18:40:28.042-07:00home/boarded up (ii)<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Raise</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the curtain on this city," </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">she cried,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">belittled by my pathetic insight.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">What have I gave that was ever my own?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">What have I known to ever work?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Because labor," </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">she raised the question to follow mine,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"is just a promise i made to another one time?"</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm still awake</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">I still know everything:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">how you were so young,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">how you were a soldier to needles and colds and overcoats.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Whatever emblem you've grown up to,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">tear it from the wall.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">And leave no semblance of me in your memory at all.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You're not the world you've laid out for me.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You're not the girl you've laden with our history.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Burned every letter; fed them to the fire.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You were a home boarded up.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You were a home boarded up.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You were a home boarded up.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">You were home.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-16618387186001765462010-12-05T22:40:00.001-08:002011-04-26T05:53:50.013-07:00little luminosities<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal; mso-pagination:none"><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal; mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“. . . .Gleaming islands, and indeed whole continents, [that] can still add themselves to our modern consciousness—a phenomenon that has become itself the daily experience of the psychotherapist. Therefore we would do well to think of ego consciousness as surrounded by a multitude of little luminousities.” — Carl Jung<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">nothing left to fix you,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">no leak to be plugged.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">we sold our cures to the sky<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for fear of what is above<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but there's nothing left to fix you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"...your initials on the bottom."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">stay in the clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the ether is your ether.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">either<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">or<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">bury yourself from nine to five.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">find the right cure or rely on<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">antidotes that lie in the alchemic stagnation of water at your bedside:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">mud and water,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">fluoride and chlorine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"take two in the morning..."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">For your little luminosities, carl</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">they only seem to illuminate like the streetlamps in this abyssal town;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">what little they cast their light over need not be revealed for fear of casting out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">symbols</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">satyrs, saints, patrons</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">wane<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">salvation lies<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in strings that connect us all, pull us to the sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I've seen your islands go up in smoke, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(smoldering Galápagos),<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">yet i know there's still hope in your words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">if you are a split cistern, sister,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">caulk your cracks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">if your bottle is broken, brother,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">collect the glass <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i know you'd say that, carl, over a beer or a glass of wine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">you and<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i know not what shines beyond this and that horizon,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">across oceans of red-orange sparks,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but whatever lyricism we contain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">falls victim to banality</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">—</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">mundane<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in its fleeting rapture:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a lyric is a lyric,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">a color is a color.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for this i am no builder, no architect;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i harbor no art.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: .5in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">the sum of my parts. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-18962329930239088162010-12-03T10:42:00.001-08:002010-12-13T01:52:03.176-08:00quell<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">close the door, let's make it last</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we've had enough time to waste</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you're calling my name down the hall</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">like you did when i was a baby</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">if we fall in love too fast,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we're sleeping just to wake</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we are just fallen sons </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">who shame our fathers names</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and judge love in quantities. but</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">enough to quell your taste,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to feel your rage</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and though my hatred is still sated by</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">satyrs, saints, patrons, and passing life</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">an indignation that i must face alone to fight</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a fever condemned to all of me</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">our bodies will tremble like paper planes</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in the wind, frail</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">when we raise glasses </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to toast the sky.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">judging love in quantities, but just</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">enough to quell your taste,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to soothe your rage</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and though my hatred is still fated by</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">fathers, farces, crosses, and liar's vows</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i face this fate, i'm fated alone to fight</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a benediction to my own right</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">alfred, what would you have said that day?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">enough to keep me sane,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but i'm still worrying. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all these theories have come too late.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">have i come too late?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and now were too late.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">count your mistakes,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">count your blessings. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for we have courage,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for we have color.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">count your mistakes;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we're not running.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'll always struggle to keep up.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-6446954409183057422010-11-20T22:54:00.000-08:002011-04-26T05:55:06.173-07:00anemoi<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">"progress is forfeit,"</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">or so you would sing.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">relying on the wind to bring</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">all these things to air.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">my own home is worthless,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">a falter to beset.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">but i was dumb and restless, yes:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">a pious false prophet.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">but now i awake and shake</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">in sheets i'll coat with sweat;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">in every dream i recreate</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">the life that i have left.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">all i offer to your sons and daughters:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">"reach for nothing; </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">take what you create."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica; min-height: 22.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Helvetica">all i offer is laid out on the altar</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-92167139993099767972010-11-16T17:31:00.000-08:002010-11-17T06:49:29.607-08:00carry us<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">terra, you were tearing up pictures and casting them to the wind.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">as the waves wrote their scripture on the land,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the flames burned all their plans </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to dance</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">along the shore.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we happened upon happenstance.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">with you screaming at the sea,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i couldn't hear a thing.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but come raise your voice to me;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">scream like you know my middle name--</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">my ears are an offering.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">aria, are you just tired now?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">speaking about how loud</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">your song would sound if the air would allow.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">if the weather permits, you can always change it</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for a change of pace.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">some distance away,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you proved i've needed </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">some distance away.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">carry on.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-28944672514542378312010-10-11T00:08:00.000-07:002011-01-03T02:23:50.134-08:00long before<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 21.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 21.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">what we called home was waiting</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">for you long before you came.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">and, sister, on your way out, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">can you repeat what i said?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">have we grown up through this,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">have we grown out from light?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">do we change all we are to hide from mistakes?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">like when your mother said, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">"honey, i'm leaving.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">decisions things take time,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">decisions things linger on."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">so i'll carve my way out</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">am i too late, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">but not too late </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">to wonder what became of hope?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">(this full circle</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">will always contrive our lives)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">am i too late,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">but not too late </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">to wonder what became of grace?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">i don't owe you,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">not one cent.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">fuck your right;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">it's all over now.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">(now you're just sleeping on your own.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">and where do we go from here, where do we stay?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">in others' arms, what will we create?)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">does time just stand still for us now?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">do i change my direction?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica">do i wait?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-46212801438841891362010-09-22T19:45:00.000-07:002011-04-26T05:55:51.249-07:00homes (i)<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">claire will stumble down the stairs </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and carry herself like molly bloom,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a clumsy waltz through every room.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know so little.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know so little. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i still miss your mother;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i swear she's almost here.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">stumble through the door at four in the morning </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">like you knew she did the same</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but you know so little.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">oh, you know so little.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and she was sick,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">when you were tried and tired,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">vivid and alive,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">with life. </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we knew so little</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we knew so little.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">so i'll shave my face</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i'll stand up straight</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">like somebody else's posture </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">could keep me that way</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">so i'll shave my face </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i'll wash my hands</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">pretend that your grace</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">is half of what i am</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">so i'll shave my face</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i'll cut my hair </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to sever resemblance, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to remember this severance</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in my own way</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but these dead cells are just that.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i am no maker,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i am no architect </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">of my own design,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but i made you a promise once:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">that i wouldn't write like all those savants</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">who claim identity to a country they barely knew</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">heard stories from the other room</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you were a home boarded up,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you are home. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and i knew so little</p><p></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-19993243065562325462010-09-08T00:18:00.001-07:002010-11-16T17:35:08.656-08:00paper cups<div>i couldn't tell the difference between</div><div>the late-teen, off-key singing in the back</div><div>or the radio.</div><div>then you, </div><div>laying like a tired queen on her throne</div><div>your feet pressing up the window</div><div>and your chin on your knee</div><div>thinking what situations we find ourselves in</div><div>you were laughing to yourself</div><div><br /></div><div>you're still the only one who knows </div><div>the state that i was in</div><div>or the state that we were driving in.</div><div><br /></div><div>pouring out of the car.</div><div>stumbling up your stairs.</div><div>waking up around four</div><div>to the sound of your father beating on the door:</div><div>"girl, that boy had better be gone soon."</div><div>oh, how disappointed he'd have been</div><div>my reputation as that boy will always precede me</div><div>in my conversations with him.</div><div><br /></div><div>well, if thats what love really is</div><div>four drunk-as-fuck, tired kids</div><div>waxing our politics to the sound </div><div>of rain playing couplets </div><div>on the door awning</div><div>that won't come more than more than once</div><div>so don't wear your weary eyes out</div><div><br /></div><div>like dixie cups attached to string,</div><div>from one best friends house to the other</div><div>we sing,</div><div>"will you come this time tomorrow?"</div>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-67532885580293054172010-08-17T14:45:00.000-07:002010-09-04T17:06:04.293-07:00calm again<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">make your choice now,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">are you still trying to figure out</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">your way out of this nowhere town</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to stand on high or sink below</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the benevolence of your childhood home</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know it's harder than it seems.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">cause it's either ether or it's earth,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the restless intent to reverse,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to writhe in the lows and throes</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">of all you gave away.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know it's harder than it seems.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">what we worked for,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all of this:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the end result is comfortless;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">calm again, but listless.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know it's harder than it seems.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">recall this memory you pushed back:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a young girl lying on her back.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">is she cold, alone, or bitter still?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">has she taken all she has to?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">is she biting her tongue or biting a pill?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know it's harder than it seems.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">i still pass for the honest,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">never the same.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">you've rearranged the furniture,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">but you still keep those same shades up,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">never closed,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">always open,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">'cause you know that</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 11.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">all the light, all the love</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">that could filter in from above</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">will never keep you from what</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">you've always wanted.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">(when you were young,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">dumb,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">and innocent.)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">never forget what you've learned,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">those theories of some men</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">that</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">you've burned and</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">tossed out,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">fucked-up,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">run out,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">now you're on your way.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">but it's never too late to explain,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">so you kept silent while those liars</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">passed you by.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451; min-height: 16.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px; font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ffffff; background-color: #284451">i don't know where you'll live then die in.</p><p></p><p></p></div></span></div>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-19362216880067450252010-06-16T18:29:00.001-07:002010-11-16T17:38:30.485-08:00windwaker<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">vagabonds wait for time to fade,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">then blame it on the western world:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"i know this is so much to ask,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">it's just that these things happen too fast."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm sure your father knows this,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">as he fathers </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">his apotheosis of,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"where do we find our own?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all i've ever known was home.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and when the wind just picks up,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm left in your wake."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"now, son, you've crossed the sea,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">sailed beyond our history</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and my stoic eyes."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for what do i owe the sun</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">for my son or my brother?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">my sister or my mother,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">who i left behind.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">sail away from you;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">sail away from view.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(so clean your hands of me </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">or decide my worth</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but cut the tendon first</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">to prove what i will always mean to you</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">though i know not the name</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">that you chose for me</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i'd like to think it was vast and radiant,</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">like all the waves</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in your hair that i only saw</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in old pictures </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i never found</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in attics lost to dust and fate</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">did he carve my face </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in all his righteous deeds and worries</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">did he lie awake</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and did he fake sleep</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 19.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">like a child or like a warrior?)</span></p><p></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-21303409902812327512010-03-11T05:42:00.000-08:002010-08-17T14:44:25.716-07:00black omen<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you built citadels in skies</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to fake your own rise.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you tore fire from horizons </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to steal your own red.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you cast your vigilance,</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the worms claim</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">their dead.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">standing on high with fate--</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">have we illuminated grace?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the blackest omen yet.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i saw it coming in your signal fires,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">as the rich grew richer </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and the poor expired.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">there's a purity in form,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and so i questioned</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the dichotomy in our </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">own essence.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but if i ever saw it,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">if i ever knew its name,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">then i know it's coming--</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">three hands on a single face.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and we were kings upon that,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we were kings on that day.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we were brothers in arms</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">from the print of your mandate.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in all, we fall</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">faltered and in course</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">altered.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">opportunist, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">this is your mess.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">come danze di liberta.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-12010617610477524212010-02-23T05:51:00.002-08:002010-09-01T16:26:55.834-07:00lionheart<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">burn your tomes, boy, you've got it made.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you've got your arm stretched to yesterday.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">keeping secrets wont seal your knowledge away,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">so arcane.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but you keep it so clandestine</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">when i'm standing on the mezzanine </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and you're hurling your soliloquies at me-- </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i'm not listening.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i know i've no part in your work of art.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all this pretension will pass you away</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">to lesser age.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">now is your time to gather retribution,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">standing like a harlequin:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"do your worst, darling."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">playing atlas for transience,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a transient, in transit,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a love-fettered romantic.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">old stories are written before they're made.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">wait for a memory.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">a moment of clarity, </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">parried disparity:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">make your choice now.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-53576126399739265592010-02-23T05:51:00.001-08:002010-09-01T16:28:26.161-07:00anthemic<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i've marked the map so you could find your back.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">i've crossed "t's" and dotted "i's" just to stay tact.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">tactfully assert their roles;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">carefully narrate their goals.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">where they go we will not follow.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">there is no indiction of your worth, so</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">iconoclast, you speak out of turn.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">outclassed, in turn,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we'll watch you burn </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">these manifestos out of reach</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and communiques the public breached.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">(private lives are others' now.)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">your monikers will run their ground:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">corpses rot,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and buildings drown</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">as the blood floods the gutters of our beloved cities</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"cut the head before it speaks.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we are lying to the weak.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we are lions among sheep;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">slaughter unfaltered."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">pariah, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">one year goes by</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">as your desire</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">only feeds mine.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-51688496128714460462010-02-23T05:45:00.000-08:002011-04-26T05:58:32.380-07:00sergio leone<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">patron, i know you've had this all planned out--</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">we are peons on oblivion's dime.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in sight, in mind, never run too far to find</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">what is</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">beyond your path;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">beyond my sky.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">so you chalked it up to truth,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">but i knew</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">that there was more work to do</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">beyond</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">the plaza signs</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">plasma signs that burned bright</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">in effigy of the memory </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">of all the worn-out ways they raised me on</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">"pursue your happiness--you'll be content"--</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all i ever wanted was happenstance;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">all that happened was your fate.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and so we fall behind</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">what is beyond your skyline</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">rhetoric to praise progress</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">only befalls those who want it.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">you swear to the sun you'll believe what you're told you foolish child now youre only half away from your bed you cannot create this and you've gotten by just to stop me from thinking that it's colder now than i ever wanted and i'm feeling the carbon torn down i know my limits i know my crown costs a dragged lake i'll fall asleep and i'll awake two days later with the old amends that i could never escape like "its time to get up" if being chosen for words means i know my limits and where i can take them but i i'm a garden of archery and apples discard what i pay for discard my limits i paid for what i can breathe out we'll guard our backs if we trust too much i know my limits i know where i can reach yet i'm at my own arm's length i know my limits i know how to reach them but i fall beyond arm's length</p><p></p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-10407724926208264072008-09-01T19:56:00.000-07:002010-09-01T16:33:18.827-07:00chrono trigger<p>she casts her stare out the window to find the Chicago sunrise<br />like a ritual. you ritually catch the sun before it ascends, so all<br />the orange, yellow, and red can remind you of the place you left.<br />and all the people you left, regressed and became "all those<br />people" you knew who would announce your name (when you<br />came in the room). and all the people you asked all responded<br />the same, "what do you have left to lose that you haven't already<br />annulled?" and you could leave this place, but all your methods<br />of goodbye will be over in a minute; all that matters is time.</p><p>but you want it moral.</p><p>is this just a question,<br />of what you wanted moral?<br />is this just a question<br />of which you wanted more of?<br />is it just a question of whether you depart or arrive,<br />of what have you got left to learn, of what have you got to lack?<br />"and do they know what I’ve done wrong? i can't quite get<br />passed that yet."</p><p>what are you running for?</p><p>is this a question of what you wanted moral,<br />and is this just a question?</p><p>are the hours sinking in, can you carry on?<br />should time just stop, would you laugh it off?<br />come the second hand,<br />will this feel wrong when it's over?<br />whispering,<br />"nothing matters, love.<br />time is all, all that we're a matter of."</p><p>"just water through our hands,<br />sands shifting a glass."</p><p>sands shifting through our hands or water filling up a glass.<br />that is all we're a matter of.</p><p>whispering,<br />"nothing matters, love. time is all we're a matter of."</p><p>ensign,<br />you're on your way.<br />it's time,<br />you're on your way.</p>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-71085895680936905912008-08-05T03:53:00.000-07:002010-09-01T16:43:05.212-07:00halcyon, onhalcyon,<br />on those days when you fell from grace<br />with your cheek<br />pressed up against the windowpane:<br />that was your moment.<br />and it was your moment,<br />when i was your moment.<br />that was your moment.<br /><br />now recall a movement,<br />some subtle, untouched, unbridled movement<br />you're a warrior on your back.<br />with your eyes locked<br />on the ceiling<br />on the ceiling fan.<br />(with your eyes locked on her eyes locked on the ceiling fan,<br />does it make you sick?<div>well, does it make you sick to know that this will all go<br />full circle.)<br />"just like your mother, just like her daughter."<br /><br />i was walking out,<br />and you were walking on the ceiling.<br /><br />I’ll wrest my wings<br />when the storm comes crashing in.<br /><br /></div><div>halcyon, </div><div>you're not fooling anyone;</div><div>you're the same old girl you were</div><div>when you were young.</div><div>when you're sleeping in,<br />the waves come lashing against the shore,<br />look down the list of things you wanted her to have.</div><div><br />"you're just like your mother."</div><div>"you're just like her daughter."<br />and when the storm mercifully comes crashing in,<br />rustle your wings, spread so gracefully,<br />and throw your frail body<br />to the sea.<br />just like your mother, just like her daughter.<br /><br />i'm drowning<br />while you’re wading.<br />are you waiting<br />for those seven days of peace,<br />for seven years of tranquility?<br />we're set on a new name:<br />reclaimed.<br />Hallelujah.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;color:#ff0000;">(This song is about the sea.)</span></div>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6583474543084201515.post-11577911799992448712008-07-22T17:13:00.000-07:002010-09-01T16:38:11.387-07:00threads of lightthe summer's been cold,<br />and all the plans that it's crushed<br />were left fleeing and fleeting<br />or passed down to us<br />we try, but it's never enough to gather our sense<br />as we spend our late nights and mornings planning our<br />intoxication and facing the consequence<br />what's left of the day is devoted to rest<br />it's this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">iterant</span> pattern, this pattern i <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">intervent</span><br />it's this pattern, this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">iterant</span> pattern that i divest<br />and build anew, built into an establishment<br />poems that keep me awake and the measures i take<br />to avoid the ranks of those who self-medicate<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">i'll</span> never be that<br /><br />are you seeing clearly with that smoke in your eyes?<br />are you breathing clearly with that smoke in your lungs?<br /><br />pose, poise and impose<br />it's poison that flows through every impulse<br />you said,<br />"though i make my own luck,<br />the half that i lack is the whole we make up"<br />wait love,<br />we're caught in the fray<br />and just being alive is half a reason to stay.<br /><br />what we've had falls victim to memory,<br />ennui.<br />on we who keep marching<div>onward<br />on and on and on.</div>gotoifandonlyifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12868571293659617506noreply@blogger.com0