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Posted: 9/8/2009 5:53:31 PM | taunting jewels when alas,
a new stage is spun before us
the knave has slipped the jewels
at least, according to the chorus
what hero will protect the queen?
perhaps extend the affairs of state?
wonder what might have been
if I hadn't always acted too late | |
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Posted: 9/8/2009 7:36:13 PM | wonder what might have been
if I hadn't always acted too late
would fate have taken another turn?
No, I believe it is what it's supposed to be
living in the land of the free
all reminisce of sanity slipped away
new rules to an old game
I just want to be me | |
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Posted: 9/8/2009 8:38:51 PM | I just want to be me
Usually I manage me plus three...
or maybe more, perhaps even four?
There's the one in the garden
The second Mom-taxi
The third someone's lover
Fourth ...dutiful daughter-
And me? I've just caught her!!! | |
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Posted: 9/8/2009 8:40:33 PM | I just want to be me
would I knew who that was
scribbled clues hollow plea
did effect preceed cause?
when I drifted fogbound
gray and still as a coastal night
no signals marked my passage
no flares belied my plight
(Oops, sorry, L)
And me? I've just caught her!!!
I've caught and released before
unwillingly, as if to a slaughter
she escaped the butcher's floor
not unmarked, with scars unseen
deeper than any knife could penetrate
as I recycle "what might have been"
amazingly, she doesn't hate
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Posted: 9/9/2009 4:13:19 AM | patching yours together pentimento....
no flares belied my plight
'cuz, amazingly, she doesn't hate
though time turned round our twisted fate
glimmering, but fading light.....
together we watched the sky grow dim
individually separating
beer became his vice of choice
losing heart we lost our voice.....
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Posted: 9/9/2009 5:33:12 AM | losing heart we lost our voice.....
and listened to the aching void
no solace found in comforting words
or twitterings of morning birds
a fog horn mourns and echoes nigh
of rising fogs what climb and die
against the rocks still harborside
the siren's song we've cast aside | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 5:37:10 AM | losing heart we lost our voice
like owls screeching in the gray
hoping small fears would have no choice
to expose themselves in light of day
exposed, what an ugly turn it took
many colored cloak muddied black
once favorite, now favor's loss mistook
attacked, we each started fighting back | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 4:30:07 PM | attacked, we each started fighting back
never to meet in the middle
no common ground will ever be found
so while Rome burns I'll take out my fiddle
and saw you a reel that shows how I feel
perhaps a hornpipe or two, too
and we'll dance by the fire of crumbling empire
while we wait for something new to ensue | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 4:49:06 PM | while we wait for something new to ensue
think I'll take a trip to the zoo
and see the animals suffering too
in their caged lives so imprisoned
for under our care they lost their freedom
just because we like to look at them
but we are also like a caged specimen
glassed in by our own exploitation | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 7:06:15 PM | glassed in by our own exploitation
the curiousities of death and loss
might the planet erupt in celebration
if Atlas shrugged a mighty toss
throwing off the proud stylish rich
resources shared more even-handed
karma can be an awful b****
when the rumpled masses have landed | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 7:18:03 PM | when the rumpled masses have landed
our tolerances let's hope have expanded
the aliens might need to get branded
for misconceptions may preceed the trailers
a bar full of sailors on shore leave
won't bother to take time to grieve
as long as the paychecks follow the deed
no need to hire a new tailor | |
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Posted: 9/9/2009 9:30:10 PM | no need to hire a new tailor
the information's still in play
with luck we'll avoid the jailor
cover our butts until the big payday
beware death squads and warlords
and jingoistic military-industrial clap
best to avoid retirement boards
just keep one step ahead of the trap | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 12:07:45 AM | Just keep one step ahead of the trap,
by 25, I was sure I'd be dead in Iraq,
try to keep an even keel, so I stand on a level,
shake your fists at a God, you shake hands with the devil,
a bad charade, a masquerade, devil in disguise,
pull your pin, toss a hand grenade like a rebel in the sky,
til it rains back down on the North Dakota youth,
goody goody gum drops, sugar coat the truth,
there's a war going on outside, no one is safe from,
there's a war going on for your mind, you can't escape from. | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 1:14:20 AM | there's a war going on for your mind, you can't escape from
The battle lasts till death; you’re pulled taught as a drum
Society’s mores create weapons of self destruction
Inner ideals—shrapnel-- wasted by mass affiliation
Head spinning from left to right in decisional fright
Fires of Dissonance invade a once clear Conscience
Rage and fury unsettled creep into the brain as the blight
Let go of the war find the peace of truth that is your essence | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 3:29:06 AM | let go of the war
find the peace of truth
that is your essence
that is your right
we are one forevermore
from our elders to our youth
with breath we feel our presence
united vision is in our sight | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 1:55:38 PM | united vision is in
our sight missed the spin
we think we surely shall win
did I hear the dropping of a pin?
diving toward the ditch
with reactions of a witch
my eylids begin to twitch
wondering who pulled the switch | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 4:12:40 PM | wondering who pulled the switch
this is not where I grew up
changed and deranged and bewitched
the pea is no longer beneath the cup
cup half empty and the other half gone
anyone seen this coming
how I yearn for the playa burn
and the endless primal drumming | |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 8:43:52 PM | the endless primal drumming
a laid back easy bumming
the paper chasing running
a twenty minute strumming
who's coming to soon too late?
continual itch to satiate
young kind’a looking for a mate
Aged, so … goes down a smooth great | |
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Posted: 9/11/2009 12:56:58 PM | Aged so goes down a smooth great
who shat the future and denied fate
i think denial is quite innate
for its what propels us forward
if i knew then what i now know
I'd just take the bullet and give a bow
no one gives a f-ck anyhow
forget results, just lean torward | |
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Posted: 9/11/2009 2:16:45 PM | forget results, just lean toward
faith in friendship...even though
dayum phone keeps hanging up
new phone-i'm sorry
not so true, my friend
friends care about one another
verizon is a beyotch though
and love equals all | |
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Posted: 9/11/2009 4:39:04 PM | love equals all you give and take
better bring a shovel,
we've got a hoe and rake
plant real seeds,
there are too many fakes
see the world keeps spinning around
complete with ups and downs
guided too often by clowns | |
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Posted: 9/11/2009 5:49:27 PM | Guided too often by clowns
we find ourselves lost
yet we dizzily continue to repeat, making mole hills into mounds
doesn't anyone know how much time this costs
The blind leading the blind
They have all the answers,
At least in my mind
you will find no confusion
about the chaos, that ensues | |
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Posted: 9/12/2009 5:16:21 AM | the chaos that ensues
leads so many to abuse
themselves and each other
forgetting to honour
the father and mother
sister and brother
son and daughter
return to love one another | |
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Posted: 9/12/2009 7:15:55 AM | Return the love to one another
you mean from me to my brother?
or my significant other?
We dance the dance
but is there a chance
we are not what we appear to be
this is the you and I, no one will see
but such is life
I guess there has to be strife | |
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Posted: 9/12/2009 8:52:49 AM | I guess there has to be strife
to equally see the beauty of life
but maybe it does not have to be.....
and yes, I mean to love respectfully
as so many seem to let go of their family
and then their lovers too
forgetting how originally
extraordinary feelings came through | |
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