tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51588746306346619512024-02-08T08:40:49.848-08:00Poems You Say<i><a href="http://triggerdreams.blogspot.com">by Shaun Lawton</a></i>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-58633470577175592832014-08-23T10:03:00.000-07:002014-08-23T10:03:09.067-07:00Schizervation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's not a different bed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's not a separate river</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's not an alien head</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nor another bitterness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It isn't the same </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you made it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's the same </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">bitter stream</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">drowning </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">waking </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">up in it f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">uming </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">By </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cavernous </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">nostrils </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the first </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to help </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sweeten </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the water </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the arctic wind</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hear you loud </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and clear, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is it </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">raining </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">out</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">side </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or is there </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">an assembly of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">micro-portraits </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">falling softly</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You'll never get </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">farther than around </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the corner from </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your own navel </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with that sort of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">talk you realize</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No, I'm asking you </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to tune in to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the radio rain </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and let us know </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which channel we'll </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all be melting on</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That would be a frequency </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">beyond </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your understanding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm outstanding </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the acid </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rain and loving it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is your impervious nature </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a suit of armor you bought </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or did you make it yourself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder naked </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why don't you try </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but handle with </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">care since </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I sure did </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">put in a lot of work </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on that outfit there</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I feel invincible </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">now, so that's what </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did it, power mad </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">popes couldn't keep </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it hidden </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it's well written</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My divine neo </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">alpha manifests </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as a self correcting </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">text, it's taken </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">generations </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to be expressed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no less </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I get that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what else you got </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">besides </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">standing by </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a lot </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">forgive me </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have lapsed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">big time </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's nothing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a father's face </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is easily forgotten</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because even in the wind </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sand grains never settle</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's ain't nuthin' but</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">except I take it you're </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">intermittent to say the least</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and don't tell me, here to stay</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was long gone </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">before I even arrived </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on this scene, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">well I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">just finished </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">evaporating </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">had to split inside you</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I am beginning </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to see the light </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">coming through </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my computer screen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and I can say that it's good </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now you're starting to get it </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my good boy and remember</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">don't fire until you see </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">their Googley eyes</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And to this day whenever </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I stare into a mirror </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am at a total loss </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as to which one of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">these two I am</span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That is exactly </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">how I planned it </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from the beginning </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am finally starting </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to realize after all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">these years</span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-41155261462424999912014-08-23T09:59:00.000-07:002014-08-23T09:59:07.037-07:00The Time of Anarchia<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is a time of frustration </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">amid conquest, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">killing bees </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in order to keep </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our lawns tidy and clean. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A time when citizenship </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">means tainting one's innocence </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with the complicity </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of mass suicide. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A time when all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">one can do is wink </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and think "<i>That's the problem </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>though, isn't it? Thinking </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>about it in the first place</i>," </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time that is forever </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">escaping us through </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the collective screen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of our forgetfulness, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time to be echoed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">through the void </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">after its own echoing, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time currently being </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lost to us all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at an accelerating </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rate we are fundamentally </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">incapable of keeping up with, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time bound to leave </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">its imprint as yet another </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">layer of electromagnetic </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">radiation which woven </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">into helps define </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the remainder of creation, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in other words </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time like any other </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to come or go before it, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time whose arena </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">becomes the stage </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of our actions </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and their consequences </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here during this primordial </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">moment we managed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to capture for ourselves </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by our very definition, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the solitary champions </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of existence, wallowing </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in this, the time of our lives, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of shedding </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">more than skin </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">after we strip our clothes, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of flensing </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and dismounting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our sure footed steeds, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our bodies we have ridden </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this time wave upon wave </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">our entire lives </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from the moment </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we were conceived, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to our Mothers </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we have continued </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to occupy and further </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this time, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of treasured visions </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">behind the eyes of a dragon, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of sapphires </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and tiger pupils </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">held in locked regard, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of regalia </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and innocence devoured </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wholly as in the instance </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the anaconda preying </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">upon the star-nosed mole, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time of rapture </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like any other </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and of a pain </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">so unique and intense </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it blurs away altogether </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">among the suturing </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">numbness </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the stars, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time to remember </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who we are and forget </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">who we've become; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the universal solvent </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">performs its work </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everyone, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">once upon a time </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when personality </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was exterminated </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in favor of efficiency </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and convenience, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when fear of the dark </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was bred out along </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with the heart, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">where automated drones </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">did not so much as spill </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a single teardrop over </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the prospect of the extinction </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the bees, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">where gray skies unleashed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">radioactive rain upon a new </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">continent of plastic, Anarchia, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">home for the formerly homeless </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and disenfranchised splinters </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of humanity, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a time when oceanic travel </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">was outlawed by every nation </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on Earth and pirates once again </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">roamed the seas, naturally; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it was a time </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for starting over </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and beginning </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">new stories. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-86999159276413451132014-04-02T09:41:00.000-07:002014-04-02T09:41:34.653-07:00I Wrote This <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember to breathe in through your face</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and out through your ass. Just kidding, this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is supposed to be serious. Life, whatever. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This blog. My thoughts. Circular breathing. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Popular knowledge. The inability to process.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dumb asses. See what I mean. Curiously. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do we care. If you have to. Remember to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">breathe in through your face and blow it out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You know. What I'm saying here in that </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">voice </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you hear in your head when you read </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is that I'm right here with you in your ear. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a sense I've taken possession of you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You're not scared yet but you should be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know it sounds like you but see, it's really me. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You may think I'm a ghost in the machine,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but what I really am is a living demon. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Recall the correct sequence or drop dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The joke's on both you and the poet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-23045336563145733952014-03-21T21:28:00.003-07:002014-03-21T21:34:18.293-07:00March TwentiethIt's the first day of spring<br />
and death is in the air<br />
<br />
The box car is full<br />
and slowly departs<br />
<br />
Crammed with weary<br />
old friends taking their<br />
motivations with them<br />
<br />
Into strange darkness<br />
streaming downriver<br />
<br />
The moon's sole<br />
reflection white<br />
<br />
Upon the surface<br />
wave letting apart<br />
<br />
Into well synchronized<br />
angel moth wings<br />
<br />
In motion appearing<br />
to be saying goodbye<br />
<br />
<br />thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-79583242379462965652014-02-02T16:09:00.003-08:002014-02-02T16:09:48.268-08:00Map of Light<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">Cosmic micro wave </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">back ground </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">ancient light </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">imprinted </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">on the sky </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">when the universe </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">was about three</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">hundred and seventy</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">thousand years old. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">Today faint traces </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">of this ancient light </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">yet linger upon our </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">eyes, and remarkably </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">it appears not evenly </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">spread out </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">across </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">universe. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">Extremely small </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">fluctuations </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">in this shroud </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">of light which </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">make </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">appear </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">to be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">clotted </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">in fact </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">seeds from </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">which grew </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">the galaxies </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">we see about </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 27px;">ourself today. </span><br /><br />The universe<br />began as a hot<br />dense state<br />which initially<br />exploded outward<br />at a rate exceeding<br />that of the speed of light <br /><br />Then it began<br />to cool even<br />as it continued<br />to expand<br /><br />Now here<br />we are<br />to day</span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-51958821429445118892013-12-04T11:45:00.000-08:002013-12-04T11:45:00.631-08:00Mayfly Showdown<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Entrapment, it's what's done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome. Follow the flashlight beam </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">scurrying down the stairs, into the basement. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's where talk happens. Talk about entrapment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The most efficient traps are the ones </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">where those caught in them remain unaware </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">they are trapped. Now a new turn begins. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is well known that there is a war </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">going on. What is not agreed on, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">is exactly who the key players </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">waging it are. Regardless of </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the answer, the one thing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">commonly possessed, whether </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">agreed upon or not, is every </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">individual caught up in this war— </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">whether enthusiastic about it or not, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and for better or worse—commands a great </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">many pathways to happiness. Denial seems a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">quick easy route. (Is hot tea favourable?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's always tea brewing in the basement.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And here we are dipping into the rapid </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">streams of time with an inkwell for the river</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and a sliver for an oar, ivory capped typing keys </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and a blackened pie roller, dust, and a quill for the paddle, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a plastic keyboard electronic matrix as the nib to dip</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the icy current of a clear drinking creek seeking </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">one direction from infinity into a moving stream </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of pixels that trick us into forgetting that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from here on out we'll be mixing a tape </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of our lives up so to speak, that is, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">about what we want everyone to know </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">about our lives. In the interest </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of taking honesty to its furthest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">shattering point I've construed an </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">elaborate method by which our seperate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">life story threads might intertwine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've devised many different angles </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">from which you might piece together </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">our story. Really I'll be giving you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the filler stuff and the important </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">parts can be plugged in with your own </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">private details, considering that the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">rest will come naturally, I mean we're </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all human despite living together in the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">same place, right? Same place, haha—good </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">one, huh—yeah, right. Earth is the same place </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">last time I checked. That river was the same </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">place last time we checked. That tectonic plate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was in the exact same location since the dinosaurs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the shop across the street was full of whores, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know. But listen. Somehow they got rid of us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That's why we're standing here. Now. Abandoned. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't you get it? Look, we're the only ones left. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That much should be obvious to you. The fact I'm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">even having this conversation—that you're hearing it, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">your ears scanning my voice—and blinking no comment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">reflecting indifference to the various injections </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we've suffered together, I mean it's all the same </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">transfusion right—cuz you know they're using you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and you're used to it—and they know it and it's </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">part of a network and *<i>phone rings</i>*.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The point of the matter being simple. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No such thing as the same place twice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't believe in naughty or nice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wanna drink wine better make it from rice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bees are dying from an Incorperated heist. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You wanna talk robbery. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's called passing the buck. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And if you ask me again I won't give a fuck. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reason things stay the same can't be proven. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its like trying to measure a hologram as its woven. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't talk to me about illusion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know relativity can be confusing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Einstein postulated imaginary time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't even know if he knew it rhymed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My calculations always come out the same. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like there's a refraction coming out of my membrane. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A higher distraction I'm too blurry to see sane. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So let me try to get you to understand me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's an entire universe out there I'm a part of. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stars grow deep in my heart so to speak. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Isn't it this way for everyone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Discovered that, when uninstalling </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">old software from your head,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">remember to begin with those </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">most recently installed and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">work backwards, like a reverse </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">layercake. Don't forget to empty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">recycle bin. And you're good as new. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only one hundred and thirty five dollars, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">billed to your electronic web account. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But they'll never get those symantec bits out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Haha I'm just kidding. Our lives are nothing like </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">computer systems, that's a myth. Computer systems merely </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">resemble our lives. Our heads. The way we unmake our beds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And never lie down in them twice. It's not the same bed, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same river, it's not the same head, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same bitterness, it's not the same headdress, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same cleverness, it's not the same anything, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same bling bling, it's not the same corruption, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same eruption, it's not the same consideration, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it's not the same alliteration, it's not the same expedition </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and it's not the same cognition. It's not even the same degree </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of maintenance that affects the same results or effects. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's not the same anymore. And it can never be the same </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">again. There can never be the same amount of difference. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There can never be the same amount of inference. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There can never be the same degree of anything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It can never be the same again for everything. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We can never be sane again because there is no </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">constant for sanity. We can delve into sanity </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">further and establish the possibility of fair weather.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But the clouds might develop to blot out the sunshine that </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">otherwise pronounced the clear outline of our shadows. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If these are the conditions in sanity, imagine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the conditions without. You can't. Because </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">there is no such thing. As sanity. It's all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in our heads like a dream. Or a vanity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Like a scheme. That we planned, you see. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Only no scheme ever unfurls as planned. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We all know that, deadpan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what's in a scheme. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nothing but a flowering idea. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And we all know what they say about flowers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flowers have no hope for <a href="http://diurnalislunaticus.blogspot.com/">tomorrow</a>. </span><br />
<br />thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-83113388845779889512013-11-21T22:37:00.003-08:002014-06-02T07:54:08.537-07:00Mysterium...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><i>for Jhon Longshaw</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">...the root of the word mystery lies in a secret </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or hidden meaning, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from the Old French</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mistere </i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">and the Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mysterium,</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"A secret rite, a secret </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">worship, or secret thing," and Greek</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mysterion, </i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">a secret rite or doctrine, and deeper to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mystes</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"one who has been initiated," </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">in other words </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">a mystic, where the sense goes back to the Old </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">French</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mistique </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">and to the Latin </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>mysticus </i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">One who has been initiated into being connected </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">the mysteries, associated with sacraments, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">exhibiting outward signs of an inward </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">spiritual </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">grace, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">like the eucharist, being a consecration </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">and a mystery itself, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">in other words sacred, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">which is to be made holy, in other words to be </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">kept intact, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">a thing that could not be transgressed </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or violated, but kept whole, from Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>hal</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"Entire, unhurt, healthy," where health is equated </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">to being whole, sound, or well, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>willan</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, "to wish" arising from will, from Gothic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>wiljan</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, "to will, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">wish, or desire," from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>desiderare "</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">to long for, demand, or wait in </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">expectation </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">for what the stars will bring," </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>de sidere</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">), to consider (from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>considerare</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">) </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">the stars, what we now refer to as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>sidereal</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>siderius</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, meaning "starry or astral, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">of the constellations," from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>astrum</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, star </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>steorra</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, Old Norse</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>stjarna</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, Greek</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>aster, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>stella</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, performing the lead part, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">the starring role, a part </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or character one takes, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">the symbol or imprint on the soul, from Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>sawol</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"the spiritual and emotional part of a person; </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">animate existence, of uncertain origin, ancestry, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or race; from Old French</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>origine</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, and Latin </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>originem</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"a rise, commencement, beginning, or source through </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">descent, lineage, or birth, from Old Norse</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>byrdr</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"Birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate," </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>fata </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">"a prophetic declaration, oracle, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or prediction," the sentence of the gods, from Old </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>wyrd</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, "fate, destiny", literally "that which </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">comes", Old Saxon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>wurd</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, which is also to turn, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">and bend, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>weordan</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, to become, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">and weirder yet from the root -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>wer</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">or versus, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">from Latin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>versus</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, "turned toward or against"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>Weorthan</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">what befalls one should he dare, from </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">Old English</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>durran, </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><i>"</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">to brave danger; to venture, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">presume," to risk the loss </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">of a thing about to happen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">by chance, fortune, or luck; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">once upon a time, all </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">these things described were one </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">and the same, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">and the weird thing today remains, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">that by turns </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">of phrase, they've slowly been flowering </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">back into </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">secrecy turning once again into hidden mystery... </span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-72528860037194069362013-11-21T19:38:00.000-08:002013-11-21T19:38:34.617-08:00Return To Sender<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>for Ward Churchill </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Frozen in abject terror<br />Flowing through </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Imbedded roots with<br />Skin curling blackened </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Away revealing red raw </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ruin where once was </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A mask and n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ever a face</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Feel the wind for</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The very first time<br />Then season the silence</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With a sigh and cut<br />Out your own tongue<br />Hand it to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the head of state</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a white napkin<br />Upon a china plate<br />Bow halfway with </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Feigned good grace<br />This has explained </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Such gifts as a voice </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are a waste</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>thornshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07855843048880041362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158874630634661951.post-87319450496369100482013-11-20T07:27:00.004-08:002013-11-21T19:39:27.165-08:00March Forth<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>for Gareth Griffin</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">March forth into the
unknown because we're all doing it anyway.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Consider being given
nothing a treasure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and no one can take
your good fortune away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why do they call it
The Present? Because it's A Gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Don't Leave It
Unwrapped or let it Collect Dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or abandon it tossed
in the corner, nor from misuse allow it to Rust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Accept it with good
grace and see it's all that's yours to Keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and All the Rest,
even your face, the knickknack paddywack pieces of your home,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">will peel away like
leaves of flesh falling off the bone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Funny how material
things will only fade away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the Nothing
you've been given is Freedom here to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">March Forth into the
Unknown, it's really all you can do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clearly an adventure
with Something to gain and Nothing to lose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peel Away the Fears
that have collected over the years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like so many
cancelled stamps, and you will find<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">what you thought were
the bars of your own prison cell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">had only built up in
your mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The high temperature
of your own private Hell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you set to broil and
switched on yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And what of the Scars
from your X-degree burns?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Go out at night and
stare at the Stars,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and think as you walk
how the Earth still turns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then when you get
home, Take A Look In The Mirror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Straight through the
Eyes to your Heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It still yearns, does
it not, and beats every night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>even while you're
sleeping</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So March Forth into
the Blue, smiling evenly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stepping through
light, untying the knot to ease the rope burns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Still your thoughts,
close your eyes to the hate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let it all go in a
slow dissolution, Escape from the mold clamping into the quick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that is selling your
soul getting old quick and the trick is to keep moving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">or the walls will
close in and the hallways will whisper <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all of your sins can
slip between cracks, take root and grow tangled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">all around you, a
cocoon of comfort called homespun numbness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">mistaken for the
crumbling fortress of dreams <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when really nothing
is as it seems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">because we See what
we Believe and we musn't forget<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">if we want to leave
this Scene <i>March Forth</i> into the unfolding brand new dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>you make up while
awake; this is nothing to shake a stick at</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">if you're Sick of It
make a Break for It <i>Right Now</i> There Is No Time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">like the Present, and
you Know Tomorrow Never Comes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>so Throw Sorrow Out
the Window
</i>and pick up your feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to the rhythm of the
sound of your own drums.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>March Forth</i> with the Brave and
the Bold and you might find<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You'll Never Grow
Old; Learn to Unwind with Clear Open Eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Realize you are
breathing The Sky! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Marching Forth
without Fear will erase the bad years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keeping focus on the
Gift close at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pick it Up from the corner, blow off all the dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and with Trust, <i>March
Forth </i>and Make Your Own Stand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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