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Here are my songs, straight from my notebook, unedited. My newest ones are at the top.
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POEMS
DATE
SWING
Aug 2006
TARANTISM
Apr 2005
HOPESFALL
Dec 2004
DESIGN NOTHING
Oct 2004
ACORNS
Oct 2004
A LOON AND A BAFFOON
Jun 2004
THAK TOU
Jun 2004
OUR TOE
Jun 2004
IN THE OPEN
Jun 2004
A FALL TO FIND A FRIEND
Feb 2004
THE FAT CAT
Jan 2003


SWING

and this is how i feel
before i start to kneel
run my fingers on the wind
created by my spin
set in motion by the grin
in my soul from the sound
feverishly i stomp the ground
as each vibration is found
joyous to my ears
almost bringing tears
do you hear what i hear?
an endless string of wonder
because once it's done
it leads straight into you
then what can i do
but fall down on my face
as i attempt to trace
the beauty you created here
it forces my soul to cheer
do you fear what i fear?
the creator of the songs sung now
but once we take our final bow
the music will be nothing
and finally we'll truly sing


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TARANTISM

I was bitten by a taratula
it didn't work out too well
i was still stuck to the floor
though mush now was my core
injected with this strange disease
may i take your hand and dance please
get up and move your knees
swing your thighs
rotate your hips
look into my eyes
press into my lips
it's you and the melody
can't you see, i'm now free
released, it wasn't an injection
something has been taken from me
by you i've been unjammed
my viens, my eyes, my soul were crammed
sneak across my mind
tiptoe and sparatically wind spiral down my spine
you've commited the crime
catylyst to candy and chimes
life heavenly devine
but i could dance without you
though now the opposing i cannot do
chew and gnaw
erase my flaws
we're not perfect
unless we're one
until we're done
tarantism quintoxic muffinism schism is no realism
no strip, but stripped
much deeper we have dipped
head over heels flipped
loose in knees caboose sneeze
rid of these
will you please
dance with me
endlessly


HOPESFALL

it's kind of like a hug gone unrecieved
i swing my arms to wrap around nothing
whack myself in the face
lose balance fall off the edge
the narrow cliff i tried to run
i tried to have more than just fun
falling lost all, look at how i spun


and yet i continue to wrap
in the wrong direction?
probably, but i am blind
and i never do find
what was meant for me
what was meant for all
i just cannot make the right call
and that is why
i continue to fall

as do my hopes


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DESIGN NOTHING

Research the design
Designers are fine
They work with the mind
They make things like signs
Also they can make monkies climb
Screens on machines
Multiply and freeze
Can't process the output says
Can't process the input is
The reason all will fail
Design your own demise
Can't work without disguise
Falsely provide lies
Think nothing


ACORNS

Johnny walllllllllked
to the shop
Johnny ATE
3 acorns
from 3 trees
inhabited by bees
called themselves the fearsome sneeze
coagulated varmint knees
abhorred by shores of seas
and shells that scattered like holes in cheese
Johnny didn't make it
to the shop
1 package stopped
fell from paper bag it plopped
his plans were copped
for in a bag 3 acorns laid
for which he had not paid
so then he sat and stayed
ate 3 acorns, betrayed
his plans gone past
bees flew by fast
recognized the last
of three
lost by me
I did not see
Didn't have the advantage of a tree
It's height
It's view
Glances not thrown but spew
And thus Johnny did chew
But just a few
Tasted damp from dew
Days ago they were due
To expire, they were not new


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A LOON AND A BAFFOON

what happened to the rain, i do not know.
but sure as poop, it did not show
that foolish weather site now shows hardly any rain
for the next long while, oh what a pain
but not really you see
because that means more times of possibility for you and me
cards and tv all day long
gives me time to write you this song
because i'm all alone
if only someone would phone
or even toss me a little bone, of a chance of friendship
nothing else would ever be more hip
unless of course that one came along
who sang the same song
the same tune
and i hope the time is soon
but who would love such a baffooon
you'd have to be a complete loon
well that's my story
wish you were here to share your glory
but alas a life of cards you have chosen
and here in the basement i still sit frozen.



THAK TOU

Oh Thak Tou I'm not aware of your life
but i'm sure it must've been full of pain and strife
living up near the arctic
near all those polar hicks
life could not be much fun
when most of the year you have no sun
no ground to plant in
only love as a carcinogen
you see it's a cancer that ate away
because for you love never stayed
it was never real
something you could barely feel
up all alone by the pole
its really just a lifetime black hole
for you search your part of the earth
and find nothing but hate birth
you try and get away from it all
look to the heavens during fall
you see, up there borialis is not small
it shows wonder and glory so tall
that you begin to think further
and feel not alone
you have found here more than anywhere
up north you're really at home


For Charlotte


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OUR TOE

things do not flow
so easily when you're attached at the toe
life goes by
and it's so wry
because it's odd how we try
and for others cannot satisfy
no matter what we do
they're still afraid of me and you
because we're attached at the toe
with no place to go
but back to eachother
for us there's no other


OUT IN THE OPEN

I'm here and so are you
but no one can see with who
and i try not to as well
don't want to think of hell
I overflow with other things
but I'm hating the feelings it brings
should turn your way
but i can't, not this day
maybe another time
it's what i want but i just can't find
the strength within
to dump all this sin
get it all out
live without a doubt
that i am yours and you are mine
nothing else would be as devine
and i run from all this
next time i hope to not miss
i don't know the path
reveal it to me
and then we can be
out in the open
forever


for charlotte


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A FALL TO FIND A FRIEND

A brisk and breezy afternoon, gently scattered arrangements of powdery effervescence descending from the heavens, two silhouettes seen leaping together through the dust of the heavens, giving immense contrast to the setting sun which plunges into the horizon with an explosion of vibrant colors. The two ignite a mass of sparrows to flight, who are braving the chilling air, and the silhouettes are absorbed in the crossfire of their fervent winged friends. Laughter would ring out if not pounded into silence by the sound of the sparrows rhythmic beating appendages. They withdrew their presence out into the blue and the two were left standing, and the frigid gnawing returns. A thick quilt unfolds in the ever-growing shadows and is shook to the air unraveling like the cluster of sparrows which seemed to do the same moments earlier, and the two joined in that memory let themselves become entwined in it and they collapsed to the ground. If a sound were made it would be heard this time, there was a void of tone, but not of harmony. A stronger emotion reigned over this place... Peeled down, their feelings, dreams, memories, and beliefs were shared; unchallenged. Their differences became their similarities and they lay beside each other unveiled and felt invulnerable.

Will you be the second silhouette?


THE FAT CAT

A fat cat went to the boar store and picked up a quick hick whacking stick, the fat cat sat in his sub-par car and went away very far. There and Thar went he in his car even past a pit of tar, wars broke out in his pores from the tar which he now wore. Seeping into his skin as he was sleeping and down it went from his chin and missed the bin which had been placed there after eating and whacking with new quick hick whacking stick. Hicks without chicks were left dying on the floor all because of that boar store, stupid war between cats and hicks with no hats and no wicks for their candlesticks. So the felines and the dumb minds of the country went without war and never went to the boar store anymore.

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