701 : 3/11/00 : Fugitive

I’m a fugitive I’m on the run
stolen car stolen name stolen gun
I’m blazing a path straight to Tijuana
smoking lucky strike and marijuana
I’m a desperado a man for hire
matched sixes and leather attire
I’m dangerous not a man to know
A man calls with a number and I go
I’m a fugitive I’m hiding away
Won’t poke my head out for many a day
I’ve done more wrong things than I can count
but the worst is I went too many times to the fount
someday the statute of limitations will expire
then I won’t be running hiding or for hire
I’ll show my face in the sun
no more a fugitive living by the gun

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700 : 3/10/00 : Beaten

My qualifications seem
strangely arbitrary
I know I’m supposed to be
doing the right things but
I just feel beaten anyway
I just feel beaten again
the answers gleaned thus far
seem very suspect to me
I know I’m supposed to be
making a difference but
I just feel beaten anyway
I just feel beaten again
I’m made of dust and air
numinous ethereal
I know I’m supposed to be
solid and present but
I’ve just been beaten again
I just feel beaten anyway

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699 : 3/9/00 : Remembrance

Remembrance of things long gone
ain’t I a useless one
While others laugh and carry on
I’ll be remembering
And all you’ve heard so far is lies
My mouth must stink and buzz with flies
What should a man do before he dies
To be remembered?

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698 : 3/8/00 : Switch

1,170 : 3 ?


Calcutta express watercress
desire and fire and fire
Malcontent and heaven sent
one day I’ll make it underneath the wire
Nonsense verses read as curses
time relentless unbending
I’m full of shouts looking for outs
some way to stop the signals I’m sending
Bent and battered nothing mattered
so I pushed it into the sea
it floated a while sank with a smile
it never stopped looking at me
the thing in the jar got hit by a car
and was lost forever in a ditch
while I counted change they did a rearrange
then someone pulled a switch

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697 : 3/7/00 : Evolve

Evolve for a purpose
rise to meet God
Individual is meaningless
is fertilizing sod
Evolve due to physics
the meaningless accretion of form
A meaningless evolution of
attraction in the chaos storm
chalk it up to evolution
pass it off as a game
pass it off as a painful
play of words in a pointless name
Nevertheless the cycles
will turn and turn again
As we argue our time erodes
out from under us like sand

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696 : 3/6/00 : Must I Crawl

Must I crawl now
to reach the finish line
after all now
is this what I came to find
failing dignity
and pride where did that go
one more thing this city
swallowed up whole
Must I crawl now
to get underneath the wire

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695 : 3/5/00 : Further Memories of Youth

Where to begin
so many years gone
since I tuned in
and sang a sad song
I dreamed
and couldn’t dream if it was a dream
I blinked and
couldn’t find the edge of the stream
all the temponauts
wondering what to remember
A hard July
or an amazing December
to our future pioneers
these further memories of youth
the taste of clover
a weekend in Duluth
3 hours on an airplane
3 years in a house
12 nights of the ice storm
12 years quiet as a mouse

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