Which wraps up volume 2.23 of the songs of days, titled The Original M.A.P.S. Project, or, "Figure out how to figure it out". Which was possibly something? It's a wierd one, the book it was written in was a leather-bound journal of what looks like handmade paper, with about the proportions of an old polaroid. I can't really remember what the M.A.P.S. project (which I abandoned, retitled as a song volume and usurped with these songs) was about, some poorly focused effort in the perpetual quest to rectify my mind. What remains is a front endpaper featuring half a dozen fortune cookie fortunes I pasted in, a bunch of Tao quotes, and particularly a couple dozen acronyms of the word maps. Like, Mastery, Action, and Process, Synthesized, and Malefactor, Antihero, Pariah, Sanctifier. I don't know. I can see that I tore quite a few pages out of it, front and back, The small size of the unlined pages really restricted the possible length of the songs throughout (since I generally adhere to one page per song).
It also included an extra song, outside the daily rotation, that appears after the formal end of the volume. No recollection of the when or why of writing it. But I'll include it here for the sake of completeness but it's not a song of the day and don't treat it like one! It doesn't count, literally. Also very meta, if not outright solipsistic.
Song Will Teach
Song will teach you
how days get past
Some short some long
but not a one lasts
Song will teach
You will go past too
probably some day
nobody sing about you
but I will
long as I last
Somehow still here
for every day's song
already past
Song will teach you
how they all say it's so great
but it you think they're showing up
You'll have a hell of a wait
Next volume on deck ASAD 2.24: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
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