2.4330 : 3/11/17 : Tale of Rings

Tell a tale of rings

always loved shiny things

all the paradigms

and plots life brings

Little folks and

wizards grand

pipeweed really

fueled the band

I dreamed the

better part of a year

and if you got ears

sure you'll hear

It's what I had

hidden in my pocket

and the dream

awoke as a rocket

that blasted

to three hundred days

and so the beat

bays

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2.3811 : 10/9/15 : Every Moment

By crazy chance

crossed the same river twice

imagine every moment

filed 

cant even tell

if that would be nice

that's my next level

every paradigm

in ruins

but I imagine it all

the revelations

and so so many

gorgeous tunes

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2.2833 : 02/03/13 : Play

too dull
not enough play
bad paradigm
but I don't know the way
to break it
and remake it
if that's even the model
and cannot tell
the axle
from the throttle

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2.2662 : 8/16/12 : The Hallowed Goal Shredder Theme Song

Nothing's really worked for twenty years
that whistling sound between my ears
tells me I'm done with trying to walk on coals
Screw inspiration let's start shredding goals!
Once written a goal may only be released
once it's wholly completed or thoroughly deceased
If you kill it it's done, you must chuck it down the spout
think twice you know you really want to work work it out
Once written write the success or failure state
Write the kill plan though it doesn't feel so great
think positive instead write a bold new heading
The where and the how to just get shredding
Break it down and get all stepwise
Now your pencils are sharp said the guy with the great eyes
So get scratching get it underway
gotta check it check check a box every day
Only allowed one page at a time
Oh we've all run afoul of that paradigm
if some parts are checked up you can recopy it all
or just power and shred through let nothing stall
Sublime and mundane must share every page
Stay honest take it all stage by stage
Stick with it check a box every day
Supply the will and you will find a way

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2.2523 : 3/30/12 : Favor

Might be better off
to drop the favor paradigm
the chosen the elect
All of that dreck
is past its prime
Nobody's special to
and no one is unique
and so I see you pause
finger an exception clause
you better think before you speak
Where once I thought myself was set apart
I soon learned that I owned a mean estate
and here's the truth that pierces to the heart
despite our art we're none of us too great

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2.1771 : 3/9/10 : Exit Sign

There's far too little of
every thing that comes to mind
and if I can't see the exit sign
I must be blind
but I've been on that
road less traveled, its bunk too
and the terrible temptation
is to give he paradigm one more act two
want want want and try to
convince myself that's the problem
by the time I face up to the decision
the better windows flew by, I missed them
what a wretched specimen
embarrassed but it's done
And I can't even tell if I
learned anything from this one

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2.1770 : 3/8/10 : Paradigm

Run in my trick in my book
and still come up short
waited well beyond too long
this time to press abort
I miss the old diary
at least it didn't all have to rhyme
if you want to call on me well
call me the paradigm
what comes next
well it's predictable as hell
at least until tomorrow
guess I'll just pray it turns out well
what a foolish tale
of what redlined my frustration
it's not so complicated
I just need a damn vacation
but all I'll get is
this paradigm revisited
One last time I guess I'll claim
I'm sure the suspense will keep you riveted

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2.1762 : 2/28/10 : Time

Well you gotta do the time: if you want to earn the crime
yeah you've got to pull the switch: if you want to rule the bitch
Sure you have to with through: if you want to show them what you can do
Hey you have to walk the talk: because bullshit will surely balk
My oh my what do you think: that this grim ordeal has led me to the brink
Not at all my brother I'm fresh as breezes: having gotten so sick of my diseases
Once in a while I'll question my lot: want very hard what another has got
I could get shamefaced, not to transform: but pause for a minute and consider the norm
we last six or seven decades maybe eleven: many console in the inimitable doctrine of heaven
but I'm not dependent on it: So much is just all words
that swirl and shift and twist: like unruly flocks of birds
I'm not sure I'll reveal: this crazy desperate appeal
after a day so up and down: I can't find the energy for a frown
I'm thinking of preserving: this strange mood I'm serving
I'm thinking of transgressing: and begging for a blessing
I'll leave it at the steel gates: the paradigm the gold plates
and pass it at the altar: the mules in horse's halter
I'll write it on a dull strip: nothing but a slight slip
and when some trooper finds it: I'm hoping that he binds it
and writes in the grimoire: that some day may well go far
and pierce our cosmic membrane
it's for that each day I train

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2.1405 : 3/8/09 : Dear Lord

Dear lord

what’s it going to be now

I think I’ve really

had enough of it this time

scrape my chair back

take my bow

Hear me pray oh lord

for the new paradigm

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2.988 : 1/16/08 : Catch Can

Catch can move and catch can groove

as catch can so can bust, reprove

what offers in this moment

gotta foment

What I can then home went

Chance have at you

glance, tip hat you sneak a fat view

anytime I’ve used all rhyme

I must recycle paradigm

And lift the ban and bang the pan

as I catch as catch can

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2.897 : 10/17/07 : Brave and Bold

I love the feel of a paradigm slide

when you’ve got nothing to lose

and even less to hide

watch the clinging of

the first becoming last

welcome to the dustbin

welcome to the past

I’ve got a feeling that

everything’s changing

power structures crumbling

classes rearranging

and I’m afraid of the

death throes

how bad how long

nobody knows

and it might seem like another day

of the same old same old

but still it’s coming

Whatever you say

and I am to face the new day

brave and bold

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2.852 : 9/2/07 : Slow Time

The wall’s just a metaphor
though certainly not for a door
it marks the changeover
back into slow time
I don’t believe we’ll make it to the asymptote
I don’t believe I’ll live to see that’s all she wrote
Still I might see the seed sown
of some strange new old fashioned future paradigm
such gorgeous lies we now concoct
and parables of worlds we rocked
I imagine we’ll pull together another run
up the slope of the great geometric
bio and nano on top of electric
on our slow way to be absorbed by the sun

what

2.821 : 8/2/07 : Time Worm

slipping into the future...

The time worm just keeps
drilling through the apple
the winter dust that glitters
the fall leaves that dapple
maybe everything’s virtual
composed of light
it is pretty to think so
but they say the math won’t
work out right...
another week of worms
all gnawing at the tapestry
another stab at meaning
that comes out as sophistry
What good is science
at the mercy of the paradigm
and now the worm is telling me
there’s really no
such thing as time

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2.807 : 7/19/07 : Straight John

After everything I’ve relegated
everything I revelated
masquerading as a Straight John
Yeah no man I moved a ton
of oddly scripted scraps of rhyme
of thoughts from some scrapped paradigm
absolved of rhetoric and context
whoa this is your brain on text
observed and sung becomes a bliss
that circles and resolves like this
observe the center that does hold
the thing remains: the story told

what

2.770 : 6/12/07 : Day 3

Day 3 when the worm turns
make it official
the tinder catches and burns
I’ve done my day sevens
elevens, my five
did a thousand and one
and this thing’s
still live
it’s time to forget about
setting a date
I’m storming a new paradigm
one up my
second rate
pumping juice into the valance
going to force the quantum
leap
well aware at any
moment
I could tumble
in a heap

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2.758 : 5/31/07 : Lists

A list won’t solve your problems
and here’s the reason why
because just like everybody ever
you are going to die
because you can’t expect
the unexpected every time
because only one in a thousand
spots the shifting paradigm
because thinking isn’t doing
because doing is uncertain
because no list be it oh so subtle
will expose the man behind the curtain
because you’ll list the wrong things
and the order will be random
and you’ll lose nine timely stitches
trying to kill your birds in tandem
because humankind is flawed
because entropy persists
because in the end all it does
is proliferate more lists

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2.728 : 5/1/07 : Incision

If my call for assistance
gets intercepted
my application
for transmigration
may never be accepted
If my atonement
gets back ordered
I’ll fall back on
the lost track song
the midnight paradigm it bordered
if my bright light
goes for a random walk
through such dark loops
and dives and swoops
I’ll really start then to fight
If life came knocking always
at the moment of decision
I’ll strike my line
and call it fine
consider it a skilled incision

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2.588 : 12/12/06 : Like A

Are you gonna fix my metaphor
like a superheroine
and make me eloquent enough to
Rock you like a simile
Some apogee to climb
ascend this paradigm too rough to
Fix it
Mix it
Like a fish with a submarine
break it
snake it
down the pipe just like a fast machine
Are you gonna wreck my allegory
A story like a parable
this cloak is just unwearable
and this dagger is dull
for what I’m bout to
try to pull

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2.584 : 12/8/06 : Damn Again

Damn again, damn again
Guess I’m gonna hafta wing it then
You can’t expect the unexpected
you can’t direct the undirected
And if that ship’s coming I’d like to know when
Maybe it all comes to nothing but a scrawl
by a palsied hand on a crumbling wall
the signs never told me a blessed thing
I never got my hands on the damn brass ring
A decade, two, slowed down to a crawl
While entropy has a fine old time
I’m stuck in traffic on my own dime
try to get caught up today
damn it all again anyway
just keep shooting for that new
paradigm

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2.563 : 11/17/06 : The Nature of Information

The replication of information
bears no relation to an act of theft
It is the nature of information
to shatter artificial boundaries

I refuse to call this property
even if the one who wrote it down is me
I appreciate a statutory recompense of cost
but the balance versus freedom of expression has been lost
in the name of Mickey Mouse Immortal
we slammed the door on public domain’s portal
like Bob Dylan’s opinion matters
more than information and all the illusions that it shatters

The replication of information
bears no relation to an act of theft
It is the nature of information
to shatter artificial boundaries

in the end only the information truly persists
evidence that some consistent energy exists
someday they’ll laugh at our pathetic showing
as we thrash around pretending we can control its flowing
like Jack Valenti’s opinion matters
like Universal Vivendi’s
opinion matters
I’ll laugh today and watch
as this false paradigm
shatters

The replication of information
bears no relation to an act of theft
It is the nature of information
to shatter artificial boundaries

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