880 : 9/6/00 : The Money (Faustus 6/26)

1,951 : 3 ?


It’s all about the money, scratch
ounce for ounce and batch for batch
filthy lucre silver gold
I got to be ruthless and cold
I’m all about the money, juice
dimes for dollars or an ace from a deuce
expedience my only moral
no time to get sentimental or rest on my laurels
Money is a shiny trap
Get caught in the illusion you’ll taste the strap
easy to get pulled into the game
forget your real treasure’s name
I’m all about the money true
but it’s not for the money I do what I do
my higher purpose is to set myself free
escape from the lion the devil has on me

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

879 : 9/5/00 : Tha Life (Faustus 5/25)

I can’t resist but it can’t be right
livin’ tha life forever night by night...
The deal’s signed in blood and locked away
what have I sold what did he give away
did I offer him the coffer or the keys
What went home with Mephistopheles
I can’t resist but it can’t be right
Livin’ tha life forever night by night...
Now I’ve got time to run down the juice
to buy me time to set my thoughts loose
create at last my master stroke
an ifreet a name I invoke
I can’t resist but it can’t be right
Livin’ tha life forever night by night...
by the time the deal comes back to me
I’ll have another card, get out of jail free
I’ll demonstrate the new technique
The evidence the proof I seek
I can’t resist but it can’t be right
Livin’ tha life forever night by night...

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

878 : 9/4/00 : Drawn In Blood (Faustus 4/25)

The line is always drawn in blood
The downpour that precedes the flood
and crossing it accept a prize
that bars the doors of paradise
signed in blood and sealed with tears
the poison forced into our ears
the sickness for the sickening prize
a mad spark behind jaundiced eyes
that grasps the pen and taps a vein
and leaves behind a crimson stain
seal the deal prepare the plate
and servants offer up my fate

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

877 : 9/3/00 : Terms (Faustus 3/25)

There’s always terms and
there’s always a catch
there’s always payments and
it’s always a stretch...
and I’m a dealer with a history
but the terms of this deal are new to me
you say my soul’s the asking price
but here’s a twist so let me ask your advice
if by chance I didn’t believe
in the commodity
should I reconsider my beliefs
or figure that the deal is free
should I put it in a box
and send it U.S. Mail
do you have a contract or a bill of sale
there’s always terms and
the offer’s not what it appears
but if it’s true I have a soul
I haven’t used the thing for years
so show me the papers
show me the line
show me the goods and show me where to sign

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

876 : 9/2/00 : The Offer (Faustus 2/25)

Hey I got something to offer
proffer what you want to
get your hands on
know there’s high demands on
Don’t act surprised
my office says you had a call in
stop your fronting and your stallin’
let’s get down to business
or on to whatever
choose it yes or no
you really want to live forever
trust me Docta I can arrange it
Man of resources saw your chance
and chose to change your fate
let’s step into your office
let’s talk about the terms
or hey stick with the deal you got
to sleep forever with the worms

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

875 : 9/1/00 : Docta Faustus (Faustus 1/25)

Paging docta Faustus
caller at the office
the gentleman with the horns
says he’s here to meet you
says he’s sure you’ll see him
here to discuss some crown of thorns
or something or the other
the moors or heights that wuther
or the corruption to which flesh is heir
it seems he’s a solution
an oath or institution
some contract or time share
paging docta Faustus
careful thought you lost us
You better come and choose
to send him back wherever
or hear out his endeavor
an offer he say you can’t refuse

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

Hide it under the mattress

The provocatively titled Pornographic marks the end of the 6th volume of the Songs of Days, "Before the Wave." Tomorrow will begin the 7th and final volume of the first song of the day project, "The Mushroom Grace."

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

874 : 8/31/00 : Pornographic

You’ve got a pornographic laugh
it excites me incites me
to reveal a slender shaft of wit
You’ve got a pornographic mind
surprising so mesmerizing
I’ve got to slip inside of it
oh baby talk to me the way you do
I’ve got to get inside that mind I’ve got to find
the secret to that kinked charm
I’ve got to make you laugh again
and make you give it up that laughter fills my cup
I’ve got to hear it with you on my arm
You’ve got a pornographic heart
Can’t look away I’ll stare all day
Oh baby won’t you pin it on your sleeve
I’ve got a sentimental bent
I’m listening to that heart glistening
with love so pornographic I cannot believe

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

873 : 8/30/00 : Immortality

1,943 : 23 ?


It is written:
Immortality shall
come from the nano
infiltrating through the ears
that’s the secret plan-o
some may try
resist the change
the nano will not spare them
don’t you know the sole cure for
our miseries is to share them
aren’t we gonna get bored daddy
aren’t we gonna crack
aren’t we gonna break down
when that monkey’s on our back
they say we’re afraid of dying
I say most still fear to live
careful what you ask for
what the nano has to give

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

872 : 8/29/00 : Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia I thought I’d see you
when I let my mind go free
you would descend and speak to me
Pale Andromeda love to get my hands on ya
Why not reach for a star
From wherever you are
And there’s Orion always Orion
Far past the Autumn sky
this year is not yet passed by

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

871 : 8/28/00 : Unintentional

Unintentional’s the
only way to slide into the
Waking sleep the
big hibernation
along winter’s sleeping
my own counsel I’ll be keeping
fiddling while the forest burns
the season turns
and I’ll be waking soon

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

870 : 8/27/00 : Intentional

If you feel a closeness to me
If I seem to understand you
I assure you the effect’s intentional
If you found from time to time
that I was not far from your mind
I assure you I strive to be three dimensional
with you
If I’m smarter more accomplished
if I have surprising charm
I assure you it was my aim always
stretching back nine years or more
a chance encounter so much in store
waiting for encounters in chance hallways
Intentional I aimed at you
and though you seemed untouched by me
I never really wavered in the end
And when I knew the time was right
brought my intentions to the light
trusting that somehow you’d comprehend

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

869 : 8/26/00 : Fifth Principle

Under the thumb of the fifth principle
out of excuses or out of my skull
just trying to find a place where I may rest
but everywhere I go I’m put to the test
This is the wild card that goes anyway
the fifth principle that does not lead or obey
written in water or traced on a stone
it doesn’t appear till it finds us alone
the concept the blueprint the marker the map
and beyond all that a big bucket of sap
and I’ve got a bucket for every tree
and the fifth principle it means nothing to me
but there in the last run I’ll see it arise
and the error of my ways revealed to my eyes
then we shall see what we save what we cull
laboring in the sun of the fifth principle

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

868 : 8/25/00 : Sister Strap-On

Here I am in this Post Modern age
Hey uh sister strap-on
Won’t you rattle my cage
I need a shock to shake me free
I need someone to punish me
Uh bend me over sister
make me your wife
I beg you sister strap on
revolutionize my life
Just take me round the final bend
round to where the road won’t ever end
Here I am on this rack of sin
Dear god sister strap on
When does our session begin
Educate me to your ways
I plan to be down here for days

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

867 : 8/24/00 : Choose

Virile, sterile, puerile, hung
choose to choose the song that’s sung
Led by Plato, Proust or Jung
clever, sever, lever, lung

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

866 : 8/23/00 : World Fever

1,937 : 16 ?


Fever the descending moment
falling back into the same old
Try so hard to step up to a
new horizon in from the cold
The whole world has got a fever
caught it back in fifty one
Used to think just I could see it
now I know I’m not the only one
what is causing this affliction
that has kept us up at night
brooding over past mistakes
and waiting for a hint of light
Fever an ascending chorus
rising to a different, new
way of seeing acting being
step up stand up follow through

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

865 : 8/22/00 : Arcana

Unrecorded in the lesser Arcana
after twenty years of eating manna
and wandering in a crazy style
I got an urge to settle down a while
The spirit hovers over the water
Reveals the pattern with a vector plotter
no surprises to get wild about
it’s all circles and they all move out
In the lens the all-seeing eye
ups the magnification high
enough to see on the head of a pin
what seems to be an angel counting him
It’s a mad religion true
obsessed with fives and the color blue
The Greater Arcana records not a word
and this is all just things I heard

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

864 : 8/21/00 : Credit

Slide the card through the slot
come on slide it
make the magic machine
Shower you with gifts
For being just the
great thing that you are
the great hand of the marketplace
invisibly through all the human detritus sifts
Oh yeah
that’s right
the foundation of a new day
oh yeah
that’s right
we’ll build a great society on top of it
Uh huh
it’s true
I gotta be crazy
sliding it through
their filthy slot
crazy for giving what
I haven’t got

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

863 : 8/20/00 : The World Soul

Am I imagining the world soul
aching and groaning
under the weight of all our irate
pissing and moaning
could it be there’s a true place
where the spirit arises
where the world soul wells up
and silently baptizes

Walking the spiral for the world soul
diminishing spirals
is there a vector of renewal
truth retroviral
And at the center what I’ll find
is not a mind is not a stone
a chamber without door or walls
a place where no one is alone

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

862 : 8/19/00 : Loving the Question

Loving the question
easier said than done
We all want answers
to our postmodern cancers
embracing the technique
seeking our natural peak
the valley behind us
the sun that may yet blind us
in difference and scorn
have set us back and left us torn
And those of us who still care
We better be there
I’ll love the question true
make my way back to you
and write it in the stars
on Jupiter and Mars
The answer’s in living the question
no sooner said than done

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

861 : 8/18/00 : Burning Coal

What began as a digest of regrets
of so many things beyond all control
what began as a manual of hedged bets
is turning into a burning coal
I dreamed I smoked a joint with the President
and talked about trying to change the law
that had come to be so diseased and bent
it looked to collapse under the weight of a straw
and I dreamed that I was the President
shouldering a burden I didn’t want
trying to stand up for the innocent
wielding a tool so heavy and blunt
this is a digest; I regret nothing
I stand behind every goddamn word
so ask not if the coal is still burning
of that you may rest assured

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

860 : 8/17/00 : Sickness

When we’re sick of the sickness
the sickness shall cease
and finally pick up the final piece
a relic of days long past gone by
the sickness in my hand, my eye
and though they offend me
in their sick way
confess I couldn’t pluck them out
cast them away
they say I’m not fit
for the Kingdom to come
and they may be right
I’m no sicker than some
who say that they’re already
riding the rail
that will take them straight through
this illusion this veil
I’m not sick of my sickness
I’m getting there quick
but I live in today
and today I’m still sick

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

859 : 8/16/00 : The Lost Thought

1,931 : 10 ?



The lost thought the lost verse
the lost art such a curse
what it was is gone now
what’s left is the long bow...
it glimmers and dances
but spins past the chances
of chance recollection
evading detection
it’s gone now we must yield
and harvest a new field
set free from the lost thought
content with what’s fresh caught

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

858 : 8/15/00 : Admit Defeat

Admit defeat avert my eyes
there is no consolation prize
dying for the slimmest hope
hoping God will give me more rope
throw the towel in I’m all through
at least for now at least that’s true
I can’t wait fifteen minutes more
trying to stare a hole through the floor
in a one way tie for last
not much of an iconoclast
no not much of a hero true
so paint my little wagon blue
I might as well go on the road
let all the rubes watch me implode
a tent revival kind of thing
for which this last short tune I sing

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

857 : 8/14/00 : Microscope

Ah: Microscope
look a little closer
reveal the structure within
Up periscope
rise above the posers
look across to where it might begin
things that are tiny
things far away
there’s a scope for every point of view
don’t think me whiney
but I have to say
I wish I had a scope to look inside me too
You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

856 : 8/13/00 : Past Due

I’m past due
for a little rain on my Garden
past due for a pleasant surprise
don’t you think it’s time for
an unexpected joy to be revealed to my eyes
It’s long past due for my
ship to come in
loaded with glory and wealth
Still I sit around and wait to turn the corner
on work on happiness and health
maybe we live in a world of order
Where nothing can occur
before its time
and my sense of being past due’s
an illusion
I just can’t understand the reason
or the rhyme
maybe my time is already come
has been hear all along
waiting for me to unlock its secret
and talk about it in a
song

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

855 : 8/12/00 : The Magnet Part One

Crystal clear and filled with light
the end of ignorance and night
slightly convex bent and straight
the magnet man can you relate
watch it bend the point of view
of me of anyone of you
watch it bending gravity
part one is over now we wait and see
the magnet is an artifact
produced by the union of a secret pact
its manufacture lost in mystery
and here’s the trick of how this could be
in the background of the story told
there lies a riddled waiting to unfold
where did it go when it disappeared
yet was not destroyed as they had feared
it went to where the magnetism
goes after crossing the causal schism
action at a distant explained at last
the magnet pulls the present from the past

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

854 : 8/11/00 : The Magnet Part Two

Baby sometimes we’re just
Like magnetic dogs
we spin to meet or
flip like plastic frogs
In the grips of forces
we scarcely understand
the magnet part two
has us in its hand
The great Magnet’s will
cannot be superseded
But though we have a fate
we are not yet defeated
the poles we inhabit
Our opposites attract
mediated by the magnet
leaving us the will to act

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

853 : 8/10/00 : It’s Not Working

Is it working yet
I still feel pain
It’s not working
please try again
It would have worked by now
it would have done the job
but I don’t feel a thing
I’m getting every throb
Help me get me through
give me just one more
can’t I please I know
God I know what’s in store

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

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I'm Not Sick

Bake

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This is Your Brain

Narcissus

Lists

Host

Heart Worm

Volume Two Point Four: Not Another Bridge

Paraphrase

Cilantro

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It's Harder Than You Think

More Light

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Strong As Death

Fog

Siren, Banshee, Shrike

Guess What I Did

Overture

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Peril

Stone

Job

The Price of Freedom

Volume Two Point One: Log Book

Step

Tomorrow Never Comes, Again

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It's Rome, Baby! (Intro)

Parliament of Owls Brigade

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Three

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Drawn In Blood

What is Truth?

Early Riser (II)

If I Don't Burn

My Masterpiece

Volume Six: Before the Wave

Obsession

Magic Bullet

Parabola

The Dive

Black Angel

Volume Five: Untitled

Obedience

If You Love

Departure

No Water No Moon

Eat the Blame

Volume Four: Blank Book

Pentagon Files (Day of Inception)

Random Walk

Reiteration

Big Bell

Reason for a Song

Volume Three: The Functional Notebook

World for Sale

Function Ghost

The Last Night

The Last Shattered Verse

Jonestown

Volume Two: Record

Doomsday

Plinth

Heaven Won't Help You

Her Majesty's Fools

Queen of Heaven

Volume One: Songs of the Days (Vicious Cycles Revisited)

The Center

Manual Transmission

Telemeter

And Necessity (explains the tagline)

Sisyphus’ Reprieve

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

852 : 8/9/00 : Sludge Cup

1,923 : 1 ?


The race is the sludge cup
so race for the bottom
the vast sewage cistern
of power’s dark flotsam
The price is a full cup
of dark liberation
the freedom of power
and its machination
I stand on the sidelines
and watch them all lie
I’ll vote in the sludge cup
though I scarcely know why

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

851 : 8/8/00 : The Oh’s

Some day forty years from now
We’ll be rocking on the porch
having made it through somehow
Saying:
Hey homes d’you remember back in the oh’s?
Oh’s, oh’s oh’s
My friends laugh know knowing it’s true
We can’t help but be amazed
at the craziness we do
It’ll all go
Just like it looked t’go
back in the oh’s
oh’s oh’s oh’s

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

850 : 8/7/00 : Tale of 33

Thirty three
can never be
an even path of anything
remotely round
the normal curve
the order that
the numbers serve
they have a soul
they have a voice
they have a past
but we the choice
at thirty three
cut back the lines
the hour is late
the woodbine twines
cut to the chase
the final part
a tale of threes
a woeful art

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

849 : 8/6/00 : Decade

It’s been a long time since I felt like
the kid I was so long back
In the day gone gone forever now
Another decade nearly on the rack
what’d I learn in the first one
I ought to’ve figured it out by now
But when I try to trace back I can’t relate
and it all seems a dream somehow
A little clearer on the second ten
at least the last five of that
even so it’s a long time gone
From when I stepped off that railroad flat
And the last ten years of hard truth
seems too short uncertain too
I can only feel sure of one thing
I spent it searching after you
And since I found my baby yeah
This third pass seems worthwhile
guess I’ll have to face the first year
of the fourth one with a smile

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

848 : 8/5/00 : Speed Demon

Speed demon claws in my back
demon monkey crystal smack
meth and monkey dust supreme
please don’t mind that I scream
If my eyes look like piss holes
in the snow I’ve walked the coals
of methamphetamine collapse
just trying to burn a synapse
that keeps tweaking me to the fact
that I’ve invoked a deadly pact
to ride this comet where it may
and see again if it ends me today
don’t try to slow me down my friend
don’t try to circumvent my end
I always like things short and sweet
Creator or no I must be complete

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

847 : 8/4/00 : Half Hour

A half hour is nothing no
time to brew a storm, fill a sky with snow
but no time to sit and wonder why
maybe when I’m inside looking at a snow filled sky
How many do you suppose I’ve got left
before I am reaved and my kin bereft
If I had to guess I’d say about a million man
All that I have left to make my master plan
Yet if two friends told two friends
every half hour who says where it ends
before I count all my fingers twice
I’ve got my million one day no price
We could do it all ourselves
no leaders no aliens no damn dirty elves
a collective agency of will
watch the blind spider move in for the kill
just a lovely story friend
all good things must come to an end
with an encryption elegant and small

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

846 : 8/3/00 : Weird Worm

There’s a weird worm gnawing at my entrails
between my navel and my pineal gland
It seems to move around from day to day
today it seems to be ensconced in my right hand
the worm is guileless it eats without spite
guess I must have brought it on myself
I’m guessing that the way of purging it
is nothing I’ll just pick up off the shelf
I felt it curled around my ear today
it was listening in on my life
it made me sigh it could be worse I guess
a minor annoyance in a world so rife
with parasites and predators
trying to get a healthy piece of you
an undemanding tenant should not bother me
but dear little weird worm you do
I could expunge it with a cold black draught
or catch it near the surface of my skin
draw it through the membrane with a heated glass
extract it and impale it on a pin

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

845 : 8/2/00 : French Connection

1,916 : 9 ?


I dreamed I was a driver on the French Connection
Running smack and guns for the insurrection
Fast money rough trade guns and blow
cops in my pocket and a truckload of dough
I was an enforcer in a factory
making human growth hormone and DMT
making methamphetamine and PCP
I couldn’t believe that motherfucker was me
dreamed I was a smuggler on the Ivory Coast
my eyes were glazed and glossy and my mind was toast
making midnight runs in a cigarette boat
golden chains at my wrists and throat
dreamed I was the kingpin of a mighty ring
pushing something that was worse than anything
Something dark and deadly but I didn’t care
I looked into the mirror there was no one there
I dreamed that filthy lucre was my only kick
mercenary merciless unmitigated prick
when the dream was over and when I awoke
I was very happy to be clean and broke

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

844 : 8/1/00 : Begins With One

what begins with one
ends with twenty nine
and a few days
If I’m not the same
as the one that was before
where is it the one left behind stays?
open a door
pass through a door
am I a different man
problems the same
persistence and pain
trying to do all I can
Here’s the message of the mission vision
Here’s the goal of the Big decision
Everything begins with one
and where it ends your guess
is as good as anyone
So if I live to see another sun
I’ll call that one

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

843 : 7/31/00 : Bargain Basement

Bargain basement evening prayer
try to seek there’s no there there
Four line gospel nothing sacred
Watch me kneel down watch me break bread

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

842 : 7/30/00 : jen meme

generate the generation
Use genital in polite conversation
genesis of the genetic code
another meme virus on the Glory Road
jen meme jen meme means create
bring forth draw up conjure causate
genuinely programmed to
create an impression of a thing we have to do

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

841 : 7/29/00 : Stick to It

“We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough”
sometimes it seems like God just punts you
nobody told you it wouldn’t be rough
no more of the trying to hide them
eyes of dancing spinning fire
no more hiding the agenda
no more sneaking past the Wire
so stick to it babe stick like glue
babe stick to me I’m going there
to where the sense of purpose is true
can’t be seen or heard but somewhere
in the infinite divides
twixt style and substance coarse and fine
I’ll bring whatever coincides
inside of me and call it mine

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

840 : 7/28/00 : Helen Keller

In a dark and silent world
a helen dark and silent curled
unknowing name or voice or light
and seemingly a helpless plight
and yet the song remains the same
though it may not know its own name
imagine yourself like her
what taste or touch you might remember
mind waits silent mind waits dark
leaps up before the eternal spark
Writes in a neat if flaming script
words fit for the wall of your crypt
“Remember Helen Keller, boy
What I create I too destroy
but nothing of true value’s lost -
who else accounts the final cost?”

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

839 : 7/27/00 : Das Wampur

There is a thing
that moves
like a pool of oil on water
a shadow
refraction
a dark stain
It can take your form
so easy
soak into you, acid, blotter
replace you
dark reflection
in a golden rain
They live in stone
a crystal mind
no one’s son and no one’s daughter
stay clear
and mark well
a few remain

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

838 : 7/26/00 : Nature/Minion

1,909 : 2 ?


Nature sings a separate song
It has its yes and no and so long
A fractal hymn a harmony
it sings to a minion like me

And me I’m just a minion man
I try and try to do just what I can
I try but nature has its way
it’s just another minion day

reiterate the endless theme
rise and repeat I’m nature’s dream
a minion of the higher cause
another thought that gives me pause

mark it well its number’s five
as long as this minion’s alive
I’ll hold the fractal banner high
Its balance lives though I may die

You can read an explanation of the origin of these lyrics here

837 : 7/25/00 : In the Beginning

In the beginning
life was in the universe
very powerful
but afflicted with a curse
An impulse to
try to bend the rule of law
a self destructive
impulse was the fatal flaw
God made physics
in the beginning
math made man
it seemed order was winning
but the beginning
is a long way gone today
and the way things are going
it seems this thing could go any way
In the beginning
life was before all things
it was called almighty
what hope there is that brings

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836 : 7/24/00 : Permanent

A shift in attitude
adjustment of the mood
everything is different now
and the change is permanent
like a fat black marker writing bird lives
like a businessman that takes just what he gives
the purpose of the business
is no less
than the redistribution of what heaven sent
Your permanent vacation
begins just at the moment
that you choose to be
no more a slave
And when the world
is reaved and torn
we’ll find out that next
chilly morn
there really wasn’t
anything to save

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835 : 7/23/00 : Waste

Wasted youth wasted days
everybody’s talkin’
but nobody says
what’s going’ on
outside the walls
in the Waste Land
Meanwhile at the right
or left hand
the decree laid down
was the cross and the crown
to raise up our wasted youth
The word unheard was the final truth
positive proof and
the end of questions
the curtain was uncertain
we were open to suggestions
ends of days
the waste of life
We know the vorpal instrument
Occam’s blade Damocles’ knife

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834 : 7/22/00 : Haste

Haste make waste
take a look at my life
take a taste
of the vorpal knife
It’s a theme
of sorts I guess
the viroid meme
that I must confess

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833 : 7/21/00 : Odin’s Eye

Glimmer of a notion of a paradox
the pendulum of parametrix ticks and tocks
I look into the great pool of great Odin’s eye
And ask a question known to only him and I

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832 : 7/20/00 : Brim

This cup is brimming
it’s ready to spill
guess I’ve had about enough
of the bitter pill
oh if momma knew
that I’d come to this
I wouldn’t be here trapped
in my paralysis
fill me to the brim
overflowed and overwhelm
I’m ready to begin now
ready to take the healm
It’s been twenty years and more
since I set myself a task
not knowing what I had in store
not knowing really what to ask
but here I am again
I’m not sinking I am swimming
my moment slowly turns to view
this cup is brimming

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831 : 7/19/00 Vorpal

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Vorpal cut through anything
here’s the quandary see what you can do
Slice through the Gordian knot
that ties my hands from reaching out to you
snick snack slice through seemingly
inseparable matters of high regard
no diamond too rough
no hard place too hard
vorpal blade oh sword of legend
buried in your crimson stone
could the holy task of freeing
you from your place be mine alone
almost anything that you could
think of can be divided
the vorpal solution to the dilemma
and curse of the uninvited

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830 : 7/18/00 : Descent

The long low drawn out wail of descent
Why didn’t he ever say what he meant
We find it so hard to speak our mind
I guess that’s why we’re the distant kind
The thrill of take off the agony of the crash
You best be careful they don’t take you out with history’s trash
It happens to the best of us you know
So if your aim is hostile best you fly in low
The warm sound of trains, Northeast side
A brave man can still take those boxcars for a ride
I don’t hold with airplanes much I’m in no rush
Why hurry why get caught up in the crush
Start the descent now in the tenth hour
before this night is through your branch will flower
Its scent will testify to one raw fact
The sense of forward motion’s all you ever lacked
going down

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829 : 7/17/00 : The Doorway (part 2)

What did I tell you
nothing of value
can ever be destroyed
Look at yourself now
dressed for your last bow
strung out and paranoid
Yet here we all are together
Standing on the edge again
We made it through the doorway
not by the sword but by the pen

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828 : 7/16/00 : The Doorway (part 1)

Is what goes in
what goes out
Isn’t that question
what it’s all about
The doorway by virtue
of being there
forces us to ponder
on the faulty recall that we share
Is there room for error?
can we trust in who we are?
I guess I’ve got a feeling
that the answer can’t be far
so walk with me to the doorway
look and see the other side
and if I see you again never
still in my heart you’ll reside

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827 : 7/15/00 : Industry

I must think I’m
pretty hot
to think that I can get out
of the industry
I think I’m a messiah
but I’m not
and my errors are
very plain to see
Are you looking for
a new organization
a different order
a change of the guard
Here’s the source
of my frustration
the question I have
pondered hard

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826 : 7/14/00 : Squink Teevee Theme Song

Oh god
another day
in front of the teevee
all the things they always show
all the things I always see
but everything
has changed for me
since I got Squink Teevee
since I got Squink Teevee
Oh I
can’t face another day
without my death sports
And my virtual pet lamprey
You think there’d be a price to pay
but I get it for free
because it’s Squink Teevee
because it’s Squink Teevee
You must get Squink Teevee
You must get Squink Teevee
It’s all on Squink Teevee
It’s all on Squink Teevee

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825 : 7/13/00 : Before the Wave

What a silence will descend then
as we gaze at our demise
traveling across the whole world
far above skyscraper size
We may wonder what we did to
merit such a killing blow
little understanding that our
ends were plotted far below
We misread the signs and signals
blind to what we swore to save
This won’t be the last time we
wish for the world before the wave
some may cling to bits of flotsam
wash up on some crazy shore
Some might stay afloat a while
a few will come there won’t be more
One less thing to worry about
for those that rule the nether realm
and there’s not a single one
of us the wave won’t overwhelm

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824 : 7/12/00 : Delusions of Grandeur

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Delusions of Grandeur...
Delusions of Grandeur...
What do you see when you look through the door
that leads to me to you to the way things were before
what do you do when the moonlight
Turns the world to silver frost
What was the word so bold and true
that soon as I heard I had to say to you
It was a little bit past midnight
And I was talking faster than Docta Faustus
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur
There was a time so long ago
When the paradigm shifted like melted snow
We had read about what went down before
But even so, we were not prepared
And the lesson that came up from that age
Put some duress on our mostly blank page
That’s what I see looking through the door
To a hall of memories we shared
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur

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823 : 7/11/00 : The Lost Word

For those about to die
by and by, by and by
for those about to die
salute what is seen and not heard
Searching for the lost word
For those who choose to live
take and give, take and give
for those about to be demured
For you I’ll whisper the Lost Word

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822 : 7/10/00 : Brilliant

Brilliant brilliant written in fire
The moving finger writes and having writ retires
Look at what it says on the wall
You better drop everything when I call
Brilliant cycle perfect and complete
one thing leads to another and on down the street
I can’t hide the fact that I’m smitten
Dazzled by the brilliant fire in which it is written

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821 : 7/9/00 : Go (Sacrifice)

Sign of the sacrifice
everything has a price
I’m no exception there
even if I act like I don’t care
Don’t put one over on me
I’m the real article, see
watch my hands closely
there’s no trick it’s real mostly
I made my fortune in computer go
and it taught me the one thing I know
everybody gets once chance to see
how I use mine’s up to me

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820 : 7/8/00 : Passion

Watch passion ignite
not a dim light
blind sense and sight
but it’s all right ma
I’m stalwart strong
But gone for a blonde
I waited so long
to hear the song that
made me just hear
potent wild clear
past self and fear
and not a mere truth
written in gold
untouched unsold
passion hot and cold
a Love so bold

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819 : 7/7/00 : Jennie Song

Guinevere...
Guinevere...
Guinevere...
So delicious beyond compare
everything’s better with Jennifer there
at my side; love’s sexy bride
I’m sporting an excitement I can’t hide
Jennie’s song is short and sweet
a princess a twin blessed with a discrete
eternal grace; an angel’s face
that sends me swooning in a transcendent place
plain or complex, coarse or fine
Musta made friends upstairs to make her mine
I won’t let go; you know it’s so; a
Jennie song is in my heart and in my soul

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818 : 7/6/00 : Punk (Karma Wheel)

If you run down a punk in Amarillo T-X
If you play football A and M will cash your checks
If a black man robs the wrong store at the wrong time
chances are they’ll burn him for another man’s crime
I wrote this song on behalf of Dustin Camp
I gave the Karma wheel a spin and locked down the clamp
what goes around comes around I promise it’s true
and one day it will come around for you
Hey punks listen while I sing you a tune
I saw the spirit of your friend howl at the moon
He gave me a message to pass along
He made me promise to deliver it in a punk song
His spirit is vital because you don’t forget
He said to make you promise to live without regret
He said true revenge none can halt or steal
When it’s carried out by the Karma wheel
If you want real justice you must make it spin
believe in his spirit and make your lives begin
don’t dwell on this bad world as bad as you feel
I promise I’m at work with the Karma wheel

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817 : 7/5/00 : Notebook

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Get your notebook
get your pen
write it down
you won’t be told again
here’s your secret
here’s your clue
here’s your jumpstart
hear and do
read your notebook
heed its words
bright like fireflies
free like birds
write it down
don’t miss a thought
can’t be bottled
can’t be bought
Only given
free a gift
listen feel your
fortunes lift

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816 : 7/4/00 : Independence Tip

Fit that quill pen with an Independence Tip
Be careful with the balances and how many checks you skip
Nothing written down can make a well ordered state
No brand of governance can work that fails to relate
How fine are you gonna have to write
to fit it on a thousand pages
I’ve got only five to the fifths
and the thing has took me ages
nevertheless my dear friend
All that starts is bound to end
nine hundred a thousand a thousand one
look this story has just begun
soon no more an apprentice
on this declaration’s trip
I’ve got my fountain pen fitted
with my independence tip

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815 : 7/3/00 : History

Let’s make history
just like anyone
let’s start a movement
make a new thing underneath the sun
And looking back upon
The way we changed the course
memory’s a time machine
and human thought’s the primal force
Whatever we choose now
is just tomorrow’s history
And whatever happens next
Is what we caused and meant to be
It is our portion and our right
to shape the time that’s given to
the epoch of our power trips
There’s none more key than me or you
The history we’re making now
At least those who get off the fence
is nothing but the myths
they will relate a thousand eons hence

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814 : 7/2/00 : Finding the Work

Finding the work is a job on it’s own
I need a day job besides to throw the taxman a bone
Choose life the rally of the doomed
Oh I choose to be lost inhumed
What does it mean to every day
Walk in this crazy, untrained way
Follow Vishnu, Buddha, Christ
Follow the wind the moon the zeitgeist
Practice caution practice craft
sail off on a wooden raft
discover some enchanted land
the work you love is close at hand
Somewhere in a maze of life
there is a chance past fear and strife
of finding the work we require
to end this road of war and fire
And if I find the work I love
the task that fits me like a glove
then I’ll contribute to the cause
to build a whole world from the flaws

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813 : 7/1/00 : Home

The millions that have wandered
oh so long and oh so far
the time that we have squandered
following an irrational star
when will my million be led home?
when will we find our way home?
The specter of what’s left of us
starfaring tribe our noble race
left waiting for the cosmic bus
the foolish looks left on our Face
When will we wander home?
When will our wanderings take us home?
Ten thousand years ten thousand more
and look at what we’ve come to now
and look at what I’ve come to now
Whatever we may have in store
Still just want to get home somehow
when will our star lead us home?
When will they come to take us home?

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812 : 6/30/00 : Paralyzed

Paralyzed from the neck up
don’t know how I dream this dreck up
agitated and distracted
all the best words were redacted
Paralyzed strapped in a chair
don’t know how to get from here to there
I am a sorry sod
Yet on and on and on I plod
somebody come to break this spell
if I can just take one more trip to the well
and throw my last half dollar in
then I’ll be ready to begin
things start things go things stop
some hot nights I think I’ll pop
something I cannot do without
one shot and I drop with a shout
friends carry me to where
he is and take me to him there
lower me through the roof
he’ll cure me of my need for proof

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811 : 6/29/00 : Like This

Everybody's got a song like this
Everybody's got a song like this...
Robert Johnson did it first
he made a deal with the devil
devil said what's your conditions
he said I got sev'ral
I gotta be the first
that's number one
the real thing
the one born son
gotta have it strong
with the ladies man
have'm crying for me
y'understand
The devil smiled
said is that all
git yer homemade guitar
and prepare to fall
Ol' Robert said
there's just one more thing
when you hear the next song
I'm gonna sing
You gotta give everybody
a song like this
you gotta give everyone
a song like this
never seen before
never sing before
every single one
just one
like this
The devil
smiled and
said:
"nice twist"
Yeah like this

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810 : 6/28/00 : Plan Ahead

Plan ahead to think your way
out of the box of day to day
and living for the weekend
such a short leash, mate
screw it on and mark it well
You won't get another so please dispell
any notion that you can
forever hesitate
blow it up become a star
a twelve room home a fancy car
a private island of your own
go native paint your face
stick a gun under its chin
get in the enlightenment line again
let the great revolver put you
once more in your place

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809 : 6/27/00 : Just Call

Just call me now baby
I got a hard core yearning
A knot of pure resentment
at the root of me is burning
I want to take you baby
and do just what I like
hard core nothing shocking
sing it baby grip the mic
Do it with me onstage honey
Show them how it's done
Show them how excited you get
when your hand's around my gun
Plug in and get hard core with me
push back take it all
slide down on it feel me
push me back against the wall

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808 : 6/26/00 : Of Rest

No work today friend
A day of rest, the final
pause before battle

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807 : 6/25/00 : Minutes

The wheel is inscribed
demarked by fives
that form the equation
of the twelve persuasion
Degrees Minutes seconds per hour
The factor of twelve
five is prime more power
Built in circular riemann space
The powers that be gettin' up in my face
The big sweep tells the story true
I just swinging closer closer to you
circles in circles
story of my life
I'm storming the castle
and taking a wife
The reason that I'm back for more
Is I know what I'm fighting for
But only God knows what's in store

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806 : 6/24/00 : Teleportation

I want teleportation
don't need nothing else
I just gotta be there be there myself
Don't need interstellar
or matter transmat
don't need to be a captain
just a Cheshire Cat
Gotta be there gotta be there
in the thick
Gotta see how the tree makes the
party click
don't want no waiting
no in between
I want teleportation
The real thing
Look to your left now
look to your right
I may appear in your room
some night
Take my hand baby
Step into the blue light
Teleport with me turn to day from night

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805 : 6/23/00 : Flies On the Ceiling

Files on the ceiling bats in my belfry
Don't give me that no don't you dare touch me
Dogs on the dark moor cats on the fence
I'm trying to calculate my recompense
Put it all together I guess I'm doing fine
I'm just trying to figure out which one's mine
Smoke on the water drifting and rising
I just want one day that's fucking surprising
When was the last time I woke to find
a single anomaly to challenge my mind
Voices in ducts and lights in the skies
you're lying to me baby I can see it in your eyes
I've got my guard up blocking my resource
my mainline my final recourse
Please God help me find the medium
I'll slip it to her so nice and make her come
Send down my muse we'll make it three
they can make a genius sandwich out of me

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804 : 6/22/00 : Hippopotometer

You can really feel your hippo
with your hippopotometer
If your aunt lives in the desert
If your uncle’s name is Jeeter
You can go down to the Kasbah
or stay home and pull your Peter
when you measure up some hippo
in your hippopotometer

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803 : 6/21/00 : Out of Joint

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Time out of joint
oh cursed spite
I need to read and I
can only write
Hip out of joint
Lord touched him there
Fought with an angel
like I fought dispair
God stalks us all
bids us to fight
time out of joint
Oh cursed spite

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802 : 6/20/00 : Failure

Failure of ambition
failure to scribe
the cosmic download
failure to imbibe
the cosmic milk from
the cosmic titty
failure to stroke the
cosmic kitty
nevertheless I must
make my way
find success in
another day

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801 : 6/19/00 : Bellyhead

Baby buddha bellyhead
floating in your jelly bed
smiling down on all us fold
who don’t get the joke
Special jelly pulsing red
lotus and a great big head
Heady bell buddha, Baby
You can see I don’t mean maybe
with my lady and my juice
Play my one hand fast and loose
far away from Buddha nature
still caught up in nomenclature
pyrrodinyl pyrridines
and other kings of crazy rings
I’ve done my share I cannot lie
I’ve dropped it right into my eye
but baby Buddha bellyhead
will take the heat for me instead
and I will fall into the sway
of motivating in the way

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800 : 6/18/00 : Turtle

The day before father’s day
in some room not far away
in some circle plain to see
a mighty muse was sent to me
power of breath spirit of wind
the Lord giveth and the Lord doth rescind
still I was glad and no lie
To see Turtle pass by
I spoke to Turtle
and breathed an image of light
beamed through a black hole
blown through the center of the other side of a wild night
disappears as quickly as
any other source of inspiration does
Even so the turtle swims
out there through the heavens

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799: 6/17/00 : Surprise!

As the blood bubbles up in my lungs
As famous last words die on our tongues
Dark wings unfurl before my eyes
Surprise!
As I give in to the existential grind
A thousand justifications in my mind
Suddenly to a new dawn I rise
Surprise!
At the top of a monstrous mountain of shit
That I climbed just for the hell of it
I find an ancient subtle and wise
Surprise!
In a heavily annotated suburban slum
in a grid gray relentless silent and glum
I hear a gyrfalcon’s purest cries
Surprise!

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798 : 6/16/00 : Alchemist

Stark against an electric field
thrown up by a curtain of static annealed
in the cauldron of cumulous alchemy
set against night called up by me
The great is reflected in the small
a backlit fiasco projected on a wall
an octopus ink pod squeezed in my fist
is the essence of the magic of the alchemist
What is the reason what is the plan
for the way the sky’s colors all shifted and ran
and created a crazy tapestry
stark against the sacred hall of alchemy
I needed the power I needed the juice
I need a thunderbolt to cut me loose
from the loop I was stuck in fast
caused by a moment of doubt in my past
did the light seize hold did the alchemy take
did the fettering chains fall off or only shake
There is no answer here it’s too soon to tell
in a year’s time I’ll read the disposition of the spell

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797 : 6/15/00 : Inferiority Complex

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It’s written in blood
in the book of days
the devil gets the opposite
when he prays
A backward connection
in the nether realm
try not to let the
confusion overwhelm
inferiority complex
is said to be the cause
A lack of proper upbringing
a lack of applause
a lack of close companionship
and frozen in ice
no wonder the devil
isn’t very nice
some blame the parent
there’s the riddle true
don’t laugh ‘cause the same
thing could happen to you

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796 : 6/14/00 : I Am Special

I, I am special
special special special special special
I want to stand and touch their hearts
so much more than the sum of their parts
I am not what you think
I am not what you think
I am not what you think
But hey keep on buying me
You, you are beautiful
beautiful, beautiful
I want to spill all over you
and demonstrate that beauty is true
You are not what you think
You are not what you think
You are not what you think
but hey keep on selling what you have to
We, we are invincible
immortal, indivisible
through the collective agency of our will
we’ll force feed the system the poison pill
We are not what they think
We are not what they think
We are not what they think
Nothing here to buy at the brink
And what we have is not for sale
So please give up on what you feel you must think
Listen to the new sound as we write the new tale

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795 : 6/13/00 : Just

The things that I see as I go about my biz
The way that I dream and the way the thing is
my continual state of dismay and disgust
as I work my clean slate and do what I must
there’s not a just man no not one
go out with a lantern go out with a gun
There’s not a just man anywhere
Look where you want I don’t care
So consider this fragment an artifact
I’ll gouge out my eyes and make a pact
to look no more see just within
then I’ll be ready to begin

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794 : 6/12/00 : Fame

Fame is a weapon
fame is a tool
fame is a mistress
and I’m her fool
Fame is a hammer
I am a nail
let me in
I’m feeling pale
Fame makes us crazy
fame makes us mad
and if you get it
you’ve been had
took to the cleaners
played for a chump
well on your way
to history’s dump

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793 : 6/11/00 : Pressure Switch

I’m trying to reset the pressure switch
and decrement the counter to zero
I’ve got a lot of notions and a lot of heart
but sorry I am just no hero
I’ve got my little progress and my little job
I’ve got a firm commitment to observe
I’d like to be a dilettante a real edgy type
but hey it seems that I was born to serve

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792 : 6/10/00 : The Present

The gift was wrapped in gilt and tulle
The ides of June the moon’s pull
October wedding what a gift
the present moment hear the voices Lift
After all the guests are gone
the gift of it goes on and on
If Orion’s in the sky
this Fall is not yet passed you by
So here among the present sing
and do not think of anything
tomorrow’s day and what it brings
is bound in bands of argent rings

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791 : 6/9/00 : Plastic Fantastic

Plastic Fantastic Madison Avenue Notice Me, Notice Me
Please do your Cinderella magic all over me
It only hurts the first time: the first time
So bend me over and make the world love me
Venture some capital up my virgin pipes
I’ll be so eager I’ll earn my stripes
Plastic Fantastic Madison Avenue Daddy
Hand me my hat I want to work my Paddy
There’s only one way to be a super star
Someone’s gotta pay to tell them that you are
someone’s gotta be your strong protector
Your Humbert your Big Projector
I’m ripe I’m fresh I’ve never been touched
for a fistful of dollars in your sweaty palm clutched
I’m prime I’m ready to explode
ooh baby ooh baby let me swallow your load
Lay me back and fill my head with lies
I’ll ignore the ominous sound of flies
And how hard your big oak door shuts
It’s gonna be a busy fifteen minutes

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790 : 6/8/00 : The Plagiarist

On page seventeen the novel
takes its second major twist
beginning with the seduction of Maria
ending with the introduction of the Plagiarist
In a stunning indictment of the genre cliché
the detective’s identity is unmasked
by the culprit of the dastardly plagiarism
long before the vital question is asked
In a surprising homage to the Library of Babel
the Plagiarist defends his actions thus:
insisting that eternity is time without direction
he’s in fact the one who’s been ripped off by us
in a final action of postmodern self dissection
the novel is revealed as the work
of the very plagiarist of which it tells a tale
cravenly copied by some undercover jerk
In the final stanza the secret is brought out
the Plagiarist is not a book as such
in fact it is the title of a very silly song
which is derivative of nothing very much.

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789 : 6/7/00 : Invisible Friend

A burst of mad words from a tattered scroll
a clockwork medallion plays Jelly Roll
from a tinsmith’s heart a sound of joy
grab the grenade and pull the pin
the full scale orrery is nothing but a child’s toy
Open up your arms baby and let me in
A storm of syllables from a top hat
my invisible friend is grinning like a cheshire cat
cross my heart and hope to reincarnate
ask me no questions and I swear I’ll speak true
the answer to the pyramids is sealed in a dusty crate
and it alone explains how I found you
A whirlwind of images blows my mind
make no mistakes justice and wealth are blind
so I may die a pauper in chains
and you my murdering friend go free
but it won’t make me rack my brains
I’ll just whistle what will be will be

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788 : 6/6/00 : Numbers Game

This whole show’s a numbers game
Run by the Family
Gödel knew its tricks by name
And deserves our sympathy
This old boat is run by elves
demons sorting air
hot and cold they please themselves
baby there’s no there there
Buy a ticket for the draw
try your luck with it
hold on tight it’s an old saw
you’ll give more than you get
This old number game’s a blast
going going gone
Thought we’d left it in the past
thought we were no more a pawn
I’m ripping my ticket up
I’ll make it on my own
Take a new drink in my cup
babe this bird has flown

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787 : 6/5/00 : Began

What began yesterday
shall end far beyond today
seeds that were planted there
rise as I meditate and pray
what has been established here
won’t be thrown down without a fight
but quietly it grows alone
and veers not to the left or right
If I’d begun three years ago
would I be there by now
these questions don’t mean anything
and yet I ask them anyhow
well I began and that is all
that matters in the end
and if I can’t believe it’s true
with all my heart I will pretend

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786 : 6/4/00 : 3 In A Row

One
Two
Three in a row
I saw a riddle
a puzzle
a sleek black crow
and all that I reap
is all I sew
I gather my bounty
three in a row

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785 : 6/3/00 : Why

Why am I
why am I
why am I here on this mortal coil
why am I here for this asking
why do I fear the return to soil
the answer the final unmasking
what is
what is the
what is the duty that knows no name
what is the function transcendent
where is it written that in the flame
of my soul lies a goal independent
how shall we
how shall we
how shall we order and arrange
our efforts to rise up to glory
song is the same though the words may change
and unending unanswered story

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784 : 6/2/00 : Epic Poem

Filed today via teletype
listen to the words and don’t believe the hype
through fields and valleys that I roam
bringing back the essence of the epic poem
parsed through a semantic engine
the fate of the universe is hinging
on the disposition of a piece of text
the epic poem has no special effects
long as shit and bold as dirt
don’t question its importance and you won’t get hurt
the meaning spreads out like heaven’s dome
releasing the miasma of the epic poem

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783 : 6/1/00 : Turn of the Century

Black arts street smarts
ring around the rose
pass all the bucks
and let’s take off our clothes
In the council of sedition
the session is plenary
a signal of the times
and the turn of the century
halfway through the
empty empty set
cards down hard town
not a safe bet
What the year began
the year shall end
the turn of the century
the sinister bend

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