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

1,868 : 19 ?


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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