2.196 : 11/15/05 : Once Fool

2,386 : 18 ?


Fool me once
shame the fool
won’t get fooled again
Says the fool
We got fooled by indifference
we got fooled by vice
Only a fool would argue
it ain’t happened more than twice
Once fool twice dupe
third time’s a charm
the depths we’ll stoop
It’ll stop being a cycle
when we stop being fools
Stop ignoring reason
Stop obeying the rules

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2.195 : 11/14/05 : The Eighth Time Get Up

Get up get up get up get up
get up get up get up get -
Down
The eighth time
get up
I know this thing seems like a set up
But get up anyway
Hey
It’s the new day
And he said
What a bunch of trumped up nothing
You said you were working but I saw you sloughing
I’m not impressed by the dog and pony
I’m not about to eat that stack of baloney
So I knocked him down but he got back up
I smacked him on the temple with a half full cup
I kicked his legs out he got up a third time
I pushed him over just to make the words rhyme
I took the sucker on on in fisticuffs
Got up a sixth time when I called his bluffs
I pulled the rug right out from under him
He got up a seventh time so I hit him again

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2.194 : 11/13/05 : Psychonaut

It all spins down in a deep spiral
DNA, the mimetic viral
landscape topography
metaphysical geography
observation transformation
creation’s hagiography
Psychonaut how far you getting shot
into the undiscovered country of thought
Integral tautology
empathic eschatology
after all these years deserve at least an apology
what should we expect to find
behind the character of mind
only the psychonaut knows
the place that only his kind goes
And yet it’s said the same wind blows

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2.193 : 11/12/05 : Will

If rules exist it seems that this
perception of free choice must be
a sad illusion of self-reference
deluded by the word free
Pain exists pleasure exists
compulsion in a thousand forms
How sweet to think that we’ve got options
And will to navigate the storm
I’m not saying I don’t believe in it
but the possibility must be thought about
that the whole system’s just blind chance
that there is nothing that we’ve brought about
And we’re no more than schools of fish
darting with the mindless mass
that one day in some storm we can’t control
the whole of humankind will pass

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2.192 : 11/11/05 : The Cover Up

Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies
Flies swarm from your mouths
Brass glitters in your eyes
From day one the cover up began
From here it seems we still don’t understand
What is the function of the ruling class
Telling you be thankful
for your half full glass
And if this is the height of man
I think I’ll pass
All the lies that we debate now
will get swallowed up in the
cover up somehow
in ages to come
And even the best think to themselves
They better get some
Before the next collapse
And so we all end up saps

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2.191 : 11/10/05 : Moments

Moments grow like leaves on trees
A thousand million simultaneously
They have their sun time strong and green
That passes never to come again
Their colors fade to gold and red
green life gives way to past and dead
and in the mind of endless time
they drift and swirl a dance sublime
You cannot hold a single one
past when their sunny season’s done
Ours is just to watch their day
their bud and growth and fade away
and soft descent to join the rest
and to this truth I do attest
that we like moments, we like leaves
have got no last tricks up our sleeves
we each one have our appointed hour
though we defy or run or cower
still when it strikes we too each fall
and join the drift in silence, all

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2.190 : 11/9/05 : Taste

Well if you’re gonna break down
the brand new taste
be prepared to end up with
egg on your face
because you gotta break a few
a few what? don’t ask
if you remember the tower
remember the masks
a house all of doors
a broken spine
tell you true I broke it down
with a lot of friends of mine
the fundamental particle
well now it’s just me
trying to decode the new taste
trying to define what is free

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2.189 : 11/8/05 : Strategy Guide

I think it’s better to muddle through
the long approach by way of
one thousand good-byes
I don’t need your secret passage
your cheat code or your
strategy guide
There’s so much more satisfaction
when you’ve settled every option
then reveal the one that clicks
The gap between a Rembrandt
and a paint by the numbers
That's the lesson I learned
playing Zelda in the Sticks

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2.188 : 11/7/05 : Critical

2,378 : 10 ?


Critical juncture critical mass
critical density of the boil on my ass
critical malfunction of the
critical function that joins it all
or would have in the critical conjunction
I wouldn’t dare expose it all to critical review
Because right now there’s no evidence
That it isn’t all just spew
And some goats’ milk give spider silk
like some trees give you apples
God help me I ooze this stuff out
when with the Lord I grapple

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2.187 : 11/6/05 : Marginal

If this seems a marginal accomplishment
another speech about how hard
the job I have to do is
Please excuse us
We are indisposed
Dumbstruck by the question you posed:
If the goal is to be goalless
what does motivation mean
Are you sure I’m not just
Some kind of
machine

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2.186 : 11/5/05 : Roll Reversal

I don’t want to levitate
or fly through the air
I just want a five second delay
For when I gotta stop myself
before I go there
I don’t want a time machine
or the power of mesmerism
Just give me a quick replay
just give me a prism
to split the difference
‘tween the lesser of two lesser evils
when I got to navigate the breaks
when the breach is narrow
and th’ observance has gone missing
let me redo
just a few of my mistakes
The roll reversal power
when the roll has gone against you
Otherwise I’ll have to muddle
through it like I’m prone to

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2.185 : 11/4/05 : The Track (Bonfire Night)

Get on get on
get on the track
that’s what every one was
tellin’ you all the way back
Don’t let your wheels
roam their own way
don’t give into fate
Lock your mag lev
on the main rail
Succumb to the steady state
First there was anarchy
then there was patriarchy
matriarchy
The ancestor gods
Then there was theocracy
then monarchy and aristocracy
and it would be hypocrisy
to say Guy didn’t talk to me
Some nights
Tellin’ me to blow the rails off
the track tonight

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2.184 : 11/3/05 : If You Really Have to Know

If you really have to know
Today was the day I let everything slide
I drew a line I numbered it five
succumbed one last time to that old jive
And if you asked and I didn’t tell you so
Six years three days to the day just so
Now I’ll tell you
If you really have to know
Time is an illusion it doesn’t
really matter
You can think about it till your brain’s in tatters
You can think about it all live long day
this too this too shall pass away
I wrote it down just to preserve
a record of the too many masters I served
On the way to try to pare it down to one
I sensed that my trial had just begun
the littlest sentry just would not sleep
I got my big last number
but the price was steep
I gave it one more minute, plunged into the fray
reminded that every single day was today

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2.183 : 11/2/05 : World of Words

I am lost in the world of words
what I wrote
and said
and read
and heard
It’s unquestionably real
but is it what it seems
and could the same be said
of our experience and dreams
but I’m given to believe
it’s a deceptive path
So many throw the baby out
and keep the dirty bath
Yet still I seem entranced by it
still I can’t seem to stop
I can’t escape that feeling if
I don’t write my skull will pop

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2.182 : 11/1/05 : So It Ends

2,372 : 4 ?


So it ends for just one day
This is all that I can say
There is only sleep and death
All else is just revolving
Still yet a month to set things right
Still yet it seems an end in sight
Another hangs on bated breath
Try to see what I’m solving
Here’s a thought to wake up to
believing something doesn’t make it true
But belief goes on it seems
And each day comes regardless
And so it ends begins or pauses
the small print in your escape clauses
warns in sleep may come such dreams
warns of softness warns of hardness

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2.181 : 10/31/05 : So It Begins

So it begins
in the middle
the end nowhere in sight
Confessed my sins
Pronounced the riddle
Keep hammering the wrong until
the wrong becomes the right
I did my time
None can deny it
It seems it’s going to take something much more
I’ve said my rhymes
and I’ve kept quiet
and one last nod to what is left in store

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2.180 : 10/30/05 : Five by Five II

The sun also sets
everyone eventually forgets
And down there on the killing floor
I swung my maul and called for more
waiting for the clock to strike five
at least it’s a living without the
shuck and jive
why does inspiration sometimes strike
And other days just takes a hike
It’s pretty aggravating man
Never knowing when it’s showing
no way to plan
How could I have gone
a thousand and one
and felt like I had
just begun
when this shit is over do I get to
stop for good
do you think I’ll want to?
Do you think I should?
I’ll find a way through I guess
Try as I might to always say yes
the revolution is in person and live
and it’s all gonna shake out five by five

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2.179 : 10/29/05 : Five by Five I

Everything’s gonna be five by five
If I get outta this thing alive
If I manage to close the gap
If I manage not to snap
If I make an effort true
So I keep saying to you
Even though there’s no evidence
At least perched up there on the fence
You better believe that’s right
No more smoke no more endless night
I imagine that’s not quite certain
Cause this is in the past so pull the curtain
Forget about it too much to explain
Every line every beat I gain
Every time into the pool I dive
I come out hoping to be five by five

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2.178 : 10/28/05 : Tedium

Here’s a riddle a puzzle for sure
what’s the function of tedium
Shouldn’t work be a pleasure no?
Since work is existence’s medium
What kind of genetic blunder
Makes persistence such a chore
Makes forbearance such a nuisance
Makes surviving such a bore
Maybe something’s missing there
an obvious little clue
Maybe DNA works just fine
Maybe the problem’s with you
The tedium is calling you
to live your life even better
write the reminder to yourself
sealed in a secret letter

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2.177 : 10/27/05 : Why Bother

Why bother is the biggest question
in all of philosophy
And the fact that almost no one asks it
is just more proof
If you ask me
Is it just an itch we scratch at
Is it some compulsion of evolution
Or are we just so stupid
that we’re still expecting a solution?
People get worked up about
their little brainstorms true
I’m no better than the rest
Hey neither are you
And if I ask why bother
and come up with nothing at all
Well the fact that I just
keep rolling anyway
must hint at the genuine fall

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