2.21.2006
the "Big Snow Fall"
The Big Snow Fall
feeling around now
bump
bite
a scarf
dark
dank
polite
feeling around now
a straight wall not a prison
outside this dark space
a tree
floating through to here
a light
so unlike this
so unlike me
out there apart from this portion
snow preserving certain places
for play
but in here
something curious remains
a solid thing
all can look at with a smile
like tye die
Its still here
and I keep looking out and away
authors not: dedicated to Kym Perfetto ... sometimes I just like to write about people...
2.19.2006
low whistle
you blow and the minor listen
the few and privelaged suffer with you
low whistle blow and cry
but God's a comin'
for no man can dry your tear
one persistant crippling lament
fear that this life wont haste and end
one thistle sticking
now to my shoeless feet
gavel pounding
roads my oppresor thoughfully laid
my legs have migranes
our soul tired from walking
who will care for the zombies
who will care for the walking dead
a fool I am for crying mercy
no woman mothers a beating grave
AUTHORS NOTE:
DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER AND DIE IN AFRICA. TO ALL WHO ARE DECLARED DEAD, FORGOTTEN AND NOT HELPED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR. TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE TREATED LESS THAN DOGS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. ITS ESPECIALLY DEDICATED TO ALL WHO LOOK THE OTHER WAY. TRYING NOT TO SEE THAT THE LIFESTYLE THEY LIVE IS A DIRECT RESULT OF OPPORESSING SOMEONE ELSE. WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP. WE'RE ALL TO BLAME.
kujitayarishato means "to prepare oneself". Kujitayarisha is Kiswahili; a dialect spoken in Kenya.
2.12.2006
Ghost Mice
Album
The Debt of the Dead
Track: Up the punks
Hopeful Valentine Zombies
one day
I like then you like
me
and then that day
you like then I like
you
I look then I like
you look then you like
we like and no fight
we stare and find each other
a warm embrace
love
bond
true love as you wish
best friend
a candy kiss
coconut milk candy chocolate fixation
finally you
us loving we
till' our arms fall beneath the ground
2.11.2006
Cool Hand Luke
Album
The Fires of Life
Track: I'm not running
Race The Gopher Trotted
can you hear that
the pitter patter distant
in the background
its out of focus way behind me
not glowing but staring
I grow and move and believe
its not way back there in my memory
because I now have today
in me
locked on ahead
the scenery facing my back is blurried
vacant and weak
I look ahead and see a grand shiny canyon
in the company of a blinding morn sun
valley promised to a walk of faith
so I stand and we run
I'm standing
and you run
2.10.2006
As I Lay Dying
Album
Frail Worlds Collapse
Track: Distance is Darkness
dont be afraid to write the cliche you already wrote
I rip this world out of my heart
I rip this day out of me
I tear away everything I was yesterday
days now given back to me
with these oversized glasses now I do see
lament and crimes given
this plate taken
the things I bear aren't my own anymore
I share this park with trees and clowns
this is my desire now
a world changed and gladly taken away
leave your tear on this trash bag
he'll take it all away
2.08.2006
Beloved
Album
Failure On
Track: Inner Pattern
Loose Chains Go Bang
I rode that bike
from the point of impact
I attempted the race of alchemy
with flat wheels a loose chain and a broke derailer
I rode
past the point of bellyache right on into disaster
looking down at my bent rims and worn tires
but I can still make it to my point
amidst all these silly delays and affairs
petty distraction and problems
In any given day
I can stop and look up at the beach
sit on the sun
feeling the warmth of "things aren't so bad cus' I can still do this"
I'm grappling with the peace given in a wrapper
following a road
paved with smiles
making flowing formations
namely silk streams
Through and Through
Album
Lovin' Life Demo
Track: Come Clean
still light
this still light comes on
reveals twice a side
Im a boy who's a man that's spent
*
a lifetime using mine eyes to stare down the other side
to much time
looking at that other side
day turning into year giving way to too much
they are vanity's earings
perfecting an illusion to make believe there's actually greener grasss
finding pastures made of breakaway glass
my neck hurts
from staring up at tabloids
your front page
reading you knowing what was given to perform
keeping up appearances
leaving you a pretty sight
depth lost and ugly enough
regretfully watching you
give your soul a martyrs demise
2.03.2006
As I Lay Dying
Album
Frail Worlds Collapse
Track: A Thousand Steps
Tongs Stretched Past
I'm more than than that tune
I'm an unchecked mark
I'm a windstorm
and dawn
I'm everything you were promised
a year more than you see
I'm the rise
simple
the glove that catches your fall
I'm the desire that replaces what's taken
I'm a rising sun
clouds
rain
and umbrella
I'm what you feel when you don't know how to explain
I'm sept 25
and dec 38th
every time you take a breath
It's me you inhale
I am the begining
simultaneously inventing end
alleywaying you out
I am utopia at rock bottom continually forsaken
with me
you'll never be vexed at the money you don't have to spend
because I'm value itself
I'm anarchy
rebelion and peace
sword drawn
ready to wage civil war
calling all things not sane
2.01.2006
Living Sacrifice
Album
Concieved in Fire
Track: Reach for the Sky(live)
Un Divisible
blue sphere protection like a drone
this shock poke pushed back with your protection
this life left me weary
then with you I get over it
how I feel and speed and go
one hundred miles exactly
every violence vying for my death
but in this blue cloudy sphere of perfect perfection
I slip by
like fire in a furnace I pass by
occasionally bleeding
the door fee at the race
paid by my clotting blood and strife
this sphere keeps me
this sphere kept me
undivisible
I go protected