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Summertown
Simmer down in Summertown
Set me down in Summertown
Never far from Summertown
You’ll never know how you let me down in Summertown
Not So Young
The cougar needs her Starbucks
She drives too fast to get there
She wants all the men to see her
Red corvette and red hair
She pulls up to the drive-thru
Demands a fancy latte
She winks and flaunts her body
She thinks she’s still a hottie
Like wrinkles, pills, and canes
Convertibles, they come with age
Time Is Transparent
Lost time hidden in the folds
Wrinkled in the by-gone
Missing in the old
Life spent blowing in the furls
Washed in the mundane
Relished in the hold
Like a wet clock in slippery hands
Turning an oily hourglass over
To stop the sand
Like shielding a sundial’s shadow
Just to stop the sun
There’s just no way
Like turning a watch’s hands back
Just to be on time
There’s just no way
Go The Spoils
Sapiens mount their animals tamed
Seated o’er the beings they’ve named
Hunters, fishers, warriors famed
Lords of nature’s bag they’ve gamed
Humans
Humans like their animals, tamed
Conquered by the things they’ve made
Herded, hooked, seized, and maimed
Once they ruled, but now they’re reigned
Have The Push
Only the tortured are driven
Only the needy to want
Only the without to hunger
Only the starved with knowledge (want)
To be the one
And not like all the others
Windy City
Night in Chicago
Oh it’s so damn hot here
Friends I’ve left behind
Night in Chicago
Oh it’s so damn hot here
Bittersweet feelings
See This
Closed mouth
You don’t ever listen, no
Bad news
You cannot refuse it, no
I’m telling you
You’re not going to like it, oh
I promise you
You’ll have to take it
What you need is
Open eyes
Sure enough
Just as I say it, woe
It hits you
Where I can’t say it, oh
What you need is
Open eyes
Even though
You will not accept it
Just shut up
I don’t want to hear it
What you need is
Open eyes
Sunrise
Morning, it’s a new day
I have another life to live
No more yesterday
I look to the tops of the trees
Where it’s at
To hear the wind in the leaves
Morning, it’s a new day
Cycles spinning faster now
Nothing’s slowing down
I hear the leaves in the trees
Speak to me
They leave their secret with me
Morning, it’s a new day
Have not slept yet, sleep deprived
But mystically alive
I learn from the wind in the leaves
Whispering
“Be free and leave happily”
Morning, it’s a new day
Cycle’s pattern’s meaning’s clear
Nature’s simplest meme
Morning, it’s a new day
I have another life to live
No more yesterday
Shadow Planet
Unemployment, no retirement
Debtor defaults, banker bailouts
Cuts in welfare, failing health care
Homeless centers, one-percenters
Guns in grade schools, cyber terrors
Crimes with collars, child molesters
Mob connections, drive-by shootings
Lying leaders, riots, looting
All this tragedy
Just try and get away
It’s harder than it seems
It’s hard to look away
I look at the TV
And it’s not hard to see
The future’s not so bright
(It’s really rather dim)
The world has gone awry
Harvest failures, mass migrations
Starving people, surplus nations
Redlined ghettos, State oppression
Censored subjects, forced detention
Racist programs, busted unions
Legal pogroms, bedded newsrooms
Xenophobic segregation
Neo-Nazis, ethnic cleansing
All this tragedy
Just try and get away
It’s harder than it seems
It’s hard to look away
I look at the TV
And it’s not hard to see
The future’s not so bright
(It’s really rather dim)
The world has gone awry
Air polluted, oceans rising
Leveled forests, plastic islands
Overcrowding, loss of species
Global warming, new diseases
Hidden tortures, holy killings
Preying soldiers, dronal shellings
Secret orders, blinded minions
War disorders, debt in trillions
Totem Guilt
Alphabets imposed
On native tongues like tools
To pry their native faces
From their native souls
Identity replaced
Eraced by lesser races
Who raced to take their lands
And rid ancestral traces
Tribal claims removed
Clans and clothes converted
Rights like folded teepees
More than furs were bartered
Paleface savage ruthless mission
Blanched our faces in admission
A Dark Matter
The walls came crashing today
Quarried corbelled works that I never knew were there
All of the landscape gave way
To a lightless lonely scene, the universe was not the same
A fear then rushed in to claim
All those like me, who’d never known its name
It was like passing away
I heard the fallen stones then mourn, “tomorrow is today”
Endless numbers of galaxy wonders
We are myopic, but we’re microscopic
Question persists, so why do we exist?
Meaningless lessons for all who forget them
But if reckoned the black holes then beckon
All things in motion like plankton in oceans
No end’s finite, but life on this planet
Now referential, life existential
Me
They plagiarize everything
The labels and their so-called talent
So many would-be music moguls
All of them shifty, shady, and exploitative
Lip synching thieves
With their bastard CDs
And phony talk show visits
Their agent’s on the take
For all the money he can make
But I remain true to my art
Don’t you doubt it
Never you mind