| Name | Description | | Written |
| 75/25 |
a simple issue of focus |
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1/22/03 |
| I Can't |
I have to keep pulling back the words |
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6/11/25 |
| I Can't Come Anywhere Near You |
A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. |
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10/15/21 |
| I Don't |
Stop asking me why |
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7/16/23 |
| I Don't Want the Days to Hurry By |
Every minute deserves its time |
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5/16/25 |
| I Mean |
I wouldn't want to say if I could |
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4/29/25 |
| I Remember |
I'll be better when I get home |
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11/6/24 |
| I Want You to Hear |
Ruminations on a rainy night |
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11/11/22 |
| I Was Alone |
Instead of forever together is death for ever |
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12/26/24 |
| I Was Five Once |
A poem about the illusions of age |
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1/15/20 |
| If I Lean Towards You, I Will Change Direction |
And you liked me with this... intention |
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1/2/24 |
| I Will Wait |
She said, for you - for me |
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7/5/23 |
| I Wonder |
... how many we could have saved? |
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12/22/24 |
| I'm So Bored in the U.S.A. |
What can I do? Write modern verses, that's what. |
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8/25/24 |
| A Better Plan |
Instead of making everything worse |
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8/9/24 |
| A Fire |
With sticks and bones and wire |
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12/15/24 |
| A Girl About a Kiss |
A song I made from a sketch I wrote on 3/16/14 |
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9/6/21 |
| A Girl About a Kiss (draft) |
A draft of a poem that I turned into 'A Girl About a Kiss' on 9/6/2021 |
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3/16/14 |
| A List |
I might be one woman's dream |
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10/6/24 |
| A Message |
Write me a letter even if you have no ink |
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6/22/24 |
| A Quiet Room |
A poem inspired by a friend's drawings |
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11/17/20 |
| A Song About You |
A redrafted version - stronger in general appeal |
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10/10/23 |
| A Song About You (Part One) |
The first version, which might make a nice album closer somewhere |
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10/9/23 |
| A Taste |
Get a taste of what's to come |
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10/25/24 |
| A Twist |
Stains where one was two |
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12/5/23 |
| In or Out About You |
I just have to know you |
|
12/2/24 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
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12/25/22 |
| Adaptation (Scarborough Fair) |
A traditional folk song with a 'human' touch |
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4/27/18 |
| Adventure |
Expanding where there's room |
|
12/16/23 |
| Afterthought |
When it comes to the affairs of men |
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9/17/24 |
| again tomorrow |
...and it might be worse... |
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6/14/22 |
| alibi |
a furtive little poem |
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11/30/99 |
| Alien and Yet |
A poem about space |
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3/14/20 |
| All Around Us |
And never calls the end |
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3/22/23 |
| All Night Long |
I just want to kiss you |
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4/14/25 |
| All the Joy |
|
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10/31/24 |
| All the Time |
Who else would understand? |
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11/5/21 |
| I Stand Alone |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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6/7/98 |
| Along the Way |
I don't know where I'll be |
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8/24/24 |
| Alternating Currents |
The tingle in your toes |
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11/4/24 |
| america9 |
GWB has depleted my freedom and serotonin |
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9/25/03 |
| Ammonia |
Somebody had to say it |
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1/14/23 |
| and Art |
A poem about art and barnacles. And stuff. |
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2/26/21 |
| And Dance |
What we should get out and do |
|
9/26/21 |
| Another Day (Life Unstable) |
I don't know how I'll feel or who I'll be |
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5/16/25 |
| Another Man |
Every hill, another man, just a mountain to climb |
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11/18/24 |
| Another Man or Two |
You were always cheating on him |
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5/5/25 |
| Antimony |
Improvised (to be polished) as needed for side two |
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2/1/23 |
| Are You |
a little poem for those you do not know yet |
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7/8/00 |
| Are You Ready? |
a poem about sex, I suppose |
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7/6/00 |
| Art! Music! Love! |
We create them ourselves and share with others |
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11/1/23 |
| Asbestos Heart |
Gonna need a lot more time |
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10/31/24 |
| A Box in the Attic |
A sad poem about losing part of one's life |
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12/20/17 |
| Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub |
A tale of two restaurants |
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2/25/24 |
| autumn |
a little happy seasonal relief |
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9/6/03 |
| (My) Baby's on a Train |
Waiting for someone who never came |
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9/12/23 |
| Back Roads Rock |
A song about cars and girls |
|
9/21/21 |
| Bad Weekend (3:16) |
A song about a long lost weekend |
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11/16/20 |
| Barricades |
We put more effort into jobs we hate |
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3/28/24 |
| Beast |
Two backs are better than one |
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3/25/25 |
| Beautiful Dreams (2052) |
We'll both be a little bit older |
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5/14/25 |
| Beauty (Is) |
... timeless and nameless. A song. |
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5/21/18 |
| Because |
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10/15/24 |
| Becomes |
A poem about growing closer |
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6/10/18 |
| Before the Mast |
She wanted me to come again |
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2/20/24 |
| Believe |
a song about faith from 'Ruins' |
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5/6/98 |
| The Best and the Worst |
When there wasn't anything left we bore |
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12/27/23 |
| Better Than You |
Buy now, we'll pay later |
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2/3/25 |
| Bitter/Sweet |
every word I hear sounds like your name |
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11/24/22 |
| Blackout |
I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. |
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1/26/21 |
| Bleeds |
A direct non-corporeal channel |
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7/1/25 |
| Blood Proof I |
the proof almost always comes during the pudding |
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5/18/24 |
| Blood Proof II |
your bloodless smile is as always lacking |
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5/18/24 |
| Blood Proof III |
just some paint-by-number nonsense |
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5/17/24 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
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1/8/21 |
| Boxes of Tears |
You can't pack when the cardboard is wet |
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6/6/25 |
| Break |
It's all you know how to do |
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2/26/25 |
| Breakfast Stay |
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11/4/24 |
| breathe |
just another love poem |
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7/14/01 |
| breeze |
A poem about a love lost |
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4/19/00 |
| Bricks and Roses |
How perfectly British |
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8/2/23 |
| Bucket Full of Kisses |
But only one lip to the well |
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6/9/25 |
| Burning Rocks |
A draft of a poem, set to music 2/6/22 |
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12/15/21 |
| butterfly |
a poem from a naked heart |
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6/18/01 |
| Buttons |
Undone by our own doing |
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4/17/25 |
| By 3 A.M. |
A poem about self - the self of hope |
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5/5/21 |
| By the Bay |
A story about a lovely couple |
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3/31/22 |
| By What Right? |
What I was trying to write five days ago |
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6/29/22 |
| Call Me Soon |
She said 'Come with me...' |
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11/29/23 |
| Calling Home |
A song about time and space. A folk song. |
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1/1/22 |
| Girl With No Name |
She changed my life for no one to see |
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10/4/24 |
| Carousel |
The witch's hat |
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4/3/25 |
| A Different Castle |
A castle after all but still... |
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7/4/23 |
| Centuries |
For miles we could walk in the sand |
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6/9/25 |
| A Charming Thought |
Who leads the rider - or the horse? |
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6/6/23 |
| White Chocolate |
These knights are coming on fast |
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4/22/25 |
| Choices |
a song about freedom from 'Ruins' |
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1/28/97 |
| choke |
not a pretty sight |
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11/6/01 |
| Church Then |
You could go but then what then? |
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8/6/22 |
| Cities |
The clank and the crumbling walls are to a city as breath |
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6/23/24 |
| Citrus |
A song, now, about waste |
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11/8/20 |
| Clean |
It's the only way that you'll ever feel |
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2/6/23 |
| Closer (To the New) |
...than the old - another damn song |
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5/27/18 |
| Clouds |
A poem |
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11/8/20 |
| Coda (2052) |
The piano fades away with time |
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5/27/25 |
| Cold April |
A sequel of sorts to March Snow |
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4/10/18 |
| cold still waiting |
A words and music thing |
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1/20/21 |
| Come |
How soon can you come again? |
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8/15/23 |
| Come Closer |
A song I found for my birthday |
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12/7/21 |
| Come With Me |
...come and dilute your loneliness |
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9/4/24 |
| Coming Home Alone |
I always want you coming home when I come home alone |
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9/27/24 |
| Compass Rose |
Don't let the symmetry distract you from the truth |
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11/23/24 |
| Confidence |
A time of restlessnesses |
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8/9/21 |
| Correspondence |
The title track of Carbon Copy, about the walking wounded |
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3/22/22 |
| Count the Stars |
And fall in love again |
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2/26/25 |
| Counterfeit |
A song about death - the death of hope |
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5/5/21 |
| Courage to Call |
Servant versus slave over their unpaid wage |
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11/12/24 |
| crash |
a poem... |
|
3/13/01 |
| Crimes and Punishment |
- they serve as part of the infinite loop |
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2/14/24 |
| Crossroads |
Probably not too young |
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8/7/23 |
| Cupcake Rose |
You come to lick the bowl is clean |
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1/24/25 |
| Damaged Floor Model |
Just let me get out of here |
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5/22/22 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
|
9/30/21 |
| Dangerous |
Another love song. A somewhat abstract love song. |
|
6/7/21 |
| Daphne Smiles |
Nostalgia for what was but never was |
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4/16/22 |
| darkness |
a formless echo from the abyss |
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1/30/03 |
| dawn |
Seventeen dueling syllables |
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5/15/21 |
| days |
dark depressing little ones, indeed |
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8/25/03 |
| Dead Girlfriend |
I don't care if you're there too |
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2/7/23 |
| death (is a theme) |
A poem about life |
|
9/25/20 |
| Death Is Final |
(Art in Three Choruses) |
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3/12/24 |
| Delivery |
Delight is served |
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4/19/23 |
| Demons & Darkness |
There's a fine line between troubles and trouble |
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2/28/18 |
| Desperately Seeking Cool |
You're tied to every dream that lies |
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1/28/25 |
| Devaluation |
ignominy, fame, and illusion |
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3/10/24 |
| Difficult to Love |
When it's difficult to love |
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4/26/24 |
| Dinosaur |
I made a song from these dreams in April 2021 |
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11/29/04 |
| Dirty Spoon |
Do you put that thing near your nose? |
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6/23/25 |
| Dirty Tools |
A song about getting overheated |
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1/5/22 |
| Dirty Work |
And it isn't just the bribes they tuck in their pants |
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11/26/24 |
| Discarded |
Yet another poem about memories? |
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9/8/20 |
| Disconnection |
Forget all the things you think they did |
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11/9/23 |
| Dislodged |
There's no home any more for me |
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8/26/23 |
| Don't Do This to Me Now |
You call me every time somebody else has just left town |
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7/29/24 |
| Don't Make Me |
Don't make me write one about you |
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6/21/25 |
| double_dare |
a poem about life's challenges |
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7/19/01 |
| Down the Road |
A little something the band and I came up with |
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10/18/22 |
| Downtown |
Show me all that you know |
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10/29/23 |
| drainstorm |
:"drainstorm, dreamstürm, gauche-mière": |
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8/18/01 |
| dream3 |
a strange snippet I woke with |
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11/6/03 |
| Dreams |
...from who knows where? |
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1/5/25 |
| Drown |
I'll drown myself in this pool |
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6/24/25 |
| drugs |
they're bad, don't use them, unless... |
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12/27/01 |
| Drugs and Love |
Drugs are better than love, honey |
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12/10/23 |
| Dryad |
Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it? |
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4/28/21 |
| Eagles |
support them blindly and without reason |
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6/26/24 |
| Elaboration |
Lateral strategies in tense detail |
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6/16/21 |
| Electric |
Zzzzt |
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1/23/23 |
| En Suite |
Unfolding you unfolding me |
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5/17/25 |
| Enough For Two |
When we're coming we'll be home |
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3/27/24 |
| Erasure |
A song about blankness |
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11/8/21 |
| escape |
a spoken word piece about words |
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4/6/00 |
| eukaryotic |
an odd little poem |
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6/8/02 |
| Even Better, Sex |
You're better than all the rest. |
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2/22/23 |
| Every Day (You Stole My Heart) |
Since the moment I met you |
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2/4/25 |
| Every Promise |
My cotton sutra knows why |
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4/15/25 |
| Everybody for Everything |
Blames everybody for every little thing |
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11/20/23 |
| everything |
you were everything including yourself |
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12/2/22 |
| Everything Hurts |
...and for silence, I beg |
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8/21/23 |
| Exclusion |
...of all others |
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10/13/23 |
| Exit Wound |
a song about life and death from 'Ruins' |
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Sept. 95 |
| Expression |
A result of oddly cruel fictions - and even crueler facts |
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3/13/21 |
| Exquisite |
Some more time spent with a favorite |
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1/22/25 |
| fear |
the only thing to fear is... |
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11/4/03 |
| fear2 |
a short, sweet romantic poem |
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6/20/00 |
| Fidelity |
The sidewalk passes gently underfoot |
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1/27/24 |
| Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) |
It's a tropical rainforest out there |
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9/16/22 |
| Fingerprints |
Leave them intertwined with mine |
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4/29/25 |
| Fix It |
Ain't no rainbow, pot of gold, ever gonna fix it |
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9/21/24 |
| Flowers |
I thought you were the one |
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7/8/22 |
| (Out of) Focus |
A poem from the eye of the storm (2:25 AM) |
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12/6/17 |
| For Each Other |
None of us has enough but the stationer |
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2/28/25 |
| For Who You Are |
A song about growing younger |
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3/15/22 |
| Foreplay |
This is only a few minutes from one of life's treasured songs |
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8/29/24 |
| (You're Not Here) To Forgive |
A song about a shift in perspective |
|
3/9/18 |
| Fortifications (Letter to Myself) |
A song for healing |
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2/22/18 |
Four Games Over .500
(On a West Coast Trip) |
I'm staying up late |
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8/21/24 |
| Fractal Noise |
None of the smokescreen matters |
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4/13/25 |
| Freedom's Kind |
I remember never having been in love |
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5/8/25 |
| To My Friend |
A little something I wrote for a friend |
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4/2/18 |
| Frost |
Never forget to protect tender new growth |
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5/24/23 |
| Full of Strangers |
You should treat them as yourself |
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6/13/22 |
| Funerals |
Each and every one of them |
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12/8/24 |
| gender, sex, and freedom |
Some people don't want other people to be free |
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4/11/24 |
| Generations |
Sometimes a smile in between |
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3/1/24 |
| Ghost Writer |
What I missed the most we never wrote |
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8/19/24 |
| Ghosts |
some midnight madnesses |
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6/29/00 |
| ghosts2 |
adapted to the second person from 6/29/00 |
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7/10/02 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
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4/6/22 |
| A Glimpse of Joy |
...that you will never see |
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1/7/24 |
| Glorious |
And so we embark upon unknown crossings |
|
1/1/23 |
| Go Figure |
I sidled up to overhear |
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2/23/25 |
| Go (Go Go) |
The anti-narcissist song? |
|
2/24/24 |
| gods_and_monsters |
time to regroup and start over? |
|
8/13/03 |
| Goldilocks |
Women that try my soul |
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3/3/25 |
| Photograph (Good-bye) |
A lullaby about parting |
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4/19/18 |
| Good Love |
an old fashioned blues from 'Ruins' |
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3/8/02 |
| (Climbing) Gravity's Well |
An astronomical song |
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12/2/20 |
| grey |
a poem to wash over you |
|
(unknown) |
| Habits |
From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? |
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11/28/22 |
| happy |
an odd little poem - are you happy? |
|
12/10/95 |
| Have to Go |
You don't. Have to go. |
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12/11/23 |
| The Hawks |
The ever-swirling kaleidoscopic wind |
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6/18/24 |
| Hear You |
|
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11/6/24 |
| Hearts and Jewels |
You were still breathing life into fools |
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9/29/23 |
| hell |
lightly treading the extremes of creation |
|
8/27/03 |
| Help |
I need, to find, to get, I need |
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12/13/24 |
| Her |
Her music plays in your ears |
|
5/27/24 |
| Her Home |
She's given up on every old chain |
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1/26/25 |
| Her Stars Shine for Me |
maybe that's why |
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10/16/24 |
| Heroes Lovers |
Love isn't what it seems |
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6/21/23 |
| What I'm Hiding |
A necklace beads and choker bracelet |
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3/11/25 |
| his freedom |
can't stop the ringing in your ears |
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2/18/23 |
| Hold Me Please |
I'm talking about giving it to you |
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4/23/25 |
| Homeland |
as if the world needs more sixties peace stuff |
|
3/21/04 |
| hope |
just a glimmer in the shadows |
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8/15/03 |
| How Long |
Could I erase your presence? |
|
8/5/23 |
| humor |
life with and without laughter |
|
8/25/03 |
| Hunger |
a song about food from 'Ruins' |
|
2/10/94 |
| icicle |
a bleak, cold little poem |
|
1/11/97 |
| If You Remember |
Another journey into classic folk |
|
10/13/22 |
| If You Tell Me |
...what you want, I'll keep the path clear |
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6/16/25 |
| Immunity |
I feel inoculated, numb (from an idea of 7/1) |
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7/6/25 |
| Impressions of a Sunset |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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9/12/96 |
| (Bleed) In Dreams |
All traces of beauty to forget you remember |
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3/3/23 |
| In Over Our Ears |
The middle of a kiss might be even more so |
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5/26/23 |
| Whether She Came (In the Autumn) |
If she came in the spring would you fall? |
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9/29/24 |
| I Left in Your Heart |
You can easily seal that hole |
|
9/13/23 |
| incompleteness |
I was in the middle of a dream |
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7/22/24 |
| Infectious |
I am still weak-kneed when you smile |
|
7/6/25 |
| Infinite Smile |
I came so far just for you |
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5/8/25 |
| Infraction 571428 |
When the acid burns your fingers |
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11/13/23 |
| Ink |
Stains where the light gets through |
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12/2/23 |
| Insensible |
unity achieved when five are merged as one |
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4/1/23 |
| Intending to Love |
'As long as I don't realize they are pretending, I'll take it.' |
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5/1/22 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
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7/11/21 |
| Invitation |
A poem about first meeting |
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2/26/18 |
| Islands |
(A song about) coming back to Earth |
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1/31/21 |
| isolation |
we learned to make do |
|
10/30/23 |
| It Was Raining |
I took some words I wrote in 11/04 and made them into a song |
|
4/20/21 |
| It's a Sin |
Bitterness, regret, and accusations |
|
8/26/24 |
| Jagged Depression |
A report on an experience I had a day or two before |
|
12/7/17 |
| Jealousy |
a song about 'dancing', remade and remodeled 1/30/23 |
|
8/25/95 |
| June Nights |
I guess it's this month's pastorale |
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6/10/18 |
| Just a Little |
When she's feeling really pretty |
|
4/13/24 |
| kisses |
a little poem |
|
7/31/00 |
| Lemonfishbutter |
a song about requited lust from 'Ruins' |
|
12/29/94 |
| Let Go |
Stop keeping her locked up |
|
2/15/25 |
| Let Me Go |
We went from fusion to fission when you went missing |
|
4/6/25 |
| Liberty |
A poem about freedom and time |
|
11/24/20 |
| Librarian |
If you know what I mean |
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9/3/22 |
| Libration |
Those take two to operate as well |
|
12/7/23 |
| life1 |
imaginary little literary scavenger hunt |
|
8/19/03 |
| A Life Time |
A poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Another Life Time |
Another poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) |
Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Lighthouse (original version) |
Another poem from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Like a Shot |
She thought she saw the spark |
|
12/9/24 |
| Like Teenagers |
We came undressed, caressed, in helplessness |
|
10/12/24 |
| Lives' Lines |
A poem about lines, one would assume. And lives. |
|
2/15/21 |
| Lisa |
Tonight every woman's named Lisa |
|
7/2/23 |
| Listen |
She really does know best |
|
2/14/25 |
| little_girl |
a poem |
|
9/5/97 |
| Lived In |
a small poem about the passage of time |
|
7/8/96 |
| Llamas on Their Way to Denver |
Exactly what it says on the tin |
|
7/26/21 |
| Lonesome (Parts One and Two) |
...so much I can't cry |
|
10/20/23 |
| Loss |
Is this loss? |
|
10/26/24 |
| Winter (Lost You To) |
A song about fearing a terrible loss - and losing |
|
8/25/17 |
| love22 |
a little discursion on what love is |
|
11/27/03 |
| Love |
A poem about healing and growth |
|
3/5/18 |
| Love Comes and Goes |
Sometimes she comes, sometimes she goes |
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11/3/22 |
| love diffusion |
Oh please, release me |
|
10/21/23 |
Love Is Warm
(Kittens Are Fuzzy) |
(And so are my scarves) |
|
12/2/24 |
| Love Song |
I thought I'd never write... (an improvisation like this) |
|
2/1/23 |
| Love Song Part II |
Our spirit sings we call our minds |
|
2/15/23 |
| Love Song Part III |
The only things that keep us alive are our insatiable needs and drive |
|
2/13/23 |
| Love You When (You're Here) |
A song about the near and dear |
|
3/30/22 |
| Lover's Waltz |
a song about loss, remade and remodeled 2/1/23 |
|
5/5/97 |
| The Luxury of History |
A bit more perspective |
|
9/4/23 |
| Magpies |
We understand corruption as little as we do justice |
|
12/10/21 |
| Make It Stop |
Just trying to make it all stop. |
|
3/7/21 |
| Make You Sunshine |
If I but had a way |
|
12/26/24 |
| March Snow |
A poem set in late winter |
|
3/11/18 |
| massacre |
metal detectors in schools??? |
|
4/26/99 |
| May Flowers |
This month's pastorale |
|
5/10/18 |
| meaning |
so, um, what was happening in your life? |
|
11/16/03 |
| Meet Me in the Middle |
We can work it out from there |
|
6/18/25 |
| Memory (We Thought) |
Just a bitter squeeze away |
|
10/21/24 |
| Merchants |
...of debt and death |
|
4/26/24 |
| Midnight Kisses |
The middle of the night is far more important to know |
|
5/24/23 |
| synaesthesia |
It's not really synaesthesia, but interesting nonetheless |
|
5/20/21 |
| mirrors |
a poem - a reflection, of course |
|
11/16/99 |
| miss_you |
another little poem... |
|
9/3/01 |
| Missing |
A poem about a huge loss |
|
5/8/18 |
| Mistress |
One less a layer, one fewer leaf |
|
5/12/25 |
| Modern Medicine |
You don't look so bad in those scrubs yourself |
|
12/28/24 |
| Money |
Freedom from greed would be good |
|
6/23/24 |
| Moonlight |
a song about loss |
|
6/5/98 |
| Murder |
keep quiet keep your head down don't say what you see |
|
6/25/24 |
| Mushroom Soup |
You make it all more intense |
|
6/7/25 |
| My Lover Midnight |
A song about a magical garden |
|
3/30/22 |
| My Mind to Myself (Privacy Song) |
Don't make no laws and don't poke your nose |
|
10/2/24 |
| My Wildest Dreams |
The cover of a glossy magazine |
|
2/10/24 |
| On the Nature of Love and the Human Experience |
The cause of love never changes |
|
6/11/25 |
| Needles (Go Away) |
A painful moment set in verse |
|
3/19/18 |
| It's a New Day Coming |
All over us this morning |
|
1/1/24 |
| New England |
a poem based on a vision from last fall |
|
6/29/00 |
| New Song |
And when you call again |
|
4/5/24 |
| night |
a poem inspired by a star |
|
8/15/02 |
| Nightmare |
I return to one of my favorite 'genres' |
|
1/18/25 |
| No Man's Land |
She might be one man's dream |
|
10/5/24 |
| No Mister |
There's probably more like this to come |
|
11/5/24 |
| No More Songs |
Doesn't mean I love you less |
|
7/12/25 |
| No Way to Live |
But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 |
|
7/4/22 |
| Nobody Knows |
a song about neurotic fixation |
|
9/2/97 |
| Nobody Like You |
Nobody nobody nobody no... |
|
5/15/25 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
|
1/13/22 |
| Northern Eyes |
a song about war |
|
7/9/97 |
| not_alone |
reversal of fortune can be a good thing |
|
1/19/03 |
| Not For Me |
How to be free |
|
8/1/23 |
| Not For You |
No can do |
|
7/28/23 |
| Not So Clever |
Archimedes was an engineer and a man of science |
|
1/5/25 |
| Not So Easy |
Whatever happened to love? |
|
8/2/23 |
| Nothing to Heal |
A song - a waltz macabre |
|
1/8/21 |
| Obstructed View |
Hey, hey, we're the Monkees (oh for Pete's sake) |
|
9/13/24 |
| Oceans Between Us |
|
|
10/30/24 |
| Of the Conversation |
Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings |
|
5/13/23 |
| On Your Own Road |
On your own, by yourself |
|
2/23/24 |
| One Day |
Just to be nice to you |
|
6/15/23 |
| One Love, One Life |
A pretty little thing that I wrote and sing |
|
1/19/24 |
| One More Time (We Should Be) |
If you move to me again...
(Previously two separate songs) |
|
11/18/23 |
| One Sail |
Also about mythologies and our unadmitted failings |
|
5/22/23 |
| Oppression |
Not bound to a curve |
|
11/4/23 |
| Ordinary Song |
About some ordinary people |
|
8/3/23 |
| Orphan of My Heart |
I wonder where I will ever turn again |
|
9/5/24 |
| Outside a World of Fear |
it took you years to adjust |
|
11/21/23 |
| Overture (Fever Dream) |
The opening for Lost and Found |
|
6/28/18 |
| Passenger Seat (Sex in a Car) |
Not really a stranger any more |
|
7/27/24 |
| Paths (Your Sweet Anchor) |
I dream of the questions and you |
|
5/14/25 |
| peace |
...I'm tired of writing about war |
|
1/8/04 |
| peace1 |
give it a chance |
|
10/22/01 |
| Pebbles |
Astrophyics meets geology in a long, slow conversation |
|
6/7/25 |
| People Are Lonely |
Craving for connection |
|
8/10/24 |
| People Collect People |
It's not cool to pin them up against the wall |
|
10/4/24 |
| People Like You |
People like people like you |
|
8/17/21 |
| Perfusion |
Your agenda of mystusion |
|
3/6/24 |
| The Persistence of Memory |
Take me in once, take the impression to heart |
|
4/13/25 |
| Pin-ups |
All the girls looked like you that night |
|
3/28/23 |
| A Pirate Ship |
A little maritime story I made up |
|
1/14/24 |
| Plastic Flowers |
Don't make me sneeze |
|
10/17/24 |
| Plaything |
I just wanted to feel inside what he's like |
|
12/17/23 |
| Plaything Part Two |
Why do all men come with a toy? |
|
12/24/23 |
| Pleasure |
There's something I forgot to say |
|
9/16/22 |
| Royalty, Democracy, and Socialism |
The absurdity of inheritance, all wrapped up in two sentences |
|
3/7/21 |
| Gender-free |
The privilege of life in the power corner |
|
5/23/21 |
| Postcard From Blue |
A song about some sun and some rain |
|
1/15/22 |
| Preparing to Hide |
When all we've built is threatened |
|
9/30/22 |
| Primordial Fuse |
when the eve of life is defective |
|
2/11/23 |
| Private Plains Ape |
A song about how we survive and function in groups |
|
2/10/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - part number three |
Another take on our sameness and differences |
|
3/4/21 |
| Private Plains Ape - version one point one |
A six-page expurgation about learning and coercive socialization |
|
2/9/21 |
| profile |
eh, what kind of person would you like to meet? |
|
1/21/03 |
| prometheus |
a harsh and tragic outburst of ego |
|
1/21/03 |
| Promised Land |
a fairly harsh poem |
|
6/26/00 |
| Waiting for Promises |
So many made just to break |
|
3/3/25 |
| Prove It |
(You knew you could) |
|
2/2/24 |
| Psycho Metric |
ego love shallow trash |
|
5/16/22 |
| When I Come Home |
There's never any doubt |
|
8/20/24 |
| Purple Noon |
Life always looked so easy |
|
3/15/25 |
| questions |
a poem - based on the intro to hunger |
|
1 & 4/00 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
|
10/26/22 |
| I Go Back and Remember |
Another one from the eye of the storm (2:50 AM) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Requiem |
It's not going to change a thing |
|
1/12/23 |
| Revolution |
If you want a revolution... |
|
7/15/22 |
| Revolution (one) |
a few riffs on a phrase or two from poverty1 |
|
11/26/99 |
| Revolver |
It's either all or nothing |
|
8/22/22 |
| Red-Hot Rivets |
Stop rolling dimes up her sleeve |
|
8/20/24 |
| Rock and Roll |
We put it all together and discovered... |
|
10/23/23 |
| Romance Is For Others |
The title track of Victory Is For Lovers |
|
1/14/22 |
| The Rose |
A poem about gardening |
|
10/10/20 |
| Roses and Coffee |
The answers are all inside us |
|
8/28/22 |
| Regrets Only |
My words pale, my eyes tears dried |
|
9/17/23 |
| scars |
letting the past drown the present |
|
8/16/03 |
| Scattered |
For the disrupted and the shattered among us all |
|
12/21/22 |
| Science Fiction |
More or less |
|
8/1/23 |
| Scratch the Earth |
Do I not bleed? |
|
5/25/24 |
| Seared and Maddened |
A brief poem about connections |
|
8/14/22 |
| Seasons |
Our work will never be done |
|
9/10/22 |
| Secret Code |
And you share half the key |
|
12/5/24 |
| seventeen lines |
you can't miss me if I don't |
|
4/27/23 |
| sex |
a sweaty little suffering |
|
7/7/01 |
| Sexy Without Fear |
It's what passes for a social life this year |
|
5/9/24 |
| Shadow of Light (Part I) |
What do we call a memory of flight? |
|
6/14/25 |
| Shadow of Light (Part II) |
Iridescent light in your hair |
|
6/14/25 |
| Shambles |
a song about - who knows what - from 'Ruins' |
|
June 96 |
| She (Wanted More) |
...and she meant of us in her life |
|
9/1/24 |
| She Knew |
She couldn't fly another mile |
|
10/24/24 |
| She Moves |
When it's time for loving me, she moves all around |
|
11/13/24 |
| She Only Dances |
...with a passion built for pleasure |
|
4/20/25 |
| She Said (She Said) |
She said I like it, she said |
|
8/30/23 |
| She Sings It Every Time |
I had to make it true |
|
5/24/25 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
|
7/11/21 |
| Shots and Yachts |
Let's not confuse the issue with things that might just matter |
|
12/9/24 |
| Show and Tell |
(Ink Today) |
|
10/14/24 |
| silence |
a sad little poem |
|
7/16/00 |
| Silence |
even the squirrels stopped their chatter |
|
1/28/24 |
| Silent Flowers |
Another oldie, a sad classic by now |
|
7/2/21 |
| Simplify |
Your wishes might help you learn to fly |
|
11/6/23 |
| Slavery Rag |
Friday, June Twenty-Fourth, Twenty Twenty-Two |
|
6/24/22 |
| Sleep |
a poem |
|
6/26/00 |
| Slow Down It Hurts |
It hurts like hell |
|
12/27/23 |
| I Miss Smoking |
What I miss about nicotine |
|
3/22/22 |
| Smugglers |
Slipping this from here to there |
|
2/26/25 |
| So This Is Mary |
Oh yes it is |
|
12/26/24 |
| Some of Us |
Drawing outside the lines, drumming outside time |
|
10/1/23 |
| Some Say |
They won't |
|
1/31/25 |
| Some Stories |
Your tale might not be written yet |
|
9/17/22 |
| Somebody Else's Well |
a song about infidelity from 'Ruins' |
|
7/7/98 |
| Someone Like You |
To hold me from inside |
|
12/2/24 |
Someone That Hot
(Someone So Simple) |
Couldn't possibly be playing me |
|
8/24/24 |
| Something |
... please sound no alarms |
|
9/19/23 |
| Something Darker |
Wanting ... all their bones and fleece |
|
9/28/23 |
| Something New |
I'm sure these ropes feel familiar |
|
8/3/24 |
| Song for a Kiss |
As long as the kiss goes like this |
|
9/21/24 |
| Spring My Love Will Come |
When, then, where, there, why. How. |
|
4/14/23 |
| stay |
stay with me in the twinkle of my eye |
|
1/19/03 |
| Steam Dreams |
A poem about the future |
|
5/6/18 |
| stillborn |
a short but powerful prose poem |
|
1/9/00 |
| Stilled Life |
A poem |
|
12/12/20 |
| Strangers |
Trying, to be fair |
|
12/9/24 |
| Stroke |
A journey of precious inches |
|
8/30/24 |
| Strung Out |
A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. |
|
12/8/20 |
| Subversive Love Songs |
|
|
3/4/25 |
| Subway Blues (A Cost-Benefit Analysis) |
A treatise on urban planning |
|
1/25/22 |
| Succubus |
Fly by the night of your lights |
|
1/23/23 |
| Suits and Blondes |
I've got all the best names in here |
|
5/11/25 |
| Sun & Rain |
|
|
1/30/25 |
| Sunflakes |
A musical treatsicle |
|
12/21/20 |
| Sunset Valley Icicles |
Orion hunts higher and bold |
|
11/4/23 |
| Take My Heart |
On tour about these overgrown lanes |
|
8/5/24 |
| Talk to Your Girl |
I talked to your girl |
|
12/26/24 |
| Tank Treads |
The destruction we wreak for no reason breaks my heart |
|
11/1/21 |
| Teach Me |
With you within, with you without |
|
7/2/23 |
| Teenage Girl |
They treat you like it's a crime |
|
11/10/23 |
| Ten Days in March |
The restless ground yearns to burst forth |
|
3/2/24 |
| The Canvas |
We all know that I want you |
|
8/10/24 |
| The Cauldron |
No one to blame but the criminal for his crimes |
|
8/27/23 |
| The Devil to a Draw |
nightmare slayer |
|
5/21/22 |
| The Door Open |
You left |
|
10/15/24 |
| The End Is Near |
It makes your opinions easier to defend |
|
9/10/24 |
| The Fair |
We'll be having a grand old time there |
|
5/19/24 |
| The Glamour of You |
I wrote this about somebody who reminded me of you |
|
9/11/24 |
| Does the Heart Feel Pain? |
A brief biochemical and philosophical analysis |
|
12/1/22 |
| The Kids |
The kids will never believe this |
|
1/23/24 |
| (In the Theater) Tonight |
A light-hearted song |
|
3/9/18 |
| The Red and the Black |
No room left between the wisps and the clouds |
|
5/2/25 |
| The Road Home |
You've been all over time |
|
6/5/25 |
| The Silence Explodes |
Ai-ee-yeah, and some others, ai-ee-oh |
|
9/20/23 |
| The Valleys |
Over hills, and through your vales |
|
1/17/25 |
| The Way It Once Seemed |
I think you have the word now to know that it's true |
|
7/31/24 |
| These Young Men |
With their kind offers and tender intimations |
|
6/12/24 |
| This |
...every day, now gimme a kiss |
|
6/7/25 |
| This Front |
Even though we don't want to wear them |
|
9/21/24 |
| Those Boots |
One more crack like that and I'll have to... |
|
9/20/22 |
| Thunder |
Our strengths last longer than time |
|
3/25/25 |
| Thursday |
I might have some time for you to feed |
|
10/13/24 |
| Time |
If only life's disorder were rearranged |
|
3/31/23 |
| time3 |
a little relativistic contrast |
|
11/28/03 |
| Time |
Slow down, you move to last |
|
2/22/25 |
| Time Taking |
does every poem need a short description? |
|
11/24/02 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
|
5/3/22 |
| To End All War |
Protest in the cold and rain |
|
11/14/24 |
| To the End |
There's never enough time |
|
11/3/23 |
| (How) To Think |
You don't know |
|
9/8/23 |
| Tolls |
When they come due all is unsure |
|
4/20/24 |
| Tomorrow |
Hope is always the last to die |
|
12/17/17 |
| Too Late |
Far too late and you didn't see it coming |
|
6/14/25 |
| Too Many |
A reflection on pandemia |
|
10/19/20 |
| We Come With Torches |
We know the secret keys to these doors |
|
2/21/24 |
| touch_me |
a poem, probably part of a suite |
|
4/20/02 |
| Touch Me (2002) |
Lyrics from 4/20/2002, music 10/25/2024, link is to relay file |
|
10/25/24 |
| Touch Me Inside |
I know what happened is warmer indeed |
|
10/24/24 |
| Tourists of Terror |
Basic vanilla in crisis: a poetry |
|
1/8/21 |
| Traitor |
By your signs it is true, we know you |
|
8/13/23 |
| Travellers' Checks |
When the snowbanks melt in the spring |
|
11/9/24 |
| Treasured Island |
It's really just about making do when deserted |
|
2/19/24 |
| From the Trees |
...let us make peace and be free |
|
8/24/23 |
| Tricks of the Mine |
Think where your roof came from |
|
8/23/24 |
| Trouble Again |
I have no idea whose fingers were in those pies |
|
6/7/25 |
| Trust |
an instrumental from 'Ruins' that I made up words for |
|
12/11/02 |
| Strawberry Tuesday |
A love song. She liked chocolate shortcake. |
|
5/26/21 |
| Civilisation 2024 |
Did we put an end to all war? |
|
12/24/23 |
| Twisted Rocker |
Your mother cares even if you can't be bothered |
|
2/8/23 |
| Two-Doll Holiday |
For you and for daddy too |
|
5/22/25 |
| unbelief |
a little poem about the sentimentalisation of war |
|
1/9/00 |
| Unwelcome Sense |
Which I have requested to not return |
|
8/14/22 |
| Still Afraid of the Dark |
These pictures will empty some hearts |
|
7/31/24 |
| Stupid Global Village |
A song about perspective from 'Ruins' |
|
9/23/04 |
| Virtue |
A poem about addiction |
|
4/22/18 |
| Visitors |
my houseguests |
|
9/1/97 |
| Voices |
The deliciousness of your mind |
|
7/4/24 |
| Wait |
I gave you all of mine |
|
7/13/23 |
| waiting |
waiting for results: a poem about love and death |
|
10/19/01 |
| Waiting for the Sun |
Waitin' for the Sun to come in |
|
4/20/25 |
| wake |
one last look before the worms have their way |
|
10/16/03 |
| Waking Dreams |
I wish it wasn't always never you |
|
4/21/24 |
| Wanted |
A briefly gentle sentiment |
|
9/30/21 |
| war |
I could stop writing these, yes, I would like that... |
|
10/8/01 |
| war3 |
another one of those poems about war |
|
8/05/03 |
| waves of memory |
a poem about healing |
|
7/15/02 |
| We Are Lost |
We even lost the map |
|
6/18/24 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
|
10/2/22 |
| we_have_won |
a poem about war and glory |
|
(unknown) |
| We Would Die |
If they touched us |
|
5/27/22 |
| Wet July |
This month's heat-stroked pastorale |
|
7/21/18 |
| wgbh |
copy of Mai Cramer tribute note |
|
4/9/02 |
| What Did You Say? |
It didn't sound like good-bye |
|
4/23/25 |
| What You Got |
A sinuous song of the night |
|
11/8/20 |
| When I Met Her |
|
|
10/15/24 |
| When I Was Young |
It seems like I don't like the sun as much |
|
8/17/22 |
| When She Twists |
Every one a soft sweet peach |
|
7/12/22 |
| When She's Gone |
A song about the mysteries of love |
|
11/18/20 |
| When This Is Over |
A plague-inspired song |
|
4/11/20 |
| When To Sleep |
A little bit about love with no answers |
|
4/4/22 |
| When You Came |
I loved you in a slow trance |
|
11/17/24 |
| Whiskey Leaks |
If we slip and something starts it's not our job to stop it |
|
4/6/25 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
|
3/13/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
|
6/12/22 |
| Why? |
And I will never know why |
|
6/5/24 |
| Why Ask Me |
You know answers |
|
12/16/22 |
| Why Still (For So Long) |
What I don't understand, René |
|
9/24/24 |
| Wigs, Wings, and Mannequins |
You have to share your hell |
|
6/11/24 |
| Will You Still Love Me (When You're Sober)? |
Will you be able to feel anything but harm? |
|
7/2/25 |
| wind |
is the wind an animal? |
|
8/10/03 |
| (Wind Chill) |
The middle of the night even worse |
|
5/27/23 |
| Winter (Lost You Two) |
A song that developed out of Lost You To |
|
8/25/17 |
| Without You |
I am sadder now you're not around |
|
8/19/23 |
| words |
a little diddly about language and minds |
|
1/19/03 |
| Wouldn't You? |
Love to love to love |
|
3/26/23 |
| Yes You Are |
You are the one who pets run towards |
|
9/17/24 |
| You and Me |
We go a long way to bind |
|
6/18/23 |
| You Can Love |
Now that we are far apart |
|
4/15/25 |
| You Can't |
A brief decomposition and criminal analysis |
|
2/6/25 |
| You Can't Have Me |
Not even a biscuit for tea |
|
6/6/24 |
| You Gotta Heal |
You really, really have no choice |
|
6/20/22 |
| You Gotta Steal |
Learn how to use your voice |
|
6/20/22 |
| You Have (Mona Lisa) |
You have the most of all |
|
3/27/24 |
| You Have Been Gone |
A song about gaps in connections |
|
3/30/22 |
| You Last |
I always wanted to make... |
|
6/15/25 |
| These Are the Ways |
There were many tender moments, of course |
|
12/10/17 |
| You Made It |
A poem/song about and for a friend, from 6/13/22 |
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8/19/22 |
| You Make Me |
Feel something inside |
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8/5/23 |
| You Must Be Crazy |
a song about habit from 'Ruins' |
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June 98 |
| you |
a little love-type poem |
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8/21/02 |
| You Want This |
If you've ever been alive... |
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11/27/23 |
| You Were There |
You were there, you were always there |
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8/17/23 |
| Your Hearth |
Your furnace and your colors more |
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5/31/25 |
| A Twisted Rocker (Not About Your Mother) |
...and every girl you ever haunted |
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2/9/23 |
| Your Name |
If you can't remember, how can you tell me? |
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11/12/24 |
| Your Secrets |
A ruby deep embedded tells me all I know of this |
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8/6/24 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
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Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
