| Name | Description | | Written |
| I Don't Want the Days to Hurry By |
Every minute deserves its time |
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5/16/25 |
| I Want You |
Tell me now do you love her? |
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4/9/23 |
| 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 |
| If I Lean Towards You, I Will Change Direction |
And you liked me with this... intention |
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1/2/24 |
| I Wonder |
... how many we could have saved? |
|
12/22/24 |
| 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 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 Year In Isolation |
A report of oddly cruel facts - and even crueler fictions |
|
3/11/21 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
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12/25/22 |
| Adventure |
Expanding where there's room |
|
12/16/23 |
| again tomorrow |
...and it might be worse... |
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6/14/22 |
| All Around Us |
And never calls the end |
|
3/22/23 |
| All the Joy |
|
 |
10/31/24 |
| All the Time |
Who else would understand? |
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11/5/21 |
| All Your Fears |
After drying all your tears |
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7/16/25 |
| Along the Way |
I don't know where I'll be |
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8/24/24 |
| america7 |
elections can be depressing |
|
11/7/02 |
| Ammonia |
Somebody had to say it |
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1/14/23 |
| and Art |
A poem about art and barnacles. And stuff. |
|
2/26/21 |
| Another Day (Life Unstable) |
I don't know how I'll feel or who I'll be |
|
5/16/25 |
| Art! Music! Love! |
We create them ourselves and share with others |
|
11/1/23 |
| Aunt Megan's Eats and Mama Jenn's Grub |
A tale of two restaurants |
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2/25/24 |
| Barricades |
We put more effort into jobs we hate |
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3/28/24 |
| Beautiful Dreams (2052) |
We'll both be a little bit older |
|
5/14/25 |
| belief2 |
a logical disputation of belief |
|
11/26/99 |
| belief3 |
about struggling 'not to believe' |
|
11/19/97 |
| belief4 |
a cute, but useless, quote |
|
3/22/01 |
| The Best and the Worst |
When there wasn't anything left we bore |
|
12/27/23 |
| Bitter/Sweet |
every word I hear sounds like your name |
|
11/24/22 |
| blasphemy |
a short rumination on naming our gods |
|
7/8/00 |
| Bleeds |
A direct non-corporeal channel |
|
7/1/25 |
| Blood Power Drain Six |
hey let's go for a drive |
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5/31/24 |
| Blood Proof I |
the proof almost always comes during the pudding |
|
5/18/24 |
| Blood Proof II |
your bloodless smile is as always lacking |
|
5/18/24 |
| Blood Proof III |
just some paint-by-number nonsense |
|
5/17/24 |
| Blood Proof Lies (V) |
Proofs of nothing less |
|
5/31/24 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
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1/8/21 |
| The Brain |
The brain is an organ |
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8/4/16 |
| Bricks and Roses |
How perfectly British |
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8/2/23 |
| By 3 A.M. |
A poem about self - the self of hope |
|
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 |
|
6/29/22 |
| Calling Home |
A song about time and space. A folk song. |
|
1/1/22 |
| 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 |
| Church Then |
You could go but then what then? |
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8/6/22 |
| Coda (2052) |
The piano fades away with time |
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5/27/25 |
| Come |
How soon can you come again? |
|
8/15/23 |
| Compass Rose |
Don't let the symmetry distract you from the truth |
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11/23/24 |
| Confidence |
A time of restlessnesses |
|
8/9/21 |
| Count the Stars |
And fall in love again |
|
2/26/25 |
| Courage to Call |
Servant versus slave over their unpaid wage |
|
11/12/24 |
| Crimes and Punishment |
- they serve as part of the infinite loop |
|
2/14/24 |
| Crossroads |
Probably not too young |
|
8/7/23 |
| cycles7 |
seven year growth cycles of the personality |
|
8/5/00 |
| Dancing Woods |
Un poème, une chanson, de Norvège et d'Ecosse: a thousand-year throwback, give or take a century or two |
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9/30/21 |
| darkness |
a formless echo from the abyss |
|
1/30/03 |
| dawn |
Seventeen dueling syllables |
|
5/15/21 |
| days |
dark depressing little ones, indeed |
|
8/25/03 |
| death (is a theme) |
A poem about life |
|
9/25/20 |
| Death Is Final |
(Art in Three Choruses) |
|
3/12/24 |
| definitions |
A first attempt to define a few terms I need |
|
7/12/00 |
| Delivery |
Delight is served |
|
4/19/23 |
| Desperately Seeking Cool |
You're tied to every dream that lies |
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1/28/25 |
| Devaluation |
ignominy, fame, and illusion |
|
3/10/24 |
| We're All the Same: Different |
Aren't we? The same in that we are different, that is? |
|
3/22/20 |
| Disconnection |
Forget all the things you think they did |
|
11/9/23 |
| Dislodged |
There's no home any more for me |
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8/26/23 |
| Down the Road |
A little something the band and I came up with |
|
10/18/22 |
| Dreams |
...from who knows where? |
|
1/5/25 |
| Dryad |
Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it? |
|
4/28/21 |
| Empty |
A poem about simplicity |
|
6/1/18 |
| Enough For Two |
When we're coming we'll be home |
|
3/27/24 |
| error1 |
an error that permeates Western thought |
|
8/4/00 |
| Even Better, Sex |
You're better than all the rest. |
|
2/22/23 |
| Every Day (You Stole My Heart) |
Since the moment I met you |
|
2/4/25 |
| everything |
you were everything including yourself |
|
12/2/22 |
| Everything Hurts |
...and for silence, I beg |
|
8/21/23 |
| Exclusion |
...of all others |
|
10/13/23 |
| Expression |
A result of oddly cruel fictions - and even crueler facts |
|
3/13/21 |
| Frequently Asked Questions |
what it says on the tin |
|
6/23/05 |
| fear1 |
a short note about complacency |
|
12/1/99 |
| Fidelity |
The sidewalk passes gently underfoot |
|
1/27/24 |
| Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) |
It's a tropical rainforest out there |
|
9/16/22 |
| Flowers |
I thought you were the one |
|
7/8/22 |
| For Each Other |
None of us has enough but the stationer |
|
2/28/25 |
| For Who You Are |
A song about growing younger |
|
3/15/22 |
| Foreplay |
This is only a few minutes from one of life's treasured songs |
|
8/29/24 |
| Formaldehyde |
If only preserving memories was this easy |
|
2/2/23 |
| Free Speech |
It's not enough to help them kick their addiction - stop abusing free speech |
|
9/11/23 |
| freedom3 |
does freedom even exist? |
|
3/29/01 |
| Frost |
Never forget to protect tender new growth |
|
5/24/23 |
| Full of Strangers |
You should treat them as yourself |
|
6/13/22 |
| Funerals |
Each and every one of them |
|
12/8/24 |
| gender1 |
a radical view of men and women I hold very dear |
|
8/1/00 |
| gender, sex, and freedom |
Some people don't want other people to be free |
|
4/11/24 |
| Ghost Writer |
What I missed the most we never wrote |
|
8/19/24 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
|
4/6/22 |
| A Glimpse of Joy |
...that you will never see |
|
1/7/24 |
| Glorious |
And so we embark upon unknown crossings |
|
1/1/23 |
| Go (Go Go) |
The anti-narcissist song? |
|
2/24/24 |
| gods_and_monsters |
time to regroup and start over? |
|
8/13/03 |
| (Climbing) Gravity's Well |
An astronomical song |
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12/2/20 |
| Habits |
From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? |
|
11/28/22 |
| Have to Go |
You don't. Have to go. |
|
12/11/23 |
| The Hawks |
The ever-swirling kaleidoscopic wind |
|
6/18/24 |
| Hear You |
|
|
11/6/24 |
| Hearts and Jewels |
You were still breathing life into fools |
|
9/29/23 |
| Help |
I need, to find, to get, I need |
|
12/13/24 |
| Her |
Her music plays in your ears |
|
5/27/24 |
| How Long |
Could I erase your presence? |
|
8/5/23 |
| Hunger |
a song about food from 'Ruins' |
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2/10/94 |
| hunger2 |
half a loaf is better... |
|
4/24/03 |
| If You Remember |
Another journey into classic folk |
|
10/13/22 |
| If You Tell Me |
...what you want, I'll keep the path clear |
 |
6/16/25 |
| (Bleed) In Dreams |
All traces of beauty to forget you remember |
|
3/3/23 |
| In Over Our Ears |
The middle of a kiss might be even more so |
|
5/26/23 |
| incompleteness |
I was in the middle of a dream |
 |
7/22/24 |
| Infraction 571428 |
When the acid burns your fingers |
|
11/13/23 |
| Ink |
Stains where the light gets through |
|
12/2/23 |
| Insensible |
unity achieved when five are merged as one |
|
4/1/23 |
| Inside Outside Blues |
Out there it's the same old shit. |
|
4/18/23 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
|
7/11/21 |
| 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 |
| jesus |
random half-finished jokes about a dead carpenter |
|
11/9/06 |
| Juvenilia |
Stylistic ramblings in pottery land |
|
10/1/14 |
| The Key of the Sun |
An afternoon break from everything |
|
4/6/21 |
| Liberty |
A poem about freedom and time |
|
11/24/20 |
| Librarian |
If you know what I mean |
|
9/3/22 |
| Libration |
Those take two to operate as well |
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12/7/23 |
| life1 |
imaginary little literary scavenger hunt |
|
8/19/03 |
| Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) |
Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) |
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12/6/17 |
| It Goes Like This |
And if it does, they'll listen |
|
11/19/22 |
| Lives' Lines |
A poem about lines, one would assume. And lives. |
|
2/15/21 |
| Listen |
She really does know best |
|
2/14/25 |
| Little Things |
the things don't let a wedge between us |
|
2/14/24 |
| love1 |
pure love flows through all without aim... |
|
7/13/00 |
| Love Song Part II |
Our spirit sings we call our minds |
|
2/15/23 |
| The Luxury of History |
A bit more perspective |
|
9/4/23 |
| The Luxury of History (Essay) |
A lot of perspective |
|
9/3/23 |
| Magic Never Leaves |
You don't know what I know you want me to need |
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4/4/23 |
| 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 |
| meaning1 |
which came first? an important question |
|
8/5/00 |
| meaning2 |
all answers, all the time |
|
3/23/04 |
| Meet Me in the Middle |
We can work it out from there |
|
6/18/25 |
| method |
kind of a description of how I am doing this |
|
7/12/00 |
| Midnight Kisses |
The middle of the night is far more important to know |
|
5/24/23 |
| More Than You Should |
You're still confused about some of this |
|
6/8/24 |
| Mushroom Soup |
You make it all more intense |
|
6/7/25 |
| my_damn_life |
A partial story of my altered states |
|
7/10/00 |
| 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 |
| It's a New Day Coming |
All over us this morning |
|
1/1/24 |
| New Ideas |
Open up my mind with your brave and wonderful new ideas |
|
8/14/22 |
| New Song |
And when you call again |
|
4/5/24 |
| No Way to Live |
But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 |
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7/4/22 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
|
1/13/22 |
| Not For Me |
How to be free |
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8/1/23 |
| Nothing to Heal |
A song - a waltz macabre |
|
1/8/21 |
| Oceans Between Us |
|
|
10/30/24 |
| On Your Own Road |
On your own, by yourself |
|
2/23/24 |
| 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 |
| origins |
where we from? eh? |
|
3/28/02 |
| otherpeopleisms |
a few things that made me chuckle |
|
5/22/05 |
| Outside a World of Fear |
it took you years to adjust |
|
11/21/23 |
| 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 |
| The Persistence of Memory |
Take me in once, take the impression to heart |
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4/13/25 |
| Pilgrimage |
A poem in sandals |
|
7/7/21 |
| 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 |
| Postcard From Blue |
A song about some sun and some rain |
|
1/15/22 |
| premises |
the beginnings of an attempt to be more rigorous |
|
7/12/00 |
| 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 - 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 |
| prometheus |
a harsh and tragic outburst of ego |
|
1/21/03 |
| Proof of Blood (IV) |
in case of flood |
|
5/24/24 |
| Prove It |
(You knew you could) |
|
2/2/24 |
| questions2.htm |
interviewing versus actually being with |
|
8/17/03 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
|
10/26/22 |
| reality1 |
what is real? |
|
10/17/00 |
| reality2 |
internal and external lives |
|
10/17/00 |
| religion0 |
the past and the future of religion |
|
4/2/02 |
| Revolver |
It's either all or nothing |
|
8/22/22 |
| Romance Is For Others |
The title track of Victory Is For Lovers |
|
1/14/22 |
| Roses and Coffee |
The answers are all inside us |
|
8/28/22 |
| Regrets Only |
My words pale, my eyes tears dried |
|
9/17/23 |
| Scattered |
For the disrupted and the shattered among us all |
|
12/21/22 |
| science |
from the beginning to now - and what? |
|
1/05/02 |
| 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 |
| seventeen lines |
you can't miss me if I don't |
|
4/27/23 |
| 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 |
| Shattered |
A reflection on the nature of some 'broken' people |
|
12/30/17 |
| Shopworn |
Damaged goods still sold as new |
|
7/11/21 |
| 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 |
| Smugglers |
Slipping this from here to there |
|
2/26/25 |
| Some of Us |
Drawing outside the lines, drumming outside time |
|
10/1/23 |
| Some Say |
They won't |
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1/31/25 |
| Some Stories |
Your tale might not be written yet |
|
9/17/22 |
| Someone Like You |
To hold me from inside |
|
12/2/24 |
| 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 |
| spirit0 |
a foreshadowing of this journey down the rabbit hole |
|
10/13/99 |
| spirit1 |
an early attempt to define this project |
|
10/13/99 |
| spirit10 |
so where does your 'soul' go when you die? |
|
10/17/00 |
| spirit11 |
Space, Time, and Light |
|
5/12/01 |
| spirit12 |
strangers who are not so strange to us |
|
5/16/01 |
| spirit13 |
the nature of a strange 'organ' |
|
4/2/02 |
| spirit2 |
an 'extroduction' - part 2 of love4 (I think) |
|
10/13/99 |
| spirit3 |
how to react to these events |
|
7/31/00 |
| spirit4 |
theories about the nature of spiritual perceptions |
|
7/31/00 |
| spirit5 |
how information can move in and out of space time |
|
8/13/00 |
| spirit6 |
asking questions |
|
8/13/00 |
| spirit7 |
how space-time and the beyond are related |
|
7/31/00 |
| spirit9 |
A major attempt at defining what this site is all about |
|
7/18/00 |
| Spring My Love Will Come |
When, then, where, there, why. How. |
|
4/14/23 |
| Stop Doing Jobs |
Just stop doing useless jobs |
|
4/13/24 |
| 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 |
| Sublimation |
The physics of self |
|
5/21/21 |
| Subversive Love Songs |
|
|
3/4/25 |
| Subway Blues (A Cost-Benefit Analysis) |
A treatise on urban planning |
|
1/25/22 |
| Take My Heart |
On tour about these overgrown lanes |
|
8/5/24 |
| 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 |
| theMindxxxx |
a site expounding a theory of  |
|
Feb-Mar/00 |
| The Bog |
We make camp this night or |
|
10/15/23 |
| The Devil to a Draw |
nightmare slayer |
|
5/21/22 |
| The End Is Near |
It makes your opinions easier to defend |
|
9/10/24 |
| The Glamour of You |
I wrote this about somebody who reminded me of you |
|
9/11/24 |
| The Pain |
Learning hurts. All learning hurts. |
|
7/14/21 |
| 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 Tower |
What is its purpose? |
|
5/21/18 |
| The Transition |
Shaking off the cobwebs of fiction. With music. |
|
6/21/21 |
| 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 |
| thesis1 |
a bit about the core of this project |
|
12/2/99 |
| thesis2 |
what do I expect from you? |
|
8/2/00 |
| thesis4 |
the limitations of scientific method on my work |
|
3/28/02 |
| This |
...every day, now gimme a kiss |
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6/7/25 |
| Those Boots |
One more crack like that and I'll have to... |
|
9/20/22 |
| Throwing Left-Handed |
Learning how to do new things |
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5/25/25 |
| time2 |
early evidence of Thoughts in your humble author |
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4/15/88 |
| Time |
Slow down, you move to last |
|
2/22/25 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
|
5/3/22 |
| To the End |
There's never enough time |
|
11/3/23 |
| Tolls |
When they come due all is unsure |
|
4/20/24 |
| We Come With Torches |
We know the secret keys to these doors |
|
2/21/24 |
| Travellers' Checks |
When the snowbanks melt in the spring |
|
11/9/24 |
| From the Trees |
...let us make peace and be free |
|
8/24/23 |
| truth0 |
some scattered thoughts I found lying around |
|
1/25/87 |
| truth1 |
truth and dogma |
|
5/2/01 |
| 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 Pieces of Music |
...Subsequently Set to Art |
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11/20/21 |
| types |
what we call our altered states... |
|
7/10/00 |
| types01 |
out of body experiences, or astral projection |
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12/26/01 |
| types02 |
seeing god, religious ecstacy, praying... |
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12/26/01 |
| types03 |
visions, hallucinations and schizophrenia |
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12/26/01 |
| types04 |
meditational states and transcendence |
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12/26/01 |
| types05 |
feeling at one with the universe |
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12/26/01 |
| types06 |
seeing ghosts |
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12/26/01 |
| Unwelcome Sense |
Which I have requested to not return |
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8/14/22 |
| Waiting for the Sun |
Waitin' for the Sun to come in |
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4/20/25 |
| war1 |
who would Jesus kill? |
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4/8/03 |
| war2 |
support the troops? |
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4/17/03 |
| We Are Lost |
We even lost the map |
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6/18/24 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
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10/2/22 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
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3/13/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
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6/12/22 |
| Why? |
And I will never know why |
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6/5/24 |
| Why Ask Me |
You know answers |
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12/16/22 |
| Wigs, Wings, and Mannequins |
You have to share your hell |
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6/11/24 |
| (Wind Chill) |
The middle of the night even worse |
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5/27/23 |
| words2 |
language barriers to discussing transcendental topics |
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12/26/01 |
| (Some of You) Worship |
Some took to the old gods for comfort after theirs had died |
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3/26/24 |
| Wouldn't You? |
Love to love to love |
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3/26/23 |
| Yes You Are |
You are the one who pets run towards |
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9/17/24 |
| You and Me |
We go a long way to bind |
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6/18/23 |
| You Can Love |
Now that we are far apart |
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4/15/25 |
| You Can't Have Me |
Not even a biscuit for tea |
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6/6/24 |
| You Feel Nothing |
The days go by. |
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5/2/22 |
| You Have (Mona Lisa) |
You have the most of all |
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3/27/24 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
