| Name | Description | | Written |
| 75/25 |
a simple issue of focus |
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1/22/03 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 Twist |
Stains where one was two |
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12/5/23 |
| Acutely Aware |
...of the time not spent doing this |
|
12/25/22 |
| Adaptation (Scarborough Fair) |
A traditional folk song with a 'human' touch |
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4/27/18 |
| All Around Us |
And never calls the end |
|
3/22/23 |
| I Stand Alone |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
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6/7/98 |
| And Again |
We're going to do it again |
|
3/14/23 |
| And Dance |
What we should get out and do |
|
9/26/21 |
| Antimony |
Improvised (to be polished) as needed for side two |
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2/1/23 |
| Are You Ready? |
a poem about sex, I suppose |
|
7/6/00 |
| A Box in the Attic |
A sad poem about losing part of one's life |
|
12/20/17 |
| autumn |
a little happy seasonal relief |
|
9/6/03 |
| (My) Baby's on a Train |
Waiting for someone who never came |
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9/12/23 |
| Barricades |
We put more effort into jobs we hate |
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3/28/24 |
| Becomes |
A poem about growing closer |
|
6/10/18 |
| Before the Mast |
She wanted me to come again |
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2/20/24 |
| Bitter/Sweet |
every word I hear sounds like your name |
|
11/24/22 |
| Born Wrong |
Another shard of pottery |
|
1/8/21 |
| The Brain |
The brain is an organ |
|
8/4/16 |
| breathe |
just another love poem |
|
7/14/01 |
| broken1 |
an overview of the pain of losing love |
|
8/1/00 |
| broken2 |
bamboo analogy: the process of healing |
|
8/2/00 |
| 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 |
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6/29/22 |
| Call Me Soon |
She said 'Come with me...' |
|
11/29/23 |
| Getting Drunk by All the Right People |
Both a little bit behind and out in front |
|
9/12/23 |
| A Different Castle |
A castle after all but still... |
|
7/4/23 |
| A Charming Thought |
Who leads the rider - or the horse? |
|
6/6/23 |
| Church Then |
You could go but then what then? |
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8/6/22 |
| 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 |
|
12/7/21 |
| Correspondence |
The title track of Carbon Copy, about the walking wounded |
|
3/22/22 |
| couples1 |
about the myths of commitment |
|
8/1/00 |
| crash |
a poem... |
|
3/13/01 |
| Crimes and Punishment |
- they serve as part of the infinite loop |
|
2/14/24 |
| 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 |
| dating1 |
some problems with our courtship rituals |
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8/13/00 |
| 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 |
| Dirty Tools |
A song about getting overheated |
|
1/5/22 |
| Discarded |
Yet another poem about memories? |
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9/8/20 |
| Disconnection |
Forget all the things you think they did |
|
11/9/23 |
| Downtown |
Show me all that you know |
|
10/29/23 |
| Drugs and Love |
Drugs are better than love, honey |
|
12/10/23 |
| Dryad |
Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it? |
|
4/28/21 |
| Elaboration |
Lateral strategies in tense detail |
|
6/16/21 |
| emotion5 |
those complicated chemicals in your brain |
|
9/5/01 |
| Enough For Two |
When we're coming we'll be home |
|
3/27/24 |
| Erasure |
A song about blankness |
|
11/8/21 |
| eukaryotic |
an odd little poem |
|
6/8/02 |
| Even Better, Sex |
You're better than all the rest. |
|
2/22/23 |
| Everybody for Everything |
Blames everybody for every little thing |
|
11/20/23 |
| everything |
you were everything including yourself |
|
12/2/22 |
| Exclusion |
...of all others |
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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 |
| fields |
an analogy for sexual exploration |
|
5/12/01 |
| Filler (With Just a Little Kiss) |
It's a tropical rainforest out there |
|
9/16/22 |
| 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) |
|
12/6/17 |
| Fortifications (Letter to Myself) |
A song for healing |
|
2/22/18 |
| Frost |
Never forget to protect tender new growth |
|
5/24/23 |
| 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 |
| Get Back |
I took the liberty of writing the rest of the song |
|
11/12/22 |
| Girls & Boys |
Enjoying some holidays away |
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4/6/22 |
| A Glimpse of Joy |
...that you will never see |
|
1/7/24 |
| Photograph (Good-bye) |
A lullaby about parting |
|
4/19/18 |
| Good Love |
an old fashioned blues from 'Ruins' |
|
3/8/02 |
| 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 |
| How Long |
Could I erase your presence? |
|
8/5/23 |
| If You Remember |
Another journey into classic folk |
|
10/13/22 |
| Impressions of a Sunset |
a song about loss from 'Ruins' |
|
9/12/96 |
| (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 |
| I Left in Your Heart |
You can easily seal that hole |
|
9/13/23 |
| Inequality |
it keeps life interesting |
|
3/16/04 |
| Insensible |
unity achieved when five are merged as one |
|
4/1/23 |
| Intending to Love |
'As long as I don't realize they are pretending, I'll take it.' |
|
5/1/22 |
| Invasive |
The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet |
|
7/11/21 |
| Invitation |
A poem about first meeting |
|
2/26/18 |
| It Was Raining |
I took some words I wrote in 11/04 and made them into a song |
|
4/20/21 |
| 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 |
| Just a Little |
When she's feeling really pretty |
|
4/13/24 |
| Juvenilia |
Stylistic ramblings in pottery land |
|
10/1/14 |
| kisses |
a little poem |
|
7/31/00 |
| Lemonfishbutter |
a song about requited lust from 'Ruins' |
|
12/29/94 |
| Librarian |
If you know what I mean |
|
9/3/22 |
| Libration |
Those take two to operate as well |
|
12/7/23 |
| A Life Time |
A poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Another Life Time |
Another poem about memories |
|
4/20/20 |
| Lisa |
Tonight every woman's named Lisa |
|
7/2/23 |
| Little Things |
the things don't let a wedge between us |
|
2/14/24 |
| Lonesome (Parts One and Two) |
...so much I can't cry |
|
10/20/23 |
| Winter (Lost You To) |
A song about fearing a terrible loss - and losing |
|
8/25/17 |
| love0 |
preparing yourself for intimacy - and life |
|
8/2/00 |
| love1 |
pure love flows through all without aim... |
|
7/13/00 |
| love10 |
excitement provokes personal emotional cycles |
|
3/27/01 |
| love11 |
strategy? |
|
5/2/01 |
| love12 |
a castle, a cage, and a shack |
|
5/14/01 |
| love13 |
negotiation and vulnerability |
|
5/14/01 |
| love14 |
diverse relationships and their value |
|
5/30/01 |
| love15 |
just another rant about our myths and dreams |
|
10/25/01 |
| love16 |
a few sideways glances at mistakes and pain |
|
8/30/00 |
| love17 |
why do we want love? |
|
6/6/02 |
| love19 |
just getting by |
|
1/7/03 |
| love2 |
why is love so disruptive? |
|
6/26/00 |
| love21 |
extreme measures best kept in reserve |
|
3/25/03 |
| love22 |
a little discursion on what love is |
|
11/27/03 |
| love23 |
Change versus growth |
|
8/3/17 |
| Love |
A poem about healing and growth |
|
3/5/18 |
| love3 |
a little bit about the pitfalls of new love |
|
11/25/99 |
| love4 |
a piece of the puzzle as I was reawakening |
|
10/13/99 |
| love5 |
an exploration of male sensitivity in our culture |
|
7/7/00 |
| love6 |
love at a distance |
|
2/8/00 |
| love7 |
the mythology of love must be changed |
|
8/1/00 |
| love8 |
some weird stuff about getting to know someone |
|
8/14/00 |
| love9 |
what do your failures have in common? |
|
8/13/00 |
| Love Comes and Goes |
Sometimes she comes, sometimes she goes |
|
11/3/22 |
| love diffusion |
Oh please, release me |
|
10/21/23 |
| 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 |
| Magic Never Leaves |
You don't know what I know you want me to need |
|
4/4/23 |
| men |
a short indirect parody of sexist attitudes |
|
7/25/00 |
| miss_you |
another little poem... |
|
9/3/01 |
| Moonlight |
a song about loss |
|
6/5/98 |
| My Lover Midnight |
A song about a magical garden |
|
3/30/22 |
| My Wildest Dreams |
The cover of a glossy magazine |
|
2/10/24 |
| 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 |
| Nobody Knows |
a song about neurotic fixation |
|
9/2/97 |
| normal people |
A song about two of you - or us |
|
1/13/22 |
| not_alone |
reversal of fortune can be a good thing |
|
1/19/03 |
| Not For Me |
How to be free |
|
8/1/23 |
| Not So Easy |
Whatever happened to love? |
|
8/2/23 |
| Of the Conversation |
Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings |
|
5/13/23 |
| 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 |
| otherpeopleisms |
a few things that made me chuckle |
|
5/22/05 |
| Overture (Fever Dream) |
The opening for Lost and Found |
|
6/28/18 |
| Pictures (Pirate Party) |
Overlapping conversations and dessert |
|
10/22/22 |
| Pin-ups |
All the girls looked like you that night |
|
3/28/23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| privacy1 |
just a few simple words |
|
12/2/99 |
| 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 |
| Prove It |
(You knew you could) |
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2/2/24 |
| questions2.htm |
interviewing versus actually being with |
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8/17/03 |
| Rather |
A simple little poem song about light and dark |
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10/26/22 |
| Requiem |
It's not going to change a thing |
|
1/12/23 |
| Revolver |
It's either all or nothing |
|
8/22/22 |
| Right About Now |
How do you feel? |
|
1/11/24 |
| Romance Is For Others |
The title track of Victory Is For Lovers |
|
1/14/22 |
| Roses and Coffee |
The answers are all inside us |
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8/28/22 |
| Regrets Only |
My words pale, my eyes tears dried |
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9/17/23 |
| scars |
letting the past drown the present |
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8/16/03 |
| Seared and Maddened |
A brief poem about connections |
|
8/14/22 |
| sex1 |
about male roles and repression |
|
7/31/00 |
| sex2 |
the void in our sexual mores |
|
8/14/00 |
| sex3 |
for healthy sex... |
|
8/12/00 |
| sex4 |
some farcical looks at supply and demand |
|
8/28/00 |
| sex5 |
sex without meaning is... |
|
3/18/01 |
| sex7 |
evolutionary gender discriminations |
|
5/26/02 |
| sex8 |
erotica |
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6/14/02 |
| sex9 |
pornographica |
|
7/1/02 |
| Shattered |
A reflection on the nature of some 'broken' people |
|
12/30/17 |
| She Said (She Said) |
She said I like it, she said |
|
8/30/23 |
| Simplify |
Your wishes might help you learn to fly |
|
11/6/23 |
| Solitude |
I'm sure I have touched on this before |
|
2/11/18 |
| Somebody Else's Well |
a song about infidelity from 'Ruins' |
|
7/7/98 |
| Something |
... please sound no alarms |
|
9/19/23 |
| 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 |
| Strung Out |
A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. |
|
12/8/20 |
| Succubus |
Fly by the night of your lights |
|
1/23/23 |
| Teach Me |
With you within, with you without |
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7/2/23 |
| Ten Days in March |
The restless ground yearns to burst forth |
|
3/2/24 |
| The Pain |
Learning hurts. All learning hurts. |
|
7/14/21 |
| The Tower |
What is its purpose? |
|
5/21/18 |
| Those Boots |
One more crack like that and I'll have to... |
|
9/20/22 |
| Time |
If only life's disorder were rearranged |
|
3/31/23 |
| time3 |
a little relativistic contrast |
|
11/28/03 |
| Time With Fire |
Pasts and futures always present |
|
5/3/22 |
| Tomorrow |
Hope is always the last to die |
|
12/17/17 |
| touch_me |
a poem, probably part of a suite |
|
4/20/02 |
| 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 |
| Unstable |
Come now in syncromesh |
|
10/15/23 |
| Wait |
I gave you all of mine |
|
7/13/23 |
| waiting |
waiting for results: a poem about love and death |
|
10/19/01 |
| Waking Dreams |
I wish it wasn't always never you |
|
4/21/24 |
| Wanted |
A briefly gentle sentiment |
|
9/30/21 |
| waves of memory |
a poem about healing |
|
7/15/02 |
| We Have Never Met |
It doesn't really matter in space or time to be |
|
10/2/22 |
| What You Got |
A sinuous song of the night |
|
11/8/20 |
| 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 To Sleep |
A little bit about love with no answers |
|
4/4/22 |
| Who Could Ever Forget? |
A song about moments of eternity |
|
3/13/22 |
| Who Falls In Love |
Are you a person... |
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6/12/22 |
| Why Ask Me |
You know answers |
|
12/16/22 |
| (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 |
| women |
a two part parody of sexist attitudes |
|
(unknown) |
| Wouldn't You? |
Love to love to love |
|
3/26/23 |
| You and Me |
We go a long way to bind |
|
6/18/23 |
| You Feel Nothing |
The days go by. |
|
5/2/22 |
| 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 |
| These Are the Ways |
There were many tender moments, of course |
|
12/10/17 |
| You Make Me |
Feel something inside |
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8/5/23 |
| You Must Be Crazy |
a song about habit from 'Ruins' |
|
June 98 |
| you |
a little love-type poem |
|
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 |
|
8/17/23 |
Random |
Pick a thought at random, or go to the "index index" |
|
Indexed |
| Support | This is where I shamelessly solicit your contribution to the cause! |
| Dedicate | A list of past dedications |
| Reading | Some recommended reading |
