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NameDescriptionWritten
I Can't Come Anywhere Near You A love song, of sorts. A "can't love" song. 10/15/21
I Want You Tell me now do you love her? 4/9/23
A Song About You A redrafted version - stronger in general appeal 10/10/23
A Song About You (Part One) The first version, which might make a nice album closer somewhere 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 12/25/22
again tomorrow ...and it might be worse... 6/14/22
ai Artificial Intelligence   3/12/00
All Around Us And never calls the end 3/22/23
All the Time Who else would understand? 11/5/21
Ammonia Somebody had to say it 1/14/23
and Art A poem about art and barnacles. And stuff.   2/26/21
(My) Baby's on a Train Waiting for someone who never came 9/12/23
Believe a song about faith from 'Ruins' 5/6/98
Big Brother and Your Brain An essay about our modern, non-academic study of the human mind and how to influence it   10/13/21
Blackout I don't know what this (song) - or any of this - is. 1/26/21
Born Wrong Another shard of pottery   1/8/21
The Brain The brain is an organ   8/4/16
By the Bay A story about a lovely couple 3/31/22
By What Right? What I was trying to write five days ago 6/29/22
A Different Castle A castle after all but still... 7/4/23
Choices a song about freedom from 'Ruins' 1/28/97
Confidence A time of restlessnesses   8/9/21
contact strangers, people, and communication   11/28/03
cycles7 seven year growth cycles of the personality   8/5/00
Damaged Floor Model Just let me get out of here 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
Dead Girlfriend I don't care if you're there too 2/7/23
death (is a theme) A poem about life   9/25/20
decision1 building useful 'decision trees' in real life   12/11/01
We're All the Same: Different Aren't we? The same in that we are different, that is?   3/22/20
drugs they're bad, don't use them, unless...   12/27/01
Dryad Oh my, this is lovely, isn't it?   4/28/21
Electric Zzzzt 1/23/23
emotion1 emotions, what they are and how to live with them   10/18/00
emotion2 an incomplete list of emotions...   10/18/00
emotion3 a rebuttal to part of emotion1!   10/22/00
Periodic depression depression, my little black puppy...   11/16/00
Isolation and depression A rather raw piece about plague-driven depression   10/5/20
Solitary confinement ...which is also late Oct pandemic notes   10/29/20
Depression in Isolation Reflections on a year of mental cycles   5/14/21
emotion5 those complicated chemicals in your brain   9/5/01
Even Better, Sex You're better than all the rest. 2/22/23
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
Flowers I thought you were the one 7/8/22
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
Girls & Boys Enjoying some holidays away 4/6/22
A Glimpse of Joy ...that you will never see 1/7/24
Go (Go Go) The anti-narcissist song? 2/24/24
(Climbing) Gravity's Well An astronomical song 12/2/20
Habits From a brief lyric note of twenty years ago... today? 11/28/22
How Long Could I erase your presence? 8/5/23
human1 human nature: part one   8/18/01
human2 human nature: part two   8/18/01
human3 human nature: part three   8/18/01
idiots3 intelligent design?   12/21/05
(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
Infraction 571428 When the acid burns your fingers 11/13/23
Invasive The title - and closing - track of IntroViolet 7/11/21
Justice (or Just Us) We only want to be free 2/3/24
Juvenilia Stylistic ramblings in pottery land   10/1/14
Liberty A poem about freedom and time   11/24/20
Lighthouse (You Will Find Your Way) Another (song) from the eye of the storm (2:40 AM) 12/6/17
Little Things the things don't let a wedge between us 2/14/24
Logix Common sense is even worse   7/8/21
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 4/4/23
Magpies We understand corruption as little as we do justice 12/10/21
meaning1 which came first? an important question   8/5/00
mind1 my 'bamboo' analogy of the personality and mind   8/2/00
synaesthesia It's not really synaesthesia, but interesting nonetheless   5/20/21
mind2 some charts of an amusing model: the 'Huw Diagram'   1/01/02
mind3 how this model could be tested and made rigorous   1/01/02
mind4 the model as applied to mental illness   1/01/02
mind5 dreams are how we file away our experiences   1/01/02
mind6 emotions are our unconscious talking to us   1/01/02
mind7 the mind: what it is, how it evolved and how it works   1/15/02
mind8 consciousness by degrees, and the magic of language   1/19/02
mind9 space, time, and irrational thoughts about curvatures   12/18/05
Mold and Cast The people I tend to like   6/21/21
My Lover Midnight A song about a magical garden 3/30/22
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
No Way to Live But a worse way to die. From notes of 6/21/22 7/4/22
normal people A song about two of you - or us 1/13/22
Not For Me How to be free 8/1/23
Nothing to Heal A song - a waltz macabre 1/8/21
Of the Conversation Not about mythologies or unadmitted failings 5/13/23
One Sail Also about mythologies and our unadmitted failings 5/22/23
Ordinary Song About some ordinary people 8/3/23
otherpeopleisms a few things that made me chuckle   5/22/05
The Cost of Violence Freedom is the first thing we lose.   5/18/21
Gender-free The privilege of life in the power corner   5/23/21
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
prometheus a harsh and tragic outburst of ego   1/21/03
Psycho Metric ego love shallow trash 5/16/22
Quantum of Infection On the probabilistic nature of our state of infection   4/23/20
questions2.htm interviewing versus actually being with   8/17/03
Rather A simple little poem song about light and dark 10/26/22
Revolution If you want a revolution... 7/15/22
Scattered For the disrupted and the shattered among us all 12/21/22
Science Fiction More or less 8/1/23
Seared and Maddened A brief poem about connections   8/14/22
self1 on the nature of consciousness   6/7/01
seventeen lines you can't miss me if I don't 4/27/23
Shattered A reflection on the nature of some 'broken' people   12/30/17
Shopworn Damaged goods still sold as new 7/11/21
Simplify Your wishes might help you learn to fly 11/6/23
So Well A song. Do you really think so? 1/24/22
Solitude I'm sure I have touched on this before   2/11/18
spirit13 the nature of a strange 'organ'   4/2/02
Spring My Love Will Come When, then, where, there, why. How. 4/14/23
stillborn a short but powerful prose poem   1/9/00
Strung Out A song about love and beauty. Or drugs. 12/8/20
Sublimation The physics of self   5/21/21
Teach Me With you within, with you without 7/2/23
theMindxxxx a site expounding a theory of the MIND   Feb-Mar/00
The Devil to a Draw nightmare slayer 5/21/22
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
The Mess You're In This is not what you had planned 11/22/22
The Pain Learning hurts. All learning hurts.   7/14/21
The Tower What is its purpose?   5/21/18
The Transition Shaking off the cobwebs of fiction. With music. 6/21/21
thesis3 four emotional stages of rebellion   8/13/00
Time With Fire Pasts and futures always present 5/3/22
(How) To Think You don't know 9/8/23
truth0 some scattered thoughts I found lying around   1/25/87
Twisted Rocker Your mother cares even if you can't be bothered 2/8/23
Unwelcome Sense Which I have requested to not return   8/14/22
Wanted A briefly gentle sentiment   9/30/21
We Have Never Met It doesn't really matter in space or time to be 10/2/22
Who Could Ever Forget? A song about moments of eternity 3/13/22
Who Falls In Love Are you a person... 6/12/22
words a little diddly about language and minds   1/19/03
Some of You Worship Some took to the old gods for comfort after killing theirs 3/26/24
Wouldn't You? Love to love to love 3/26/23
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 Want This If you've ever been alive... 11/27/23
A Twisted Rocker (Not About Your Mother) ...and every girl you ever haunted 2/9/23
 
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