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Twist

Don — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:19:14 +0000

Cat on the couch
Always asleep
Wonder if
Your thoughts are deep
A world awaits
A window away
Yet here is where
You spend your day
Deep inside a dream
Perhaps you fly

You Will Be Amazing

Don — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:42:49 +0000

You will be amazing
The most beautiful and wonderful person
to never know I exist
or if you know that much
the truth of how I feel.

You will be amazing
but always wondering
what it is I’m not saying
that makes me cry around you

Even when I keep the tears inside
I get the feeling you can see them in my eyes,
for you are amazing.

.

Don — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:41:34 +0000

There is no hope for love within this heart.
There is no dream of something better that I can believe in.
Darkness ahead, as deep as the darkness behind me,
How many years will I stumble along,
When there’s nowhere to be going to?

Subway Guy, not Jared

Don — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:43:01 +0000

I would work long hours
Knowing your shoulders waited for me at home
To rest my head upon
And those eyes
To stare into
Curly headed cutie
The toaster may be broken
in your store
I’m still sweating bullets
from the heat in you.

To cut by half

Don — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:10:06 +0000

To cut by half
Your kitten in Vegas
Leave a fiver
With the note
More Soap Please!

Music and words together

Don — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:57:18 +0000

On very rare occasions, the original source for a song sample will come up in my random playlist, providing a moment of cognitive dissonance. Today, I heard Jack Kerouac’s voice talking about jazz, and had a moment of recognition, connecting his spoken word piece from some collection of beat poetry, to the sample at the beginning of a Chumbawamba song.

Larry

Don — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:32:08 +0000

First it got dark
Then it got scary
But then it turned out
That his name was Larry
So everyone sighed
A breath of relief
That all would be well
And held to that belief

Hard Nights, Soft Days

Don — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:02:32 +0000

A flower in her hair

Like someone stuck it there

A reminder of what never was

A hopeful dream of just because

The music on the radio

Is ringing in my ears

There’s nothing really to it

The sum of all my fears

Playing out the same old game

No one ever knows my name

But I’ll still be here just the same

Another day

Another night

Another star that burned too bright

Open your eyes

Close up your heart

These are the days

When we walk apart.