You’ve got to quit your little charade And join the freak parade Now that your road has been paved From conception to your grave There are enormous things to do Others’ practices to eschew To be better than you is impossible to do But the world won’t stop without you! Your achievements are unsurpassed You […]
There’s a spectre in the corner of an illustrated page And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration Angst and madness weave the fabric of his life Tomorrow might be better But right now […]
Going through a world of sad debris, Regard quixoitic reveries of ownership: The blossoming disease of man called tenure and accretion, The ancient western treadmill of deception and derision. But I want something more. Racing through a life of tragic wastage, I experience the loss of trust and innocence. The billowing cyclone of time has […]
Well the sheaves have all been brought, but the fields have washed away, And the palaces now stand where the coffins all were laid, And the times we see ahead, we must glaze with rozy hues, For what don’t wish to admit what it is we have to lose. Millenia in coming, the modern age […]
Stranded In a life in which your struggle for acceptance Is a never-ending chore, Upbraided For your actions past and present and rewarded for the ideas Of the future’s bright open door. The henchman Is the human analogue of the suffering multitudes Who like good dogs sit and lick for their reward. So what good […]
He’s the latest superhero with powers so profound. He can leap a dotted line in just a single bound. I know you must have seen him in books and magazines. He’s the quintessential mindless modern epicine. His life is meaningful because he gets things done. Bang bang he’s dead, chalk up another triumph for our […]
Sanity - No Control
There’s a watch in my pocket and its hands are broken. The face is blank but the gears are turning. Confusion is a fundamental state of mind. It doesn’t really matter what I’m figuring out. I’m guaranteed to wind up in a state of doubt And sanity is a full-time job In a world that […]
The wheat waving next to you is healthy and so fine, As is dinner with your loved ones every day. But your routine is changeless through the decades of your life, Green pastures, open spaces, holy ways. And it must looks pretty appealing, The crowded festive nights And the millions of others just like you. […]
There’s a specter in the corner of an illustrated page And a lonesome muted stripling with a rapt remedial gaze. The poverty of his language and the wealth of his emotion Bring him endless murky musings and unexpected frustration Angst and madness weave the fabric of his life. Tomorrow might be better but right now […]
And progress is not intelligently planned; It’s the facade of our heritage, the odor of our land. They speak of Progress, in red, white and blue. It’s the structure of the future as demise comes seething through. It’s Progress, ’til there’s nothing left to gain, As the dearth of new ideas makes us wallow in […]
