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Secondary Schooling

I never got away from life.

Or the calling voice of a better way than this.

You tried a couple of times but summer came and swallowed up the time we spent.

Misery and anger flood your eyes, sleep leaves the puzzle and you're out of time.

Delusions tracking daydreams, you led me down a hallway with a blindfold on.

I was left behind.

Set them and knock them down. A tragic end to this untouched life of yours. 

Crazy thoughts escape the lips you use and I don't understand the questions you abuse.

You left the pieces scattered.  The puzzle was stupid and I was rattled.

Still you came back to talk to me; and led me down a hallway with a blindfold on.

I'm married to the sea

I ask a man who's standing by to tell me why the sky is blue but he doesn't know.

Tie your eyes in double folded guilt, reaching up to grab a piece of nothing.

It takes a second to find the piece the missing piece had lost but when I do I remember

all the times with you.

Don't forget all we had.

Little Mexican Candy

A simple war-like mindset gets me nowhere fast, but I have nowhere to go anyway.

Maybe I was wrong for thinking, that maybe you were wrong for drinking, for drinking let me down too.

I thought I'd let you lie there, maybe you'd die there.   You thought it would be "rad" to be yourself

but you turned me sad.

Hold on.

Tusk

I'll never understand the will to speak.  Language clouds my thoughts.  Words mean nothing when you're alone.

California missed nothing when Florida left for school, but it all seems so far away now. 

I left a dollar on the seat where we had sat so many years before.   

So I take a chance on love.  So love can take a chance on me. 

Now they all speak loud enough.  Loud enough it hurts my ear.

I can't stand it, it hurts my ears they're bleeding.  

It's so frustrating to know that you're leaving. 

I can't stand it I seem lost to me.  You'll never understand, till it happens to me.

California lies on the West Coast, at least that's what I got from reading an atlas.

Where are you going, buy a ticket for your return from trips at last?

Get out.  I never wanted you any way.

Kaleidoscope

I red the lines in your blue book with color.  As the gray falls down you will see that nothing takes the place of misery.

You were so good to me and I'll never forget it.

Medium Ambassador

Sand slips out the bottom of a broken glass.  Leaving lines, residue on my memory.

Stop the clock, I stop the clock and shake it up.    Time settles in the bottom and I can't see.  

Although it's true that it's difficult sitting next to you, I make it through an hour or two.

You talk, I tune you out and face the clouds.  Now it's clear that I can't stand you.

Give me a second to collect these things and get out.   You made it clear that nothing ever changes. 

I got squared circles collected well...   it's a timed race and I fell behind.

Rhode Island landed clear on my horizon.    Rising out of the ocean like the rest of this.

I threw you money but it fell into the water.  Now I know that you can't stand me. 

Sun setting time like it always does.  So much for broken legs and broken hearts.

I lit a candle but got burned when it hit the floor.   Flesh and wax, it feels the same.

Sun setting time, it always felt like a never ending broken leg but candles hit the floor and now I know I

can't stand your voice.

Snowdome

It started to snow, it happened again.  It happened to me.

Second chance sunrise.  Second chance nightfalls

I'm on a holiday.  Take me away.

871-4491 dial the telephone I can't it's too heavy for me to lift up lift up.  I can't wait to take you on a

holiday.  Take me away.

Sloop 22

Half the time I'm sitting on the dock just waiting for you, but the ship

just sails by.  Two way Comm link fail test it's a joke, and I'm fire in

motion.  Now it doesn't seem as if the letters will ever hold us.

Fiber is glass and the glass asks water, "How can this be the edge of my

issues?" I can't even tell if they're talking.   Shoal

draft sloop 22 just sails by I can see the numbers fly.   18767654 I don't

know.  I resigned the post it;s old.  I can't tell if anything will hold. 

This inkling (is that a word?)  Sandy bottom!

Don't sink us.

Give a fish a chance he's more than gills, we have an ocean filled with love

and water.  Don't forget to swim you might drown.   I am a fish, my property

is waterfront.  I am a fish water glides past my lungs.

Pantomime

A Massachusetts highway shrouded in mist.  And hidden by rolling hills. 

Exit 18 of 91 the sun's in my eyes.  There's too much paper in the sunvisor.  To much paper

to much it covers my eyes.  Exit 19 you can all kiss my ass.

Granted this road needs work but can we try not to ruin this ride? (at least not yet.)

I can see clearly now.

Rolling hills.  Nothing stands in my way.

Fletcher

The pool is closed for the summer, sorry kids.  Cat's catch chlorine water and cry for milk. 

There was nothing we could do about it.  Cat cried out and laid there gasping for air.

Cat cried out louder than before.  No one was on my side, it wouldn't have helped me anyway. 

Road's to Boston

Anne could you sing a line to pass the time?  We're getting bored doing the same things every night.

You have a pretty voice.  Why don't you share it?   I'd never laugh at you, you'll probably laugh at

me.  Anne said that she can't find the melody.   I said just let yourself go. 

How can you say you're better than me I've send the way you act?  How can you say your better than her?  How

can you say you're better than him, I 've seen the ways you treat him?  How can you say your better than

anyone.  Anne said she likes the way we look in mud.   I said, I like the way you look in mud too.  We

played in so much mud that summer.  But mud washes away with water so take me home.

December's Red Letter

Oh December you came to my house and left a package on my front porch.  Oh November why didn't you tell me.

Now I'm so cold standing out here with out a sweater.   I can't look in your eyes. 

Eyes look your last. Lips, gateway to breath.¹

Gilbert Road

Do you remember that feeling of being so new.  Like college fridges and movies for two; or dorm like

sleeplessness?  We're sailing.  It's snowing.   Can't you feel it?

A cathartic expressionist smiles ( he felt like you).   Elated and rated we dated.  We wrecked the

calendar.  Looking like a fallen angel writhing in snow, making those funny faces while your wings move too

slow.  You were there too and I fit in your handshake.  Take a look around this house it's where I live.

Liverpool

Do you remember me from last summer?  Because I still remember you.  Cancer's crossing got at

the heart of me.  And it was cancer that made me.   Dinner is served and I'm sitting close to

you the time is right.  Or we're you thinking about leaving.   Is this a test are you my test

are you testing me?  No it can't be this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This boat is mine.  It's getting better all the time.   I'm feeling fine.  Is that a crime?

Do you remember me cause I'm still waiting.  Or are you thinking I'm outdated?  Capricorn was

the one that set me up, and it was Capricorn that showed me.   Do I look all right?  Do you feel

all right?

Garrison

Your eyes could tell me stories of dreams of lakes or trees and snakes.  If I catch you

catching kisses would you sell me one for nothing?  Or a smile?  No good will come of this.

Wait, I'm still here.  Look at what you've crafted.   Stop pretending I'm better.  Try to

understand me.  If I invited you back into my life would you come or would you stay away?  If I

called you would you be there or would the line be dead?   Cause you left me alone again, it

wouldn't be the first time.  I'm waiting.  Still hoping for you to call me.  I can't stand

this.  Your eyes could show me.

Can't get there from here

It's a shame to think that I was wrong. That my shorts and shirts failed my hopes.  That my

shirts an shirts failed to impress you.  That summer's over and it's yesterday.  That summer's

over and you're not yourself anymore.  That summer's over and you've gone away.

I'm looking back over my shoulder convincing myself that we're moving backwards.  I can't

maintain uncomfortable silence.  This kind of night, what did you say?  He looked so sad as he

walked away.  Wind lashed his face.  And tears rolled down his cheeks.  I can't recover from

this kind of moment.  This kind of night, cut's like knives.   You were sitting on my bed your

arms wrapped tight with mine but your face is only in my mind.   We were lying on my bed you

wrapped up close to me but your is still in my mind.  So I wrote this down so I would never

forget it.  How could I anyway when you're always where I can see you.  His hands were like

sand, his face was alive.  His eyes opened wide and cut like knives in me.

Folded arms break to reach.  Your face is molded into beauty.  Stand tall embrace me.  Too

close now we are free.  I can't win.  You can't lose.   My father told me "son you've got to

believe in yourself."  Summer came and stole you away from me.  That's the way it seems.  In

Florida, and in California, we're all looking at the same sky but through different windows.

In Germany and Austria, everyone know how I feel every morning.   In Sweden, and England, all of

us are predictable in our own trappings.  But in Florida, in California, it gets better cause

it's warmer.  And in California, the sun sets three hours later.

The Cartesian Diver

Time fly's when you're thinking. How is thinking like doing nothing?  When are you going to

listen to me?  I can't relate.  I tried so hard.   I can't create.  I tried so hard. 

  When I open up my eyes I couldn't see you.   When I opened my eyes I couldn't see anything.  Follow me

me back home.  It's dark outside, I know.

Clock In/Clock Out

Telling time with starry eyes.  Tell me again with story ears.  I can't wait for dinner

plates.  So let's chalk this up to fate.  All roads lead to Boston and all arrows point us

home.  All smiles eventually change me.  I wonder how this could change me.

We built it to break it, to break it all.  But now it just breaks us all.  Against it with

it, I don't know.  Just tell me where you're going to stand.  The fogs getting thicker but I

think I can see god through it.  It's billboard reading lesson and I'm on the blue book.  Peel

and stick me just asphyxiate me.  There was a tree stump.  And the grass smelled like flowers. 

I spent the summer reading but I can't remember what I read.  How I fuck with you. How I fucked

up you.  Friend of mine, that look in your eyes.   I know you.  Wasting time the only way you

know how.  Friend of mine, that look in your eyes.   Eyes know you.

The Pageant

Jerry Lawler

I try to find a new way to make you smile but the curtains closed in my face,  and i can't compete with you.  And I can't tickle you anymore.   My words seem plain.  I spoke like that for so long but I can't shake you.   "Andy! Show us your face!"  They yelled.  I never liked this box.  These clothes hide clothes.  I come to compete with you, it's so over your head.  So step into this box and feel my weight.  Like pressing weight I wanted to be a wrestler.  I'll never forget you, but you will try to forget everything.   When I get to Memphis it'll be join or die.  So this goes on like it never ended.  Screams from the stands shake me into tears.   *and so the sun set on us.  I try to make sense of it.  We lost everything so fast it almost made my head spin. But now that it's over I've only gotten older.  Since you left I've only gotten stronger.  Your kissing faces, that try to sky my eyes, are silently killing while I'm only getting wiser.  I'll never forget you on the floor and screaming.   As Hart was torn and I was born.  I never looked back and cried.

Chances are this will end Badly

This is all a dream written to perfection.  It causes everything, it's the source of infection.  I can't wait to tell you about the past five years.  It started me thinking of our conversation.  Whispered whisps of wishing, complication.  It ends in sorrow, divides our nation.  Riding westward towards that sea of cancer which tears your hair free.  You're walking away from me all the time.  All the time, so long.   You're staring at me so long every night, every night's so long.  I haven't seen you for five hours.  Its just the way same games we play.  I haven't seen you for five minutes.  It's just the way the hate flows around us.