Shut Up

Washed-out washboard, scratched-up blackboard
Scene girl, plastic pearl, paper plate update
Too late to donate, please close the floodgate
No, there's nothing left, it's dry.

Tin cup tossup, hometown countdown,
Upset sunset, too-small corset
Little girl loves little boy blue
And there is nothing you can do.

Nothing is Impossible

Sounds like inspirational music, doesn't it?
No, it shouldn't.
It is not impossible.
With time, everything advances.
Darwin told me so.

Ode to the Truth

Do Say Mean.
Always say what you mean.
Always do what you say.
Never say what you don't mean.
Never say you'll do what you won't.
Always, always mean what you do.
But most importantly, mean what you say.

The Tar Rainforest

The solution is to pave the environment.
When you hot-top the world, you have found the easy way out.

Earn and Deserve

When you earn the affection of another...
Do you truly deserve it? Does anyone deserve,
The affection of another? Or have you put
So much effort into it, that it is payment?
Is this the future prostitution?

How Dumb of Me

One is solitary.
Is one (1) ever in Good Company?
One is naked.
One is one half a whole number.
One (1) is not a number.
1 (One) is not alone.

Progressions

1 2 3
Is a sequence, predictable and unchanging
3 6 9
Is a diamond between two roughs
5 10 15
Is a hop, skip and a jump away from big money
10 9 8
Is the inevitable destruction, detonation, countdown...

What Time is It?

Yes to the former, no to the latter
Up from the chutes, down from the ladders
When the wind blows, the economy goes
When the bough breaks, the foundation shakes
Mother Goose, Mother Goose
Tell me something I don't know.

The Dead Woman - Pablo Neruda

If suddenly you do not exist,
if suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.

I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.

I shall go on living.

Because where a man has no voice,
there, my voice

Where blacks are beaten,
I can not be dead.
When my brothers go to jail
I shall go with them.

When victory,
not my victory,
but the great victory
arrives,
even though I am mute I must speak:
I shall see it come even though I am blind.

No, forgive me,
if you are not living,
ifd you, beloved, my love,
if you
have died.