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a somersault
a flip and spin
a trip around the block and back again
a pheromone
of sprawl and blight
the engine flutters at the traffic light
a burning sun
a warning sign
stop at the intersection unless you’re blind
a turning leaf
a rising span
the engine sputters by the garbage cans
a quiet ecstasy
a smothered joy
dreams were endless when you were a boy
a line of pebbles
a pile of rocks
the engine rumbles from the starting blocks
just one last time
and we’ll be gone
we have to do this now, it’s off or on
it’s time to dig and scratch
collapse and build
rev the engine for the Caledonia kill
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Wilds of Idaho
04:47
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sleeping in ’til noon
dreaming of the fall
a moment lost
found you on the phone
frozen in the snow
in the wilds of Idaho
echoes from the road
no one throwing stones
you were gone
echoes from the road
and the fall of Rome
you were
sitting in my chair
playing solitaire
and watching television
the president is on
says the ‘state of the union’
is good
faith is just a trap
until you need it most
and then it is your holy ghost
love is just a dream
until you need it most
and then it is your holy ghost
a thing is right
when it preserves
integrity and beauty
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Gone Missing
03:59
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where is the White Footed Rabbit-rat
lost with the Puerto Rican Flower Bat
can’t find a Lord Howe Long-eared Bat
gone missing with the St. Lucy Giant Rice Rat
where is the Broad-faced Potoroo
left town with the Desert Rat Kangaroo
can’t find a Pig-footed Bandicoot
gone missing with the Christmas Island Shrew
where is the Mexican Grizzly Bear
out the door with Schomburgk’s Deer
has anybody seen Sturdee’s Pipistrelle
gone missing with the Red Gazelle
where now is the Caspian Cat
took its leave with the Martinique Muskrat
lost track of the Eastern Hare Wallaby
gone missing with the Lesser Bilby
won’t you please come home
where is the Mono Lake Diving Beetle
on the lam with the Fort Ross Weevil
can’t find the Chestnut Ermine Moth
gone missing with the Lesser Puerto Rican Ground Sloth
where is the Antillean Cave Rail
next to the Umbilicate Pebblesnail
lost the Pecatonica River Mayfly
gone fishing with the Blue Walleye
where is the Ash Meadows Killfish
washed away with the Tecopa Pupfish
what became of the American Lion
fossilized like the Ancient Bison
where on Earth is the Western Camel
don't confuse it with the Stilt-legged Llama
lost my Pecatonica River Mayfly
gone missing with my Passenger Pigeon Mite
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In Your Sunday Colors
04:25
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what a way to lie
a trick of the light
and your shadow’s disappeared
but that’s all right
what a way to lose
when you’re one of the chosen few
but you lost the secret code
and now you’re through
but I will see your
veil of dolor
bright and blue
in your Sunday colors
what a way to sin
you would not let them in
and when you turned away
they would not call you friend
what a way to die
with a dagger in your eye
with salvation in the sacristy
and all that hate inside
see you on Sunday
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Hadrian's Wall
03:07
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driving all night
passing the time
cursing my luck
on the side of the road
selling these blooms
from the back of a truck
sometimes I hear
somebody calling
breathing the dust
sweating it out
making the rent
climbing a hill
high as the sky
everything spent
sometimes I dream
that I am falling
but Hadrian’s Wall
was never that tall
a woman and child
shuffling by
a tulip and rose
take a liking to these
‘can you wrap them for me?
with a couple of those?’
sometimes I turn
to vapor rising
it could not keep you out
it did not keep you in
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Off Grid on Target
03:16
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stray dog hung around my door
I did not feed it
newspaper sat out on the porch
I did not read it
heard a warning in my deep sleep
I did not heed it
thanks a lot for the heaping heap
I do not need it
going off of the grid
off the grid and on target
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Summer Girls #23
03:12
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you call my name
and I have no wants
in fields of green
and sparkling oceans blue
and when I see you there
we will walk that path
warmed by the sun
and though I bear
this pain and doubt
I know you are there
and I am not afraid
and I will stay with you
all my days
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Fiddlesticks (Roma)
05:42
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Roma, my home
Roma, my love
I don’t need the dogma
I don’t need the drugs
as long as the sun
is burning above
Roma, my heart
I’ll meet you at the wall
I’ll catch you when you fall
no matter where you’ve been
I will not play that violin
Roma, my love
Roma, my home
I’ll wait on the karma
I’ll wait on the koan
as long as the sky
is reigning alone
Roma, my heart
I’ll greet you at the wall
I’ll catch you when you fall
no matter who you’ve been
I will not play that violin
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Spike the Tree
03:27
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got my helmet on
got my goggles, too
gotta watch out for
the collateral
you know
got a pounding heart
got this super brain
got a lot to do
got a lot of pain
going outside to play
all-y, all-y, in come free
kicking the can all day
I’m the king of the hill
spike the tree
got a hole inside
lets in the pouring rain
wrote my congressman
about all this pain
got a bleeding ulcer
and the end is closer
I signed the petition
and now I’ll drive the nail
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Mayfly
02:21
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’neath the willow's
lazy sway
lived a life
inside a day
May has flown
into breezes blown
in the spring
we made a vow
but promises
are broken now
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I’m just a spacewalker
on a stellar ride
she’s an asteroid
that I must abide
she is a disturbance
in the cosmic wind
she is the orbiter
coming ’round again
dancing with the satellites
I’m just an average guy
in a rocket ship
she’s a supernova
doing a backflip
she’s a streaking comet
doing a backflip
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Vandals in Reverse
04:05
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I fix my eyes
on the road ahead
pressing on to arrive by dawn
yellow turns to red
I drop my head
to the steering wheel
traffic light shimmers in the night
over my windshield
I raise my gaze
to the smudged rearview
at my feet and on the backseat
are photographs of you
we’re vandals in reverse
turning ’round the curse
wherever we may go
we’re unbreaking the windows
Fortuna’s wheel
isn’t mine to steer
remembering, I rewind everything
and throw it back in gear
whichever way we turn
a bridge is left unburned
as long as we shall be
we’re unspiking the tree
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