lkisaid thoughts, sounds and creative miscellany episode 46
theillalogicalspoon - Come Thou Warrior in Soul Thou Poet in Deed for at 12:17 We Shall Believe
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Smash the town clock our schedules are more precise than the second Forsake the sidewalk for a highway more direct than already Calculated a stride of becoming but math did not get it With movements so strict and efficient that poetry was jealous At last we had the last laugh on city hall (high five!) our play is effective.
What time is it Lord, what time is it Lord? You've made everything beautiful in its time, but what does it mean to be alive And what is this place in which I find that I am the wicked I seek for a sign?
Now where the wind blows I go, don't know where that is, you can hear the sound of it but it escapes all your predict I was running and I don't know why I looked into the sky the moon was up in the daytime, the sun was rising, in-between was a tree beside me. Look at it: It's fall out, it smells good, there's a cold breeze (burr) Burn a twenty there is plenty more where that came from, well not money but something A car passed by and I said hi [they ask] "you need a ride" [I respond] "why not." [they ask] "where are you doing" [I respond] "absolutely." [someone asks] "anywhere?" [later on in the day I say to them] "let me out of the car now" [then to anyone] "come on, that blinking yellow light would make a good dance floor, I'm serious It's time to get serious."
What time is it Lord, what time is it Lord? I asked around we had nothing to say Now I'm on my face Lord teach me to pray. heaven and earth they will pass away But your words shall not pass away.
I was walking on the tracks in Jackson. I saw a deer, I walked over to it and It looked at me in the eye and said: "Do you see this world around you, do you see the trees, do you see the flora and fauna, do you see how we swing and we sway and we moan with the morning winds and the evening tide, do you see the sun setting in the West?"
I looked around and I noticed it for the first time in months.
and I said "ya, ya I understand I see that" and the deer said: "look closer do you really understand do you really see what's going on?"
and I looked again and I saw the rising of cities and I saw the destruction of lands that I had never seen before. and it came to me in a vision that this all at once terrible and frightening
and I said: "how did all this happen how did I never see it before?"
and the deer just looked at me
and I said: "I don't understand." the deer looked at me again and said: "you don't understand."
the deer walked away into the forest; I could not follow.
Chorus: Tossed about in a sea of words Reading and talking fenced in with the herd Harvest time, harvesting Revised revisiting The same scar on my mind All that is weak, all that's despised
After months of sleeping in the city I took the night train to Jackson I got off in the terminal and I walked in front and I saw the deer lying in the tracks. I looked at it in the eyes and the deer looked at me with a sign of faint recognition.
and I said: how did this happen?"
and the de
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