i want to take you there

one of them free mp3s: "i want to take you there"

happy kwanza

love's keen sting, et al

regular pain don't mean a thing
when compared to that of love's keen sting

so why bother with spit and skin and tooth and nail?

why set ourselves up to fail?

to scrape and push and fall down, down, down

will the long run be as fruitful as the short term?

will our paranoia confirm

our lack of self control? oh, i see you

worry too, about the future

and everything that you must do

still in the present

how do we have time for all these mind games that we play?

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it is so thick,

solid gold above us

hanging in the air.

if we could build a tower

and reach high to feel it

in our small pink palms,

wealthy would we be

not in gold, but in experience,

which is of much greater value

to an honest earthly spirit.

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just eight minutes ago

(and now i've felt it again!),

i felt the universe breath in

and i swooned, closing my eyes.

embraced in its giant nostril,

i felt my whole being twist and condense,

wringing my soul completely dry.

and then the universe exhaled

and the process reversed.

FORGE ONATHON

new gold leaf ep, "forge onathon!"

download it for free here.

hand of god reached down for your shoulder.
i thought i saw your face when i walked through town this evening...
couldn't have been, i know you're on vacation
(if it's true what you wrote in this letter to me, addressed so long ago).

how'd you come across that idea, that you weren't good enough for me?
i thought i knew you better than i do obviously, because i thought you were much more composed

cried the ocean waves for you last night, the cobblestone erodes before our very eyes. and you ignored the sobbing foam.

haikus

cats are awesome 'cause
they can just curl up right there
and take a nice nap

it's super fresh, yo
it blows yer fucking head off
makes me wanna dance

what is this rebellion?
as if my loyalties were
inside of the cookie

i do not relate
to this ecstacy culture
fuck the two thousands

the sun has not yet
set in my heart, and i am
not ready to sleep