tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57364261853302496992023-11-16T08:00:36.318-08:00Writers Without A Home Presents: The PoetryThe distinctive intense expression of feelings, ideas, and maybe some rhythm.Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-5858619810235860672012-04-18T18:59:00.000-07:002012-04-18T18:59:54.964-07:00The Arachnid<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
arachnid arachnid arachnid, the arachnid that haunts my dreams, the arachnid
that I fear, the arachnid that hid in my ear, arachnid squashed on the floor
until it was no more, the arachnid connecting us, the arachnid binding us, the
arachnid that is my power, the arachnid with eyes that do not tear but glower,
the arachnid in you, the arachnid in me, the arachnid that is the enemy, the arachnid
whom feeds on me, I’m prey to the arachnid, I feed the arachnid, I feel and
know and see and cower before the arachnid of tall buildings swinging through
the air, saving millions of dollars for the arachnid’s lair, the arachnid in
Hollywood, the arachnid of the capital, the arachnid of streets roads paths and
connections, the arachnid: when did you lose your humanity? The arachnid, that
waits now, the arachnid that feeds from a cow sending hell blindly marching
eight armies of sons against the arachnid, the arachnid the arachnid that sucks
souls blood and bold minds, the arachnid watching the world watch it, the
arachnid that does not feel, the arachnid that screeches at fire from whence the
hellish fiend was born, the Arachnidan red eyes, not born again and again like
the phoenix risen from the ashes of arachnidan war, the arachnid I adore, the
arachnid whose web is beauty, the arachnid whom can entrap dreams, the arachnid
who showed me theirs, the arachnid I must see no more, the arachnid of someone’s
love it cannot bore, the arachnid the arachnid the arachnid. Spinster of fear
and fate, web of communicative connection, spinning in circles on a string from
my ceiling, the hunter that waits, the kill that is blind and ignorant. Fly
into the arachnid’s clutches! Buzz about life on whim to maneuver past the
arachnid’s schemes! Dive down into the conscious ocean of notion and drown the
spider leaving paper burning in the street by the wall, the pyramidal eye burns
from the center power, the arachnid’s capital falls crumbling about the
arachnid, the arachnid that spouts lies forth screens, the arachnids that
tumbles like humanity down into the streets flowing waves of legs crashing
about the minds that calm mobs, the arachnid that watches from up high, the
arachnid that denied my life peace, the arachnid whose ability to deceive has
no end, the arachnid who finally comforts me brings me peaceful slumber from
countless uncivilized animals gathered to poison the spider within as spiders
compete in colossal stadiums, the arachnid whom made the holy hammock of
blissful swaying joy hugging me to air and wrapping me in illusory comfort
while I ignore the concluding bite to draw me and the animalistic spiders to
the endless abyss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Justin Vaisnor</i> </span></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-17113030408556380382012-04-13T23:59:00.000-07:002012-04-13T23:59:59.622-07:00For One NightBy Dave Karp<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I held you in my arms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I stared in your eyes for an eternity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I felt my heart at rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your hand locked with mine, the puzzle put together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I heard the words “I love you” whispered in my ear
like a new spring wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sky echoed a long last dream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The stars surrounded me and flooded my body<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I walked with you through the streets and saw no one
else<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My mind surrendered to peace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your kiss awoke all I could ever offer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I found heaven in our hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For one night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Why one night, just one night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-89321804159195718352012-04-11T12:37:00.000-07:002012-04-11T12:37:53.249-07:00Before Bed Covers Cover Me<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sprouting
nothingness like the sea of corn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Causing
sugar and crazed diabetics,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everyone
is allergic now, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
smoke the air as you breath,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Starting
small to a black mass of anger,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
small one is white,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angry,
but damnit not so quiet if you knew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
a bitch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
anger doesn’t explode,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unless
it copulates manically,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
if the earth is loved by the angry one,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
the anger boils,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
boil burns when tipped free,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Running
down to fill the open void,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
all voids need filling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
a paradise is found,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
levels of hell are reached,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Burnt
along the way of the hero’s journey,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
find himself in hypocrisy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Devoting
his life to the salvation of salvation-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
forming words and sentences denied to be either,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Denied
to be read,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
freedom was not even for the bed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
for those who had a dream for power made real,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Real
as I am, as you are, as you make the power be,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be
tired of the world and the rambling of all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Answers
to community we already know,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fear
we are bound by from fearful neighbors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
false conceptions, all have a story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mine
is wishing to sleep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
grow gardens and orchards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
hell with your hell!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hell,
go to hell if you fear it so!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ll
stay here, have land to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">People
to love as they have a world,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sleepy
now, images of waking dreams,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
past nightmares,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Needing…future…memories…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of
love…wishing to…be…with…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Justin Vaisnor</i> </span></div>
<br />Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-50236005345163393412012-04-04T12:52:00.000-07:002012-04-04T12:54:03.437-07:00City BoundBy Dave Karp<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">People walking on
broken cement that walk on a promised promise land, looking for help as voices
whisper “we’re still here” holding their ground that they so love. The cracking
wall the boarded up houses where victories were once won the decaying temples that
compliment dying faith as they hold each other tighter despite what my T.V.
says it’s still home hearts still fighting working long hours to earn just
enough to feed my family it’s the toughest grind but it’s my job so that’s good
enough for me my duty the street boys playin’ ball in the court next to the
lonely brick school touched with nothing but time bounce echo bounce echo
bounce echo the cart being pushed by ma, hitting every crack of earth within
her mile journey The busses go all night to keep us from getting lost the
engines vroom and vroom all night I just wander and the world keeps turning,
through empty lots and fields of green covered in cans, paper, garbage bag, and
the memories are under them We’re just trying to find some sort of escape, isn’t
everyone? They closed down my projects so now it’s just a city of boards boards
boards, the chain link fence told me to keep out, but that’s my home, man! Where
do I go now? Follow the sirens down the drive and keep going until the sun
rises it’s coming someday this dream of mine where I win again the steel
bridges and train tracks are next to me and boy is it a sight to see, like a
painting of beautiful tragedy and it doesn’t end when we cross the river, it’s
in my mind, my heart, my soul as these streets get longer and I meet my friends
down on MLK Blvd. while we walk around just talking about living the good life
someday man this clock is ticking like dynamite in my head, I’m ready to burst
out of this shell and bring em’ all down with rock and roll dreams, that’s the
way we come together here, isn’t it? The city of god shines in gas station
signs and headlights from 280, they’re only passing by to that island to the
right. Man, that’s where I want to be. But for now, I’ll work work work and
that’s still alright for me the alarm goes off when the sunrises and I get home
when the sun goes down 9-5 dreams down near the factory I’m home now, the bus
let me off at a different corner and I walked with my thoughts with nothing to
say, kiss my wife and my children, and I hit the pillow with a heavy head and a
smile before I shut my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-55686270599656391832012-04-04T12:29:00.000-07:002012-04-04T12:29:34.589-07:00Miserable Freedom and Floor Boards in a Cafe<style>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miserable Freedom</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Miserable
misery,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sweet
solace of ignorance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blow
me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
a leaf in the swirled wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
land on a car,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Caught
on a wiper,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Driven
across land and country,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Along
the globe and road of empires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Set
free on the coast,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buried
in sand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grinding
my skin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Uncovered
by innocent beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crush
between fingers of destiny,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Destined
to collapse in sands of war,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Half
way around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brought
back flying in endless</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eternity,
above the shore</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">From
whence I crumbled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
sun brazen afternoon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
I was freed to perish.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Floor Boards in a Cafe</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
floor boards creek here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
the coffee is better than the corporate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Coffee
not fairly traded,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">With
farmers-people-trying to get by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most
people here worship a deity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
worship and bend to what I see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">People-in
front of me-loving me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hating
me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Believe
what you want,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
sit here to drink and write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
what you want,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
will do the same.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep
laws off my freedom G-man!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
keep your Lord in your heart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
you judge me-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t
forget-he judges you.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
like you, let’s drink,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
like you, no need to yell,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
like you, why do you hate me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
hate you, when you kill me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
wear pants, though have no need,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just
like you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
walk one foot after the other,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And not jumping on you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whose
mind alters, when I’m with Mary?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whose
stance falters, bending knee?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who
cares when I die?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
longer I.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
I sit drinking my drug,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
you get high on life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">High
is my life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thinking
about floor boards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Justin Vaisnor</i> </span></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-58029499078744453972012-03-28T13:35:00.000-07:002012-03-28T13:35:02.406-07:00Peace of Mind<i>This is a poem/turned song that I started and have yet to finish - Dave</i><div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peace
of Mind<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
David Karp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I got three dollars in my pocket<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And a penny for my thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If that were true, I’d be a rich man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s the working life I’ve got<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And if I hit the big time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Baby, I’ll leave this town behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And escape the things that bind me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And find a little peace of mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I could just sit here for hours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And dream the day away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But when the dream don’t come true<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, I should have knew it’s be the lesson every day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And if I hit the big time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Baby, I’ll leave this town behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And escape the things that bind me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And find a little peace of mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s just me and my coffee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah, they know me here by name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They ask “how’s life goin’?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I smile and say “just playin’ the same old little
game”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And if I play my card’s right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Baby, I’ll leave this town behind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And escape the things that bind me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And find a little piece of mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
</div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-7840509098977122372012-03-28T11:31:00.003-07:002012-03-28T11:38:27.210-07:00Untitled and Czech CountrysideThere is an endless blue in you,<br />
Far darker than blue,<br />
Its in stark contrast to black,<br />
Endless and infinite,<br />
<br />
Even as you sit staring at the endlessly shifting screen of interchangeable earth,<br />
And walk in light to the sun,<br />
While a butterfly beats it's wings causing a notion of calm around the world,<br />
For the smoke fades in the last winds of time,<br />
<br />
Then infinite is bountiful in it's final page,<br />
Turning to white with no light as the sun ate you whole,<br />
Staying land locked with the endless before you,<br />
To afraid to explore anything but home,<br />
<br />
The blue turns dusk spotted lights,<br />
Froth bursts lightly like fire and cannons-and green too becomes a desire-<br />
in the spot of ecstasy,<br />
Of intolerable imaginative beliefs-<br />
<br />
for the light to never fade<br />
like love fading from hearts.<br />
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<i>The poem was untitled so as the reader can form a meaning that is significant to themselves. If I had labeled it anything but a poem, I felt it would have lost most of it's essence.</i><br />
<i>The following poem was written while I was studying abroad in the Czech Republic.</i><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Justin Vaisnor</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Czech
Countryside</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Green
and yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fields
of grass,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dark
clusters of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inviting
trees,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rolling
homely hills.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">From
out of the ground,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">An
uncomforting image.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Smoke
travels high,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Spewing
to the atmosphere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
a dreaded mushroom cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
fields, the forests,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
those holy glorious hills,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Are
disturbed by monsters.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
number, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
the number of directions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
neither,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can
point to what is right.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those
beasts help and harm,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
gigantic smoke stacks expel,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pain
and questions.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Summer 2010, Czech Republic</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Justin Vaisnor</span></i></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-19499324364461336742012-03-21T15:38:00.000-07:002012-03-21T15:38:47.266-07:00The Casualty and The ObserverI'm putting these two poems together because they belong in the same short collection I plan to finish in the near future. Thanks!- Dave<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">taken by a friend of me watching the sunrise on Masada</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Casualty<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
David Marcus Karp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You will see, boys<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You will see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">City lights reflecting bac on me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Without time flying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll let the world be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You’ll find it, you’ll see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am lost now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a sea of sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Old city walls glow with time that’s gone <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everybody<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Searching for their own sense of peace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All the children crying in a song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prayers are blowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through dust and wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tryin’ to find an ear that will listen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The desert’s flooding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With tears of broken hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Won’t anybody look at the world today?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Riots, rage and rubble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shouldn’t tell my story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I swear that one day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ll find this place’s glory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I swear that one day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Observer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
David Marcus Karp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The fire falls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sirens cry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sky is silent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so am I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What’s happened here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What story’s told<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Could any person<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Be so bold?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes it gets so cold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sometimes I feel so old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wanna love the world again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Through the skies that reach toward
the heavens,</div>
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To the place I fantasize,</div>
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There lived a fairly new-fairly
fair to call-beauty,</div>
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One has never seen,</div>
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She had eyes of pearls,</div>
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Skin of budding flowers in the
fresh fallen rain,</div>
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Alone in the notion,</div>
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She dreams of a peaceful ocean in
pearly blue,</div>
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No not in a tower,</div>
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She can’t rest even one hour,</div>
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Looking down upon those that would-</div>
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Look down upon her,</div>
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She throws back the curtains-light
streams through,</div>
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Wind rushes around,</div>
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She screams a triumphant summon,</div>
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Her voice is loud and true,</div>
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None can hear for they are not
aware,</div>
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Of the beauty standing there,</div>
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She bare her soul to those abound,</div>
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And if you dare say she means
harm-you lack charm,</div>
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Blinded by shades of sound,</div>
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Deaf of light forth screens,</div>
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Touch what is really there-that
physical story,</div>
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That which is around you-love you
once knew,</div>
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Feigning life and people is not
true,</div>
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Not to me-not to you,</div>
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She would bawl no more should one
realize,</div>
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None can mask that which is
materialized.<br />
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<i>Justin Vaisnor</i> </div>
</div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-72569142745156012502012-03-21T13:49:00.002-07:002012-03-21T13:58:30.861-07:00So Much More to Hear<style>
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rap is to represent, </div>
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folk is for all folks,</div>
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rock compared to the man- </div>
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kind'a like jazz to bop and </div>
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blues for the soul, </div>
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whereas soul is just soulful, </div>
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and hip-hop not for the hipster,</div>
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mainstream is by far lamestream,</div>
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but reggae don't care,</div>
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and dubstep don't ya dare,</div>
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electronica is no prima donna,</div>
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though you could catch me at the
opera,</div>
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no matter your preference one
thing's for certain:</div>
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no one can ever say music has had
it's final curtain.</div>
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<i>Justin Vaisnor</i> </div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-36262290753418287982012-03-14T10:23:00.004-07:002012-03-14T10:26:20.769-07:00O! Distractions<style>
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By Justin Vaisnor <br />
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O!</div>
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Videogames, I’ll play-</div>
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Music, I’ll listen to-</div>
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Concerts! I’ll go see <i>them</i>
make beau-</div>
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television, what lies does the news hold this day?</div>
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movies, what do my peers dream of through cgi?</div>
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O!</div>
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Facebook, I’ll look at-</div>
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…Mobile device, I’ll talk to-</div>
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Youtube, I’ll vote on what I see-</div>
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articles, journals, magazines, novels, newspapers-</div>
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whatever! reading is such a hassle.</div>
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O!</div>
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Family, let’s drink-</div>
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Friends, let’s drink-</div>
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I, will drink like nothing’s wrong-</div>
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Radio, what do you say and not show?</div>
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Privacy, what can’t you hide?</div>
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O!</div>
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Freedom, I’ll provide-</div>
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Love, the seed to sow-</div>
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O! if I can only feel-O!</div>
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distractions all around-</div>
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my, non-environmentally sound nature.</div>
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O!</div>
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Self-destruction, I’ll blow up in my face-</div>
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O!</div>
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Money, I’ll be more corrupt than you honey-</div>
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O!</div>
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O! O! Life! I’ll lose control to the world that has a knife!</div>
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Responsibility, what have I done?</div>
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Trust, what have you? </div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-32867610429510226342012-03-13T22:19:00.000-07:002012-03-13T22:19:32.810-07:00The Wide Awake Weekend PoemsSo I wrote these two poems when I had insomnia this past weekend and didn't sleep the Friday night-Saturday morning. Hope you enjoy!- Dave<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4:11
am<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
David Marcus Karp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sea of reflections of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Streetlights guide me through the open<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Flashes of electricity excite the eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through the tunnel of steel thunder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sleeping, woken, moving, THINKING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing, guarding, loving, thinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing, nothing, lying, thinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing, nothing, nothing, thinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Where do I go from here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Home was such a yesterday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dreaming is the present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Finding “fearless” future feels forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can I go back a few stops?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Time is non-existent now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But only a few stops away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Insomnia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By
David Marcus Karp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When you can’t tell apart sunrise from sunset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And your eyes are useless shutters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thoughts from head, heart, and soul collide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And you just become part of any crowd wandering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You’ve seen me in the deadest of nights<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m good nor bad, just another reality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m walking the streets of raw consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or driving on empty streets looking for a friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Waiting for some dreamed up escape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And rolling the dice on truth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s the only honest deal in a world gone astray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And you realize you
may have always been the only one awake</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br />Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-52002231253700913672012-03-07T21:19:00.000-08:002012-03-11T18:50:17.011-07:00SometimesBy David Marcus Karp<br />
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Sometimes, when I’m sitting alone<o:p></o:p></div>
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I feel safest, and I feel happy<o:p></o:p></div>
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Knowing that I’m content with my life<o:p></o:p></div>
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Music plays, people live, and the air is bittersweet<o:p></o:p></div>
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But sometimes, I feel paranoid<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like they all look at me and even sometimes see nothing there<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I feel the eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
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And they make me shiver endlessly, and I see my breath in
the coldness of myself<o:p></o:p></div>
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Why? Because I don’t care<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I realize that I’m not perfect<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the perfectionist in me becomes a little white lie<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes the loneliness stares me in the eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
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And stands between everything I stand for<o:p></o:p></div>
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I find in me both a paradise and a paradox<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the reality gets harder to the touch<o:p></o:p></div>
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But that’s the price you pay<o:p></o:p></div>
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When you want nothing but the truth everyday<o:p></o:p></div>
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You take whatever’s in stock<o:p></o:p></div>
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Happy, sad, good, bad<o:p></o:p></div>
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As long as it’s not a lie, as long as it makes you feel
something<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s the way I live<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I feel happy, sometimes I feel sad<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sometimes I feel lonely, sometimes I feel content<o:p></o:p></div>
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No matter which “sometimes” it is<o:p></o:p></div>
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I always feel alive.<o:p></o:p></div>Dave and Justinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05339220150906593308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736426185330249699.post-73289926449221106072012-03-07T13:42:00.000-08:002012-03-11T18:54:32.468-07:00Fear or Love? Evermore?<style>
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Cast</div>
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Away
the vision of yesterday, use the pill of soma to feel no soma.</div>
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Dodge</div>
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The
arrow from cupid whose aim is to slay, to bring forth a coma.</div>
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Lie</div>
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No
longer or dismay, truth is more tranquil than a sauna.</div>
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Say</div>
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What
you wish to say, feels more comforting than your momma.</div>
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Give</div>
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All
that you are today, and find you will be here longer.</div>
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Act</div>
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As
you really are, the world is not one for the seller.</div>
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Crumble</div>
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The
walls of black tar, make your lungs even clearer.</div>
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For</div>
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You
stand among the rest, unwilling to get nearer.</div>
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Love</div>
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Will
be our greatest test, we must not fear the terror.</div>
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Get together-it is
great!-when one looks into the mirror.<br />
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By Justin Vaisnor</div>
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