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i read "dune"
04:12
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speak your mind and know you've still got one
let it out before it's forgotten
but give the thought a name it always seems different
it tastes a little strange on the tongue when the muscle first shapes it
you recollect the thought
when you're caught
in an argument rat race
and how exactly can you be sure it came from you
in the first place?
you can't
move the sand that makes this great mountain
it carves the wind that pushes it upwards
so is the futile climb that it makes an act of self-shaping?
or does it just project a monumental mistake we're both making?
I'm shaken by your wit,
bene gesserit,
queen of the sun
I'm pulling out the stakes that keep it all in place
what have you done?
your body has won
a mind is a terrible place to be forced to reside in
it never stops digging
and mine won't stop tripping
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grandma
04:03
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when I was young, my father
he had a heart attack in church
and he was taken to a hospital
for a week or so
when I visited him on thursday
I was to terrified to speak
till he told me he was comin home on the saturday
of the following week
I don't want my dad to worry anymore
he just turned 65 he should get a reward
for being such a pal to me for all of those years
that I was so awful to him
my only father
my fallen father
my father is no longer an invincible man
my grandma lost her memory
and my mother lost her mind
tryna keep the family together
through that trying time
she filled out lots of paperwork
and she took a lot of real long drives
and she acted as executor
when it came that time
I wanna see my mom on a broadway stage
she's a brilliant actress at an awkward age
she's got the strength of 15 men
from the burden that she carried around then
my only mother
my faultless mother
I watched my mother lose her mother, slowly
and I just wanna spend my time at home
my brother is much smarter than
I could ever hope to be
and there is so much that he understands
at just 17
his heart's the size of jupiter
but his mouth's the size of mars
you could land a plane on that motherfucker
if you try real hard
my little brother Tim is a nervous wreck
but he's excellent company which keeps that in check
he's always got some joke hidden up his sleeve
to pull out at exactly the wrong time
I love my brother
my little brother
I love my little brother more than anyone else
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a dinosaur
03:02
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Truro, beauty and beast,
lays to the east of the pilgrim monument
I'm not ready for this--
a beautiful trip, to tell all my friends about
I guess
family I have not seen
since I was thirteen, cuz somebody died five years ago
smoking, I swear I saw
a dinosaur, running past us
wielding six rows of teeth
hidden beneath a lipless skull
wick off the water, wade in the window
dance in the fog and sing with the weirdo
stand in a circle , as she was interred,
leapt from my hands, and flew like a hummingbird
Bob says, "what comes from God,
returns to God". I believe him.
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the color blue
03:58
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you were on the other side of the living room
with the paper in between your hands
you were reading a piece about wealthy women
and the men that they were married to
you look more like a stranger just sitting there
than anyone I'd ever seen
time is the explosive that murders all
but the distance was the detonator
all at once it happened
then I realized that you were atomized
in the hot blast from those jet engines
your body disappeared
and part of you is still here
but what remains is a fraction of what you left behind
and those scraps that lie where your likeness was
they won't last me very long
these days I think of you
as the color blue
I see you almost everywhere
but what I really see is reflected light
that isn't even really there
I guess I never learned how to let things go
and they've been quite a home to me
the walls have kept me warm but they're far too close
so where do I put the first hole
you were on the other side of the ocean blue
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