care enough
about questions
to answer

and enough
about answers
to question

It needs to be challenged.
Don't worry: it understands.
Let it help you be more like it,
for we all change before it does,
and so it would be auspicious
to learn from it as it is.
Everything changes,
so all is but change.

Seek as thou willst
all the while while remaining
among the Ten-Thousand Things:

Breathe.
Be as it, as you are.
Breathe.

Reflect.
Breathe.
Rejoice.

If it's important enough to worry about,
it's powerful enough to be seen to.

"There are two perfect men:
one dead, and the other, unborn."

Have the courage
to never stop learning.

4
is the number 4,
or, in Music, a sharp-4.
In the name of sanctity, however,
it is most assuredly not
*hashtag 4.

Leaders of the 'Free World':
Get jobs inflating hot air baloons
with all that hot air you love to blow,
Then perhaps you'd make an honest living
and your words would be useful
not just to you and yours, but to those you claim to seek to help.

WE ARE SERFS
WE ARE PEONS
WE ARE PAWNS
WE ARE STATISTICS
WE ARE UNITS TO BE EXTORTED
WE ARE UNITS OF PRODUCTION
WE ARE THE UNTOUCHABLES

Our right is to worship our system

You
say that
I don't know
what I do to you:
Psychological Damages;
but what you say is Evidence of your Ignorance;
you don't know what you do to me
the Damage you reap;
effortless,
so well:
Pain.

Unfathomable Profit
can and is wrought by
One willing to abide by
equally unfathomable Evil

The Academic World, it would seem,
hasn't so much to do now with Philosophy
as with Sociology, Economics, and Dogma.

One has two choices in Life:

accept conditions just as they are
or
accept the responsibility of attempting to alter them.

Heed more
what people do
rather than
what people say,
but be sure
to be aware of both.

Assuming 'survival of the most adaptive,'
why does Change tend to frighten people?
It should be seen as an opportunity;
a challenge to which One can rise
and beyond which One can grow.

"Feed a man for free, and he'll be back for more.
Feed a man a bullet, and you'll never hear from him again."

In something of a chaotic stupor,
the Moon tells me
(among other things)
to be nice to people
because you can never know
what they're going through,
if you'll ever see them again-
or if you're the last person they'll ever see.
So,
you may as well practice kindness
with every being you meet
no matter for how long.

You never quite know.
You just might make someone's day.
You just might save someone's life.

Worst case scenario, you're being nice,
and that's not really so bad, after all.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
bull-****
three
ring
circus sideshow of
freaks here in this hopeless ******* hole we call L.A.,
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ******* time. Any ******* day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your Prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car,

It's a bull-****
three
ring
circus sideshow of
freaks here in this hopeless ******* hole we call L.A.,
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ******* time. Any ******* day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona Bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will cause
I sure could use a vacation from this

Stupid ****, silly ****, stupid ****...

One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied:

Learn to swim. [x2]

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's coming 'round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

**** L. Ron Hubbard and **** all his clones.
**** all these gun-toting
Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim.

**** retro anything.
**** your tattoos.
**** all you junkies and **** your short memory.

Learn to swim.

**** smiley glad-hands with hidden agendas.
**** these dysfunctional, Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim.

Cause I'm praying for the end;
I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom, please flush it all away!
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.

I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.
**** it down.
Flush it down.

https://soundcloud.com/apexparadigm/sets/spring-2013-works

4 Songs with a total run time of 12 Minutes and some change

Nepthys
Egyptian Goddess of Sleep, Dream and Death
10/8 time throughout.

Thunderstorms
Inspired by and written for my love, Pen Lux:
http://hellopoetry.com/-pen-lux/
Starts in 6/4, ends in 7/4; 6+7=13, our anniversary day.

Post-Apocalypse [Overtones like a *******]
A recording of me playing a riff I wrote in 17/8 time on my 12-string,
sort of inspired by the beginning of the new long-cycle which ended in 2012
(Hence the name)

I'm going to live [If it's the last thing I ever do!]
Sketch which will eventually be expanded upon
Pattern of 3 measures of 4/4 and one of 5/4; repeated.

I love her so much
that if she had a fatal illness
I'd want it too,
and that scares me.