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1 Acid for thirst
The siren sounds
more black gold has been found
underground
and they'll all cheer
there's work for 100 years
oh my dear
we play this game
of supposed give and take
never the same
this earth will not remain
oh the high stakes
we're making a mistake
hold on
hold on my precious
hold on tight
these fumes just might
make you unconscious
and destroy the earth
don't give birth
acid for thirst
2 The servant
The silence in the room
when you entered with his ale
can't last with all the rumors
now your face is pale
hunted by your master
haunted from within
you slept with his main mistress
a haunting vile sin
you mostly minded your duties
when you are serving him
mostly minded your manners
but she was pretty and thin
in the castle with your mistress
late that night
forge a plan in the wilderness
to join the other clan
3 For you to I am
Who to I am
for who to I am
I wanted to win
but only one or two win
that all really depends
on how it's random
not randomly chosen
but perfect timing
who to I am
who to I am
I am who I am
who to I am
I am who I am
hey what I saw
can't be staged again
for who to I am
I am who I am
I am who I am
I am who I am
I am who who I am
from out of the blue
took me to the barn
father had stepped into
a bounty of questions
if not only for this time
wondering who I've become
now a fagger and writer
having moved into town
4 The kite
I fly my kite
into the stormy night
and you say you can fly like an eagle
but no I doubt you could
I stop when I see
my kite flying away from me
and so tough was my string
but no match for stormy winds
I try to follow
but I lose sight
and my regret
because it was my favorite
by light of lightning I can see
now my kite is in a tree
and you are my only hope
but how I’ve doubted you so
5 Gifted
Your not yourself
nor are you chilled now
change your style
you frightened child
this path is the right one
it leads out of the storm
try using your mind more
to control all variables
you're not gifted
you haven't been given the gift yet
or is it
just practice
6 FON
I can see you through gloomy haze
with your dog FON licking your face
pieced with rings numbering in 8
thinking less is more not more is great
and I don't like you anymore
but I still like freak of nature
goodbye gloomy day
I hope you find your loving mate
to find good love you must wait
because this one has gone on his way
and I don't like you anymore
but I still like freak of nature
you were right I was in the wrong
but in a similar light you are shown
like the attic's light bulb I forgot I turned on
wasted light till filament is gone
7 Battle line
Can you see the battle line
oh poor friend a letter I will send
to light your way in your existential circumstance
all your life you've been searching yet to find
a fine thin line in your direction
and boy it's coming to you
after times gone wrong
it's been much too long
a path winding up a spiral in the sun
and you'll no longer feel the strife
so I'll no longer need to write
and boy it's coming to you
listen I'll tell you what to do
can you see the battle line
can you see that battle line
cross it for a better life
can you see the battle line
I think now is your time
8 Sweet sensation
You found me yes I know
you found me yes I know
and you seek to be consoled
and you seek to be consoled
and you know that you know right
and you know you have insight
still you seek to be consoled
still you seek to be consoled
I see a part of you
in my sweet sensational gloom
and you see a part of me
I myself can not see
in my sweet sensation
in my sweet sensation
in my sweet sensation
and I'd like to say to you
for God's sake have some patience
but I blow up next to you
because I have no patience
and I take it personally
why the hell do you hurt me
it could be that sensitivity is too much
oh why the hell have I backfired
9 Crazy street
I walk down crazy street
you never know who you’re going to meet
there’s only two Jehovah's in the city
and I guess they have caught up to me
can we come over one evening
to discuss a bible reading
I’m intoxicated by the tension
I can no longer politely hold their attention
that’s one good thing about the city
there’s never a lack of random reality
an offering of the person worth taking
experience what they unknowingly were preparing
and I come home feeling happy
thinking tomorrow is another day
to walk on through crazy street
and see strangers along the way
10 Earthy throne
Hearts and bones, teeth and stone
all my earthly wonders
all my earthly blunder
all may cast away in a day
sit on my earthly throne
how could my life service
not be consoled
tonight we are concealed
and content with what we know
by first light we are revealed
we will bend but we won't bow
undone by guilty fun
we regress but no one knows
it's high time that we are combined
with some burly antidote
hearts and bones, teeth and stone
all my earthly wonders
all my earthly blunder
all may cast away in a day
sit on my earthly throne
how could my life service
not be consoled
outdone and so construed
we possess only what we can bear
given that I am first to be served
I've been given what's only fair
it's high tide and first full moon
we may be reluctant to begin a year
while sympathetic to what's pathetic
we see ourselves coming to an end
11 Winter solstice
Into the light
that shines so bright
leave mankind behind
for another midnight
but the time is nigh
to dream of fears and fantasize
going nearer to die
I will sleep and I will rise
and it's sunny on this Earth
for another midnight winter solstice
last night I saw the lunar eclipse
I had never seen before
and it won't happen for
400 years or more
mornings are so weary
and sometimes are so dreary
but I know I must rise
to fetch the morning prize
once upon a midnight dreary
I came home to find a query
pondering times I'm not fond
I'd like to know before the dawn
12 Get your wings clipped
Calling all members
all those I remember
having met last December
in the cold of winter
now witness two doves in love
fly fly home
whereabouts unknown
this I condone for evermore
and get your wings clipped
don't fly no more
we sit in a circle
with the tea steeping in the kettle
we chant our prayer to thee
that we learned from a missionary
put some more water
on the hot rocks in the centre
you spoke in tongues
don't know what you meant
but it enhances the experience
13 Come back to me
Come back to me
oh my soul
bottom line this one's for sure
beading bottom baby there's no turning back
I try to make up my mind
but you know there's no turning back
Come back to me
14 V for victory
When we are
swinging from our
trees of memories
we remember all we need
when we see our
endless sequence
of our ancestry
we remember all we need
soon or later
you'll find yourself a dream that's real
I have not not have a dream
victory or the grave
victory over the dream
15 Federal volunteer
I've come far from the east
to silence the half breeds
to restore both love and peace
I do these for free
I am but a volunteer
now on the western frontier
with great pain have traveled to the plains
but I am not well trained
it took us forever
to travel through winter weather
if an omen of what may come
I can say I am done
to travel home oh my dear
I've never felt this fear
the metis have great grievance
and great perseverance
I hear they can be most mischievous
I hope they are not too much of a nuisance
right now my hope is with this pen
as I write to you my friend
I'll be coming home but don't know when
or will I not survive until the end
16 A simple outing
On his way to corner store
a simple outing with a toonie once more
wondering if there is anything on the shelves
hoping their not out of cigarillos
all these sights and sounds
on his part of town
makes him glad
help a lady cross the road
it was on his way plus she looked old
help a single mother with the door
it's kind of hard to do he thought with stroller
and for all these sights and sounds
he's willing to help out
because it makes him glad
for his cigarillo
he was short the tax levy
he took a community penny
he couldn't help but feel
in dept to society
he walked home
his heart so heavy
his single bachelor life
he thought he'd have no strife
but he finds out how
17 Familiar avenue
Hindsight
in your mind
passes by
without a cry
because you use your time
not to rewind
but to find
how to be kind
to yourself be true
a familiar avenue
of that which promised you
it's good fortune
and silence will be owed
to anyone of those
who conscientiously chose
to oppose
who, who you are
has worked so far
don't tear it apart
and the rhythm
of your heart
to keep up with them
is that of a star
and time and space
in your current state
and at your current pace
is simply great
and the science behind your moods
has not yet been proved
but theories point to
the effects of the moon
when writing what's on your mind
thoughts become words and words become lines
and through effort and time comes rhythm and rhyme
and the title that you chose to represent your prose
completes the message for those who will read your poem
to yourself be true a familiar avenue
of that which promised you it's good fortune
and silence will be owed to any one of those
who consciously chose to oppose
18 To have faith in you
I know I am not sure
to have faith in you
when we are without it
when we are together
19 Yonder rider comes
In disguise
show your secrets
show your lies
look yonder horizon rider come
his mask the darkened moon it's you he shuns
hark the larks cry out in ascent
leaving you in solitude to repent
undecided
the mind makes up for you
what you have denied
becomes the truth
becomes the truth
look yonder horizon rider come
his mask the darkened moon it's you he shuns
hark the larks cry out in ascent
leaving you in solitude to repent
in disguise
show your secrets
show your lies
20 Shark attack
When we are together
we are searching for treasure
late last night I found pleasure
from waking from a dream in my chamber
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
endless sailing windless sea
drifting into eternity
fins of sharks are circling me
ignoring the school of herring
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
that was just a dream
21 Life, death & rebirth
Hot flash in the night sky
a brilliant light right before my eye
it begins then it's over
find the end supernova
in the east meteor showers
full moon rise the sacred hour
I am here in the universe
I am here on planet Earth
I am here to observe
life, death and rebirth
I am here in the universe
I am here on planet Earth
I am here to observe
life, death and rebirth
22 THC
Change of season
changing my mind
and my reason
behind THC
Should I **** and have
psychosi
I once thought
this is one hell of a curse
why can't I stop
it's only going to get worse
before
I leave this earth
Undecided
should I be upset or excited
I should make up my mind
before
I run
out of time
that's how I roll
in and out of storms
because I've gone wrong
on my own
and it's a major toll
on my mind
I'm not invited
because I'm undecided
23 Hey now
Force a man to relocate
to the opposite of his abundance
force a man to hate
all that is of his real opposite
force a man to know
that forces cause him to dwell upon it
force him real slow
so he will have time to think about it
and now and now
said I said I
and now and now
said I said I
I thought too hard
I thought about what everyone else got
I thought by god there has got to be something
better than what I got
I thought I'd make a new start
then I found it was too hard
is there anything else left to say
you don't know what you've got but a cliché
hey now hey now
said I said I
and now
said I said I
24 Days grow short
Days grow short
before our savior's birth
when winter solstice tilts the Earth
then days grow long
it won't be long till winter is gone
then I'll remember where I belong
and the winter says
and the summer says
night and day
it's black and white and sometimes gray
depending on where on the Earth you stay
day and night
you know something just ain't right
when you think that something is wrong
with your sight
and the winter goes
and the summer returns
I was told that a serious crime unfolds
every time you curse the lord
I thought man that's rough
isn't God strong enough
he does the seasons
why can't he shrug it off
and the winter comes
the summer shows up
25 Twenty years old
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
some may say one last dance
one may say it hurts your inheritance
one may say everything is alright
one may say welcome here to paradise
life is more than a good life
life is more than a good night
we wave goodbye
to you
and though
we may be shy
just goes to show what's good for you
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
I'm twenty years old said the big one
26 Tokens
Hark the token of Christian past
a Columbus knight with a funny mustache
his symbolic sword shiny and smooth
if I blaspheme will it be used
hark the token of the *******
thirty tattoos and they still want more
devils and skulls and witch's spells
are they celebrating going to hell?
hark the token of the atheist
a circle with a slash and a crucifix
believing in God they do cringe
will science ever prove the existence of him?
hark the token before all
that a caveman drew on the wall
men and women with their arms in the air
were they fighting or dancing there?
these are not tokens of gratitude
for other reasons they are used
when you see a token don't jump to conclude
that yours are much better that would be rude
for Nasa's fleet it was the man on the moon
for killing whales it is a harpoon
impact of tokens can be large or small
what is your most beloved of all
27 Old man
And the sun dried over
and the sun dried over
oh God have you forgot
what this place means to me
there's an old man
he was my next of kin
he told me a story one day
he said this is how I will begin
he said "I once was"
"I once was"
"I once was"
"I once was"
he had a younger lady
for a wife for a long long time
she was my grandma dear
and we got along just fine
she said "can you remember?"
"can you remember?"
"can you remember?"
"can you remember?"
I was between them
but I tried to not pick sides
and they weren't ashamed when
I showed them what I was trying to hide
they said "you're alright"
"you're alright"
"you're alright"
"you're alright"
and the sun dried over
and the sun dried over
oh God
have you forgot
what this place means to me
what this place means to me
28 I grow wise
And life is a peculiar thing
so give me your hand and take this ring
I grow wise and weary
I grow wise and worry
that if you think too much
you'll be begging for mercy
and asking people to set you free
believe me
believe me
life's too hot to hold
too expensive to be sold
I grow wise and weary
I grow wise and worry
that if you think too much
you'll be begging for mercy
and asking people to set you free
believe me
believe me
some people like to be well known
and to each their own
I grow wise and weary
I grow wise and worry
that if you think too much
you'll be begging for mercy
and asking people to set you free
29 Tacit
My expression of love
is a tacit expression
recognized by someone
leaving an unknown impression
my impression of you
is a great first impression
based on what I choose to assume
having not had conversation
30 My story
Highlight of my day
going for Tim Horton's coffee
but no donuts I stay away
if I roll up to win a donut
I will have been led astray
highlight of my life
waking up for an afternoon delight
***** magazine or just from memory
if you know what I mean
then I hope you're not ashamed of me
I don't work and this is my story
you're probably wondering
what I do for money
I get social assistance but mostly
I collect CPP disability
my day's work is a half hour at the gym
I have the schedule to be sure that the hot tub's working
I assume those ladies have been taken
who actively take their youngsters swimming
I catch the news at 6 because at 10 I'll be in bed
I do prefer listening to Peter Mansbridge
and when he retires I'm going to regret it
I don't work and this is my story
you're probably wondering
what I do for money
I get social assistance but mostly
I collect CPP disability
I don't work and this is my story
you're probably wondering
what I do for money
I get social assistance but mostly
I collect CPP disability
I don't work and this is my story
you're probably wondering
what I do for money
I get social assistance but mostly
I collect CPP disability
31 Bi blows
I'd like to say to you
I know you don't think you stink like glue
but you're sticking like glue when I'm next to you
stuck to you and hurting me
you might run show when my boss is in Quantemo
maybe I can make a suggestion
this store is a joke there's no contemplation
so don't tell me when I am humming a song
that I am an employee that is wrong
roshambo I'll send you
a momento when I send you
to Guantanamo bay prison
maybe in a million years
you will be risen
in that time I think I will
conclude that you have a major attitude
because you think you are an ethic surpriser
just because your brother is a district supervisor
you said to me "if you drink like a man you've got to work like one"
I like to work but when there's nothing to do that's no fun
needless to say I left at one
32 Head on my shoulders
The head on my shoulders
much better than some other fellas
how do I know this?
I've put some to the test
how I'm feeling
as I go through my navigations
life's been stolen
sea serpent from the deeps
what do you want me to see
all the colours look good on me
what do you want me to think
gray, orange, yellow, pink
head on my shoulders
much better than some other fellas
how do I know this?
I've put some to the test
but how I'm feeling
as I'm going through my navigations
life's been stolen
sea serpent from the depths
what do you want me to have found
when you move up and I move down
in the wake of separate
I think of something I dare not say
the head on my shoulders
much better than some other fellas
how do I know this?
I've put some to the test
but how I'm feeling
as I'm going through my navigations
life's been stolen
sea serpent from the west
what do you want me to do
I still dream of you
what do you want me to think
I think of you, I think of you
the head on my shoulders
much better than some other fellas
how do I know this?
I've put some to the test
the way I'm feeling
as I'm going through my navigations
life's been stolen
sea serpent from the depths
head on my shoulders
much better than some other fellas
how do I know this?
I've put some to the test
how I'm feeling
as I'm going through my navigations
life's been stolen
sea serpent from the depths
33 Seer
Lay my head upon the sofa
and my legs upon a stool
and you know nothing is forever
and you know nothing is for sure
cut my hair into quarter sections
so that I have an origin
sing my songs for miles of mountains
even though they can hardly hear
in my seer
in my seer
I see a sound
like a mountain
I see a sound
like a mountain
I have lost interest in woman
until the right one has come along
I've spent an hour reading textbook
and I've spent an hour writing a song
and I've lost all that I've missed out
and I've lost all that I can not find
so I visit my seer
and he says things will turn out fine
in my seer
in my seer
I see a sound
like a mountain
I see a sound
like a mountain
34 Friends till the end
When is the end
when would you say it's drawing near
I guess that depends
depends on a lot of things
what's good in a year?
there must be a lot of things
that you hold dear
let's make a list and compare
how about friends till the end
friends till the end of things
friends till the end
friends till we're running scared
I've seen you've dressed to impress
dressed like an empress
dressed to impress
dressed like an empress
I once knew what was new
knew what was new but now I don't know
I thought I could tell
from the outer shell
friends till the end
friends till the end of things
friends till the end
friends till we're running scared
35 Hard times
Used to think in my bed
racing thoughts through my head
what does it matter when I'm older
what does it matter when I'm dead
would have liked to eat but wasn't fed
sometimes no response to something I said
I've levied the thought of passing over
protection to those who might be bled
would be best if you get involved
so that this scenario is resolved
with time and vice it will be possible
to answer this equation with hidden variables
what does it matter when I'm older
what does it matter when I'm dead
I've levied the thought of passing over
protection to those who might be bled
36 Millennial
I do see some
who struggle
and who may fit this song
I am one
a millennial
whose got things wrong
with a struggling song
and why do open eyes
seemed abandoned when
they begin again
to make some sense
for their life
oh the strife
of going into debt
of trying to pay rent
they're on their knees
asking please
please just let us be
or let me live in peace
life is not all what it's cracked up to be
it's plain to see
they were told to be
whatever they wanted to be
and to follow their dream
please just let me be
or let me die in peace
or get everything for free
everything for free
everything for free
37 Endless winter
Summer is here and isn't that great
still I hibernate
holidays should be fun
still I hide from the sun
endless winter
all my years forgotten
now I've reached the bottom
summer and time blowing away
day after day
endless winter
and it rains and rains
still you can't tell if it's summer
sleep all day
soon June will be over
then one night when everyone is asleep
you go to the backyard to smoke some tea
you remember an opportunity
you look forward to fulfilling that need
summer arrived
a little late this year
summer arrived
a little late this year
38 Bull in the matador
On your ride with your newly found blunder
now look just yonder the rider draws closer
dagger in hand with a red and white and blue wrist band
he draws ever close
he said he wanted to live
but vengeance is of the divine
it happens every time
mention something about one love
who he is is not known to him
that's reaper's grim
hot and dry mouth
no arrow in the quiver
I'll head due south
in the here and now or the after
buy your holy indulgences
for your own sake
Jesus came to take sin away
so if I don't sin
he would have came for nothing
hallelujah
that's bull in the matador
trust your instincts
forget what you were ever told when you
were a boy
because you are hand in hand
with a red and white and blue wristband
don't say you were ever warned
39 Grizzly man
Your mind is so excited
you'll experience it
you don't have to be reminded
now the moment
the moment of showdown
the moment of truth
now only time will tell
only time will tell
now time stands still as a platform
this sturdy building safe from the storm
this moment is yours now don't change your
course
focus your energy on feeling so blissful
feeling so blissful
the tides have turned in your favor
the nature's weather becomes your pleasure
speaking in tongues your blissful thoughts run
you repeat your mantra as a voice whispers "I gotcha"
as a voice whispers "I gotcha"
40 Polar bear penguin
In mind your sign
into your life
the cross hurts all the time
your mind decides
into x nails
onboard it entails
just how long my friend
polar bear penguin
know what is alright
know what is the night
choose the one you love
decide what you're made of
the path before you lies
the man behind you lies
you must travel now
the path is laid out
41 To enter or not to enter
To enter or not to enter
to mix and share with others
and when do you suppose we can
retrace to where this all began
what do you think is happening here
it's too much to even get air
and why do you wonder all the time
you can't pick sides you are mine
42 Smooth flowing blood
Once I get the initial surge in my blood
I can attempt just about anything
once I have prepared myself physically
with a belief in an attempt
for that moment that moment of truth
only to yield redemption
for that moment in which I had no voice
no smooth flowing blood
only an initial surge of adrenaline
which yields a belief in an attempt
yields a belief in an attempt
43 Take break
When I get frustrated
I take a break take another look
when I get frustrated
I take a break take another look
and I
I take another look
and I
I kind of feel like I must have wrote this book
I can see
what I missed
I can go slow and use my time
I can see what I miss
I can go slow and use my time
when I see yours truly
I circumvent most purely
it's plain to see your sitting
on the beach ya sitting
and I
I think about holding on
and I
I think that I must have wrote this song
I can see
what I missed
I can go slow and use my time
I can see
what I miss
I can go slow and use my time
44 Deliberation
He doesn't know the ground from the clouds
his only hope
is to find someone like you
here he comes now
he's heard the sounds that your beauty sing
and he has searched and finally found
I'm not saying that he's something like me
because I can discern the clouds from the
leaves
but yes I've lied we have our similarities
all because you are something I also need
when every warrior has met it's match
the victorious hero receives his catch
I'm no hero because I'm afraid of death
we'll see when I'm older but don't hold your breath
I've got more brains than a chameleon so I am ahead of him
in line for your heart
I'm a big fish in a little pond which they
have planned expansion
your time is nigh you've seen my limitations
the ball is on your side what be your deliberation
45 Visit
Chill out about whatever it is
that's doing whatever there is that's
bothering you
there are no scars what is the fuss all about
what to do what to do
about whatever is bothering you
what is it about you that
is this all about
about how long before a breakthrough
and a smile and a grin
and how is it that relaxation
sets in
right about now
ya here we go again
and we don't stop never
don't ever want to stop
never
I'll come and visit
I'll come and visit
it's not your time yet
so why you waiting
I'll come and visit
I'll come and visit
it's not your time yet
so why you waiting
I'll come and visit
I'll come and visit
it's not your time yet
so why you waiting
I'll come and visit
I'll come and visit
it's not your time yet
so why you waiting
46 Count the silos
Count the signs as they go by
see them go
one, two, three, four, five
we will stop at Duck Lake
that's half the way to P.A.
where we'll stop to see
Great Grandmère and Great Aunty
on the boat
with crashing waves
hope I don't die
pick some dry reeds to smoke
for when we have a big ol' fire
and I just became a man
see I caught a crayfish in my hand
my face is red laying in my bed
because I snuck some Royal red
and back we go
now count how many silos
every year to and fro
never the same number of those
47 Heaven could come between us
Hold you in the sky
watch you fall watch you fly
if you couldn't touch the stars
if you dropped from heaven above
we need
something
different
from them
living in a world of fools
you can't help it when they're around
living in a world of our own
never thought heaven
could come between us
we need
something
different
from them
-finni-
