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A place for poetry and songs (usually my own origanals).  Someday when I have the capabilities of a mic, I will put sound as well.
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"Dissonance in Discourse"
(7/15/01, Sun., started about 11 pm,
finished 12:03 am--but my clock is about 10-15 mins. fast )
kind of an off-tempo waltz (yes, it's another poem/song)


The words
   don't flow
easily
      from my mouth
   anymore.
They stumble and
      trip
down ivory stairs.

My lips and my tongue
can't agree on the tempo
and simply go slack,
but quickly pull back at
   the wrong time.

Skin is tight,
lips are numb.
Sounds arrive,
tho' they don't always jive
with the meaning behind--
the words in my head
they are said
in nonsensical phrases
and patterns and
         clearity
seems not to be my forte
         today.


Hooray for blank stares
   and questioning gazes
as voice skips ahead
confusing the list'ner.

Mind runs endlessly on
but the tongue it can't follow
and darts in and out of
      the story.

Retracing steps
the mind then runs
      backwards
looking for the place of
     delay.

Always just a bit
   out of sync
the rhumba is
      randomly
disco-ed instead.

Traveling
Traveling
Traveling on
the piece is said
but the meaning
      is gone.

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