tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39595803795730146422023-11-15T07:52:41.578-08:00Question Everything?Poetry and rants.Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-32770822948610278852009-04-01T21:18:00.000-07:002014-11-14T18:43:05.469-08:00Ouroboros<div>
An ever-hungry snake winds wherever it can wind</div>
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Gobbling up anything and everything it finds</div>
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Digesting and expanding from every bit it swallows</div>
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Until at last it has eaten it all</div>
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In time the snake finds the end of it's tail</div>
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Which by this point has become pretty stale</div>
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But with no better meal for its mouth to find</div>
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It begins to munch on its own behind</div>
Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-89758267777234491162009-04-01T20:49:00.002-07:002009-04-02T22:34:23.036-07:00Finish Line<div>I'm running t'wards burnout</div><div>And I know that it's near</div><div>I'm running 'til burnout</div><div>But I have no fear</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm running to burnout</div><div>And I know it's not far</div><div>I saw you as you sped there</div><div>Ahead in your car</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm running t'wards burnout</div><div>But I don't really care </div><div>Because I'm running to burnout</div><div>But you're already there</div><div><br /></div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-14254296563984862432009-04-01T20:49:00.001-07:002009-06-09T12:37:49.045-07:00Big Electric Web<div>We are all entangled in a big electric web</div><div>Pretty soon you'll have a wire running out of your head </div><div>Eliminating errors of your inefficient hands</div><div>Thinking thoughts that your fingers can't understand</div><div>But what happens if we let the wires dig in too deep</div><div>And they feed us our dreams so we don't need to sleep</div><div><br /></div><div>We are all entangled in a big electric web </div><div>Sharing words that are thought but are never said </div><div>While pages of ages of sages are shown</div><div>So all of their wisdom can again be known</div><div>By anyone connected to the big electric web</div><div>Who takes the time that it takes to be read</div><div><br /></div><div>We are all nodes in a big electric web</div><div>And it's good for us if we watch what gets said</div><div>So the future nodes someday can turn and look back</div><div>And see wisdom shining for them to reflect</div><div>And after they read about all our old pages</div><div>Their turn will come to become the new sages</div><div><br /></div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-25595813835033615712009-03-31T11:29:00.000-07:002009-05-01T15:45:19.460-07:00Synthesized Humans (Ode to N.Y.)<div><div><div>There's colors on the street: red, white and blue</div><div>Reds eat it up, blues don't know what to do</div><div>We've got robot babies and zombie hordes</div><div>And factories that keep on producing more</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Is it better to burn out or to fade away</div><div>Is it better to sell out or to lose your way</div></div><div>The future generations are becoming what they eat</div><div>Synthesized nutrients and hormone grown meat</div><div><br /></div><div>We're out of the blue and into the black</div><div>And if it doesn't change soon there'll be no going back</div><div>Smoke stack plumes instead of trees</div><div>Algae blooms everywhere there's feed</div><div><br /></div><div>There's a warning sign on the road ahead</div><div>But if you drive by too fast you can't read what it said</div><div>Six or seven figures have become the middle class</div><div>While the geniuses are all sleeping out on the grass</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-47562513689020119692009-03-25T22:02:00.000-07:002010-02-02T23:29:52.575-08:00WondersTowers reaching up to the sky<br />Sit back, relax, and wonder why<br />Building them higher and higher up<br />Fighting a force that will never stop<br /><br />Yet up they go and block the light<br />Self-centered on being the only sight<br />To see as you gaze off towards the horizon<br />Stone and steel intent on rising<br /><br />But what about that unchanging force<br />There now and forever of course<br />The gravity of the situation<br />That all wonders age towards devastationEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-23146943396328809372009-03-25T21:45:00.000-07:002018-01-08T22:49:48.398-08:00Spinning and SpinningSpinning and spinning up to the speed that you need to break free and get to where you want to be, but do you see that the other side for which you pine is designed as a trap, to capture the momentum you've built up and keep you spinning and spinning without a break, and never actually takes you anywhere, just there, spinning and spinning, a gear in the machine that you keep clean with spinning rags and vacuum bags being filled until they pop and spill to make another mess to clean up with more spinning and spinning and spinning.Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-12644350311826205662009-03-25T21:42:00.000-07:002009-03-31T12:07:25.053-07:00ExposureTaking pictures trapped in time<br />Prints on film and in the mind<br />Exposures all in part the same<br />New ideas with different names<br />Captured, printed in two dimensions<br />Yet deeper altering our intentions<br />With new information of broader horizons<br />Images that will open your eyes in<br />Spectrums of extradimensional pigments<br />New views of reality's figmentEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-15873385892258236392009-03-22T08:11:00.000-07:002018-02-25T23:41:33.451-08:00Zombie Land<div>
Walk around on zombie streets </div>
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Where all the zombies that you meet</div>
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Wander 'round with out an aim</div>
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Pawns in someone elses game</div>
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Waiting for their turn to come</div>
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Walk the streets of zombie land</div>
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See undead shamblers under the command</div>
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Of some dark hidden master</div>
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Who awaits a great disaster</div>
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Guessing where it will be from</div>
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Always watching, he looks out towards</div>
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The landscape filled with zombie hordes</div>
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Flesh barely clinging to skeletons</div>
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And wraiths that drift forever on</div>
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Thinking this is eternity</div>
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But in the woods the werewolves prowl</div>
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While vampires hide in lofty towers</div>
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Whose foundations are starting to crack</div>
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Split by roots that won't be held back</div>
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From a great undying tree</div>
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That gathers spirits of slaughtered creatures</div>
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Which find willing hosts and show their features</div>
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Unleashing the vengeance from the pain they felt</div>
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When they were killed for meat or pelt</div>
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Dying in violent confusion</div>
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But the animal spirits will be put to rest</div>
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And their murderers made to pay their debts</div>
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When the life-suckers' secrets are made known</div>
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And each of the zombies can be shown</div>
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That their slavers were just an illusion</div>
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Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-25177620002299711092009-03-02T05:44:00.000-08:002018-01-07T11:28:57.997-08:00Stuck Dreaming<div>
Stuck dreaming, believing an American dream</div>
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Kept sedated so I won't realize</div>
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Given everything I need on a TV screen</div>
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So I won't even have to close my eyes</div>
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Stuck dreaming, believing that we're all free</div>
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And everything I see has got to be right</div>
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So sweat shop labor won't matter to me </div>
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As long as the sweat shops are kept out of sight</div>
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Stuck dreaming, believing what I want to believe</div>
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Believing I'm able to create an uprise</div>
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I'm free to do it whenever I please</div>
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Unless I'm so sedated that I don't realize</div>
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I'm stuck dreaming, in a cloudy land of bliss</div>
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Spending all my time on spending my time</div>
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Never noticing all the things I miss</div>
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Too busy just trying to try to survive</div>
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Stuck dreaming, that there's an easier way</div>
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I'll be saved by a last minute stroke of luck</div>
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Or by some salesman that I'll have to pay</div>
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Who was waiting, watching for me to get stuck</div>
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Dreaming, thinking that things would look up</div>
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Looking up to see faces staring down at me</div>
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Dividing and deciding if I'll make the cut</div>
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If I'm worth the time it takes to see</div>
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But I'm stuck dreaming of ways I might impress</div>
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The interested investors who will buy my time</div>
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Cause I don't use it, except to get washed and dressed</div>
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To show prospective buyers my goods are fine</div>
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But I'm stuck dreaming, that old American scheme</div>
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Thinking I can do anything that I please</div>
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But my plans aren't turning out how they seemed</div>
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And the more I try the more I feel diseased</div>
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I'm stuck in a dream</div>
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Or so it seems</div>
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But it's not mine</div>
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Is it yours</div>
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Why should I wait</div>
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At open gates</div>
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Getting irate</div>
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For an answer</div>
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Why do I stand </div>
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At a line in the sand</div>
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When I don't understand</div>
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Who drew it</div>
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Wait to be told</div>
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What I'll be sold</div>
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It's the same same old</div>
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But I'll buy it</div>
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It's all I can afford</div>
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And there'll be no more</div>
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Without our support</div>
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You better know it</div>
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<br /></div>
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So you can belong</div>
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Act like nothings wrong</div>
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Sing the same old song</div>
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And enjoy it</div>
Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-68488369195399651412009-03-02T05:42:00.000-08:002018-01-07T11:31:12.679-08:00suppression<div>
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training my brain to remain insane</div>
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training me to be a killing machine</div>
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look at the numbers, not the faces</div>
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speak with fists and not embraces</div>
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no matter what, you must despise</div>
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before you're close enough to look in their eyes</div>
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your first impression must be to not be impressed</div>
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to reduce the feelings that you'll have to suppress</div>
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Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-53776707100354285512009-03-02T05:24:00.000-08:002009-04-29T11:03:31.479-07:00Like rats<div>Like rats, fighting with eachother for table scraps<br /></div><div>Like rats, feeding on the corpses of other rats</div><div>Like rats, ready and waiting for a fight</div><div>Like rats, scurrying at the flash of lights</div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-35630852550330883142009-03-02T05:16:00.000-08:002018-01-07T11:34:14.941-08:00The Whisper in the Trees<div>
When the whisper blowing in the trees </div>
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Is singing out for you to believe</div>
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But your ear is too plugged to hear it</div>
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Your eye is caught by a glow it sees</div>
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That slowly reveals it's complexities</div>
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Showing you that there's no need to fear it</div>
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Secrets shared for taking the time</div>
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To make you once again feel sublime</div>
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As your bloodshot eyes start tearing</div>
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And the wind still whispers in the trees</div>
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As you send back the bill for your cable fees</div>
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So you can choose which channel you're hearing</div>
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Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-37752795955755204442009-03-02T05:15:00.000-08:002018-01-08T23:57:39.024-08:00Cue Card<div>
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The world at your finger tips</div>
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With just a few clicks</div>
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But do you take </div>
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The chance to find it</div>
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Or instead are you lead</div>
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In circles past the logos</div>
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And the brand names</div>
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Illustrated by scenes </div>
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Of the nuclear age family</div>
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Filling your eyes </div>
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Till you despise </div>
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Anything thats different</div>
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From how that looks</div>
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And you believe it all as if</div>
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You read it in a book</div>
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Cause you read it</div>
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Or someone said it</div>
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And nowadays that's </div>
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A rare event to witness</div>
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But that's the reason I'm afraid</div>
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No one's gonna get this</div>
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Because it's rare</div>
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For you to hear</div>
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Someone saying something</div>
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That you haven't already heard</div>
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When everybody's reading</div>
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Off of the same cue card</div>
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<br /></div>
Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-7109339642768387362009-01-22T23:13:00.000-08:002014-12-01T04:45:38.614-08:00At the Inauguration of Barack Obama<div>
Manifestation of diversity</div>
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Representing both you and me</div>
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A well elected presidency</div>
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<br /></div>
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Empowering those who were powerless</div>
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By simply stating the answer is 'yes'</div>
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When asked to handle another man's mess</div>
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With watchful eye and steady voice</div>
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Convinced us he should be the choice</div>
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To bring new reasons to rejoice</div>
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Now here we gather in the cold and stand</div>
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To see this brave and noble man</div>
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And hear his ideas for our troubled land</div>
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<br /></div>
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But more than words do we receive</div>
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His presence alone inspires us to believe</div>
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With <strike>heart </strike><i>money</i>, there's nothing you can't achieve</div>
Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-59961187571303638892009-01-22T23:12:00.000-08:002009-01-22T23:13:05.019-08:00DawnIn the East the sun is rising<div>While in the West night fades away</div><div>Light and shadow are divided</div><div>As darkness gradually fades to day</div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-11870179021650807932009-01-22T23:09:00.000-08:002010-02-02T23:47:28.783-08:00Electric CastlesWhen day is night and night is day<div>How then will you know the way</div><div>When night is day and day is night</div><div>What will be your guiding light</div><div><br /></div><div>As day and night both come and go</div><div>Will electric castles even know</div><div>When night and day both pass you by</div><div>Will you know the reason why</div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-71405842194328845222009-01-22T23:03:00.000-08:002010-07-08T08:07:31.726-07:00Timeless AdviceOpen your eyes that you can see<div>The things that the planet does for you and me</div><div>Open your ears that you can hear</div><div>That there's nothing around that you need to fear</div><div>Open your eyes that you can see</div><div>The power of the flower and the seed and the tree</div><div>Open your ears that you can hear</div><div>It's now or never and change is always near</div><div>Open your eyes that you can see</div><div>The ways that you don't know that things could be</div><div>Open your ears that you can hear</div><div>The sound of the crowd as they shout with cheer</div><div>Open your eyes that you can see</div><div>That everything is up to you and me</div><div>Open your ears that you can hear</div><div>That this is the minute, the day, and the year</div>Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-85886097048556159432008-12-30T11:26:00.000-08:002009-01-03T11:39:46.485-08:00Black IceThe rain has stopped but for the trees<br />Who drip their drops on fallen leaves<br />On sidewalks and on busy streets<br />Where droplets all turn into sheets<br />Which freeze when the sun goes down<br />And makes it hard to get aroundEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-84509756687359106422008-12-30T11:24:00.001-08:002014-11-15T06:50:28.935-08:00Understated ReignCareful not to say to much<br />
Try to reach but never touch<br />
The meaning of the essence of it all<br />
Understated is the way<br />
The sun passes over every day<br />
To daily grinders it's just a glowing ball<br />
But what would be the daily grind<br />
Without the sun's bright light to guideEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-86021581682603823572008-12-30T11:16:00.000-08:002009-04-21T20:57:32.251-07:00FlagsPledge allegance to the flag, or to the concept for which it stands<br />A flag is but a colored cloth, tangible in your hands<br /><br />But allegance to material that will one day wither and fade<br />Is silly compared to the greatness for which the flag is made<br /><br />But words will often be mistook when a saying becomes ingrained<br />Is it the flag or a greater idea for which the oath is maintainedEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-13568594712767417542008-11-22T15:14:00.000-08:002008-12-02T13:44:07.144-08:00Good RiddanceThis is not the Roman Empire<br />And you sir are no Caesar<br />Your house can easily be set fire<br />If you aren't a crowd pleaser<br /><br />Thumbs down pointed to the ground<br />Is the verdict of your terms<br />May history erase the sound<br />Of your misspoken germsEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-25358385518350172212008-11-22T15:11:00.000-08:002017-05-12T20:14:02.966-07:00Autumnal Equinox<div>
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The autumn leaves a time of change<br />
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Where all the things that seemed arranged<br />
<br /></div>
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In colors green turn red and brown<br />
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And all fall down around<br />
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The trunks of mighty trees,<br />
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A constant watcher will see<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
The gradually shifting season<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
Being reflected without reason<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
In the colors. But the yawning dozer believes<br />
It's winter as he wakes and sees the missing leaves.</div>
Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-28230193508821983782008-11-22T15:07:00.000-08:002008-11-22T15:09:51.921-08:00Shiny MetalShiny metal badges sheen<br /> and tell you who to trust;<br />It doesn't matter what you've seen<br /> when nothing can be discussed,<br />Just keep the engines nice and clean<br /> as hearts continue to rust.<br />Why do we struggle to power the machines<br /> when the machines overpower us?Egerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-45796387365280380652008-11-22T15:05:00.000-08:002014-11-15T06:41:15.297-08:00Skilled LaborThe pool of skilled labor is quickly dying<br />
Because the products the machine is supplying<br />
Are denying the workers the right to learn<br />
Only providing the right to earn<br />
Enough momentum to make your cog spin<br />
To be a good part of the machine you're in<br />
So long as you don't understand where you stand<br />
That's how the machine keeps the upper handEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959580379573014642.post-83243475144330312352008-11-22T15:00:00.000-08:002019-11-21T17:46:47.034-08:00The NameThose who choose to blame<br />
a name<br />
that they're given<br />
on the life that they're living<br />
<br />
Have lost sight<br />
that what we write<br />
with every line<br />
is what defines<br />
<br />
A name<br />
will be the same<br />
if a title is said<br />
before the pages are read<br />
<br />
Instead<br />
let readers be led<br />
through paths of mystery<br />
with different histories<br />
<br />
Where names are assigned<br />
by the changing times<br />
instead of being resigned<br />
that the times are defined<br />
<br />
By names<br />
that stay the same<br />
and stand in plain sight<br />
and block out the light<br />
<br />
Casting long shadows<br />
until everyone knows<br />
the tune<br />
and soon<br />
<br />
Know nothing else<br />
Hearts beat with one pulse<br />
which gets frantic<br />
then paralyzed by panic<br />
<br />
And no one is to blame<br />
because we're all the same<br />
One name that each accepted<br />
without exception<br />
<br />
No blame will be uneven<br />
but also no reason<br />
for anyone to believe<br />
in any more to achieve<br />
<br />
Than just a name on the side of a building<br />
that all the passersby will<br />
see and exclaim<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
'Oh my, what a big name!'</blockquote>
<br />
But never take the time<br />
to stop and wonder why<br />
they needed such a sign<br />
for that name to be defined<br />
<br />
Defined, and assigned a meaning<br />
putting limits on being<br />
We are the weavers of what the future will be<br />
spinning together the tales of historyEgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07308606553869570337noreply@blogger.com0