tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48178400434436871562024-03-14T01:02:57.295-07:00 Gypsy SchindlerGypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-32563018875475779342023-11-08T19:51:00.000-08:002023-11-08T19:51:17.696-08:00FURY<p><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In this unnatural world</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">we are the only species</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that perpetuates animosity</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Survival may be for the fittest</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but animals do not plot revenge</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">hold generational grudges</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">punish and torture</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">starve and exterminate</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">deceive and manipulate</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">poisoning</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">the</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">future</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">One could argue</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of all the life</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that walks this planet</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">we are the least civilized</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of lesser intelligence</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Surely depleted</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of kindness and mercy</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Any hungered frenzy</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">those called beasts</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">could possibly muster</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is swallowed whole</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">by the fury we pass</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">our</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">children</span></span></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-36888984762078052512023-10-12T08:13:00.009-07:002023-10-13T06:17:06.731-07:00Elah<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Sons of Mothers</span><br />
<span>Mother's of Sons</span><br />
<span>Daughters of Fathers</span><br />
<span>Father's of Daughters </span><br />
<span>Brothers of Sisters</span><br />
<span>Sisters of Brothers</span><br />
<span>Grandchildren of Grandparents </span><br />
<span>Grandparents of Grandchildren </span><br />
<span>Nieces of Uncles</span><br />
<span>Uncles of Nephews</span><br />
<span>Nephews of Aunts </span><br />
<span>Aunts of Nieces</span><br />
<span>Ancient Cousins </span><br />
<span>of Cousins </span><br />
<span>of Cousins </span>
<br /><br /><span>Family, Friends or Lovers</span><br />
<span>Bombs do not care</span><br />
<span>Bullets do not spare</span><br />
<span>Justice and Mercy </span><br />
<span>DO NOT EXIST </span><br /><span>in political warfare</span>
<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">There is nothing left to identify</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Let alone </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">identify with</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Only pink tinted ash</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span>Aren't there enough ways to die?</span><br /></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;">If we insist </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">on continuing </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to make more</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">then the future is already past</span></span></div><div><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_231012_091709_030.sdocx--></div></div>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-44721446715832514672023-04-25T21:08:00.013-07:002023-07-11T13:52:58.712-07:00Ocean<!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230425_230311_674.sdocx--><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span>I never understood </span><br />
<span>the depth of the ocean </span><br />
<span>by submerging my self within it</span><br />
<span>The breadth of the sea</span><br />
<span>was not for me to see</span><br />
<span>from the outside</span>
<br /><br /><span>My grasp of the great overwhelm</span><br />
<span>and true conception</span><br />
<span>of a source without end</span><br />
<span>was only discovered</span><br />
<span>through deep diving expeditions </span><br />
<span>that took place on the inside</span>
<br /><br /><span>I stood on the shoreline of my sanity</span><br />
<span>at the gravesite of my vanity</span><br />
<span>The birthplace of my sexuality</span><br />
<span>The boundaries of my family</span><br />
<span>Exhausted from decades of waves pounding</span><br />
<span>against the definition of my self worth</span>
<br /><br /><span>Sand swallowed my toes and I crumbled </span><br />
<span>like poorly built, dehydrated sandcastles</span><br />
<span>as I stood in the shower </span><br />
<span>Arms outstretched</span><br />
<span>bracing myself against the tile</span><br />
<span>so I didn't drown</span>
<br /><br /><span>Feeling the water flow over my skin</span><br />
<span>my chest opened wide</span><br />
<span>and the ocean poured out </span><br />
<span>My mouth open wide</span><br />
<span>releasing the silence</span><br />
<span>I had been swimming in</span>
<br /><br /><span>Sobs and gasps and gulps</span><br />
<span>the size of the Pacific</span><br />
<span>baptized me</span><br />
<span>in the magnitude </span><br />
<span>of a possibility </span><br />
<span>I had never known</span>
<br /><br /><span>I had never been to this harbor</span><br />
<span>I had never felt the pull of this tide</span><br />
<span>The power of the undertow</span><br /><span>rendered me helpless </span><br />
<span>A rag doll surrendered </span><br />
<span>Flushing my orifices with salt and grit</span><br /><br /><span>Scraping all the barnacles from my hull</span><br />
<span>with one gigantic swell</span><br />
<span>Drawing out all infection</span><br />
<span>imperfection and dis-ease</span><br />
<span>with that force full invasion </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>of r</span><span>ejuvenating, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">intravenous, saline solution</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span>That unfathomable vast</span><br />
<span>The</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> incomprehensible, magnificent, bottomless oddysey</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
<span>called more love than I could possibly imagine</span><br />
<span>is the only ocean</span><br />
<span>that has ever truly commanded</span><br />
<span>my attention</span></span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230425_230311_674.sdocx--></div>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-71358395529393453752023-04-18T19:34:00.009-07:002023-04-18T19:40:35.602-07:00Institute for Story Podcast Ya'll! So Cool!!!<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://instituteforstory.podbean.com/e/the-place-in-between-with-gypsy-schindler/"><b style="background-color: #76a5af;">https://instituteforstory.podbean.com/e/the-place-in-between-with-gypsy-schindler/</b></a></span></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvdGzJxuEwaajs-aZariW67zlkQfcBOpPxov8ZgWJG39KfsD3DzwQ3vdv1CIB6TUkVNe1mnlz2hA9dL2LuYoqs-yt-VO0h7OK4Zb9SSgM9qXzBy_CRmLTuRYzURSKNU_JVOcqiTyzPUyL9l_V_8cslfYuLuw_xl2jvjpF7fYly1IYC1scMnCBNUTK/s1449/Institute_for_Story_ttqghb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="1449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvdGzJxuEwaajs-aZariW67zlkQfcBOpPxov8ZgWJG39KfsD3DzwQ3vdv1CIB6TUkVNe1mnlz2hA9dL2LuYoqs-yt-VO0h7OK4Zb9SSgM9qXzBy_CRmLTuRYzURSKNU_JVOcqiTyzPUyL9l_V_8cslfYuLuw_xl2jvjpF7fYly1IYC1scMnCBNUTK/s320/Institute_for_Story_ttqghb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-91873915191929874282023-04-18T08:28:00.005-07:002023-04-18T08:43:14.591-07:00Arts Council of White Lake Exhibit up right now! <p><a href="https://www.artswhitelake.org/exhibits"> <span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: arial;"><b>https://www.artswhitelake.org/exhibits</b></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgixY6HaUE9qXU_6uv1DM05ssDy1v0vo6Yf2tMJPI-AwHzOIcBaDbHOmpHGa7nQo5K3hqb0l1CzDVFE7i9aghBJmKWaX9FTKuv8FdL_L3WMbGjCtToNOJrXHnfWJggaVJWhAl_r4bvxu0UceJaItr6nrng8-V-xmMBRG6Y2xUlqo48ORQbqcyKSbSMN/s1799/Screenshot_20230418_102032_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1799" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgixY6HaUE9qXU_6uv1DM05ssDy1v0vo6Yf2tMJPI-AwHzOIcBaDbHOmpHGa7nQo5K3hqb0l1CzDVFE7i9aghBJmKWaX9FTKuv8FdL_L3WMbGjCtToNOJrXHnfWJggaVJWhAl_r4bvxu0UceJaItr6nrng8-V-xmMBRG6Y2xUlqo48ORQbqcyKSbSMN/w384-h640/Screenshot_20230418_102032_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-46540781437537980032023-04-18T08:15:00.004-07:002023-04-18T08:15:42.130-07:00This years StoryCon is going to be AMAZING!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Approximately 213 feet by 50 feet.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2DXDd7ciLzu3YUFFudDaUdSNNxmZ0u0d-j7uB2BiAXyvJGq9SBhuNwRBOMgbSsZlQ-B-Rvngq0E6edh8VIwgViNPPmb3xBiK849d94kvbxjSP2lOiFM5X9BmoxdwHB1xvphQKK7LILI2YrjaVrwTLSg9R0015vnwXBHPdFjVJSIEOtHhEm8Au2dB/s8396/mural1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2769" data-original-width="8396" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM2DXDd7ciLzu3YUFFudDaUdSNNxmZ0u0d-j7uB2BiAXyvJGq9SBhuNwRBOMgbSsZlQ-B-Rvngq0E6edh8VIwgViNPPmb3xBiK849d94kvbxjSP2lOiFM5X9BmoxdwHB1xvphQKK7LILI2YrjaVrwTLSg9R0015vnwXBHPdFjVJSIEOtHhEm8Au2dB/w400-h133/mural1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS6-c2pNEU6Ja0Y1xqK3BqMqzDfE8Mh15wx5SFrso1NXIGcFo0NLtNbYx8ctfjBUONLLMeL5BToNHryoUOpOrWtx02n4rNb1qcZuTk02HXj4ioRaYnB81Lcs_tadL-Gr7xqtepIwXlgf-bgPMh1U9dZZIEcnqTQqI5QAGtZC0qNKmu4Fs63Xf1hw8l/s2100/muralday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Our invented system </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of a linear </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">marching </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">mechanical </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">time </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">limited to the miniscule</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">dime a dozen</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">is so ridiculously</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">simplistic</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-a3f0715c-7fff-ee38-a157-6736de2f4a3d" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">All the gods and ghosts</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">aliens and ancestors</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">sorcerers and superheroes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">laugh in our faces</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">nose to nose with us</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">through the veil </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of a parallel universe</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">on the other end of a</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">collapsing string portal</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Lifetimes pack into moments</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">one trapped lung full will feel like a month</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">3 sweet days can last a lifetime </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">or a lifetime can wish for 3 sweet days</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">inside the tick tock of our maniacal minds </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">refusing to pause </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">long enough </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to fracture the fractal patterns </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that we restrict ourselves to</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fortunately, sometimes </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">the universe meanders </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">down another avenue</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">pulled by a pulse</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of magnetic rhythms</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and reverberating layers</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">surfacing the submerged</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">years of fear and hurt</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that only the heart can hear</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">All it takes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">is a decision to break</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">traditions, habits and systems</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of a dysfunctional commitment</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to the identity of an island</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to an eternity of silence</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">a refusal of the refusal to say</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">those 3 little words </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that can unravel you</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">in an instant</span></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;" /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-23095231004606119252022-04-21T05:20:00.007-07:002022-04-21T06:43:31.917-07:00Archimedes<p><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;">Gratitude is like water</span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b6977930-7fff-0ca4-834a-35afc51fa5c1" style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It fills up my heart </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and all the things </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">that were pushed </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to the bottom</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">begin to float</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to the top</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Displaced to the corners</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">of my eyes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">just like Archimedes said</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Stir that up with all the debris</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">covering the surface</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and it gets harder</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to see </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">inside</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">So, I be a good pool boy</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Skimming the skin with a net</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Inspecting my catch</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">like a bad fisherman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Be it rusty hooks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">empty worm cans</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">angry crabs</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">or skinny </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">fish</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">If a heart can be flooded</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">with a mere daily catch</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">it appears abundantly clear</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The question to ask </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">is not what </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">got caught </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">today</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">but who </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">shall I ask</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to go </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">swimming</span></span></p></span>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-25670250482407216052022-04-17T07:06:00.004-07:002022-04-17T18:37:12.208-07:00Birth Day<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Uncustomarily, my grandpa followed </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">“I’m with her.” he said</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">She kept on walking </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">“You just try and stop me.” she said</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The nurses told her it was past visiting hours</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">and she was not allowed into the newborn ward</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to hold her first born granddaughter </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">One of my favorite stories</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">she did not tell me until until she was 93</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">about when she went to the hospital</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">to see me </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">on my birth day </span></span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e2c1c953-7fff-15c1-4d7b-fd36925a1eca"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-80606375565268906712022-03-15T11:53:00.029-07:002024-02-24T06:46:59.232-08:00The Blues. Inserted lyrics from Big Joe Williams song "Baby Please Don''t Go."<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Once I watched an artist </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">paint </span><span style="font-family: arial;">a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">bullet hole</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">an entryway in</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I stood in front of it </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and felt the air</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">raise mountains on my skin</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">That flesh wound</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">serenaded me</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">with a sonnet I already knew by heart</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">See, the blues is a hole </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">in your soul </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">that you can’t fill</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So you rock </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">from your center </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">to soothe the injured parts of yourself</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">You sing </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">just to push the wind </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">through that long, dark tunnel</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;">"Baby please don't go, baby please don't go</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;">baby please don't go, down to New Orleans</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;">you know I love you so."</i></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Without a witness </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">a song might as well be whistled to oneself</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and I whistle a different tune every day</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ten thousand whistles </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">can feel </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">like a hurricane</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But it takes a hurricane </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">to redirect </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">the fourcefull course of a bullet </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So if you know the words</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">then fill your lungs </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">with round </span><span style="font-family: arial;">after round</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Spit blustery machine gun gusts</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Aim for wisdom and wishes</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sling lyrics of faith and falicy</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">When the sound comes out, it will be yours </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">but you might also find</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">that it doesn’t just belong to you</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Solo parts are plucked </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">from the belly </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">of an ancestral choir</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The blues is poetry </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">reincarnated</span></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">and vice versa</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">hence the vice in the verses</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Paintings are life lessons</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">Asking </span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial;">questions</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">that have no answers</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">Only gifting us songs to sing</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I pray that mine may be a balm </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">for someone elses soul</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>"</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Turn your lamp down low</span></span></i></p><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: black;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">You turn your lamp down low</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Turn your lamp down low, I cried all night long</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now baby please don't go</span></i></span>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-68674445954534533992022-02-16T11:59:00.002-08:002022-02-16T11:59:45.506-08:00Jeffrey @thejeffreymarsh<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1Y-NotOXUGkqRoYQpZ5T5ukBhVEhW__ojV7VmqsxfkYY7LgOAHXlzuIVZxjpPxVae2pbFSI0W8WU2D4R7wXfUnLW8xQfkWoUr6ANNJdkKe4_tDfWUb2qaIVskQulJuXDOKyqXNeKWhpyMOCE2B-C8Jj6JUrqg3L7twc1Ez8z8xxD_5f7Cb39Z7wWZ=s2450" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2450" data-original-width="2122" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1Y-NotOXUGkqRoYQpZ5T5ukBhVEhW__ojV7VmqsxfkYY7LgOAHXlzuIVZxjpPxVae2pbFSI0W8WU2D4R7wXfUnLW8xQfkWoUr6ANNJdkKe4_tDfWUb2qaIVskQulJuXDOKyqXNeKWhpyMOCE2B-C8Jj6JUrqg3L7twc1Ez8z8xxD_5f7Cb39Z7wWZ=w346-h400" width="346" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-64349564209046311022022-01-05T17:31:00.010-08:002023-07-13T12:53:48.501-07:00Carry<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My uncle died</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I had very little relationship with him</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">because he had relations with me</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">when I was very little</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He was the angriest person I knew</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Except for me</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now I am left </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Desperately trying not to carry on that legacy</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Anger is a virus</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that my whole family carries</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Living on lies and conspiracy theory</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and passing without a vaccine</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My uncle died</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">His heart failed him</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">'cuz he never learned </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to have one</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I dont know </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if anyone </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">ever gave him one</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The only thing I do know</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is that they gave him this sickness</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They spread it all around</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to the next generation</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A legacy of literacy</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in hopeless disassociation</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My uncle died</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maybe I will feel something</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">if I keep repeating it</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but I don’t</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I dont even feel angry</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Not a smidgen of relief</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); white-space: pre-wrap;">Not a sniffle</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); white-space: pre-wrap;">Or even a tickle in my throat</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">But I got my vaccination anyway</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Because a virus never leaves the body</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">So I will make sure </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7a1ce9a8-7fff-e81c-da1f-c2ef75a3ae3d" style="background-color: black;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">it remains all mine</span></span></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-90182350437157163952022-01-04T08:32:00.005-08:002022-01-04T08:36:52.149-08:00Foxes<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Foxes dance their way</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">through the landscape</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Luring our gaze </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">as far from the den as possible</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Slime molds slide </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">their neon lace</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Seductively over the surface</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">though usually underground</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Stars shine light so bright</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">crossing billions of years of space</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yet we can only see them</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in the dark.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">People often seek to find</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But it is rarely what we do</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I think of all the things I so need to say</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And cant seem to push words out of my mouth</span></span></p><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-38993527013203664742021-12-28T12:32:00.001-08:002021-12-28T12:32:28.017-08:00small works<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrBXluVQDiYH86TR_N_ejyoQlIhMPlYU2Scr3TsMuichcoO5ZohdeYee2ikaWqbCyLDhu45WyFHVh4yGXdMYGksfiIigpX9v-cPYoCTWJGC_AbMMWaEVJlsQi139ENvWww4pSYG5P9QPf8l7qeMG-AixhFlA8dqeZ6QW_H6Ue19bbNychujqfJz8ck=s1562" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It is my belief that in this life</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">one of the only real points of it</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is to get to know each other</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To come to agreement </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is unrealistic </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and rarely ever achieved</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">even amongst the deepest connection</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There have been a few souls in this life</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that I so desperately wanted to know </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">forever</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But those were not the cards that were dealt</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Those souls I did not have agreements with</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but knowing them </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">was so fulfilling, so ecstatic, so much better </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">than agreement</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So when you tell me</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that maybe there are</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">certain things</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that I don’t want to hear</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It doesn’t allow me </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">the privilege </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of possibly </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">getting </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">to know you better</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It doesn’t extend an invitation</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to share certain things</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that I think</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">maybe you don’t want to hear</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We don’t have to have agreement</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to talk to each other</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in fact, as you are surely aware </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">we rarely ever do</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Think of how much more we could hear</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Think of how much more we could say</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How much more could we laugh</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">How much more could we cry</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am tired of feeling tired</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I think its possible to peacefully disagree</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Everyone is right and everyone is wrong</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It would be nice to try something new</span></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>
<p style="color: #454545; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-87365613281434556102021-07-15T13:17:00.005-07:002023-02-17T18:44:28.607-08:00 Brooklyn <p><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"></p><p style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I
am as white as the moon</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Really, I glow</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Like alpen snow </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">or a toasted marshmallow center </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Like the highlight of a pearl</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">or a sunshine filled sail</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I was told to stay pure</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Learned to be stark</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Worked to be brilliant </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Grown to be harsh</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Centuries of aggression </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">White washing might as right </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; min-height: 14px;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">She </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">could easily </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">eliminate me</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">but Instead she chooses to</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">illuminate me</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Her shoulders are as strong as any man</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">from a genetic history of</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">sugar cane harvest </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">cotton picking</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">and Brooklyn brownstones </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though her life has been </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">as rough as </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">hurricane winds </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">to butterfly wings</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; min-height: 14px;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">She </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">remains </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">as sweet as</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">puppy kisses and birthday wishes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Sweeter than the sugar </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">from whence she came</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">She is as soft as top soil </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">to those freshly planted fields of cane</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Rich and warm </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">like burnished mahogany </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Full and deep </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">like Nat King Coles</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Stardust Melody</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; min-height: 14px;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am as white as the moon </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">She could easily </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">eliminate me</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">instead she chooses to </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">illuminate me</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And now I know </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">we don't have to spend </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">our restless nights</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;"><span style="background: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">alone</span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-80471221746811466232021-07-15T13:08:00.005-07:002021-08-12T19:13:25.636-07:00Gold<div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This life will wack you on the head </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">like a spoon to an egg </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and your yolk will run </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">out of all the cracks</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Even as you scramble </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to put yourself back together again </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sticky gold is everywhere </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and your shell is irreparable</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gather up the venom and violence </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that you have been given </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and turn it into violets and virtue </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">because you are an alchemist</span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">What magic sleeps under your tongue? </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Be a philanthropist </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The gold you make of yourself </span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is the gift you give to us <br /><br /></span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_210812_220708_024.sdocx--></div>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-73872178493981982032021-07-15T12:55:00.002-07:002023-02-17T18:45:13.381-08:00Bear<p><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It’s amazing how </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">a giant bear</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">can sleep inside for years</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More silent than </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">a tiny mouse</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">you never knew </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">was there</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Trained</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">by circus men </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">lion tamers</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and gypsy violins</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A chain around her neck</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and a tasseled red cap </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">upon her head</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">All the years of being trapped</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">living in captivity</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Her docile calm proclivity </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">obedient passivity </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">was just sophisticated </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">well maintained </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">stockholm syndrome </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Treats of candied apples</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">are fine and dandy </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Applause for tricks are trade</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but sooner than later </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">love will fade</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">with one too many jerks</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">upon the chain</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nature made those claws and teeth</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">They were not meant for your parade</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">If she can’t roam </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and find a home </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">all on her own</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Her spine will stand up straight and tall</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And her paws will reach out and snap yours</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A roar will drown out all your screams</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">standing on two legs</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Her shadow will block out the sun</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and when shes done </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">those claws and teeth</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">will become</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">a wreathe around your neck </span></p><div><br /></div>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-48767342430277344482021-07-15T12:45:00.011-07:002023-02-17T18:45:36.875-08:00Skeleton<p><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remember once</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was obsessed with painting trees</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">but only in the winter</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When they were bare and naked</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">stripped of all their leaves </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Only their skeletons remained</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nothing to hide</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: arial;">Light from the sky shining through</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would almost drive off the road</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Looking for them</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Looking for the special ones</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that spoke to me</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would make myself dizzy</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and you would offer to drive</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Suggesting that maybe I should not look </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">unless I was a passenger</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Later as our time was coming to an end</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">you would often ask me</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">why I couldn’t see the beauty of nature</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As you marveled at falling golden leaves</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and frozen waterfalls</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and rolling hills of green</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that we would drive through </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We blinked at each other</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">from our prospective seats</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Silent and dumbfounded </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">by the windshields of misunderstanding </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that were pressed against our foreheads</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I wear my heart on my sleeve</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You said</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why can’t you give me all of yours</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I sighed as I wrapped my arms </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">around your shoulders</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Feeling your hair against my cheek</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I looked out the window </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">at the leaves falling off the trees </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and you leaned against my skeleton </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Key </span></b></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I remember when I gave you my key</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mi casa su casa, I said</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Every night </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I would come home</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">walk past the bedroom door </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and pause</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Turn my head </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">catch my heart</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and soldier on</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">one combat boot</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in front of the other </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And then, one day</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">you gave me back my key</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It landed in my hand</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">right next to my heart</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">From then on</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was the only one responsible for it</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No one could come in</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">to my house </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">unless I opened the door</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fate became a decision </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in an instant</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It probably always was</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I have not made a decision </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">without keyhole precision </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">ever since</span></p></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-29012109987665536292021-03-10T06:34:00.002-08:002024-02-24T06:47:18.031-08:00Swim<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">A calcified valve</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">is what years without tears</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">will make</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I look down at my own toes</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and notice that they are</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">slowly turning to stone</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I know that sand </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">running through your veins</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">will wear away all the rough edges</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">We share jokes</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that can only be heard </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in the dark</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The same dark </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">makes the living feel frozen</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and I am turning into a snowball</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Walk this life</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">between vapor and ice</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">swim for as long as you can</span></span></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-26707089290760824012021-02-05T12:37:00.005-08:002024-02-24T06:47:22.116-08:00Bury the Hatchet<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Snow tires rest on my head</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Holes in my socks </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">from sweeping the floor</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">No roads are open today </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Labor is for the outside </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Shoveling the path</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; caret-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">Knitting a sweater</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Frying an egg</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The words are right there </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">just floating in the air</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">like big, slow, soft flakes</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">that melt on your tongue</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Poetry is for the inside</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bury the hatchet </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Find the biggest hill you can climb</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Close your eyes and throw your hands up</span></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-63868650205097426572020-11-22T14:00:00.002-08:002020-11-22T14:00:19.201-08:00Fly<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRF6cyfCQa4s4_wcJ_BfkiMXeObdEY0a1HfEfwVSzQkAmp5BgPFiBv7cC7dj6Ch0H9i4SMP_qY3WU2363x4VdQxV32NpU_y3nbRrixmwD08hIsbkuekhf0oaQX4OqGOHqTLGtoVM-2rc/s2048/IMG-9342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1210" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDRF6cyfCQa4s4_wcJ_BfkiMXeObdEY0a1HfEfwVSzQkAmp5BgPFiBv7cC7dj6Ch0H9i4SMP_qY3WU2363x4VdQxV32NpU_y3nbRrixmwD08hIsbkuekhf0oaQX4OqGOHqTLGtoVM-2rc/w236-h400/IMG-9342.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Gypsyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05940514198464093370noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817840043443687156.post-67450252096625868502020-11-22T13:53:00.005-08:002020-11-22T13:59:06.905-08:00Stephen<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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