THE WHOLE WORLD IN MY MIND Forestville CA 11 Mar 93
I'm driven mad by coffee
I listen to public affairs
on the radio incessantly
I take cerebral enhancers
and hope for inspiration
or at least a workable sweat
The whole world in my mind
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The radio crackles with sunspots
The TV wiggles - bad cable
The net crashes - bad boxes
All news is bad news
interspersed with non-news
like sports and treed cats
The whole world in my mind
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Explosions, slashings, mutilations
Economic devastation, religious greed
Epidemics of Republicanism
Deluges of Nationalism
Spilled chemicals, spilled blood
Molestation, abuse, rigged votes
The whole world in my mind
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Terminal planetary pollution
I absorb every detail, am suffused
with vital information & rumours
The official word, opposition rebuttal
Reporters' notes & speculations
Pundits' mental masturbation
The whole world in my mind
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Comments from The Man In The Street
or The Woman In The Street
or The Drag Queen In The Street
or The Gang-Banger In The Street
or The Corporate Executive On The Street
or The Robot In The Street
The whole world in my mind
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I have no need of a life of my own
I live for the whole world
The whole world lives for me
The whole world lives for me
The whole world lives for me
The whole world lives for me
The whole world in my mind
completion (brain-wank) Forestville CA 24 Apr 1993
if we could but find our center
we might not fall off the edge
we journey & remain, wander & stagnate
propelled motionlessly
every tick of the atomic clock, every
revolution of an electron
every decay of an unstable nucleus,
every spin of the doctors
another irreversible stride down
the tau axis, another moment gone
(as a wave passes, particles oscillate locally
but don't don't really go anywhere)
agitation / motivation / prestidigitation /
masturbation / salivation / salvation
a feeling of dynamism, completion,
but nothing's really happened
LOVE AND EMOTION (doo-wop) Forestville CA 28 Apr 1993
I don't love you / I can't love you
I wanna love you / I won't love you
Love is just an evil ploy / of the chemicals
Coursing through our blood
Gimee 'nother shot / of love and emotion
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I didn't fuck you / I can't fuck you
I wanna fuck you / I won't fuck you
Sex is just a way / zygotes make new zygotes
Then die, then die, then die...
Gimee 'nother shot / of love and emotion
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Emotion shows thru my skin / sex shows in my pants
Shame lights up my ears / time won't give me a chance
[instrumental]
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Politics is a dirty game / finance is just the same
Fungus devours my mind / please say that you'll be mine
Time is just an evil game / played by clockmakers
To sell us Rolexes
Gimee 'nother shot / of love and emotion
Gimee 'nother shot / of love and emotion
TRANSPARENCY Forestville CA 19 July 1993
My hope is green and brown / a tree is my hope
My hope is grey and wet / the fog is my hope
My hope is black and hard / the road is my hope
My hope is square and plain / a box is my hope
My hope has gone transparent
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The dogs and I growl in our dreams
The cats and I twitch in our dreams
Our dream songs play in the background
Our dream birds sing in the backyard
Our dream has gone transparent
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I've loved you since I first smelt your flesh
I've loved you since I first tasted your skin
I've loved you in the forest and the fogs
I've loved you in the angles and the arcs
My love has gone transparent
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Why can't I find you in my geometry?
Our lives are tangents, rarely intersecting
Why can't I know you in my algebra?
I solve for unknowns by you're still infinite
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I've tried to survey the field of my dreams
I've triangulated the boundaries of my heart
I've paced out the distance across my desires
I've drawn up a map and it's still marked UNKNOWN
My maps have gone transparent
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Our emotions are marked by certain chemistries
Our theologies are generated by our secretions
Our personas are mediated by thin membranes
What we see outside is what we see inside
We seem to be transparent
CAR WRECK Forestville CA 20 Jul 1993
I drove into a ditch / I cried out like a cat / I felt dizzy & bad
The fog rolled in / the flowers crept up / the time didn't track
The rain came down / the flowers went down / the night rolled away
Nobody passed / I was alone / and it was only last Saturday
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chorus: Somebody find me / somebody help me / somebody save me please
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I prayed to Jesus / I prayed to Buddha / I prayed for the Highway Patrol
I couldn't help it / I fouled myself / I dreamt of salvation, Rock'n'Roll
I was upside down / the harness held / blood dripped from my head
I heard animals / snuffing around me / I looked in their eyes, and said:
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[chorus]
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[instrumental couplet]
I chewed on rodents / rodents chewed me / they loosed my mental pictures
We dined together / in unsettled weather / ignoring protruding fixtures
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[chorus & fade...]
SPACE INVADERS (minor salsa) Forestville CA 20 July 1993
I do not fear the Space Invaders
They are our friends
They teach us to co-exist within our necessities
They only cull our weak & sick & lame & socialistas
They are not unduly concerned with our sexual practices
They feed us well and provide most excellent laxatives
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I do not flee the Space Invaders
They are our support
They are most anxious to reanimate the flagging heart
They decorate the survivors of their competitive art
They do not mind from which openings our fluids spurt
And they flush us with plasma and opiates by the quart
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I do not hate the Space Invaders
They are understanding
For safety, they limit our small villages & low buildings
For morale, they do not enter our sacred cave dwellings
For relief, they pretend not to know what we are thinking
In truth, we do not even overly resent the branding
M'PELE GODZ (open) Forestville CA 20 July 1993 *
M'Pele walks down from the hills
M'Pele comes to your village
M'Pele sells you things that bite
M'Pele takes your children
M'Pele cuts down your fences
M'Pele sets your chickens free
M'Pele broadcasts disturbing music
M'Pele tells you the truth
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(chorus) I love M'Pele, M'Pele loves me
I kill M'Pele, M'Pele kills me
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M'Pele crashes the flatbed truck
M'Pele steals your bicycle
M'Pele fixes the slot machines
M'Pele burns your mortgage
M'Pele encourages incurable disease
M'Pele has no answers
M'Pele quickly trims your lawn
M'Pele digs big holes [chorus]
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M'Pele dresses very well
M'Pele ruins your credit
M'Pele screws like a weasel
M'Pele hammers it home
M'Pele brings down the power
M'Pele overpowers you
M'Pele takes you into town
M'Pele sings Karaoke [chorus]
RESULTS Forestville CA 20 July 1993
From Gilgarry Mountain to Tiger Mountain
My eyes are sewn shut and empty and dry
From Wolverton's Mountain to the Paradise Fountain
My rib cage is cracked, my intestines fly
Across lava slopes I ooze pink goo
Into the caldera I whisper and fry
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Human geology / seismology within me
All the results / of indeterminacy
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From the Sea of Love to the River of Shit
I swim desperately, no excuses
From the Font of Dreams to the Lake of Fire
I roll with the current, no excuses
Thru amber waves of grain and burning sand
I find the juice of love, no excuses
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Human hydrology / rivulets within me
All the results / of indeterminacy
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I'm filled with razors, spiders, needles
Sharp flowers, dull thoughts, molten dreams
Rolled in hot asphalt, thrown in ice water
Tempered in love, vulcanized at the seams
From the Kindgom of Tears to the Republic of Fears
I'm ethically sluiced, morally clean
JUST ANOTHER LIFESTYLE CHOICE Forestville CA 21 July 1993
You walked like Venus to the commuter plane
I walked like a Macedonian
I kissed your liquid shadow as you climbed the stair
You tied the scarf on your hair
The wind blew you into the city's shadow this morning
I considered global warming
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I bicycled back home along the River Road
Trees speckled me with shade
I oiled the computer and did bathroom maintenance
In the shower was 83 cents
At lunch the dogs worshipped me, like I was holy
I finished off the guacamole
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Helicopters buzzed us most of the day
I put all the drugs away
You got back home as I switched off the modem
The ravioli was boiling
The pinot was good, the cable was dull, we dozed
The cat played with my toes
CARNIVORE LOVE has moved here
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