isn't it beautiful how we assume a role or persona on an individual year? i hope and pray for 2009 to overshadow 2008 with all of its downtrodden misfortunes, but who's to say it will?

all of you, and myself. that's who.

happy new years.

Attractions,
Repulsions
And
Contradictions
All live in the selfsame
Confusion-cave.

each day seems to slip away from my grasp.

i wish it would just slow down.

nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
got nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide.
it's not love i'm running from.
it's the heartbreak i know will come.

wow last night.

i am being pulled in every direction.

my dad fell twice this week.

hah hah hah.

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turn my microphone up louder. i've got to say something.
light weights step to the side when we come in,

feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping.
people on the street, they panic and start running.

words on loose leaf sheet complete coming.
i jump in my mind and summon the rhyme i'm dumping.

healing the blind i promise to let the sun in.
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