it's 3am or nothin ( Read more... )

ahh...it felt good to write poetry and a song in the middle of the night. that's when it comes to me, art art i want you, art i think it's pretty hard not to. I'm delighted to be going to Memphis next week. I'd really like to have time to really rehearse and be ready for it and have a nice set list to go. So far it's "Truly I Do," "Cop a Feel ( Read more... )

i hate those guys on TV but i love
that they can't stand tall anymore

or ride private jets into town to beg
for money, for attention, for the love

of god, of all of us--put down your white
flag! put it in the dirt with your face

and your stupid arms that took so much.
America hates you; at least

what's left of here ideals.

it's filling me up, just salty enough ( Read more... )

you'll faint, you'll pass out, you'll look like Christina Ricci
which is actually a bad thing if you live outside of pictures.

goes across toast
in smoov moovs, towards the mouth

crinkling tongue if you don't let it
touch it tastes better

without tasting, that mouth watering
millimeter gets it just right.

the ideas are bigger than

the boys themselves
and i worry its true

the girls, too,
i mean just look at them. just
look.

it's sickle-cell anemia-like you know ( Read more... )

Today I did the backing vocals for Roadways and Duke and I remixed The Darkest Days so it's louder ( Read more... )

i wrapped a big box full of instruments and had jenni unwrap it towards the beginning of the show on stage. Then she passed them around and everyone had kazoos and percussion and little whistles ( Read more... )

today i'd like to buy a new outfit

today i'd like to drink an entire pot of coffee

today i'd like to get my work done

and not just talk about it

today i'd like to clean the room out

and organize my children's books

get them out of my room

because i stopped reading them ten years ago

today today todayyyyy

oh there's always a today.