To Paraphrase

This road is my life
Speeding through the night
I have been to these places
For barely a moment
Wide awake
Sometimes sleeping
Sometimes watching
Sometimes dreaming
Through stroby towns
Too fast to know their names
Too fast to know if I came or will come again
Sleeping towns joined together
By the Parallel lines
Parallel lives
You and I
We’re movie-rich
We’re reflected in the window
The dark night’s black mirror [...]

Magician

Magician take me upon your wings and … gently roll the clouds away.  I’m sorry so sorry I have no incantations only words to help sweep me away.  I want some magic to sweep me away. I want some magic to sweep me away. I want to count to five turn around and find [...]

Burning Patriotism

Penn & Teller on “The West Wing”.

The Other Greatest Band

Most of my new friends, the ones who have come into my life in the past few years, have very strong feelings about exactly who ‘the greatest band’ is. A large number of them consider said band to be … well, UKnow … Don’t U? (And You, Too?)
They may be very convicted of this opinion, [...]

24/7

If you know me, you know what the title means.
A special prayer room, a full week of prayer. I started on Sunday at midnight to 1AM, continued my shift 2AM through 3:30 AM Sunday morning. I should have stayed until 4, and let the staff sleep. That has bothered me all week. Two of my [...]

Shuffle Bored

From a magician friend in Spain; “The word for ‘cards’ in Spanish is in the feminine. It pleases me to know this. The deck is like a woman; if you hold it to tightly, you crush it. If you hold it to loose, it flies away. If you don’t show it the proper respect, you [...]

Biggest Laugh in Weeks

Garfield Minus Garfield
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated [...]

Hollow Man

I think I have become one of the hollow men
As I shine on the outside more these days
I can feel the outside feeding on my inside
Leaves a growing darkness in it’s place
I think I have become one of the lonely
Now that everybody talks to me
I feel I have become one of the empty
Hollow men can [...]

The Nature of God

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn’t work that way.
I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

My Complex

Wendy
Darling
In the kitchen
With your dreams
Will you fly again
Take to the sky again
Undo the Hooks
Once and for all
Banish the tic tok (tic tok tic tok)
Again
Will you be
Yourself for me
Cause I can take it
I can stand
Anything
When you’re with me
I can stand it
I can stand
But when you’re gone
I never land
In Neverland
Want to be someone someone would want to [...]