I rebelled against rebellion when I realized that rebelling is just another great tradition That left me back where I started but with a different feeling I grew so cynical about cynicism that I began to see lots of goodness to believe in again That left me back where I started but with a different feeling I doubted even doubt itself until it dissolved into a belief in absolutely everything That left me back where I started but with a different feeling I felt such waves of anxiety about my anxiety that they canceled out into a calm That left me back where I started but with a different feeling Dove into solipsism so extreme I denied the last scrap of myself and my dream became about everyone else That left me back where I started but with a different feeling Without pause wandered so far I went all the way around this restless, spinning world that left me back where I started but with a different feeling

Know what I heard These are the last days And we are in a cave Retinal thistles rays knitting And knotting through pupils days So let's eat ourselves and transplose Transmigrate and be deborn Just this once without end Just this once without end (Know what I saw Know what I felt Know what I saw Know what I felt) Know what I heard That this is halftime now And we are in a cage Anyway you know that freedom Is something that you long for Desperately an instant But only till the urge returns To lock yourself in again Lock yourself in again (My friends, the winds, Say what message she sends) Know what I heard These are the first days And we are in amazement At the visions of the darkness But if we have to grope the walls I’d rather do it with one less If on the other hand I could only hold yours in If I could only hold yours in (Know what I sensed Know what I thought Know what I sensed Know what I thought) Know what I heard These are the last days And we are on a stage Flimflamanaflamdadamana ramdamdamanalamdadamana Stages are frightful places That you can fall from

Let's play at love Or let love be play Let's let love last 'Least one last day It's just an eddy Inside a side pool Of the creek that runs behind the old school Another day down In which I didn't die A day to dance and Stick it in your eye Now here lies one Now 206, and then Here lies all the dust that blows Down a mountain Grey twilight I'm tired When was the end of my prime? Dozing rousing Rosying dousing Drifting in and out of hazy crazy dreams and everyday scenes I hesitated and let everything just slip away

So let’s go, you and I, Playing tic-tac-toe across the sky, Rows and columns stretching wide As we proceed to great-divide All the nations of the earth Lined up and up and from the first, On the other as a cross personalities be tossed. We’ll take turns taking on chief and thief and any whom, And anywhere trace beautifully Line on line of identity! Let’s make for you and me Necklaces of memories, Millions and lasting miles And lay them out across the hills, One strung up for each emotion, Each idea and each sensation, Sad chain and a happy one, One for pressure one for freedom. Try each on in turn and trade Glistening pearls of single shade Down manifold years in a flight, Then equal old but different light!

When the man with a baby in his hand Met the lady with a dog on either side Watchers on a hill were heard to say At this point all things are fated to collide When the man with a navy in his hand Met the land with a god on either side Watchers on a hill were heard to say At this point all things are fated to surprise

I love women And I love men Who love women And I love Yemen For your lovely women And I'll do a yeoman's work for you If the chance is given I love women And the men From the wombs of women I love music And I love The muses loved by the music And I love Moskva For your lovely music And I'll sing out like a mystic If you'll choose to hear it I love music And the amusement Meant for the music I love words And I love Woe blue and Love red too And I love the World For your flood of words And all the water and the woods I'll work into my verse for you I love words Wide enough To wander into

Novichok is realpolitik Realpolitik is novichok I for one will not forget Victor Jara en el Estadio Chile. Those Washington bullets, yeah You know they too are realpolitik. Why are our governments The greatest serial killers? How will the killing stop If those who lead don't First hold back their stone? Propaganda is realpolitik Realpolitik is propaganda Internet impersonation Talking chaff and misinformation From the Kremlin’s own IRA All the way to sweet home Alabama and Why are our governments The greatest pathological liars? How will we ever know the real If those who lead don't First hold back their tongues? Dopage is Realpolitik Realpolitik is Dopage To the victor go the spoils So salute all those ubermenchen, From the USPS Team To the holy host of Sochi, Why are our governments The greatest competitive cheats? How can we see the light of justice If those who lead don't Take their gloved hands off the scales? (Between you and me) Listen brothers, fellow values voters, Just ignore my public protestations, For I too by secret ballot bid our president do The deed so our conscience can remain pristine. So sit back and just watch the plan unfold...

Ode to A weed That grows Between Train tracks And road so much owed to a weed glazed with rust and asphalt dust Alone in a Beeloud Aisle Guardias Erizando Pitas agrias While hempen Hands -- they Row the breeze -- Thy soul -- selects Within to Gaze Weeds of my Disposition Mes frères Laids Infâmes Et maudits Whose weeds These are I think I know. I have inches to go To cross them Though.

A nonsense video transmitted Via scrambled signal and seen On an antiquated TV set Set behind wooded brambles During a day of blizzard Through fogged up goggles and followed With a cataract thick as Niagara By a disorganized mind An incessant repeated scream Mic'd through an echo effect Feedback turned to 10 and Projected through a labyrinthine Thousand-torch lit grotto’s Center chamber of mirrors All polished to perfection And reflecting into infinity Alternating electrical current Pushed through a sputtering fluorescent tube Feeding knots of overblown transistors Red with brownian motion of electrons Turning gears that catch and clang For each noise-gate activated Intermittent dopamine injection Into this Parkinsonian cyborg So send, please send me a signal, Use my wake word again and again, I'm slumped and immobile without your Loud perfume permeating my skin

I bet you expect me to Write a song about writing a song about writing a song Well the only way that you’d be right is if you Think I'm right about your being wrong And I bet you bet That I bet you bet that I know you know who you think you are Each of us more anonymous all the better to become the other's star I can call you Dot if you call me Terry Our relationship is very epistolary When Adam delved and Eve she span Who was then the gentleman? When Eve she delved and Adam span Then who was the gentleman? Rockem-Sockem Shoemaker-Levy You call Morton-Thiokol to install an O-ring In your Chevy I take my Mercedes-Benz across the Mason-Dixon line 'Cause I got a bad crush on Kellogg-Briand Yes, your favorite rapper sticks a hyphen Between his M and his C Same way he’ll stick a harbor Between your land and your sea, ya see When Adam delved and Eve she span Who was then the gentleman? When Eve she delved and Adam span Who was then the gentleman? When Adam delved and Eve she span Who was then the gentleman? And Eve? Like Ramakrishna digested Jesus and Mohammed too I'll digest him and all of Whitman’s multitudes Then swallow galaxies that are parts of quarks Come out idiot-savant and a hipster-dork Freezing time with the stroke of a pen Which when it stops sets off the race again When Adam delved and Eve she span Who was then the gentleman? When Eve she delved and Adam span Who was then the gentleman? When Adam dove and Eve she swam Who was then the one who ran? When Eve she delved and Adam span Who was then the gentleman? Now, I'm just trying to make myself a clown Still dancing in a trance long after curtain’s down To shoot a hole through the guts of my reputation Let inside me all the world's dirt and degradation Twist the branches of my pedigree Till the shame runs down the lines of all my progeny Got to get this down quick in case that I Sudden feel regret, think twice, deny When Adam delved and Eve she span Who was then the gentleman? When Eve she delved and Adam span Who was then the gentleman? Toutes ces beautés plus qu'humaine, où sont les neiges d'antan? Mais toutes ces héroïnes de guerre, où sont les soleils d'hier?