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I wasn't in the workshop for nothing (poem)

Lyrics Beth, just between teeth, the songs have flooded over us now and left you smelling of wet earth and sticks when there are no walls, just between white trees and white skies, the songs made the tender heart visible as a star. I ate that star. I drank the oil. Now my engines are smooth and going over the edge of the moon. Now, I’m the eye in my grandfather’s wood, carving the morning dove out of the deck and  tired of rain. Now, you made the song spill over the dancing feet, rush like after a great run, you contained all my tears on your salty skin. It was on my wedding day and I ran through flooding water with one song going through me like a morning dove through the open mouth of the sun. Now, I’m sure the words weren’t right. Now, I’m sure I was blinded and searching these streets for an aisle, for my flowers, for you telling me there is no man. Now, I’m the years in my grandfather’s wood with his patterns and dyes, after the sands  took

strange brew

Last night in our room, I woke up and saw a man squatted down checking his crotch. He was moving, and I was nearly paralyzed with fear. I told Phil and he said No, nobody there. But it was so clear. I was scared to pass by him and leave the bedroom, but I did, and I went into my own bed, trying to tell myself this is a hypno hallucination. Went in there this morning, and it's a pile of clothes hanging out of a laundry basket. Another nightmare, like seeing the mouse crawl up my bed by my head.

No, no, and no again

  I'd say the poor who vote Repub have their heads in the clouds. Dems have kept Unions strong the last 40 years, started Earned Income Tax Credit, started healthcare, Bills for women, and women's rights, started Family Leave......Dems haven't been letting everyone down the last 40 years.

Listen up!

farmers in Iowa are the most racist, homophobic, hate on all welfare that exists. They would rather take bankruptcy than take a dime. They're too set in their ways, and dying by the dozens to suicide. Their kids go to school with students like my daughter, and they're sitting there all choked up in hate. Who did the work in this country, it was the Negro. and who does the work today, it's the Latino.

How pissed off do you want to get?

  I've done fund raising all of my adult life for CF, and all they say is research has led to new pills that will improve quality of life and add more years. I rememeber when I was told when my daughter was a baby, There will be a cure in 10 years. It never happened. And now the pills cost so much money, nobody can afford them, plus the pills are only for the most common genotype.