i need a CSA

"Omniscient real estate broker"
Always gets good laughs for Sam Harris
Still 44% think a mushroom cloud
On the TV screen would
Have a silver lining.

dean of boys

Yes, padwan

When she leans over to kiss me

I get the Brillo

I'm left to guess what the hell

Is the dealio

Forego the proclamations

They will just sound banal

I guess you're the alcalde

Of our little Love Canal

it's the return of the screaming carwash girl

A hush will be falling all over the world

tonight.

steamio

I am meat
In muscle shoals
Neither fish nor fowl
Well founded confusion
I'm making bank with Hank the Crank
But I don't really understand
This wank
Though I wanna go
I wanna go, yes I
Wanna go
I wanna go.

taking "creep" to a whole new level

Of DMV lines and second class citizens
Power on like a full MacGruder
Compere collar hair
Shitstorm-predicting media man
Get on that pig and ride.

I'm nice because

For no one else

Finding contentment should have been

So easy for me

Because, because

No one else was like me

black tar and china white

Black tar and china white
Not exactly my childhood Lite Brite
Couldn't punch out the new paper forms
Couldn't conform to 21st century norms
Black tar and china white.

bad bang theory

BAD!
No use for pity it's all so silly
BAD!
Every hit, hits hard
BAD!
Badness floating on love
BAD!
Big explosions in my life I'm reeling and sweating
bad.

buy the lie

The good does not outweigh the bad
We are abuzz with anxiety, facing life
When did life stop caring about life?

failure and loss

Wall hanger
Four banger
Looking for projects
to keep sanity
Florid or sleek
My soul to keep
Striving
For pride
Failure defied
Waiting for success
Bobbing for stress
Trying to sleep
Publicly weep
Failure and loss
Same as the old boss.

wish I were a roofer

I'd have a plan for my day
Hauling gear up ladders
With the lads who labor
Day in day out
Wish I were a roofer
Staring down from up on high
Trying to ignore the voice
Telling me to jump into the sky.

the human life of a chump

Facts don't matter when they don't like you
Anyway tires are squealing even on your
Happiest day
There's just a skeleton of common sense
And a whiff of human pride
Animating the life of a human chump.

birth of a notion

Eclectic fares
Spiral stairs
Tunneling and undermining
Used to be falling
But now I'm climbing.

the confrontational dishrag

As we were curled in our sleeping bags
We dreamed of mountain ranges
At the edge of a salmon stream
A mossy reality limp as a dishrag
Keeps us in our slumber
We wake later in a city flat.

invisible money

It's there somewhere.

democracy

Why don't you just not kill yourself?
Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is
Just survive.
My life as a Monsterquest;
powder residue all over my fingers--
How could you not love yourself?

"Killing myself after my parents die"
Is probably not a good future plan
Setting things up to be a hermit
Will put you in a steel-eyed span
Really,
How could you not love yourself?

the life waste management company

Got to pick up every stitch

Afraid of every all-in and every hitch

No career of creativity and

No getting rich

Oh no

Must be one hell of an itch.

consumer protection

Game on!
for human clinical trials
Tame viruses and technocrats
Twiddling dials.
Game on!
For factories of fiction and for
Dire predictions of
Forfeited planets.

The game plan of
Truth and justice fanatics.

Game over!
For the unseen hand
Game over, man
Game over.

tomorrow looks cloudy

the cost of doing business

Dead civilizations are just the cost of doing business.
There was a time in this country
There once was a store in the mall
There once was a plan in the works
That made sense of it all
Today I looked around
And saw the result of
The great forgetting
Dead civilizations are
The cost of doing business.

a gaze like an attack ad

I'm all stevie nickerly and wide-eyed
I am shaken, not stirred
Cocktails on the roof.

Oh I just want to get fucking buzzed
Oh I just want to get stoned
And listen to bill hicks.

Hey now
I've got a foggy notion
Called an immersive world view.

order is fun

A mountain
A resource
That resource is beavers!
We belong here
The foes who vote
Resisting the life of
a political polyp
One man,
One fling of the civic
Throwing star.

get my marauding pets amnesty now

I took two readings
And decided I was cooked.
I followed every rule
And they threw at me the book.
I am the bas relief
I am the frieze
I am the farmer in the dell
I am the fucking cheese.

widen the net

Bad star strikes without any warning
Mom killed my will to live for minimal suborning
I want to rip up everything
Or even kill myself cuz
I am tired I am really tired
Mom.

when criminal elements have less of an incentive to vote

The public perception is mine alone
Ignorant of facts
In hand to the flacks
Many uses laughingstock
You will believe gridlock is like vapor lock
Was it the blues, child?
Was it the gotteramerdung-ade?