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dog 8=3 song 03:40
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the back door is open and shod with the shoe of my old trusty horse, hung above it, that he has outworn i’m hoping it brings luck i guess and i’m riding this horse back to you girl and i’m tired of roaming this road through the dusts of this southern bowl and i’m wondering about you girl, where are you tonight girl, i need you by my side girl yeah i’m wondering where you are girl, where are you right now girl, i’m wondering where you are the cans you kept on the cold cellar shelf are spoils for somebody else and this food i find on the floor is a dog’s that i keep for myself the day grows darker at dawn fall’s come the summer has gone you rake up the weeds and the thorns i’m wondering where you are right now girl, i need you here by my side girl, i’m wondering where you are girl yeah i’m wondering, i’m wondering where you are now girl, i need you here and how girl, i’m wondering where you are girl the street dogs have followed me home by my back door they beg for the bone and they’ve been lately coming so close they’re scaring the corn stripping crows the blood on the moon leaves a sign that somewhere you’ve left us behind with the vows to me that are owed that are owed i’m wondering where you are now girl, could we meet some how in the bar now , i’m already half gone to the stars girl yeah i’m wondering where you are girl, how can i get there, how far girl, i’m wondering where you are girl at the back door (the) dogs are starting to howl your memory still up at this hour with (the) dogs on their hunt for that bone getting hungry and scratching the ground i’m roaming like a dog with a bone, back to you girl after roaming alone, for too long girl i need to come home and i’m wondering, i’m wondering about you gal i’m wondering where you are now i need you so, i need you so right now girl yeah i wondering where you are baby, i need ya by my side, oh when ya gonna come for your southern son, i wanna be the one ya love, how’s this ever gonna come when we are so, so done
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summingUPsummertime julie's diamond losing verse 7 01:30
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summer time and fools are sun stroke cumming in the back of brothels snakes slink naked charmed breeding sheepishly wearing wolverine clothing chattering rattle bout a queer kid’s weeping dog chorus1 so many blisters on our wrists from twisting sisters doubting our selves existence slowly wild UN winds unwieldy ravel ling rambling trampling card bored chatterer doubt ing my self again • with julie on our mind summer breeze grazing god’s green meadow just a teasing tale of everything(all) that matters mother’s queers girl’s true nature goes UN guided pray her safely home slide down wet slippery ladders chorus2 won’t U murder my sun he’s a gun street girl down on her knees suck ing hockey puck deluxe ivy leagues of 20,000 cash in ON the barrel colosseums for the schooled youths(jews) loading guns (snake eyes nut shell rappers jamming on the one) all the rape in the lovely back board rumble seats feet bare up on the dash bored • sun day (p)ride thickening leaks in the hole in hell where god sleeps hiding biting deep upper lofty lips lean ing left death squad chorus3 zoom ing in and out of time ticks at A clip zip it up a zipper biting tight toothed grip stoned at home a bar room brawl sounds down the street flip a coin in open air • gun shots • ring rinse repeat guns for one and all from my cold dead hands
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all iknow is what i'm feeling lyrics bending booing 8 05:54
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all i know IS what i’m feeling’s got me reeling back a round a gain only answer seems appealing • playing games and suffering IN sane broken hearts and trampled dealings • with the deaf and numbing insolence 4 ward thinking keeps revealing under mind our rugs R being swept in dandy pants a young man fancies • guns growling pets solid sun drenched elements may be open arms bowed freeing • hands helping fun filled sunny dipped day best dixie chicken sticks worn sickening • bi cycling by pass bump asphalt cements ray guns armed and aiming kneeling • ron holding mar gar ets right hand re grets stranded dancing is land fever • sun stroking staring well worn under wear blisters popping pus runs dripping • infect event current sex u al affair blowing words a kissing beating • bruising shoes left scuffed and scratched in dents lowered tents still get that feeling • you long ago reject road raging stamps voodoo stance eye glass glare • gleaning • intimidating pol ice in ti mate sucking facing for ward leaning • down to earthUP o’er hill (doll)billy bent booing teams again misleading • who’s with US and what we’re UP against crazy carpet alex sane in breeding • extra ears corny wide pig let lament moby’s dick a vegan healing • ex fore skin patriot hell IN/degener ate feelings hurt for further peeing • rinsing dept down draining documents wading hands hip high OUt reaching • turning sudden wild well aware pants into snoring giants pretending • sleeping while well knowing U’re awake repeat 1st verse - may be
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all that's well has ended horse raw 9 02:33
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world’s an unforgiving storm howling winds volcanoes roaring river feeding mouths for lorn fire breathing dragons burn asbestos mines lungs unsung 2ward future cancers reap rewards all that’s well has ended worse lies R baiting out B4 U leap U look so badly bored your ditch dug deep in creep the worms until your mind your brains destroysA god tattling tales oF holy warsG touchdown 2 ground begin again truth B known oF course is now here then B the tolling hour beyond the void oF evil power light shining brightly showing how rampant running stampede 4 ward classy work war hero lords abysmal grandeur chores oF choice not seeing trees B for the forest statesman sounding warning horns breast plates full of musket holes the war is over truth B scorned shores of borders formerly owned melodic chords keeping 4 score A new year’s fold envelopes the world all that’s well has ended worse
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fruit pudding improb(rødgrød med fløde)/butchershopfullofmeat 10 01:41
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improbALPHA BEtA bible belt barr 2 02:50
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TZpwn barr oliver crangle improb 4 03:49
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my one good deed today 03:02
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FIND A PENNY - PICK IT UP ALL DAY LONG IT BRINGS GOOD LUCK IF ONLY LUCK WERE SOMETHING YOU COULD FIND TAKE A PENNY FROM YOUR POCKET FIND A PLACE TO SAFELY LOCK IT SAVE IT ‘TIL THERE IS A RAINY DAY WHEN THE RAIN does finally come down YOU’LL HAVE ME TO STILL DEPEND ON don’t YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S NO RAIN THAT DON’T END in a SUNNY DAY WHEN THE RAIN IS COMING DOWN imagine HOPE’S A WILTING FLOWER DROP A PENNY IN THE GUTTER LEAVE IT FOR SOME BUM TO PICK UP DONE YOU ARE YOUR ONE GOOD DEED TODAY MAKE A WISH THEN WISH IT WELL take your time cuz time does tell WHAT REALLY WAS IMPORTANT AFTER ALL fake my brain and try to stop it stop it from what’s got to happen a lonely light too blind to see the way that things suppose to be it doesn’t matter what goes around the sun’s just gone inside a cloud
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dowop and doo doo BB 53 02:02
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ugly ducklingJJ sept2023 4 02:51
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knew by the time the devil gave his answer the news’dB out by morning prancing in full gloom knew by now too  that evil answers fetch queer questions2 and all fruitless grand standing’s got me planning lunar landings - tothe moon i placed my hand onto the handle of the driver head hung low below thresholds they do not dare to double cross me i smiled at them from peep holes drilled through paper ceilings holding tight to wants desire what do i need to be me briefly i washed my hand - s with water i’d been drinking i took a chance on legs again to balance up and down a rusted can to boil eggs’d cracked left them leaching divinely flowing forward up towards some common ground kept eggs in a paper bags i laid inside a basket saving UPthe shells to sell come some rainy day found a pint of sulphur inside a book of matches turned left to lift the latches before the eggs hatched into snakes the quacks still hear the drone of a million ugly ducklings flying home i walked a long the lake twig legged on pins and needles sun sunk deep in mud my feet were webbed too stuck to run the sun bright shining drying highlighting all the cheaters the moon so glowing low bright ivory sliced on the horizon the quacks still hear the drone of a million ugly ducklings flying home
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pirate's song 4versept2023 Recording 12 03:20
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TOOK ME ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE - OF DRUG INDUCED HIGH FLYING STATES - looking down it all feels great - from up above you‘ll seal/see your fate - (and) that second chance that keeps lingering still in your hands - as arms give way you start to fall - still longing for that everlasting dance i went along with lucifer - i gave my car keys back to her - she drove me home i haven’t seen her since that sin - and now she’s up there on my shoulder whispering in my ear - telling me to go back to where the plot begins - so she can disappear she took me on wild GOOSE chase - through flying rings in outer space - dancing high before god’s grace - give me back my peace to pace - down these dank dark hallways - of my loneliness - give me back the space i need to grow up - ‘til i can rise again i always go to susan’s • susan is a dancer she can make her hands massage the can out of the cancer • so i try new things that take me to the melody • that is sleeping deep inside the heart of darkness that night that grows inside of me
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willpowergreat expectations 9 03:45
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mind making ya mellow, you’re sighing high and wondering why you, ever at the beginning would take a chance that things made sense you’re strange sensing the cancer as day begins and ends again now wouldn’t it make more sense to change some things before our chances end you’re slipping into a drop of rain running down your neck a bead of sweat is teasing you to change back again moon makes ya look fetching - it’s early still, the lights just right my mind is made up still, of fear, and cheer, kept/left locked outside we got keep guessing through rave reviews to rehearsed lies i wasn’t expecting to, have to choose, to read between the lines work still stinks too high, heaven too is only lies slaves?serfs groping for openings through curtains hung(tantalized) in blinding lights there ain’t no blessing due to you i’ll bless what’s left while i ‘m trying to get to the patience(HEART) of what is really(already) on our minds great expectations, expect the best is yet to come when real and what you’re fakin’ - has got you feeling compromised U take on new direction, you wear your cheaply sewn disguise your heart’s INLOCO motion you dance with death, so death defying we’re slipping into a drop of rain running down our necks a bead of sweat is teasing us to change back again but won’t go back again no can’t go back again
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will free mont dogs paddling 7 02:09
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dogs paddling in the river swimming ‘gainst the current i’m trying to wash my head free of all sin i’m wondering where is right, i’m wondering what is wrong, i’m wondering ‘bout a world turned on one end and the sun is alway lying and the moon’s all in my mind today we’ll drink like merry men for tomorrow we must die i walk this lonesome road i see you in the door i wonder what is good when all went wrong it’s such a hopeful world I’d like to take you home I’d like to take you in to try you on but the sun is alway lying and the moon’s all in your mind today we sleep as merry men tomorrow we must die
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the rhyming in my soup 4 03:01
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been walking down the road • remembering things that i’ve been told • and not remembering but been told • so my memory keeps on spitting out Da new version every time the rhyming in my soup • the dinking round the tollbooth by the pool playing the fool it’s still the Dbig deal every time • the rhyming in my soup • the dank and darkening stairs • where wishing wells R leading U so i Amrun back home • home 2 C my mom • 2 hide my head in sand • do not want to B A man • so many Dmanly things • like guns and sport car bling • exhausted from opinions racing round the kitchen sink gone 2 meditate • on death A heightened state • where all R knowing reason seems 2 sooth and satiate our Dthirst 4 mindfulness/things • 4 justice’s twisted fist • maniacal my eyes roll back so far in2 skinhead so i run back home • home 2 cry alone • 2 hide inside my mind • they watch me all the time • down doing things • that later i’ll deny • but knowing all the while • they’re filming me and saving files so they’re freezing you • you’re asleep out in the cold • you’re lost out on your own • there’s no road paved with solid gold
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leaking ship song - 2023-10-10, 2.07 AM 03:51
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something in the way she always leaves me loosing it something that she says i knows she’s right i blue it but knowing things can (change) i’m hoping 2B true again 2U hard for me to blame i’m guilty but U2 a bit you act a bit dI ranged untangled but in spite of it you’re wanting me to change 4U 2much but i/u won’t budge a little bit 2 second step and i think for sure we could get to shore with this leaking ship if we all blew a bit we’re always in the know • even though • we know • we don’t know shit through all these 2s and fros • we’re dancing through the thick of it and everybody knows • that guessing’s just the gist of what everybody knows i’m smiling down this road i’m trying to make •my best of it my heart is all a glow • i’m feeling dumb • but/yet incandescent i’m playing in the cold • the snow falls • i just step in it the hammond organ moans • it’s peddles tickling innocent LY • yer 2 little piggy toes and i think for sure we could get to shore with this leaking ship if everybody blew a bit i’m crying my way home i haven’t got a leg to stand on i’ve re announced the thrown that i have long been sitting in the carpet’s red and worn and deep down all the dirt in it starts to wear me thin we’ve got no where to go and still we keep pursuing it so someday wHEN we go there’ll be a free pre requisite to somehow let things go and try to know how to forget and forgive for what we did and i think for sure we could get to shore with this leaking ship if we all blew a bit and i think for sure we could get to shore with this leaking ship if everybody blew a bit
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i'm FLYing free 04:57
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i’m flying forth • flying free into ANother weather flying from the way • i wander from i’m looking deep into the SOUL of disillusion • i AM reaching for 1 reason to sing PROUD i’m dropping dreams in2 a hole wishing well as they plop way down there at the bottom • OF All sound AND i DO know running WATER leads down HILL • recedingFAR beyond profound i’m flying foward UN • tethered toward better then it ever seems 2B B4 it’s gone i’m flying free • flying north • heading toward the war i am fleeing into HELL • way UNDERground i’m knowing that the sun comes round to shine down on us ALL and keep us warm from harm SO brief in time BUT 4 now we warm up2 the fire • with FAMILY Television hour • OUR BRIEf escape i’m flying over clover • floating Up above this summer LOVE is in the air so sweet2breathe i’m flying free KNOWing no one KNOWing nothing feeling fortune 2 have ANYthing 2B i’m sleeping later living longer playing THE good soldier dreaming of ANADAN and ANEVA or i’m like a bear cranky as the weather that’s been raining lately there or i’m like a bear cranky as the weather that’s been raining lately HERE i KNOW my FAME KNOW my NAME • is just a figment i imagine 4 2 day to keep me SAfE i’m going forth 4ward 2 the north stuck true2 course smiling un2 U • from under grace if left alone to my disgrace i’ll lay back down onto the face 2SMILE if left alone to this disgrace i’ll lay back down but UP 2FACE the lOVE

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No Rapping The Dead
By M. Edward King

We're living in a nation
where there's growing condemnation
of what is done to those who cannot talk
I was blind to all that pain
so I couldn't feel the shame
in that broken piece of body on my fork
Then I wondered could any child
breed a bird that can't be wild
to eat its wings, take off its legs and its head?
no.
So we pay for hidden slaughter
'til we've addicted sons and daughters
to our habit of eating the dead
And it's not so very long
since who could see the wrong
in breeding humans as slaves without pain
It could be a woman without a vote
or killing a leopard for its coat
did we ever see the evil of the day?
So do you think you're any better
now the animals we fetter
outnumber every human ten to one?
And many children hardly eat
because their food has fed your meat
while the blame for this shame you pass on
So give me avocados
and I'll eat tofu burgers
you can even give me black bean curd
But please, don't give me bread
if it's wrapping the dead
remains of the body of a bird
For every piece of flesh you buy
you're paying to breed the next to die
by compassion no longer we've led
And for the cow it's worse, I fear
they rod rape her every year
take every calf, take all her milk
until she's dead.
This choice you say is your right
that you can eat just as you like
and it's merely an opinion that I voice
But your choice, it kills so many
this opinion kills not any
and your victims, do you give them any choice?
So there's more to avocados and eating tofu burgers
than minimizing sickness and your girth
No less than Einstein did resolve
from eating flesh we must evolve
or mankind, he said, may not survive on earth
The age in which we're living is ever more misgiving
over what is done to those who cannot talk
are you blind to all that pain?
Can you not feel the shame
in that broken piece of body
on your fork?

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released November 18, 2023

cover art: jim simpson

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the tortoise and my hair Guelph, Ontario

diary of a decomposing dog

this diary on this scary day is one of warmth again and play i am not going to say what my feeling really is in fact it’s just a lark that i have any at all no one’s left to listen, no one ever has, my bed’s been made un-wizened so been judged to be the best, but somehow just one wrinkle in my head is always left. ... more

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