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Junkyard James

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when i drink soda, i feel like a rich man

After staying up all night working on math homework in the computer lab at western, I have an hour to kill before my class. I rode my bike up the hill and when i got to the top the sky was purple, and...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:55:00 GMT

the parking lot fields

I had more dreams about things breaking down and getting old. Candy in my pocket, and when I put it in my mouth there was sand caked onto the sticky sweet fruit-flavored shell. Short skirts and ripped...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:34:00 GMT

cept to sing for a rock n roll band

All of your private aesthetic judgements passed on various works of art and music will someday coalesce into a single cohesive being which will then proceed to bite the shit out of you. I swear that n...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:14:00 GMT

be still, be still

"Be still and know that I am God."Tonight I meditated on this verse. I just lay on the floor and chilled out for a good hour thinking about it. And I felt soooo good. I knew. I felt my spirit lift. It...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:57:00 GMT

chair

I think I am no longer afraid of life, as long as I long at it from over here. For many reasons. If I look at it from my delicate perch in this chair, the one that you made for me with your hands, I a...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:06:00 GMT

say yah, eh?

In my day dream there is a big van, and Nick Yarosz my best friend ever is driving it. And inside are my best road-trippin buds. And the girls don't wear lipstick anymore and they dont cover their fre...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:09:00 GMT

and then we wake up

I rolled over in my sleep last night more that I ever have. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It was compulsive - I thought I was reasonably comfortable, but apparently my body did not agree.Last n...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:56:00 GMT

looking for astronauts

I was raking leaves in the dark, and it was pretty cold, and I was listening to a song that my friend Andrew wrote about his then-girlfriend. And I felt like my body was a machine that I was finally l...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:54:00 GMT

dance party at the golden spoon

This is a song I wrote today for a band I'm in with Nic Harris called Lovestranger, MD.V 1dance party at the golden spoonand i slept till noonwoke up but not to youcalifornias not right for me i taste...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:20:00 GMT

lucky

I have gotten to swim with angelslisten to little kids talk about motorcycles and colors they see in rainand take pictures of my dreamsand my friends are all on fire and I am thankful to get to yell a...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:42:00 GMT