The only surviving photos of me at Saturday's Celtic Faire:

Meme: set your music collection to shuffle. The first lines of the first twenty songs make up a poem; the first line of the 21st song is the title.


She Said She Wanted Me

My canoe lies on the water
I was standing
when the sun goes nova

Got no social graces
every breath you take
Oh tell me what was on your mind

Look out the window, what do I see?
Billboards promise paradise
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
all that you touch

This is me forever
praying mantis on screen
I'm a cold heartbreaker
Look in the mirror and tell me
for whom the gun tolls

I never had anything happen so fast
body lines fluid in static heat

Up on the hillside
they're pickin' up the prisoners
all alone, or in twos


Hm. That almost made sense -- in a weirdly disjointed and depressing sort of way. I think it's mostly Cockburn...

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