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Rhinoceros
00:50
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Rift-raft rocks & conjugal visits
Steering wheels are punctured
One thing leads to another
Oh, the salivation!
Bartenders have the right of way
And show their little pink noses
To the sky . . . to and fro . . .
Backbones & rhythms
Conjugal visiting hours are over
I think I'll just stay here and sleep
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2nd Place
00:25
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It is only important to forget--
Remember that time when I didn't
Remember everything?
I came in second place once
And my nose was bleeding
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Matthew
00:56
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If you do something for long enough
Something will happen
Hype up that Black & Mild, baby!
I'm not dead in a fucking ditch . . .
But I do like the sound a doorbell makes
Daniel thinks John Lennon is a poser
I think he's dead
He also thinks it's a good idea
To turn Edgar Allan Poe into punk rock songs
Valley died in like 2008
And I stole his 'White Album'
I think he knew it was me
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Punch Buggies
00:55
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Stupid young kids challenge authority
But then it rains and they get wet
And they cry and run with garbage bags
All the way to the police station
To write an article how there is no God
And the Pleasures are #1 in WNC
Football is the most important thing in the world;
You got to be a football hero
To get the beautiful girls
Some people punch other people
Every time they see a Volkswagen
The black water tank is clogged
Vacuum out all the shit
And remember that we're on septic
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The Secret Word
00:38
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Jazz music is more sophisticated
And I keep on writing . . .
You can either make it up
Or remember it
You could also be mysterious or you
Could be straight-forward . . .
If I write something down,
Do I wish someone would read it?
And if they do, will they pick up
On all the mysterious little made-up memories
I'm being straight-forward about?
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The Glass Man
01:17
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Honesty is the best policy
And the glass man came back
Because sometimes people shoot themselves
In the head
Sometimes people shoot themselves in the arm
Through a vein with a little needle
Because they are impatient and afraid of death
Trains carry thoughts to far away places
Or just the next county over
Either because they are running from something,
Pretending to be someone else,
Or just genuinely interested in traveling
Most of the time, the thoughts come back, too
Usually when someone is trying to sleep
That makes it hard to wake up
And I don't know why he had to return
But I think it was because he felt
Sorry for what he had done
Leaving us with a shattered-glass memory
And a discount store with rotten meats
Packed away in my grandmother's freezer
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Blue Herons
00:44
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Anything from this point on is contrived . . .
I thought of a number and fell four short . . .
Three now . . .
Some people have never seen a Blue Heron before
Others have seen one and didn't know what it was
Of those people, it is an even smaller percentage
Who think they resemble pterodactyls
Some of this I learned from a book
The rest I learned from living by a lake
With Blue Herons
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Magic Tricks
00:40
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When you don't think . . .
Magic happens
When you go to a magic show . . .
You don't think
But you do wonder how the tricks work
Then you begin to think you could probably do it yourself . . .
And all the magic disappears
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Love
00:38
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It was a colossal step-child and a
Colossal step-father who made these footprints . . .
Now they gather rain
And the two have gone off to some
Lesser world to hate
And blame each of the other's erotic fantasies
On the lack of appetite
For the drugs they took only made them
Giant-sized
And never taught them to love
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Pacific
00:57
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Eskimos drink hot chocolate
But it's actually cold
And the chocolate gets mad because it never gets
Weekends off and some Eskimo has to pretend
Those are actually tiny marshmallows
Running away to get married in warmer climes
And the purity of white snow
Is such that it will blind you
If you look directly into the sun,
Then at the snow,
Then back into your cup of cold hot chocolate
That once held all the little same-sex marshmallows
On their honeymoon in the Pacific
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George Brown Asheville, North Carolina
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