Room reverb

Today I befriended time.
Let it pass over me all day.
I watched the sun rise from my east-facing window and then watched its reflection set in the buildings downtown. I am underwater singing like a whale.

The air in the nighttime is heavy
with silence at first, then with beating of hearts; with whispers of breath released from the trees and the Yes to the breath of life from the death of dark
and I am underwater singing like a whale. The captain of the chaos squad is dancing in my mind
with euphemistic violent petty crimes, rocket ships
and land mines.

Today I befriended time
I sat in my room all day,
and I have thoughts to burn,
I have things to say.
I am underwater singing like a whale.

Ex-expectations include abundant food

If I wanted to leave now, would it be to my advantage?
Can't tell the on ramp from the dead end.

We’re experiencing some mechanical failure
Ten seconds from exploding on the freeway
But I don't know much about it, so let’s go on our way.
Let’s go on this way.

If I wanted to leave now, would it be to your advantage?
After all I am a maze, my path is winding
And turning upon itself to eat its own tail
It eats its own open mouth, its own words
Until there is nothing left to say, but it goes on some way.
We'll go on some way.

When you leave, if you leave, will it be to our advantage?
Not much that we do looks good on paper,
But it’s going round lately that print is out of style
Since now we know that paper news, it just gets burned
Until no one left remembers and we go on the same way.
And get away with it
The same way
We got away with it
In the first place
Yeah we’re all winners
All in first place.

Apples pinapples Curry potatos

We speak sixteen languages at home/ we love our many animals/ travel light drink coffee slow
Travel light drink coffee slow

We cram the concrete riverbed/ with cans of beer and blue and red/ pamphlets that fall from our hands
Messing with the city plans

The rain is pittering on my window
Pit pit pit pit pit pit pit pit you know
I remember when I was a kid
Streaming on the windshield, wipers go flick flick flick
At night the lights blur and go dreamy
Thunder makes us hide between the seats
Dad still drives seventy miles an hour
But no way we'll ever outrun this heat

The rain is pittering on my window
That means the river will be high
Sometimes I go down to the end of it
Sometimes I like to go at night
The concrete river in the city
Ends in a concrete waterfall
I lay there and pretend/ That I am in/ the mountains/ and not here serving coffee to you all
I find peace there

When the seeds are sewn and the sun is set/ and I'm lying in his tiny bed/ and I touch my finger to his head
Touch him with my eyes open
Touch him with the blinds open

The rain is pittering on my window
Pit pit pit pit pit pit pit pit you know
Tapping like a voyeur in the night
Who knew that dark could be so bright
Streetlights light up the lines that draw his face
No one looks up so we are safe
And for a minute I don't have to pretend
I'm at the river again I am on the mountain
Swimming in water again

The Taming of the Plesiosaurus

plesiosaurus looks for the appropriate mode of travel.

the snowmobile should do.

we find the plesiosaurus and attempt to domesticate him. we succeed.

creating evolution? evolving creativity?

So the story goes thusly: God made the earth in six days, made man out of dust in his image, made woman out of man, made the animals and plants that populate the earth. Is evolution biblically possible? Of course! Creationism can be reconciled with Darwin's theory if one realizes that God-days are probably much longer than people-days. Evolution's practically in the bible if you read between the lines. The dust was space dust that combined with gases and eventually water to become the unicellular organism that, through natural selection, became human. Pretty cool. I'm pretty sure that the rib/Eve thing was a metaphor.

The problem I have with strict atheism is that we can explain a godless universe up to the big bang. Where did the big bang come from? Where did that come from? Where did the thing before that come from?

Obviously there are probably answers. We may even get to them eventually. Not too long ago, the earth was indisputably flat, now it's indisputably round. Is creation incredible? Yes! Is there a god? Is there only one? Was our universe created by an exploding bullet fired in a god-level turf war? Maybe there is a god. Maybe there isn't, but I'm not going to entertain the inconsequential question of who created life. All I know is that I'm living it.

I suppose many political regimes would have their platforms made legitimate if the presence of a deity was made fact. Having faith in a legend or myth does not make it fact. How many people argue that they are religious because they were brought up that way? If someone is told that the stars are the souls of the dead over and over again from birth, of course they'll believe it, but repeating something over and over doesn't make it fact (or shouldn't, I believe). To prove whether or not stars are really the souls of the dead, one has to go to a star and run tests on it. If it's a ball of particles and gases the experimenter will get burnt to a crisp and die. If it's a soul, they may turn inside out or something. Another theory on what would happen if humankind did encounter a big shiny soul in the sky comes from Kelvin: "we'd merge and become a single consciousness, then travel to the next star. Once we've gathered all the souls together, we'd have achieved the apex of humanity, as we'd have no barriers between all of us. Everything would be open and free."

I can see this mechanism happening and I'm still on earth. A cute sub-theory branching from this theory would be that stars live on earth as sparkly little balls of fire within each and every one of us.

It may be comforting to believe that there is a god but debating in circles and trying to prove it is not productive. Acknowledging that there may or may not be a god, getting past it, and learning about ourselves, each other and our environment should be our first priority.

Evolution is amazing, a society that allows open discourses on religion is amazing. The implications of the globalization of scientific knowledge are amazing. Life is amazing no matter where it came from and it shouldn't be wasted writing blogs about wasting away life questioning theism.

It's cold and ah um diamonds lay

everywhere

and I'm too cold to go harvest them

and I'm too cold to bother

It's cold and, ah, um diamonds shovelled off the driveway

so you could get your car in yes

I live for your family

It's cold and ah, um, I walk through diamonds, I feel rich

and so full, drunk and eating leftover pizza

with my hands full of diamonds,

and my dog wants more...

and my cat's running around the house, she, always goes crazy at midnight, she,

always goes crazy at midnight, she,

kind of like my friends i keep

asleep for them but record make

every word in case of mistake

im there a silent bystander

drenched in diamonds, clothed in fir

Procrastination = bad, bad bad.

1. if you let the egg bake too long, it will burn and the teflon will come onto it
2. if you wait until spring to build the snow fort, you can't
3. if you are in the washroom until the song is over, the person you were going to dance with will be sad and you will experience heartache