Were That I a Rose

Were that I a rose growing on an all black floor,
Kept in the dark during the day in cool twilight
Hidden in a glass vase behind velvet red curtains.
Were that I stood before an infinite sea,
Under a galaxy of luminescent stars lighting the sky,
Bobbing and weaving to the windy whims of orchestral
shadows like Atlas holding up the world above them.
Were that I a rose with a face to meet the coming tides,
Petals changing colors and stems rising and falling,
while the leaves sprout and drop.
Were that I a rose, bearing pollen as the prima donna
of some field of daisies and daffodils,
bowing before the chorus of dandelions' applause.
Alas; I am in the weeds; I am not that rose,
but she blooms in my garden.

Four Thieves Gone

One just fell dead on his back,
after listening to the track.

-The Avett Brothers

Who Watches...

DR. MANHATTAN
          I tried to explain. Thermodynamic
         miracles--events with odds against so
         astronomical, like oxygen turning into
         gold. I have longed to witness such a
         thing and yet I neglect that in human
         coupling, millions upon millions of cells
         compete to create life over generation
         after generation: Until finally, your
         mother loves a man--Edward Blake, the
         Comedian--a man she has every reason to
         hate. And out of that contradiction,
         against unfathomable odds, it was you,
         only you, that emerged. To distill so
         specific a form from all of that chaos;
         Your creation is like . turning air
         into gold. A miracle.

          LAURIE
          But if my birth is a miracle you, you
         could say that about anyone.

          DR. MANHATTAN
          Yes, anyone in the world. But the world
         is so crowded with miracles that they
         become commonplace and we forget. I
         forget.
         They stand there in silence. Connected for the first time in
         years.

          DR. MANHATTAN (CONT'D)
          Now. Dry your eyes.
    

          DR. MANHATTAN (V.0.)(CONT'D)
          And let's go home.

NAME THAT SHOW: Week One, June 16, 2009

"Evil Woman" - ELO
"The Distance" - CAKE
"Little Bribes" - Death Cab for Cutie (finally a band not in caps...)
"Feel Like Making Love" - Kid Rock (I feel like I should specify, this was a request.)
"You Don't Know Me" - Ben Folds featuring Regina Spektor (Request.)
"Bangers and Mash" - Radiohead
"Al the Killer" - Coheed and Cambria
"Your Love" - The Outfield
"Let's Stay Together" - Al Green
"Beer" - Reel Big Fish
"Feeling This" - Blink 182
"Electric Avenue" - Eddie Grant
"All My Loving" - The Beatles
"Beating Heart Baby" - Head Automatica
"I Cut Like a Buffalo" - The Dead Weather
"Die, Die, Die" - The Avett Brothers
"TNT" - AC~DC
"2+2=5" - Radiohead
"Hang Me Out to Dry" - Cold War Kids
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
"Legs" - ZZ Top (Requested by Uncle Bud...)
"Gravemakers and Gunslingers" - Coheed and Cambria
"Young Turks" - Rod Stewart
"She Wants to Move" - NERD (Caps again...?)
"Well Respected Man" - The Kinks
"Creep (Dramatic Reading) - Toughnuts
"Any Way You Want It" - Journey

Beatnik Prayer #9

for too long have i

;

the east coast, so much more

civilized then the west.

;

wished to see New England.

Beatnik Prayer #8

In this twilight,
I wonder,
how much rest does the sun need?

...she said, "

He read me poetry on the beach,

while the sun went down into the water,

a small insignificant thing on the surface,

the depths were so

full.

While my eyes became heavy,

he kissed my stomach dry from the sun now,

and sang to me,

as polite sips of wine were exchanged

in each kiss.

I smiled, "That was lovely."

"Quite lovely."