Confluence

It's not something I would recommend But it is one way to live The ascetic answer of passive removal isn't an answer at all you're no Antony or Benedict crying in a cave The denial of connection is...

I thought that disgust running through my veins Would subside all that rancor piss and vinegar Through the unqualified litmus test of time But every man standing next to me I see only fraud and...

Whether the last refuge of scoundrels Or the victuals of skinny failures and potbellied successes The colored cloth is first used to shrink-wrap the mind Then as a ceremonial shroud Everything in...

Grinded down night and day A railroaded practice to serve the greater public To provide another body in the casket of consciousness An acceptance of a failed jurisprudence And the off chance we...

Our surroundings do not beseech us for our control For what we do not know The grains of sand that erode away From our shrinking beaches From senescent chaparral To the sinking cities on an alluvial...

I've seen heroic falls Busted lips from microphone brawls Angelic songs sung by all within the Hardback walls It never mattered who you were or where you worked It never mattered who you were or what...

Sincerity is a hard hand to play Cutting down all our old friends Awash in sarcasm and alcohol With the banalities of pubescence Where such arrogance is no luxury of the defeated And the notions leech...

We wait for concrete rubble to crumble underfoot Or asphalt that has done its time In spite of knowledge of cleaner lines A dying relic Woven through frustrated cities And people who are forced to...

The confusion the came in the fall of '87 You warned me before my ears ever heard the shake And sixteen years on I found you placid peaceful and floating alone in that water without so much as a swell...

It is a question of physiology And the combination of man's most valuable trait A judicious sense of what not to believe But I read real hard with no answer to find And all satire aside it nagged at...