The James Machine

Archive: April 2008

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Leave Me Be

And here is change;As you want itso it is.It finds you wreckedand leaves you to wonderis this it?I look around and...That's not true.I've been ignoringeverything.If I have chosen wisely,that would explain this feelingof dread.This weight upon my being.This sadness...It burnsbr...

Different For a Day

When I think about myselfI think in past tenseBut when I think about thatI wonder why that isIt feels exactly the same nowas it didA long time agoI hear my voice chantingthe samesad mantra, callingthe samespadesspadesSo why choose then over nowTo place my better daysWhen every...

Scheduled Maintenance

I need to replace the rotting boardson the front porch,but I probably won't.I should fix the sagging sidingas well,but why bother?Most of these walls need a coatof new paint,but it's never going to happen. Not to mention under the house,pipes and insulation,that's way out of m...

Self Portrait

Keeping busy seems to keep me at easethough my natural state is sleep walking To write and to sing helps me focus and thinkin a way that helps make me less crazy I want to pile it highbut have a rough timegetting started It may all go unnoticedand unappreciatedbut that's not w...

Mama Cita's

The fare of a white peopleburrito shopsits in my gut like a stone. It's a funny thing about white peopleburrito shops,their burritos are shaped like stones. This place was good, not an exceptionto the stone rule,but there were honest-to-goodnessmexicansworking there.You know.....

Waiting

hurry up and wait, a mantra clichédtraffic, technology, escapethe matters at handdon't really matter at allbut under themwe collapse from the weight. some wish to lose itsome wish to gaini personally find it hard to relate i take what i'm givenignore what i've madecomplacent.