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Enter Sand.

Shorn of faith
Too bloody serious
Dipped a toe in the sea
Not funny, just cold, just cold

These gadgets do not help… or do they?
I certainly feel very connected and in touch.
So the absence of attention from …

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and on and on and

and on and on and.
pulled from the crowd, blessings beseached
now get back to your seat

the very most reverend,
getting irrelevant
but not on this watch

a space where we tie our laces and learn how to count…

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Get Over It…

It’s just a placeholder. Somewhere a header and beneath a footer and between and betwixt some random stumbling. He has been pottering around of late, tangled in the usual threads of fancy, maybe pedantic, maybe procrastinating, certainly diffused and confused …

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Shored Up

On the Eastern side of the wood, with the sun just gone down over the hill. The rock is wet and cold and slippy, a bare line of slate ninety degrees to the shore, and well away from the path. …

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Clamour

Unused to this cold, and unused to this swing of things.
A simple patchwork man, more breath and less reason.
A country that has thrown off its clothes and sanity, running cursed between the cars of a real capital.
Not …

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Just to Say

Just to say, in some other way,
With music in my ears,
And raindrops light as tears
Today, today.

The boiler abruptly stops, the dryer’s rumbling ceases.
The dishwasher sloshes to a halt, the microwave beeps and then.
Domestic silence …

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Look Alive

Demo (snippet): [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/lookAlive.mp3|titles=Look Alive]

you’re so worn out
everybody look alive
everybody look alive
everybody look alive

you come, you come
you’re too worn out
you won you won
I know I know

everybody look alive
everybody look alive
everybody …

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Star Reaching Preachin

demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/starReachingPreaching.mp3|titles=Star Reaching Preaching]

Keep it in order
Keep on the border
Keep it for me and I will need no other.

Ready for motion.
Ready devotion.
Ready to try your latest ‘Drink Me’ potion.

I know it’s under- understood, …

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The Blank Slate

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/BlankSlate.mp3|titles=Blank Slate]

It’s a long wait, for the blank slate, to begin to, make ammends to everybody
talking, without cables, disconnected, unaffected, wishing they were
alright- not so uptight, not so clued out, not so ignorant, telling others’ stories…

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Detour

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/detour.mp3|titles=Detour]

chords:

strum each couplet 8 times quickly
d 4 5 2 0
a 5 7 3 2

chorus: C G

e 3 3
b 0 0
g 0 0
d 2 0
a 3 2
e – 3…

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Not Finished Yet

Chords: A E (with 0-3-0 Hon/Poff on the A string)
Then C D for the ‘chorus’

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/NotFinishedYet.mp3|titles=Not Finished Yet]

World on your shoulders
Weight on your chest.
Getting ever older,
But you’re not finished yet.

They say it’s gone, …

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The Lease

We are not owners.
Despite the forms you just filled out.
Despite the full support of the finest judges.
The money in your pockets.
The land outside your door.
The car in your driveway.
The heart in your chest.
You …

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Limbo Bimbo

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/limboTown.mp3|titles=Limbo Town]

There’s ghosts out in the ocean, enough to make it swell.
And the waves they go a rolling, from heaven down to hell.
I know I’m not alone here, wonder if I’m under some spell?
I know …

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All Tracks Lead to Hear

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/allTracks.mp3|titles=All Tracks Lead to Here]

In the image of a love, a parody of plainness,
I was knocking around, suffering from sameness.
On an edge, on a corner, on a line.

Now the sun is raised up, over ruins …

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Your Life

Demo: [audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/noOption.mp3|titles=Your Life]

Here is nothing if it makes you want to go,
Is nothing if it makes you want to leave to get away and feel alive.
I say nothing and I’m rooted to the spot,
Say nothing while …

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Worth

I can’t quite put my finger on it.
The value of what’s in my hands I guess.
I look away to see what others pick.
Can’t accept that they might pay something less.

The word on the wire is all …

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Amnesia

[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/amnesia2.mp3|titles=amnesia2]

And it won’t go right away
It won’t go anyhow
Can’t forget what has been said
Or bury everyone in sand

Streets are crossing through my head
Traffic jams at every bend.
Roads converge in tangled webs
Lights go …

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Stolen March

I don’t know the when and where
I’ll find you then and meet you there
In the end it’s all the same
Stolen march and borrowed fame.

I folded it and passed it on,
A paper declaration of, my doubt…

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(In) Memory of a Goldfish

have to lose to want to get
space travel for dummies
space travel for life

the ether in my brain is candy floss
the crystals in my soul are stolen
you either know or not and I’m lost
the jump-starts …

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about face

Find yourself in the unfamiliar
the foreign,
the other…
Find what, exactly?

Bloody changes changing changed
Welcome welcome sit and beat and rearrange
Can’t help myself the way it goes
Give it up until it shows

Easy in and never …