Napoleon Prometheus

Posted on Friday 06 April 2012

to do away with things "i am"
i think back to when it all began

long before my OCD
and i obsessed o'er symmetry

an oblong shape, and born alone
no friends to call, no place my home

how could i say to the world at large
i am a boss, i am in charge?

an utterance might escape my mouth
"a republican from deep down south"

"a fireman, a loving friend"
"a kind and gentle man, husband"

i am those things?  i'm surely not
i'm an organism that's all i've got

i could barely say "i have hair"
i didn't though, i didn't care



the time will come to let it go
when it does, it helps to know

there was a time once in the past
you embraced a role, which held steadfast

in becoming it you became you
restless, eager, sudden, new

a page not written but splattered with ink
lips for kissing, and tears for cheeks

your inside out heart's embrace
full citizen of the human race

what a lovely birth gave you your role
you use it now just t' feign control

control you never really had
it's desperation, breathing ragged



shhhh my love it's a new year
there's no place far or near for fear

embrace me now as i hold close
the dearest reason of the most

important choice we'd ever made
in choosing freedom or t'be a slave

there's something powerful in 'i am'
something simple, something grand

if you are pursuing truth
be extra careful in your youth

not to base your image on
things you can't rely upon

namely anything you can think of
that isn't truth, respect, or love



base yourself on something more
want more than you bargained for

then you will end up on the floor
life's new bitch, you dirty whore

but if you hold your chin up steady
understand you're never ready

face the morning at the dawn
weed your garden, mow the lawn

you will get what's not come yet
earn your wager, don't have to bet

like the oceans and the seas
your well of karmic honesty

will not run dry, and never freeze
the slave that was?  has been set free


--_-
Michael @ 04:03 PM
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Filed under: Creative
Adium / Pidgin Chat Log Command Line cat utility!

Posted on Friday 16 September 2011

hello, check out chatcat a command line utility I just wrote for catting XML-based adium chat log files to a UNIX terminal. It comes in handy if you want to grep for certain things and be able to read them. Converts the XML data to ascii! enjoy <3
Michael @ 01:23 PM
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Filed under: Code Snippits
This Track

Posted on Monday 28 March 2011

I put this track on and it reminded me of a time long ago when we were happy together.   When we were close and we were naive about how much we loved one another.  At least I was naive about that kind of thing.  I can't remember what track it was, but it was just maybe a chord that reminded me.  Or a smell.  Or something just for a flash cos then a Rancid track came on shuffle play and I was glad you weren't in my life anymore.  Bye.
Michael @ 10:19 PM
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Filed under: Love
Robot St. James - Futurama

Posted on Saturday 19 February 2011

I love that he rocks out on only a mouse wheel.
Michael @ 03:25 PM
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Filed under: Bad Code Snippits
InfoWar 001 - Which Side Are You On?

Posted on Thursday 23 December 2010

Who's standing idly by watching intellectualism get pushed further into the margins?  Who's letting them undo the work of all that came before us?  Where are our heroes?  Are we really a lost cause?  Should we just quit?  We can't.

Please understand, we can't quit now. 

The governments are showing their true faces, they are not ready to give up the power we gave to them when we were scared.  I understand our fear.  It was fear we've never known here in America.  Yes contemporary American soldiers have seen some very heavy shit in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and elsewhere.  But US civilians have not.  So I understand why it's so easy for us to bitch out.  It wasn't like right after the civil or revolutionary wars, when regular citizens knew what it was to have a cannonball take their cousin's head off right in front of them.  So when we had the tragic, but relatively small events on 9/11 we were exposed to feelings we've never felt.  No one alive had seen an attack on the American mainland.  It was a tragic, tragic day.  People died.  America, the free nation, the proud country of sound ideals and principals, the country I love and would die for has been bleeding ever since 9/11.  We've been bleeding real freedom, we've been bleeding money, we've been bleeding innovation, jobs, trust, and decency.

How far does this have to go?  How much does the government need to know?  How many of our rights do we have to yield in order to get what?  Security?  Mark my words, Joe citizen, YOU and I... we let the terrorists defeat America on 9/11.  The greedy bastards we've elected have been licking their chops for decades waiting for us to get weak.  Well here we are, your kid has ADD, everyone's suffering from "depression", you trust all the wrong people making non choices chasing your stupid carrot on your stupid treadmill.  WAKE UP.

Please wake up.

__-_ 

Michael @ 09:50 PM
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Filed under: Politics