once_in_a_lifetime then the twister comes (here comes the twister) and you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack 010508 ... into the blue again (after the moneys gone) and you may find yourself in another part of the world 010508 ... letting the days go by (water flowing underground) and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile 010508 ... letting the days go by (let the water hold me down and you may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife 010508 ... under the rocks and stones (into the silent water) and you may ask yourself "am i right or am i wrong?" 010508 ... once in a lifetime (there is water underground) and you may say to yourself "my god! we skipped a couple verses!" 010508 ... water dissolving and water removing and you may ask yourself "where does that highway go to? 010508 ... under the water to carry the water and you may ask yourself "How do i work this?" 010508 ... same as it ever was 010508 ... there is watter at the bottom of the ocean And you may tell yourself; "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" 010509 ... Alexander Beetle That ruled. Thank you very much, whoever you are. 011028 ... ClairE A little happiness can go a long way. 011208 ... birdmad as a gag, i have been trying to translate this as neatly as possible into spanish 020403 ... taojones in a fit of desperation, i'm clinging to what i suppose is the surface of some counter-top; my thumbs feel swollen---maybe they're broken, i dunno---and i'd like very much to continue clawing my way out of this silent nightmare. i ask for change, hand over the folded bill... there's writing all over it---so much that she checks to see if it's actually money, which of course it is. tick-tick... i'm handed a series of bills in return, wondering how she chose these particular denominations; i haven't specified. i study the bills laboriously, appearing determined to find what i-suppose-she-supposes are flaws or otherwise incongruent marks which may give them away as counterfeit... which of course, they aren't. i walk out, reach in my pocket for my keys which i retrieve but then remember that i'd walked. i sigh, and remind myself to take some ibuprofen when i get home... O N C E I N A L I F E T I M E 021226 ... FA113N Once in a lifetime, you get to say "fuck the rules" and go against convention. You get to throw caution to the wind, go against what society, your friends, your parents, your peers think. Chase the dream, follow the path less travelled. Go on an adventure. But what if you did that once and it ended in the wreckage of your life? That's what happened to her. So now... Now I know I wasted that once in a lifetime. I threw it all away. And that's the point. You don't get twice in a lifetime. It is once upon a time for a reason, and I don't fit in her fairytale. 130227 ... ego hum you get born 211105 ... ego hum you die 211105 ... ego hum once in a lifetime sometimes is forever 211105 what's it to you? who go blather from