from the vantage of vanity
from dust to disarray to dust infinity
mirrors won't freeze the lines on my hand
i trace and erase my face in the sand - N

here we are
washing away black memories
in white water-N

in your eyes i see generations of ignorance
in your face i feel nothing to aspire to
in your voice i hear empty words
you are a blob of flesh with a loaded gun
and all i can shoot you with is my camera. N

The Media is the Medium
The Medium is the Message
And the Message is a lie
-N

give us this day our daily bread
and a cake or two my lord-N

jealousy and possessiveness
two sides of a coin
one a mind with no imagination
the other the murder of a mind-N 

i remembered my future
old age and death
i remembered the cure
look back and forget-N 

the mirror's cracked along

the angles of my face

where do i belong

in it's tangled embrace

the looking glass

looks back at me in wonder

i look through the mask

only to see a stranger
-N

another life another season
where is the rhyme to reason

where will this dust take me

when will my skin break me

will my spirit come touch the stone

of things i loved but left alone
-N

I awake to the groggy hangover of sanity
symmetry of line
infidelity of motion
on other continents
under darker skies
we might have been lovers of the light
here we are acquaintances
groping for the end of a line
in a confusion of options
I sit in half shadows
menu in hand
alternatives swimming dimming
saturated by choice
hunger unfulfilled
appetite satiated. N

sweet child in time
you'll see the light
from stone to spirit
from naked to night
-n

 here you are on the blue highway, halfway here, halfway there. here you are on the blue mountain, halfway up, halfway down. stranded and exiled, looking out to sea, holding onto misplaced gods and what you might have been. n

i watch the taillights in the sky starting and ending. fading down pillared corridors into another world. away from the trivial the inane the babble the trash. away from life's symmetry of madness. n

you will be my night as life is my day-N