i dreamt i saw you walking
up a hillside in the snow
casting shadows on the winter sky
as you stood there counting crows
one for sorrow, two for joy,
three for girls, and four for boys,
five for silver, six for gold, and
seven for a secret never to be told

there's a bird that nests inside you
sleeping underneath your skin
when you open up your wings to speak
i wish you'd let me in

from "a murder of one" ~ counting crows
bork bork bork bork bork bork bork

you people are just lucky i'm not some kinda sensitive slob that would totally spaz out and retreat into my little shell and never come out because i made some kind of massive change and no one noticed and everyone just kept walking by and ignored me and i broke down and cried to the turtle, "WHY!?!? Why do they all haaaaaate meeeee?! i just wanted their looooove! i only needed their admiraaaaaaation! i would have been happy to settle for their worshipping at my feet and serving me peaches and maraschino cherries from porcelain dishes painted like little leopards!" and then the gekko came along and commiserated about how he has the same problem and all the meerkats just chased him out of the kitchen with drill presses and by then Charlie Sheen asked me how i was doing and i cried some more because i don't like ladles so since i'm not a Philipino i'll just have to be a duck and waddle instead of running and i guess i should give the snowman back his Brandy because Santa sleeps with the fishies.

i have proof.


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confessed on Sunday, Feb. 09, 2003