"How will you ever know, the way circumstances go, oh its going to hit you by surprise but I know my past....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3zreo4ZvQ
Five Days in May by Blue Rodeo
It has been as I predicted a lacklusture Queen Victoria long weekend here. Much like the hockey game this afternoon between the Wings and the Hawks. Detroit's win was tiring to watch and not at all as exciting a game as one would have thought.
I wrote the piece below an hour or so ago.
Bitterly Adult
The days can weave themselves a meaningless pattern
Births, funerals, marriages and divorces unrecognized
People coming and going without remembering either
Our mind conspiring with insanity creating bad karma
Every comment uttered bites back at us full of venom
I am getting very good at being absent but not invisible
The latter is impossible because we are always viewed
Society forces us out into the light and its cruel hunger
Guys devour girls from head to toe and nipple to clitoris
Women steer men towards their own mirrors and vanity
Everywhere is Hollywood and imperfection is nowhere
I am about as completely flawed as anyone can become
There is hardly a day where I am not surprised by living
My confidence does not exist and my nucleus is broken
The heart still beats but unlike earlier it no longer loves
Stubbornness keeps me from dying unnecessarily today
I suppose it will continue until there is sufficient regrets
How can these really be measured one person to another
Spoiled by a calm childhood has made me bitterly adult
The reasons began physically and have become mental
Mannerisms are natural but mine are strangely peculiar
With money I could be eccentric but the poor are weird
I can hear the wind of another cool but sunny afternoon
May is being unpredictable unlike me solemnly writing
There has not been enough rain to wash the street clean
Dirt will last longer than you or me and you will forget
My memories know more about me than you will learn
The elderly couple embraces as they did fifty years ago
Death knocks for one of them but neither one is ready
I am genuinely inspired by their strength but still weak
A year or two of peaceful sleep would do a lot of good
But unfortunately there is waking and everything after.
17/05/09
Obligatory Counting Crows Clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpfsxszVEQ
A Long December (May 16, 2009 Cardiff, South Wales)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKbH9gTdmQ
Mr. Jones (May 16, 2009 Cardiff, South Wales)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATboL2bb4Ss
Speedway (May 16, 2009 Cardiff, South Wales)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_qso9x8N7Y
When I Dream of Michelangelo (May 11, 2009 Manchester, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1at1_f218A
Miami (May 14, 2009 Wembley Arena, London, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_G0019pddU
Colorblind (May 11, 2009 Manchester, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7UQHSHJTw
New Frontier (May 14, 2009 Wembley Arena, London, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmcVSums-_A
Come Around (August 19, 2008 Toronto, Canada)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1huAWlXu8tY
Good Time (May 14, 2009 Wembley Arena, London, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKpIuWHbLc
Holiday in Spain (May 14, 2009 Wembley Arena, London, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHB5xM_UQXc
Children In Bloom (May 13, 2009 Birmingham, England)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XNgmM0KJXs
You Ain't Going Nowhere (August 19, 2008 Toronto, Canada)
Those who say knowing is better obviously do not know enough.
jr.