Mark Nichols

By Mark Nichols & Mehnaz Hoosein

Kismet kismet aye meri kismet
Tu mera lamha aye meri kismet
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Don't worry, babies
You're lucky just like me
We are the way we are
What else could we be?
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I am hunting gathering
Roam the earth and happ'ly sing
O all I want is there for me
All I ask for nature bring O
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Now we know
More than we did before
A little bit more than we did before
Something inspires me to want to know more
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You've been hunting for something
You know how hard it is to survive
You've been gathering moments
Now kick your feet up
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Sometime after the beginning of the world
And many years before its end
There is a story of the frog who sings a different song
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There is a transformation
It goes like this:
From birth of civilization
And our own selves
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West County Sex Gang Anthem
Sweet Cerebral
Dreams of Spirits Smiling
Jester of Goodwill
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Symbols are extra-dimensional
They funnel and focus
Like magnifying glass to sun
Potholes
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We suck at guessing

We are not half as smart
At any given moment
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He was a great Businessman

Started by selling lemons
To kids who paid him to learn to make lemonade
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One small candle
Flickering, flickering
One small light
Brightly flickering
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I have been born again
Into the world of understanding
That what is new
Has existed since the first crustaceans
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I was open to the man early on
But skeptical
Even though I'm a self-identified
Democratic anarchist-animist
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Are you with me?
Names say a lot

There's a lot in a name.
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The Apostate collapses into an almost restful fallen position

She knows that she will have to be in this position
So she had used every drop of her energy
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The armies of fear & racism are still out there
camping in tents, starving themselves
Or barely living on stolen nourishment
But the vast legions, alive
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For those who believe God's way
Is peace and love
Yet sadly say, 'the real world
Doesn't work like that'
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Everything remembers everything
The elephants in the room
The medicine men
And the test tube men
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You know I love Delila
And she digs my nice long dread
But I'll shave it all off
And wax my head
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