tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26915218742158435822024-03-13T01:51:30.174-07:00Drunk Love HeartPoetry in Blissful Pursuit - with akka b.akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-73597481277446572922013-01-23T16:16:00.000-08:002013-01-23T16:43:53.113-08:00Drunk Love Sleeping Pill - WHERE did akka b. go? <br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My</span></i> </span><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">drunk love blog</span><span style="color: #666666;"> has taken a drunk love sleeping pill. Have you noticed? </span><i style="color: #666666;"><b>Where did akka b. go?</b> </i><span style="color: #666666;">Did she fall off the sidewalk? Did she fall in love? Did she fall like a leaf? Did she take a trip? Did she GET A JOB!?! Did she get lost in the woods? Did she drink too much tabasco sauce? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><b>Oh, I have so much to share with you...</b></i> it drives me crazy how much! But instead of sharing every turn on my trail, <i>right this very second</i>, I am saving up my creative surprises and investing them ALL (or mostly all) in a whole new website, with a slightly and perhaps entirely new direction, and slightly and perhaps entirely new look!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Sometimes it just takes a while to do the next thing. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Meanwhile,</b></i></span> please keep up with my whereabouts, wanderings and wonderings by hanging with me over here: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/drunkloveheart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>FACEBOOK</b></span></a><span style="color: #666666;">. I'll be posting updates and letting everyone know when the new website will launch. Also, I'm totally digging </span><a href="http://www.instagram.com/drunkloveheart" target="_blank"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b>INSTAGRAM</b></span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> - a favorite new distraction as of late, where I'm having a jolly ol' time making pretty photos that look like poems. <i>At least to me they do. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">My heart feels tickly imagining our wonderful exchanges soon to come. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Till then, Cheerio!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course, It only took me all day to get -<i> to the rocks. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The clouds responded with the same drunken light that stole me from my schoolwork as a kid. I let myself be swallowed by this light...rain...as the crickets groaned, "The rain is here! The rain is here!" I was wrong... they didn't "groan" they chirped. </span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #660000;"> When my brother Atma shared he would be an instrumental part of the team of film makers documenting <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries" style="color: #660000;" target="_blank"><b>THE RIDE HOME</b></a> - my heart sprang open! Being born into a lineage of Native American people, we both have long felt the call to help bring healing to the wound that still cuts deep through the roots of North America. For this reason I am compelled to share this very special project and invite you to lend your support.</span></i><br />
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<i>On firm request of the <b><a href="http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/" style="color: #674ea7;" target="_blank">International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers,</a></b> a ground-breaking event is set to commence
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<a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">THE RIDE HOME</span></a> resurrects the forgotten journey of
this country's First Nation. Born from a vision received by Grandmother
Margaret Behan (Arapahoe-Cheyenne); A mass healing for native and
non-native people alike, will unfold in retracing the bittersweet steps
of the Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. <br />
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On the back of Wild (rescued) Mustangs, riders from varied backgrounds will sew the
path of forgiveness and closure, through invocation, ceremony,
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passage of empowerment (for all-nations), will be documented by a small
crew of film makers not only for historical purposes, but to educate on a
global scale - the importance of releasing cultural grievances,
embracing forgiveness as a means of transformation and returning to the
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<b><span style="color: #660000;"> PLEASE HELP MAKE THE DOCUMENTATION OF THIS JOURNEY POSSIBLE!</span></b> Funding is needed to support this ride, the film crew, and production expenses. All support is appreciated - either financially or by helping share the <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries" style="color: #674ea7;" target="_blank"><b>Kickstarter Campaign</b></a><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span>or <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/theridehomedocumentary" style="color: #674ea7;" target="_blank">The Ride Home Facebook Page</a> </b>with your
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Please follow this link to learn more about this historic event and donate what you can.... <b style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries" style="color: #674ea7;">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries </a><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1834620749/the-ride-home-a-documentary-and-webseries" target="_blank"></a></b>akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-78266798003246838372012-05-16T06:44:00.002-07:002012-05-17T21:55:58.775-07:00Deeper - Into - The Mystic<div style="color: #444444;">
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<b>On the heel of hell,</b> I had the epiphany one might expect to have - on the heel of hell... <i> tip toeing around who I really am, has been backfiring. </i>It's that simple. </div>
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I was crying like a poet last week. With all the passion, fury, longing, aching, loving, searching that a poet is made of - that we all are made of. Pounding down the door of my heart for answers to the flood of emotion and simultaneous stagnation I've been grappling with. Calling out to for understanding of my conundrum, all while sliding deeper into the mess pouring forth from my own impish behavior... The louder I call, the deeper I fall. <b>WAIT! IT'S MY OWN IMPISH BEHAVIOR!</b> That's the answer! I've been wading in 'the answer' this whole time. Ugh. </div>
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<b>Simple, <i>but subtle</i> -</b> but "subtle" is not that simple when your mind is caught in the muck. The outline I've created for myself artistically is correct and leaps and bounds from where I was a few years ago. I've been making art, and words, and public speaking, and producing events, and engaging socially, and trying new things, but without a full commitment to who I am. It's like I have one finger pressed firmly on the 'off' button, while the other finger is holding fast to the one that turns it all 'on.' </div>
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Being half ones own greatness is pure hell. You would think it might suffice in a pinch. But a pinch doesn't last very long. Being half of what and who you are meant to be - keeps you always living at <i>the half-way point.</i> <b>Half-way here, half-way there - <i>stuck in the middle.</i></b> Sort of good, sort of bad, - <i>mostly mediocre.</i> Everything is partially working, partially broken, but. not. going. anywhere. </div>
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Fear is my go-to vice, when standing on the precipice of my full power. <b>What would happen if I <i>were</i> fully empowered - If I gave myself permission to thrive?</b> <i>Is it so scary?</i> Is it worse than being at the halfway point? </div>
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There is living in me, a mystic, a healer, a lover, a child, a mother - a poet. All the elements of my sweet insides depend on one another. If I deny one part of me, the other is thrown off balance and I suffer <i>and you know what?</i> Those around me suffer too. </div>
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<b>Standing on the precipice <i>is so</i> - 1999. </b></div>
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<b><i>'</i><i>Let it be wild, let it be weeds, let it be - sacred weeds.'</i></b></div>
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Let your heart out<br />
Let it OUT! <br />
Let it breathe <br />
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Let it fall into your stomach <br />
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Leaving scratch marks on the hardwood floor<br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"> Let it get stuck there for a while -<br /> If it will help push the rivers out your eyes <br /> Or swell into a song that jumps off your <br /> Quivering lips... <br /> <br /> Yes, let lips quiver with heart so full<br /> Exposed<br /> Fully<br /> Quivering<br /> Like an arrow pulled taught over your handmade bow<br /> Your whole life<br /> On the line, on the bow<br /> Like an arrow<br /> One gorgeous heart <br /> Becomes an arrow </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">akka b.</span></div>akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-8148313788874323742012-05-10T14:13:00.000-07:002012-05-10T14:13:45.001-07:00Little Tea Pot<span style="color: #666666;">I LOVE THIS! It's how my heart thinks! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hi nice people who read this blog!</b></span> Southern California has been outrageous <i>and</i> beautiful - <i>as usual.</i> Even though the beauty of this place forever stares us yuppy/hippies straight in the face, it's not always apparent when one is having a <i>mood.</i> I was totally stuck in my muck last week - but then,<i> breakthrough!</i> It arrived with that FAT full moon some of you may have noticed came to sit upon all of humankind the last couple days. Whoa! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh Great Goddess of Sense of Humor </span></div>
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Please remind your friends of the J O K E you have played. <i> </i></div>
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<i>Ya know,</i> THIS LIFE ---- the funniest JOKE ever made!!! </div>
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<u style="color: purple;"><b>Secret #1:</b></u> I was conceived in Native American healing grounds - near a creek, in a cabin, under some trees. </div>
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<u style="color: purple;"><b>Secret #2:</b></u><span style="color: purple;"> </span>I'm a Libra with a Taurus Ascendent and a Scorpio Moon. That means I'm a charming negotiator seeking balance between a very earthy, luxurious, beauty filled relationship to the world and good 'stuff' and a vivid calling to mystical dimensions, longing to to live as a hermit, delve into the psychic realms, spiritual pursuits and leave the "real" world far far behind. </div>
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<b style="color: purple;"><u>Secret #3:</u></b> I was raised in the multi-generational home my grandfather built. Meaning... with my two brothers, my parents, my grandparents and a dog. </div>
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<b style="color: purple;"><u>Secret #4:</u></b> We didn't go to church when I was a kid, we went to see an Indian Guru who I thought was Santa Claus. Well, I knew he wasn't Santa Claus, but he sure seemed as magical and even MORE magical than Santa Claus to me. He could read my mind and made my heart burst open like a thunder storm. </div>
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<b style="color: purple;"><u>Secret #5:</u></b> When I was a kid I didn't like playing with toys or kids - they were an intrusion on my private River of Imagination. When kids<i> did</i> come over, I would hide the pictures of my Indian Guru in the closet so they wouldn't have a chance to make fun of the guy in orange with a strange bindi on his forehead. </div>
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<b style="color: purple;"><u>Secret #7:</u></b> I didn't think I would be a writer and I didn't try to become a writer - I just am a writer. I'm a writer because I'm an observer. I didn't talk much as a kid, I watched. Even when I started talking more, I kept watching - examining patterns and listening to everything that went unsaid. When I felt like it, I wrote my observations down. After a while I came to understand the healing power of words and embraced them as a means of self-expression and catalyst for transformation. </div>
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<u style="color: purple;"><b>Secret #8:</b></u> I'm actually a healer. When I want to... I see lights around people and in the sky and <i>IF</i> I want to, I can see spirits and hear what people aren't saying out loud. When I was a kid I could use my hands to heal, now that I'm an adult, I use my words. </div>
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<u style="color: purple;"><b>Secret #9:</b></u> I'm a single mom to a 12-year-old amazing girl child, born on the hottest day in August after an owl left a feather on the lawn. She's my rock and I am her magician. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><u style="color: purple;"><b>Secret #10:</b></u> I love mango's with all my heart. Please send me some. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">This blink is a wink to my singer/songwriter friend <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/danima" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Dani Ma</span></a>... Please visit her latest project and donate: <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/danima" style="color: #444444;">http://www.indiegogo.com/danima</a></span><br />
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<br />akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-73213068407220752762012-04-18T14:30:00.000-07:002014-01-18T13:28:33.345-08:00Two Nice Angels And A Girl Standing In The Rain Trying Not to Die<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>How is that possible? Thunder always budges her. </i></div>
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<b>She liked it. </b></div>
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<i>You mean to say it didn't change her life like she expected it to? </i></div>
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<b>She wasn't ready. </b></div>
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<b>She called it "Purpose" but refused to offer a description. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Staring blankly out the window in front of me, I observe evidence that I <i>have</i> in fact been busy, because of what is grossly spread behind me. Notes taped over the entirety of the wall, stacks of real books and note books on every available surface. Colored pens, pastels, paint brushes strewn, jewelry weaving projects in a half finished mess on the antique tray near my closet, piles of clothes - approximately three of them - in various positions on the bed, carefully heaped on the floor, and thrown with great intention to 'put-away' across the back of the chair that isn't meant for that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> My blank stare softens into a grin. I'm not sure what I've been doing, but at least it looks worthwhile. If someone - <i>anyone</i> walked in on this, they would likely have some questions. I wouldn't have answers by the way. But I would invite them to stare out the window with me. </span>akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-323985768915109832012-04-11T14:13:00.002-07:002012-04-11T14:39:41.516-07:00I'm a Little Rain Blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It rained last night and I feel encouraged to begin again; this beautiful blog that I love. It's April. The last time I posted - it was December. <i>Have I abandoned my readers? </i>No. I toyed with feeling guilty, but it's too boring to feel guilty. Guilty makes me feel stuck. Stuck feels boring. It rained last night - that's not boring. Or guilty. It's beautiful. <i>As beautiful as this sweet little blog that I love. </i></span></div>
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Months of not-at-all</div>
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<b>I</b> poured all my heart in to <a href="http://drunkloveheart.com/drunk-love-heart-the-cd/">this.</a>
All the way. This infusion of sound, melody, words, muse, poems,
laugh–tears, ancestors, rivers, rocks, trees, friends, help, love… is
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<b>THANK YOU</b> – Rory Anton of <a href="http://purefunrecords.com/">Pure Fun Records</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What an honor! So blessed! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TEDxOjaiWomen">TEDx Ojai Women</a> for inviting me to be part of such an amazing ensemble! </span></div>
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<i>Gratitude is a skill. Don't ever let anyone tell you it's not. To know 'thank you' in your bones is much different than knowing it off the tip of your tongue. You've got to want it, strive for it, grow it and be willing to friend (or kill) the beast that guards the gates to it. I'm not always grateful - I'm often a spoiled little sour puss. BUT when gratitude hits me over the head and enters my heart - </i></div>
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I've been invited to speak at the local TEDx Conference being hosted in Ojai, California. <i>Whooooooohooooooo!!</i> Between an amazing line up of brilliant women, I will be sharing about the magic of living from the heart, and what happens when we give ourselves... <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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My capacity to hold, experience and express love seems directly related to how willing I am to examine, process and let go of darkness and pain. What I've learned over the past several months of unusually heavy self-reflection, is when faced with gnawing hurt - go deeper. Walking into, <i>and not away from </i>the aching place disempowers the negative self-story where rage and grief breed. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Her lips are covered in beet juice again and her eyes have turned to green. But don't worry about the hearts slipping out the top of her head... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>That's pretty normal this time of year. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Sweet Big Tiger</b> with your sweet big toes and your tricksy big tiger tail. Savage like you're supposed to be savage, and passionate like you're supposed to be passionate, and powerful like all the best. <i>But who gave you those rabbit paws Sweet Big Tiger?</i> Who gave you that rabbit chortle, sweet big, fierce big, merciless big, restless tiger? </span>akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-6084108362303911722011-10-20T14:12:00.000-07:002011-10-21T00:12:04.847-07:00Fierce Little Rabbit<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b>FIERCE LITTLE RABBIT</b> with your fierce little rabbit ears and your swift little rabbit eyes. Soft like you're supposed to be soft, and bouncy like you're supposed to be bouncy, and loveable like all the best. <i>But who gave you those tiger claws Fierce Little Rabbit?</i> Who gave you that tiger growl, fierce little, cuddly little, lovely little, happy rabbit? </span></span>akka b.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12882674302297915491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691521874215843582.post-23494102456203377252011-10-12T14:35:00.000-07:002011-10-12T14:36:14.470-07:00Dear Sweet & Grungy Poets<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Break a leg </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">or</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Drink a keg</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The man said, "lay an egg."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(And for some reason it made the whole world peel back </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">like that snake skin I was writing about earlier today... )</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">* </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I don't have to get hurt ------- to be lucky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Or be under the influence of... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Some </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">'Outside' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just lay the darn egg</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It's already made</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It just needs to be laid</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">And</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's free.</span></span></div>
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Me. Laying an egg at <a href="http://www.ojaiartcenter.org/">The Ojai Art Center</a> October 10th 2011</div>
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An event sponsored by <a href="http://www.theojaibubble.com/">The Bubble</a> Publication.</div>
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