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The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Tom Waits

I don’t like the stigma that comes with being called a poet. So I call what I’m doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.
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Adventure Call Improvisation Myself Poet
The dog won’t bite if you beat Him with a bone.
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Beat Bite Bone Dog Yourself
You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.
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Herself Learning Woman
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.
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Drink Myself Problem
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I’ll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
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Initial Myself Scratch
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
Slept all night in the cedar grove, I was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin’ for the holy grail, but there ain’t nothin’ sweeter than ridin’ the rails.
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Born Myself Night Search Sleep Sweet
I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.
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Hate Myself Prime
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
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Care Entertainment Lying People Truth Yourself
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
I’m not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
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Fight Justice Myself World

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