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I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

Tom Waits

Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
The folks who know the truth aren’t talking. The ones who don’t have a clue, you can’t shut them up!
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Talk Truth Yourself
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
The earth is not my home, I’m just passing by.
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Earth Home Myself Philosophy Travel Wisdom
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong – I have audio illusions.
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Audio Illusion Myself Sick Wrong
When your down on your luck and you’ve lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans.
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Down Dreams Luck Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
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
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
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
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement

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