Gary Diamond

Above all else
The lessons I learned
Are probably not much more insightful
Than anyone else
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There's something classically appealing about a good woman
Dressed in different kinds of lingerie.
Some like it so much, they have seperate pieces
For any given day.
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Of all the things we've been given
Whether by God or by evolution (not sure which are we)
It's the ability of thinking, sensible reasoning
That I call
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I don't fear the future.
I know what it holds.
But that doesn't mean it doesn't concern me
Because it does.
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To me, television is a chore.
It is a bore.
It shows half a program, then makes you sift through adverts for more.
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Closing up and clamming up in social situations.
Walking into a party full of unknown faces.
There could be a genius in there.
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Does it make any sense to you to say that the shape of a mans soul
Is not dissimilar to that of a weapon.
Certainly the shape was molded and mutated
But always
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You've seen the funhouse mirrors at the carnivals and fares.
Some make you fat or thin, others short or tall.
Some make you look like you're not even there.
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If you can't get along in this life
Fucking quit.

Because we're all quitting.
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Have you ever felt time stand still and then appear to run forwards and backwards
Simultaneously?
Did you ever see a painting of a tea clipper on the wall
Melt and fade into spinning circles like watching several washing machines
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fairweather friends that'll drift away on the nearest storm.
faces creasing up with laugher amidst uproar.
i used to be a player but playing dried up a year ago.
when you're this difficult to work with no-one wants to know.
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I often feel I say too many bad things
About a planet
That in truth isn't as evil
As my mind's veiled eye seeks to make it.
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i am one quarter of your average deck
i am a social and emotional wreck
on the line; always my neck
as i endure another rubber cheque
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Poetry and optimism are contrary to the human spirit.
The forced-upon thrust-upon festivals merely sap it.
The best forces are the simple, primal lines of nature
Who comes on scene and sense with no furore
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A ritual burning of the past in petrol-soaked rags
Rags that now cannot turn to riches
In any way other than distruction
Of personal property.
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you are a set of unique experiences
they make you what you are.
take one away and watch the others fall to earth.
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I like to think of the cynic as the person who once was optimistic.
And was so optimistic and so let down by it
That it turned around on the fly.
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Those who aren't afraid to die
Those that might welcome it
Aren't quite so lucky.
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I hate most of all the damn bigots
The closed-minded fools
The idiots who have forgotten
How well they have it.
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People admire a good storyteller, even if they can themselves.
Everyone loves your favourite drunken story.
The fighting naked in the street brandishing traffic cones
And so on.
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