Shuffle

“You say it’s your birthday? It’s my birthday too. Yeah…”
I think it is… I think!
BEEP...
Oap! Radio Head’s dirge-ing again, “We suck young blood,”
Am I still young? What’s coming up next?
BEEP…
Tom waits says, “The army ants leave nothing but your bones!”
My God! That’s SOO relevant! NO! Nothing’s relevant to ME! Right? Okay, mooooving on;
BEEP…
The Decemberists, “Of angels and angles”
What’s that doing there?
BEEP!
Bob Dylan’s telling me to “Do it well,”
‘It?’ Well Bob, if you say so it must be true.
BEEP…
Billie Holiday’s singing “As time goes by”
Will they REALLY still fall in love? Sad but beautiful! Sad but beautiful! Ambiguous.
BEEP…
Kaiser Chiefs!! “This is the modern way!”
Yeah, if it’s anything at all.

You’ve just taken a journey through the depths (one WHOLE gigabyte) of my iPod Shuffle.
It’s a fine metaphor for my conscience. This blog of mine is too.
The postmodern brain is so scattered! Fragmented. Superficial. Rushed.
What happened to direction?
What happened to confidence!?
Knowing what you want?

Ducks go quack!
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