five nine three seven one

it's two thirty in the morning and i'm driving home. the rain is falling so fast that the water that has already hit the ground can't get out of the way quickly enough. puddles form instantly on the highway. traveling at sixty-five miles per hour, i begin to hydroplane almost immediately. the cruise control is on, and each time the tires lose contact with the ground the engine over-revs until the wheel has someplace to put it's power again. my fingers are barely touching the steering wheel. i'm right on the edge of loosing control. not in any real danger, but fast and slippery enough to thrill. it reminds me how alive i can feel. then the lightning fills the sky and everything is electric blue for half of one second. the charge is felt everywhere. the hair on my arms stands straight up, and my spine tingles. it comes back again, and again. the flashes of light fill my eyes and my body is rocked by the charge. the storm is all around me, i am the eye. and it is also inside me, for i am the storm.

this place is so mine

it's a revolution

and i outrank you


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keep up with my word play
like the swordplay of yesterday
we joust and we fence
in our past lives and present tense
presently I'm tense
living in a forgiving house
naming my blame with white-hot flames
and putting it out with chemical doubt
dipping darts into poisoned words
sharpening stones and capturing birds
lashed to my arm to carry my whispered pain
carrying hate through stormclouds and rain
i live free on the wing
taken just as much as taking
writing songs for the caged bird to sing

there is no mystery if you know me
if you know you've "no'd" me
and all along i've been wronged by the knowing
i set fire to campus and college
writing the wrongs and hardened by knowledge
i'm the transgressor
the victim, the witness
the judge, the executor, and even the forgiveness
i'm the unwitting god 
cast in morality's play
star of the night that defies your best day
i'm the blues in a song
i'm the fireman's sadness at the loss of life
i'm the lonliest words you'll ever hear
i'm the cut, i'm the knife



i'm a revolution of values
i'm a revolutionary
in the battle, on the field, i outrank you
i am the revolution