Designed to distract
In need of a cure
The latest disease
Is making us pure.
Entrust the machine
Report to the store
If no one gets seen
Then no one is poor.


    At night the sky looks like an empty movie screen…
    We might be bending toward the ending to a dream…

I spend my hours

Honing my powers
Canning the craze.
I put things off
Keep things at bay
But when it’s on
The bar gets raised.

Don’t pay attention to the deja vu
You see it every time you turn on the news.
Send your best intentioned reinvention to sea--
Well this song is just a dollar and you’re getting it for free.

© 2005 by Dan Lipton
Published by Two Straws Music (ASCAP).  All Rights Reserved.