Stella the starling was getting down Chewing bugs on her favorite lawn when a man came wanderin round That man, wondered to himself, what to call this wildlife on his lawn Landmates, we share the same space Baby Landmates, lunchbreak is on me Robins on the downspout feeding little chickadees Singing in the tulip tree Rabbits roaming thru the rose bush bed A dog chasing squirrels hoping to be fed We're all in this thing together Enjoying the warming weather Landmates, we share the same space Baby Landmates, lunchbreak is on me

Gonna take a break for a while Kick the shoes off in good style Not gonna get paid today Get out the Nintendo and play No way am I going to work So tired of dealing with those jerks Instead I'll hole up in the cave Forget facts, regroup, relax And I'll be coming back, after a while After I've compiled, my dreams And I'm cooking up those dreams right now Between naps I'm working on the Tao, the way Get Laid today, and then walk away And I don't need you coming around Don't need you knockin my damn door down I just need to be left on my own Take this time alone and I'll go! Off the Grid, goodbye Sid After a while, crocodile Off the Grid, not where I wanna stay But today I'll say goodbye Off the Grid, goodbye Sid See ya later alligator Off the Grid's not where I wanna stay But today I'll say goodbye Goodbye Off the Grid, goodbye Sid See ya later alligator Off the Grid's not where I wanna stay But today I'll say goodbye Off the Grid, goodbye Sid So long King Kong, see you soon baboon C'mon let's sing this tune it goes Goodbye Goodbye

What did we see when the walls came down? The tree & and over the hill on your side of town Those railroad tracks They are long and wide, this sadly sprawling Great Divide, Please call my name Like Bastian in the storm & in the rain So we remade Fantasia & birthed the Imagi They danced and they sang, and confused you and I What could we say? So we just kept quiet, and let our children grow We felt their passions and they really let it show How could we speak up now? Holy cow, they’re on their own So we moved on, time stood still for us a bit But those Imagi-kids, just wouldn’t quit They told tales, of why the skies are silent How could we tell them this time in a song or a rhyme? In a prophet, a poet, a Mother Confessor? No We tried it all But time stood still only for us Gods And when we looked down, you were dropping A-bombs On each other. In the pouring rain And the rain was our tears for we knew that too many Years had gone by, my darling do you think that We can make this right? Mm-mmmm Can we make this right? Mm-mmm What did we see when the walls came down? The hills and the tree, on your side of town, A bird says “Po-tee-weet” We are unstuck in time, this time round we’ll be the change We will rearrange the lands, and build a bigger stage They’ll be space for you, And time for Me Too So now we stand apart, but united Though forces may try, they won’t divide it, again So now we stand apart, but united Though forces may try, they won’t divide us, again And the sun shines joy on our land of Imagi And our children are hopeful That you and I will go quietly. Mm-mmmm Will go quietly Into that good night

The way in the moonlight We walk with our brothers And our sisters We share all things But there are others A world away now They only know how To take not share So they lay claim now And Righteousness casts down Destroying that, which they seek We ride and sing throughout There must be another way To bring a peace to All this Earth The veil it shrouds All of me all of We act out This played out play alive now Through the sea Of clouds we rise above to know that Love, and love alone is all is love It shapes itself slowly And quickly accepts doubt Preferring its place of mystery But we are rising And riding throughout this night That the new day will bring new light

Peering deeper - past these catchy tunes That were over far too soon Through Fractal sets into abstract, alternate reality Consciousness expands to include the Imagi-nation. Call it an annex - Like the Lonestar State, or the Louisiana Purchase, this new territory is only for the strong of will. Travelling. . . past impossibly long tails, Canvas sewn, set sail, on an ocean created in an instant. “But why waste your time out here in Imagi?” says the egotistical, narrow mind. “Come back to the east,” demand the so-called keepers of the peace. “We fear what we don’t understand.” That ocean, created in the mind of a man, twists into a freshwater lake. Imagi will mold as is required after all. Dig ditches, irrigate fields, put out the fires in the corners of our minds, those little spots where fear still lurks. See this desolate landscape for it’s potential, not it’s tribulation. Out in Imagi, you know what you face -- It’s you. Look that mirror in the eye, own up to your own lies, and Imagi will become your Neverland. One complete with a merry Lost Boys Band, and a pack of Gypsy Dancers too. The women twirl & spin, their dresses swirling up and down. The sun sets and rises as they spin. Like little atoms in a Universe, or the smallest cog in a Grandfather Clock, these dancers are just what they are. Filling their purpose in this foreign annex soon to be called our home. I wonder how long it will take to convince Uncle Sam to run me out some Edison, and a telephone? Inevitably, the mass moves much slower. We sailed on across the whole ocean, fueled only by our own belief. A land, it was surely out there. Filled with exiled artists, & rich-man thieves Robin Hood left a map behind in Prince John’s oversized pajamas. Robert Johnson sang us a tune of the place before the Devil finally caught up. Hemingway whispered of it as he held the gun to his head, And now we strap down ropes, gally to sails, and hope we find an open bed. When we arrive, it will be such a time, like Huxley’s Exile Isle The world at large is so held down, but out here great minds bound Off one another like far-off foreign acrobats. Standing on our proverbial tippy toes, we peer out of the Bird’s Nest Hoping to catch a glimpse of land. Or at least a dove with a branch in her hand O how great to go toe to toe with Robbins. See eye to eye with Vonnegut. Challenge them even. “Slow down and make some sense, I didn’t travel the ends of the ocean to let you run away again. “Stand and speak my friends! Let’s sing away the hours until the next lost ship arrives” The new arrivals will call out “There be Dermy and Ligyro - poets turned pirates! We followed your Plankton trail” “We set sail on a hope, and your words helped us cope the many storms” We stand equal on the shoreline and the measuring stick is a blazing beacon of Vertical Truth Come join us on this far off shore. This Imagi Nation. You only arrive as you jump out alone In the dark.