The 365 Project

The 365 Project

By Eric WallackMusic
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The 365 Project episodes

  • #97 mea culpa
    even if i had to write it
    five hundred times on a
    chalkboard
    it still wouldn’t be enough
    a midas touch in reverse
    is hard to get unstuck
    sometimes like natalie
    slumped in her bed
    the only reason
    to get up is to show
    you’re not ready
    for the blue juice yet
    the sun overhead
    like a lightbulb
    over a big stupid idea
    laughs
    like an overheated
    man in the moon
    the joke is on me
    the joke is on me
    i know what is right
    but i’m not sure
    what is left
    bhagiti 7.25.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #96 fish in the trees
    of all the fish in the trees
    and birds in the sea
    don’t pick me
    i am a pile of pebbles
    and each day i try to
    skip one across to the
    other side
    some bounce
    two or three
    times before
    they sink
    others not once
    not one
    has made it yet
    it’s a long way to go
    it’s a long way to go
    of all the fish in the trees
    and birds in the sea
    don’t pick me
    bhagiti 7.24.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #95 belladonna
    love and
    confusion
    conspire
    to tear you apart
    still
    you are
    lillies
    spilling
    from the mouths
    of lovers
    but at night
    belladonna
    you become
    its poison
    numbs you
    its gift
    no pain
    so you may
    fulfill your destiny
    the antidote
    you
    7.23.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #94 we're all alive in someone else's souvenir tourist snow-globe
    how much smaller
    can you go
    if you could only have
    three hundred things
    what would you
    keep
    what would you
    throw away
    what dusty keepsakes
    living in a shoebox
    do you take
    to remind yourself
    of parties vacations
    birthdays and funerals
    long gone
    did you take the pictures
    steal the towels
    or buy the t-shirt
    because you wanted
    to remember
    or because you knew
    you’d forget
    bhagiti 7.22.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #93 lo and behold
    your ghosts
    silent
    brushstroke
    tombstones
    behind
    lilacs
    and grasses
    lo and behold
    lo and behold
    with one
    silent
    brushstroke
    forever
    ruling
    matisse
    obsolete
    lo and behold
    lo and behold
    bhagiti 7.21.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #92 earnesty is the best policy
    how could you
    of all people
    be stuck here alone in toledo
    i just don’t get it
    what’s the matter with people
    it’s something
    else isn’t it
    there’s something i can’t
    put my finger on
    what’s the rest of this story
    i’ll ask
    i’ll ask now
    did you see me
    look at your hands
    there was something i wanted
    to ask
    i saw you turn in the mirror
    i’ll ask
    i’ll ask now
    what do you say
    bhagiti 7.20.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #91 the past is no friend's couch upon which to sleep
    the past
    is no friend’s
    couch
    upon which
    to sleep
    bedbugs there
    hobnob
    with haints
    look back
    and turn to salt
    disobey
    daedalus
    and get yourself
    dead
    everyday
    i deal in
    yesterday
    i dance
    the dance
    of death
    one foot forward
    do si do
    one foot back
    fall apart
    at the end
    i’ll sing
    one last eulogy
    for everything
    that came
    before
    bhagiti 7.19.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #90 always the moon to me
    i’ve been here before
    and it’s always the same
    love lets them go and i’m
    half drowned
    do you not see the irony
    i do
    i tuned my strings too high
    and they’re starting to
    break my heart it won’t
    make a sound
    but i’ll listen real close
    you too
    a hundred thousand flowers
    i give you just walk to the
    top of this hill and look down
    there they are
    they are yours
    they always
    were
    you always
    will be
    the moon
    to me
    you always
    will be
    the moon
    to me
    bhagiti 7.18.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #89 you are the jewel of a million sunrises and sunsets. you twinkle eternally
    you are a flower undiscovered
    still unnamed but with a beauty
    surpassed only by your fragility
    no color dare contain you
    no narcissus bending to the water
    to sob restrained at her reflection
    no willow weeping in untold
    lengths of green tendrils reaching
    where do you go from here
    you don’t know the way
    you don’t know the way
    what the world wouldn’t give
    to love you to see you wake
    in the morning to weave silver
    in your hair smelling of outside
    how can you choose between the
    things you love when you feel unloved
    when the arrows you’re shooting keep
    missing the apples of your watery eyes
    where do you go from here
    you don’t know the way
    you don’t know the way
    listen
    you don’t need to know
    you just go
    bhagiti 7.17.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #88 bhagiti's 115th dream
    the old house
    wasn’t quite so scary
    this time
    john’s father didn’t
    fall off the ladder
    but i went off the roof
    despite being able to fly
    and was broken badly
    the grave was a gimmick
    and so was the gate
    you were so much younger
    than i remember
    and went to your room
    to play with the cat
    and the other jennifer
    and i
    kissed
    in the kitchen
    when i was skipping school
    until mom broke
    a blister on my hand
    before washing the dishes
    and we all looked
    at dirty pictures
    and ate
    our breakfast
    bhagiti 7.16.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min

About The 365 Project

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Inspired by song diarists like David Andrew Strackany (aka PALEO), I endeavor to write, record and upload a song a day for 365 days.