The 365 Project

The 365 Project

By Eric WallackMusic
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The 365 Project episodes

  • #177 time is longer than rope
    we knew the mask
    you wore to hide from
    yourself didn’t cover
    the words you tore up
    and swept under
    the rug
    words piled high
    into a balcony from
    which lovers spurned
    or otherwise fling
    themselves into
    senselessness
    you can get yourself
    some time
    or a rope
    but time is longer than rope
    and we all knew the
    mask was better than
    the cranberries and
    salamanders you
    were so close to
    becoming
    you can get yourself
    some time
    or a rope
    but time is longer than rope
    bhagiti 10.13.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #176 oars in our fishbaskets
    it was always the thinnest
    of thin ice spiderwebbing
    through your veins like lost
    highways no longer making
    the trip home afraid of what
    you thought you’d find there
    and at camp like canoes
    we slept overturned our
    oars in our fishbaskets afraid
    to laugh and you never did
    and i knew you couldn’t and
    that you didn’t care for the moon
    and neither could i
    but i did
    and neither could i
    but i did
    and later in january when the
    ground was as cold as you
    could take it you pulled me
    outside and pulled everything
    off and didn’t shiver one bit
    and forced yourself to smile
    but you couldn’t make it last
    and neither could i
    but i did
    and neither could i
    but i did
    and i knew you wouldn’t have it
    any other way
    and i knew you wouldn’t have it
    any other way
    any other way
    any other way
    bhagiti 10.12.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #175 pull the plug
    sleep comes always
    just before the alarm
    through the night
    trains scream and i want
    them to take me away
    or run me over
    the cold through the
    window is finally real
    this time and the
    bed that wouldn’t let me
    sleep now won’t let me
    go but i do
    when does it all stop
    when will it be quiet again
    pull the plug
    pull the plug
    i will daydream my
    return in blankets sitting
    in the middle of the
    autumn woods covered
    in leaves and twigs warm
    and content
    when does it all stop
    when will it be quiet again
    pull the plug
    pull the plug
    bhagiti 10.11.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #174 leave it to the birds (i dream of an airplane crash)
    the high altitude
    jet plane
    reimagining cumulous
    with straightedge
    vapor trails
    is a phantom
    whose presence
    is unclear
    i suppose that
    everyone
    who has fallen to earth
    regretted in an instant
    believing
    in a phantom
    whose presence
    is unclear
    leave it to the birds
    leave it to the birds
    i’m happy sticking to
    the ground
    firmly attached by forces
    beyond my control
    believing
    in a phantom
    whose power
    is clear
    leave it to the birds
    leave it to the birds
    bhagiti 10.10.07 perrysburg
    2 min
  • #173 the penny that refuses to reveal its other side is a hidden notebook
    gliding gliding
    hypnotized
    penny for
    your thoughts
    how much to
    keep them
    to yourself
    make me guess
    what broken bread
    can’t be fixed
    again what fish
    eaten can’t swim
    again what wine
    can’t return to the
    vine
    meanwhile
    night peeks
    through blinds
    and my light
    sneaks
    back though
    neither have
    eyes needing
    blinding instead
    a threshold
    between life
    and living or
    knowing and
    not
    gliding gliding
    hypnotized
    america
    a main drag
    that isn’t
    a cowboy
    that’s neither
    a continental divide
    that doesn’t
    a jacket that smells
    of leaves and
    leaving and in
    the breastpocket
    a notebook
    that reads
    itself
    bhagiti 10.9.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #172 oh why ohio
    ohio stretches like a lie
    toward the plains and
    promises of the west
    to the sleepy south
    below the cool green
    east and the endless
    forests of the north
    roads lead in or away
    roads lead in or away
    ohio is a heart that no
    longer beats kept alive
    by trains pumping its
    crisscrossing veins and
    sad eyed summer
    slaves to the catsup trade
    roads lead in or away
    roads lead in or away
    ohio dead or dying no
    arrow filled sebastian
    merely an unavoidable
    swamp that continuously
    tries to refill itself with the
    muck long removed
    roads lead in or away
    roads lead in or away
    bhagiti 10.8.07 perrysburg, oh
    2 min
  • #171 between crows and grapes
    the sky is as black
    as a crow
    and as beautiful
    my belly
    full of grapes
    makes no complaint
    and the cool
    humidity of morning
    struggles
    between the death
    of summer and the
    birth of death
    it caresses me
    seduces me
    kisses me
    licking my face
    as if to say
    take me now
    for tomorrow
    we are gone
    bhagiti 10.7.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #170 and in a field of aging heather a dream of the future fell like ballast tossed from a failing balloon
    i stand in the middle
    of ten thousand streets
    all at once and everywhere
    they lead is nowhere each
    screaming in concrete
    seducing with slick
    rainsoaked curves but each
    a dead end none to
    salvation nor even
    to acceptable ruin
    ten thousand streets
    all at once everywhere
    a spiderweb traffic jam of
    industrial strength chaos
    linear asphalt beauty
    a din of scrape and roar
    all leading to madness
    madness of desire
    madness of restlessness
    madness of choice
    madness of singularity
    madness of loss
    madness of responsibility
    madness of hope
    madness of hopelessness
    bhagiti 10.6.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #169 which side are you on
    morning makes
    no compromises
    it reveals to us
    the actions
    of the night
    and hides
    the moon
    in its light
    everything before is meaningless
    everything before is everything
    which side are you on
    we are not
    morning
    like prospectors
    without pans
    we wade in
    murky water
    that hides
    untold
    riches
    everything before is meaningless
    everything before is everything
    which side are you on
    tripping over
    pebbles
    and god we
    stumble toward
    nothing when
    everything
    is directly
    below
    everything before is meaningless
    everything before is everything
    which side are you on
    bhagiti 10.5.07 perrysburg, oh
    3 min
  • #168 re-parting
    i went to the station
    no suitcase in my hand
    and there an old man
    you leavin or stayin
    i’m re-parting
    remaining and departing
    at the same time
    that is
    i’m here
    but never
    here
    so there i sat on the
    platform watching the trains
    come and go people’s
    faces staring out at
    other possible
    realities each better than
    their own
    that is
    they’re here
    but never
    here
    bhagiti 10.4.07 perryburg, 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.