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DEMO OF THE MONTH CLUB

by Dan Jones

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Success Stories - September 2021 04:14
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Julia tried working in a tavern at night To make ends meet, it was down the street And most of the menu was fried Her joy in life is acrylic and a palette knife Working on a canvas with the radio on The radio on Big Al paid working at an office all day He gained weight and was often irate And anxious in a dozen ways His joy in life is garlic and a sharp German knife Feeding family and friends, with the radio on The radio on god blessed the USA when she made people who live this way who live this way can’t afford to throw it away Ann Marie runs, fast and away from the sun Wearing out sneaks and flipping off freaks who remark upon her excellent buns Her joy in life is set design and the art of good light Illuminating stories cuz life can be so boring So so so so so so so so boring god blessed the USA when she made people who live this way who live this way Can’t afford to throw that away Eloise drifted through many addictions Salty converted, irritated both of his sisters the myriad maze and ten thousand difficult days and anti depressants and cleaning up messes Son of a B, Bud really went up a tree Turned 65 on student loan dime while hackin’ at his poetry His joy in life was uneventful days with his wife But she passed on, now he’s watching Spawn And turning the blue light white Turning the blue lights white Turning the blue lights white
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Darla's Dreamin' - October 2021 03:42
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Darla’s Dreamin’ Darla‘s dreaming of being thin and pretty No one sees her except her buddy Robert Awkward Robert, pigeon chested genius Of shipping and transport, a bill of lading guru systems shut down when they mumble humble greetings in the hall at the Vision Session all the talk was kind of small robert could not focus on the Thought Disruption Wall loneliness it learns on an epidemic curve the milestones that ya miss forgotten with one kiss Violence and lying are hard to overcome but Darla talks to a fairly helpful counselor Robert’s punching bag is hanging from a rafter Sweating to Cro Mags, he dances in a shadow systems shut down when they mumble humble greetings in the hall at the Visioning Session all the talk was kind of small darla couldn’t focus on the Thought Disruption Wall consider the idea of damaged goods as treasure like the ocean or the shady woods consider the idea of feeling wrong as silver in a bank you have not drawn upon
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It Just Might Work - November 2021 02:19
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It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work that’s the problem with an action plan Logic that is hard for folks to understand Others are invested in stone cold wrong And making lots of money off of human suffering It just might work It just might work It just might work it just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work It just might work They got a message from the Action Man and a bunker with some beans in a can repeat a lie one thousand times short term money, long term suffering in my corn dog utopia we make a game attempt at coping with existential threats and meteors giant squid crossed with a dinosaur
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Going To The Movies Alone - December 2021 03:06
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oing to the movies alone We’re all going to the movies alone going to the movies alone don’t feel like looking at a telephone don’t wanna look at a phone just need a minute in the cinema dome it’s good to see a kid with a plan a blade in the hand and not some ham in a band a commando with a sonic banana blasting thugs and fascists, leavin’ em in the sand i got popcorn in my shirt for a minute there’s no worry no hurt someone else lays down the law using twizzlers as a straw cool cathedral in the dark a holy temple at the mall it is so nice to feel so small going to the movies alone I like going to the movies alone Sometimes you emerge and it is snowing The temperature has dropped its drifting and it’s blowing
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Bean And Cheese, Berlin - January 2022 03:16
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Onions - February 2022 02:31
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Every onions gonna peel That’s what I know and what I feel And if you have a heart It’s gonna wanna shine Little onion all diced up Grew in the ground without a sound Now it’s dancing in the pan This was never in the plan Life can really mince you up Burn your eyes and make ya cry Sometimes it’s easy not to try And lay there thinking in the dark Sometimes it’s easy not to cry And put off things that need to start But if you got a heart You’ll learn to shine alright Maybe have a bite to eat Feel the air and move your feet Every onions gonna peel It’s just part of the natural deal Paper skin is gonna fall Into the stock with carrot tops holy trinity pepper onion celery you’re simmering in it now kitchen infinity sweet but kinda vinegary be careful with the sour don’t give away the power you have discerning taste life’s not a bitch it is a baste
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U.S. Crucifixion Blues - March 2022 01:57
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The cruel side of the nails The cruel side of the spear How’d ya end up cheering on The U.S. crucifixion blues again And again With your friends And your kids And their kids In a church Causing hurt It is so ordinary Why should I ask Repent repent repent It is so tedious unremarkable Quite believable This rerun really sucks Keep bringing in the bucks The wrong side of the nails The wrong side of the spear How’d ya end up cheering on The U.S. crucifixion blues Maybe it’s the way it is Hurt the one you love It’s only human Dyin for your sins again And again And again (get square with God and shut your face)
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Dinosaur Man - April 2022 03:09
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Dinosaur man dinosaur man I’m turning into a dinosaur man I’ve done what I could, I do what I can watch out--I’m a dinosaur man Hairs in my nose, triceratops toes It’s 3 in the morning and There’s nuclear snow Maybe I’ll finally learn to play the guitar Underneath dimming atavistic stars ohhhhh dinosaur man under a fern avoiding a burn Alarming data gives me sexual stir theres something funny crawling out of the slime time without time is a friend of mine Dinosaur man, dinosaur man just now learning the lay of the land don’t got a pillow got a bed of shale Funny how people used to pay for kale On a cushion a meditating in the belly of a crater I hear music on the bog there’s a future in the fog baby rhino for a dog
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The National Mood - May 2022 02:20
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When Will THe Awkward Years Be Done - June 2022 02:17
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When will the awkward years be done Dopey turning into debonair Letting go of ancient history Learned at the foot of the stairs Captivated by poetry Drifting along in a daydream When will the awkward years be done Can’t we all just roll down a hill the garden it breathes the dogs gotta sneeze are you bucktoothed are you knock kneed I think I’m gonna call up Jeff And giggle at our stupid riffs there are things we never get over but you can’t live at that depth when will the awkward years be done take out the trash let’s have some fun when will the awkward years be done my fake moustache it weighs a ton when will the awkward years be done who really cares just let tape run
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Music To My Ears - July 2022 02:52
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Maybe Oughtta Notta - August 2022 03:28
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Maybe you oughtta notta Let that zombie out of its cage Maybe you oughtta notta profit from the fear and rage Grievance baby has a beef Shot some people in the street Maybe you oughta notta Start the Civil War again Maybe I oughtta notta Have a computer for a phone I missed the sunset yesterday My mind was nowhere close to home I read a thing that made me mad I saw a thing that made me sad I smashed some terra cotta Maybe I ought notta Be careless what you wish for It’s an easy row to hoe Life’s a reach and then you fly Character is fate On a soggy paper plate I think I smell a rat Probably me, imagine that Maybe you oughtta notta Dive on Atlantis again There’s nothing down there for ya But heartache and emptiness Statues swaying in the kelp Lots of people you can’t help Maybe you oughtta notta let’s make a list of the big things lets agree on some big things let’s make a list of the big things lets agree on some big things all in favor of pigs with wings say aye and stand to sing
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Found A Copper Penny - September 2022 03:01
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Found A Copper Penny help me scrub the fuzz off my brain So I can live again In the moment and making plans Help me scrub the fuzz off my brain Help me scrub the fuzz off my brain So I can sing again Worry sucks and courts bad luck I found a copper penny, it’s only the beginning Bad memories will fly away And land upon a willow tree X marks the spot on this map Find it again and again No one here has correct change Flying through the same ol flame Bad memories will fly away And land upon a willow tree callin all the lost ones on the phone 816 and 541 I’m buying you an ice cream cone callin all the lost ones on the phone pick up sticks and jump rope tricks for hearts turned into stone
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Around The Block - October 2022 02:27
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around the block About 9 o’clock With my sweatshirt on And a head full of burning planet thoughts The stars are bright Above our block tonight It’s been awful hot But now it’s cooled off rumination guttering all the way to the sea walk it off step over chalk mark Flowers in the street Around the block the holy ghost has been knockin’ Or maybe that’s he sound of burr oak Acorns when they drop The stars are bright Above our yard tonight It’s been awful hot But now it’s cooled off Hope, for a time you were the one I wonder where you hang your hat now Faith, you took a trip round the world and still don’t wanna settle down Indifference, I don’t believe that it’s true I know you have a heart of love Vicious, church and party raised you well you’re always gonna be around
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Lumbering Along Minding His Own Business Without A Care In The World - November 2022 02:37
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Keep It Stupid - December 2022 01:35
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Keep it stupid Keep it incomplete Roll on the floor Stamp your feet Keep it simple Keep it dumb Don’t ask for nothin Don’t ask for love Keep it stupid Just enough Knock it over Not so tough Wear your cracked up heart On the outside And your shoes untied And your hands kinda wavin around Yeah let’s keep this number short and sweet And kick an apple down the street I’m kinda amped and I’m kinda beat don’t look at me that way I just turned 53
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No Prob - January 2023 02:41
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I think I got a problem Most of us do I wanna make progress My feet won’t move I shift to the right I shift to the left I lean to the East And end up west I think I got a problem Most of us do lead boots, twisted roots and turning loose marking time, watching clocks and passing through Do you have a problem With sudden weird rage Maybe it’s our makeup Or the nature of the age I shift to the right I shift to the left I shift to the East I shift to to the west lead boots, twisted roots and turning loose marking time, watching clocks and passing through we have learned the value of routine we are focused calm and disciplined we are no longer unruly teens we are bored as spit and sick of all the shit I think I got a problem If you can call it that Everything is easy When you give it all back
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Slow To Warm Up, Long Time To Sparkle On - February 2023 02:29
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Slow to warm up... Long time to sparkle on
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Activator - March 2023 02:53
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Truck Race On Foot #3 - April 2023 01:00
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Shop Clean Up - May 2023 02:15
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On the street where music once was made In the shed where iron met iron sort screws and vacuum cobwebs Long lunch and rotate tires What does this button do What will this lever cause to fire What does this button do The foundry heat is getting higher Sharpen up the shear’s bright edge Cold scrap, production map Sweep out the corner crap A dozen yellow garbage bags In the air I still hear music In the shed where iron meets iron Showing up makes you a hero So does going back to zero What does this button do What will this lever cause to fire What does this button do The foundry heat is getting dry Sharpen up the shear’s bright edge Cold scrap, production map Sweep out the corner crap A dozen yellow garbage bags
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Time Loopin' - June 2023 01:57
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it has been a while since we jumped the crick or poked at a snake with a stick we found it has been a while since we had DQ in that river town where it’s humid and quiet it has been some time since the bottle rocket wars or the tremor in the hand at a smart girl’s door it has been a while since a dragon kite flew or a knucklecurve whiffleball snuck past you snuck past you, snuck past you shifting dreams shifting blues used to tell my mom that my brakes didn’t work on the way out the door to the Foolkiller show used to get turned on at the library trapped in the stacks with no good snacks why do we think of random things like picking a tick off a long gone retriever time slips, dances and dips I’m not really sure it is there at all there at all there at all so come sit by the porchlight a firefly is on your leg the bats are out and swooping Time looping
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On The Front Foot - July 2023 02:57
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On The Front Foot Who’s that foxy lady walking that dog I think I wanna know her name-oh boats out on the sea shouldn’t stay there too long is it true, that it’s you, and you’re not just passing through Always on my back foot, high beams in fog feelin’ like a human hangnail working at the mill you should see what I saw and it’s true what you do involves the future you lemonade in a pitcher on the porch made in the shade on the front foot for a minute the life I wanna live is a beautiful thing keep it near the front of my mind so I can see it clearly in fine detail and it’s true what you do becomes the future you angels from the future past show us what is meant to last I think I’d like to make some plans that I don’t need to understand Gettin’ on the front foot, laces are loose some friends I really gotta track down one is named beauty, the other is truth and they eat down the street from my old buddy Pete lemonade in a pitcher on the porch made in the shade on the front foot for a minute
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(I Think I'm Getting The Hang of) Business Travel - August 2023 03:52
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(I THINK I’M GETTING THE HANG OF) BUSINESS TRAVEL I wrecked my fit bit in a hotel pool water resistant isn’t water proof I watched some baseball in a corner bar Ate a carton of Korean noodles I found a park and I walked a long loop after work was done and outlook answered Wright Morris in a used book store I’m fifty minutes from a national forest I think I’m getting the hang of business travel I’ve heard it sucks for so many years I assumed it would but I find that it doesn’t people talk, gripe and squawk best to study on things for yourself take Dallas, boots on the ground, found a record store walking around A stack of wax under my arm a cup of coffee, mission accomplished the morning buffet cantaloupe orange, oatmeal today salt and pepper on eggs install teams in day glo tees hung over on extended stay Cincinnati, a real nice town hipster neighborhood, walked around strolled a park with a forbidding tower it was dusk, there were young people courting St Paul I could call you home asked locals about the cold the cold’s a thing, that much is true it’ll cut but won’t likely kill ya I think I’m getting the hang of business travel
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Zig's Dream - September 2023 03:21
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Music Is Just Love Looking For Words - October 2023 04:45
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Music is just love looking for words. Lawrence Durrell
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Conjure - November 2023 03:37
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All you have to say. Is once upon a time It spins up in the air It’s hardly even there. All you have to do. Is take a little stroll through the telescope wander through the smoke It isn’t anything at all. It isn’t anything at all. I would like to be Shot through with certainty So confident and clear At least occasionally At home with fear and hope Glowing like a pope On the edge of my bed In Heart as well as head It isn’t anything at all. It isn’t anything at all. the winding vine takes its own sweet time volcano sun hammer on clothes in the drier singing in the choir basement light was on all night
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Hectication - December 2023 02:15
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InstruMENTAL
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Please Don’t, Please Do - January 2024 03:18
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Please Don’t, Please Do Please don’t make a big mess outta Jesus And the devil won’t make an example out of you Put away your truncheon and mace We’re riding on a rock in space Please don’t make a big deal out of Jesus Please don’t have a cow, a cow called reason And reason won’t make a monkey outta you Intelligence will get you so far Welcome to the taco bar Please don’t make a big deal outta reason Do be kind Do be real Slipping on Banana peels Please don’t put off the things that make you happy And happiness won’t hide out in plain sight Riding on a Japanese train Walking in New Orleans again Please don’t put off the things that make you happy Do be kind Do be real Slipping on Banana peels Wipin’ out messin’ up Getting back Up again Please don’t sell your guitar and your drum set make some time to make a little noise I can hear it walking by so can other girls and guys please don’t sell your guitar and your drum set
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Here We Go - February 2024 03:32
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HERE WE GO Here we go, walking through an open doorway here we go, setting up a brand new pad here we go forwarding the mail from the old address so it goes, someone else has moved in there don’t we know all you really need is essentials pare it down, what you need is close at hand Photographs--some of them end up in the landfill Diaries--somewhat boring now to read twinkle lights, tangled in a plastic storage bin here we go, setting up a brand new pad
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How Long Was Then, Then? - March 2024 02:07
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This was a spontaneous spiel or prose poem, after I hit the record button.

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Dan Jones Kansas City, Missouri

Dan Jones is a punk-influenced rock and roll singer-songwriter living in Kansas City, Missouri.

Rock and Roll Daydreams is his 9th full length release, and third with Dan Jones and The Squids (of KC), featuring hometown pals Steve Tulipana (bass) and Matt Ronan (drums). ... more

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