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re-VERB-eration

 

Commence to begin… INITIATE
Get your game on… MOTIVATE
Gimme what you got… APPROPRIATE
I’m all over it… DOMINATE
Spit it out… SALIVATE
You throw like a girl… EMASCULATE
Get with the program… PARTICIPATE
Ahoy matey… NAVIGATE
Go pluck yourself… EXFOLIATE
Not my nutmeg… IRRADIATE
I’m always right… OPINIONATE
Make it dirty… ADULTERATE
Get real… AUTHENTICATE
Plant that seed… GERMINATE
Blow your mind… HALLUCINATE
What’s going on?… INVESTIGATE
He did it!… IMPLICATE
Here it comes, wait for it… ANTICIPATE
Stretch it out… ELONGATE
Stretch it out further… EXTRAPOLATE
Eureka!… INNOVATE
You’re excused… VINDICATE
Bloody hell!… MENSTRUATE
Give a breath… RESUSCITATE
Is it artificial?… RESPIRATE
Are you really married?… CONSUMMATE
Tense your verbs… CONJUGATE
Lay low, chill out… HIBERNATE
I wanna be just like you… EMULATE
Come together… CONGREGATE
Feel empathy… COMMISERATE
Jazz hands… GESTICULATE
That’s not even a word!… CONVERSATE
Are you full yet?… SATIATE
It’s there in the Bible… PROCREATE
You really did that?… EXAGGERATE
It don’t add up… CALCULATE
What you got in there?… TITILLATE
Shake it up… AGITATE
It’s not me… EXONERATE
Let it shine… RADIATE
Make it up as you go… FABRICATE
Everybody out!… EVACUATE
Say again with feeling… REITERATE
This don’t taste right… REGURGITATE
Gimme a minute… PROCRASTINATE
Can you dig it?… EXCAVATE
Chew on this!… MASTICATE
Freshen up… REJUVENATE
Go fuck yourself… MASTURBATE
Gimme some air… VENTILATE
Too much information… INUNDATE
Can’t we all just get along?… ARBITRATE
I don’t like your tone young lady!… INSINUATE
Gotta go, gotta go!… URINATE
Free for all… LIBERATE
Need a shot?… INOCULATE
Need one more?… VACCINATE
Stuck in neutral… HESITATE
Drop your genes… IMPREGNATE
Artificial?… INSEMINATE
Splash with cold water… INVIGORATE
You old fart!… FLATULATE
Get the Fabreeze!… FUMIGATE
Give it some thought… CONTEMPLATE
Think a little harder… CONCENTRATE
Go lay an egg!… OVULATE
Lead the group… FACILITATE
Say it with specificity… ARTICULATE
If you must… NECESSITATE
Keep it going… PERPETUATE
Sponge Bob Square Pants… ANIMATE
Learn to be wise… EDUCATE
Lemme outta here!… EJACULATE
You’re all wet… PRECIPITATE
Can’t stay awake… DECAFFEINATE
Stop all this!… TERMINATE

 

 

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Decisions… Decisions (performed at BENT Showcase 11/16/12 Seattle)

Are you a somebody or a nobody?

Does an answer come to mind?

Is one elevated to a pedestal

While the other is left behind?

Are you a somebody or a nobody?

Is it hard to tell?

Does one ascend to Heaven?

Does one plummet to Hell?

Are you a somebody or a nobody?

Does the question ever arise?

One life lived with virtue

Another fraught with lies

Are you a somebody or a nobody?

How do you feel about it?

Sure of your identity

Or do you tend to doubt it?

Will a single word

Cause you to run & hide?

Or will you take direction

From who you are inside?

We need no definition

To encourage us to shine

For I will be YOUR somebody

And invite you to be MINE!

 

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The Mouse in the House Comes Out (written & performed in Oct 1993)

A squeak of a voice

Arose from my kitchen

Its eyes wide open

Nose; it was twitchin’

There near the floor

To the left of the door

Was an entrance… or exit

I kneeled down to check it

And yes, from inside

Came the squeak of a noise

And in tiny mouse words

Came a tiny mouse voice

“Hello I live here

I work… I dream

But sometimes the sight of me

Makes people SCREAM!

I mind my own business

I don’t curse or smell

With a tail behind me

AND one to tell

A life to lead

A myth to dispel

Some call me a rodent

A nuisance

A pest

But I’m just a mouse

No more

No less

Trying to be happy

Doing my best

So today I’m speaking up

And it’s about time

I have nothing to hide

I’ve committed no crime

So today I’m speaking up

Hear my closet door slam?

I’m out in the open

I am gay! Gay I am!

Cheeze Whiz! That felt good!

So I’ll say it again

I’m out in the open

I am gay! Gay I am!

 

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Soap Box Derby

It’s true, I do

Pontificate

While out to lunch

Or on a date

I spew forth conjecture

Spouting a lecture

Something to say

Night and day

Repugnant or relevant

I feel intelligent

Or, perhaps self-indulgent

None-the-less

It’s true, I do

Pontificate

Soliloquies rule

My one-sided debate

It matters not my audience

A bevy of scholars, or one so… dense

Swirling mental cavalcades

Inspires verbal escapades!

To keep my opinions

Stored on a shelf

Would only disappoint myself

I don’t think first

Nor bite my tongue

Speak up speak out

My spring unsprung

“Talk is cheap” ?

You fail to see

How it pays

Dividends to me

If you toss a pebble into my pond

Be prepared! I WILL respond!

 

 

 

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Party of ONE

I don’t chit

I don’t chat

I don’t talk small about this & that

I don’t tread water

In the shallow end

I’d rather jump

And dive right in

“How do you do?”

How do I do WHAT?

Or even WHO?!

Then perhaps a conversation

Could ensue

I’ll try not to pry

Or leave you flat

But please don’t ask

For chit or chat!

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Say When

I have a theory

You may not agree

But “deja vu”

Is really predictability.

The person or event

That you now feel was THEN

Was actually not before

Nor where you thought you’d been.

The past is the foretelling

Of what will happen hence

So your deja vu

Is really future tense!

 

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Tid Bits

I pray to God that there IS one!

…so I am not alone…to forgive myself.

 

A train of thought has no caboose

So I’ll ride this rail…fast & loose!

 

Names are merely “labels”…

Useful in referring

Yet useless in relating!

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Kiss Off

The voice

A lilt

The head

A tilt

Left me unprepared for the oncoming jilt

It was more like a jolt

My love screeched to a halt

And thus I began

To wilt