Metaphors

I rushed out of my house a few days ago, and accidentally put on my dad's shoes. I stumbled, stepped out of them, put on my own ones, and headed out to my car - all the while cursing while realizing that I'll literally never fill my father's shoes, and that my life is one giant fucking metaphor.
This got me thinking about how many metaphors there are in the world that we never even realize, going on all around us.
Some of them are in events, such as the message from the Coyote last week (still believe in that stuff), and everything happening in the little valley area the Zygotes would jam and live in, but I don't feel like going in to all of that.
Instead, I figured I should try and write a little list on here from my physics class.

This is the reason I took physics in the first place, there's a lot from it that transfers over into the real world in some way or another. These are mainly just quotes from my professor that I love:

1) Standing still is the same thing as moving at a constant speed. The only time you spot a difference is in change of speed or direction.

2) Magnetism is just charge in motion.

3) 'A moving clock runs slowly' - Probably sounds a lot deeper than it really is.

4) a quote from Einstein, testing one of his theories. A journalist asked him, 'what if it didn't work?' he replied 'Then I would have felt sorry for God'.

5) Time is the suspect

6) The only thing you see is light.

7) 'I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to do it with a laser'. < my favorite thing he's said all semester.

8. Entropy screws up everything. The longer you wait the more things fall apart. You have to work hard to keep it together.

9. Any change just takes pressure and time.

10. 'Heat Death', the end of the universe. Once all heat has been transferred equally across the universe, and all change ceases to exist.

11. To change momentum, add an impulse.


I didn't realize how many odd little stanzas I'd filled my book with as well. A lot apparently influenced by one foolish girl.

So I'll list them as well, front of my book to the last page of the semester.

1) 'You never laughed like
When you saw me try to dance.
That's when I knew
You were for me.

But that's when you said
You were afraid of a bitter end.
And before I could speak
You would scorn me.'

2) Will you take my heart,
Make it beat again?

3) Was it the inflection in my tone
That sent your tires screeching home?

4) I don't want our dreams to be
When you see the things that I see
I want our dreams to be
The only time you might miss me

5) Maybe it's all just frequency
But when you beat I breathe
When you think I see

6) I'm sick of doin' nothin',
But doin' nothin's where I sit
Because I'm angry about somethin'
But I don't know what it is.

I rode down to the liquor store,
Bought some tonic and a thing o' gin
Maybe that makes me an older man
But buyin' beer's just buyin' piss.

High by high noon, now ain't that clever,
Somebody said that I'm gonna die.
But who the hell wants to live forever,
So will you please hand me a light.

7) But now you're gone,
And it's time to decide,
Better to be shot through the heart
Or between the eyes?

8) When I was a child I dreamed I was a bird,
I'd swing my arms and I could fly.
If I stretched them out I could hug the world,
I would stretch my arms far as I could reach,
If I stretched myself I could touch the sky.

9) So you thought you could take me down,
Boy I bet that thought must've been pretty,
Don't you know I was born underground,
Now I'm takin' you back home with me.

But you'll never catch me.
Because I'm the blue-eyed devil.

10) Why do I always dream
Of shooting zombies

11) It was a silent grey day
With the clouds hanging low,
Morphine was dripping
Off the radio

12) Oh, happiness
Where is it that you've gone?
Have you slipped through the back door
To leave with the setting sun?

13) It sounded like a metaphor,
But I had no idea what it meant,
She caught on and flashed a grin
And I dumbly nodded my head

14) How do you look when you are alone?
When the song has died and the lights have gone?

Do you stare at bruised clouds
When the night hangs long?

But you’re just doing that trick where you turn around,
Embracing yourself, hands caressing your back - your neck,
It was the heat of passion
But from the front you’ve never looked more alone.

I saw a picture of you, livin’ it up in a bar
Hanging on your friends, dancing around upon the table
You were screaming and laughing
But I could see that look in your eyes

Were you really there, or are you back in your room,
Staring at the clouds, as the night hangs long?

How do you look when you are alone?
When the song has died and the lights have gone?


This is a pretty solid list, I think I'm covered for a while for inspiration on poems actually, these can all lead in to some song or other.
This is turning into a pretty solid month. I think after all the BS of April I'm starting to get some inspiration again.