ILDIKO'S ALL-TIME BEST DAY

Ildiko pulls her car to the shoulder to watch the sun sink behind the cheerfully-ugly insurance complex. There are no children in the back seat, no husband in the passenger seat. The radio is off.

Soon or late, she climbs out of the car, walks a quarter-mile, stopping to stand atop an overpass. Not sad, not happy, not indifferent, instead a Queen of All Existence and at the same time  really nothing at all and everything now, confident that in an hour she could face her happy family again.

For now, Ildiko watches the water, following some debris with her eye until it flows out of sight beneath her.

THIS TIME

You're told/You're sold/You're told/You're sold/You're told:/"Give it up before you ever try!"/I shrug/My drug/I shrug/My drug/I shrug/Not my problem when you decide to die!/It's so cheap!/You don't have to try!/Be like me!/Be happy when you die!/She said,/"Slow up!"/I said,/"No way!"/She said,/"How can I live until the End of Time?"/I stand/My band/You watch/You walk away./I want to disappear with you!/Here's your chance!/You only have to try!/Look away!/You might never die! [2002]

Mike Hummel, I'm donating all the lyrics on this page to M. Rep and the Quotas. Maybe find a teenager to sing the song as it seems like these words would cause embarrassment, like Burl Ives disguised as a snow man exclaiming "Happy Birthday" endlessly, belting "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!" The Kool Penguin AKA Darius III

This time/This time/This time/This time/This time/I'm the boy with the popular way to sigh!/She said/She said/She said/She said/She said/I love this life so much/I wish I was dead!/There's no love!/Anytime at all!/There's no love!/Anytime at all!/This time/This time/This time/This time/This time/So you fell down?/Why don't you get up?/She said/She said/She said/She said/She said,/"I want to disappear with you!"/Here's my love!/Anytime at all/Here's my love!/Anytime at all! [1995]

Love, Dare-Eye-Us,Worthlessville UK/USA