******************************************** Living in the gutter Can’t afford a place to stay Digging in the dumpsters As they throw the food away Taxes on the poorest have to struggle everyday If you have three jobs you’re lucky And so you just might say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah Ain’t that a bitch!” If you can’t afford to eat…
Author: Lance Harrison
I am a "Life Artist". I create music, art, theatre, drama, and comedy in my daily existence. I consider myself to be one of the luckiest people on this planet! My dreams come to fruition regularly. There is a certain freedom in my basic anonymity yet I am known by many. I currently live with my wife and partner, Donna, on an island in the middle of nowhere in a country few even think about.
Facebook Blues
************************************ You write down all your hopes and dreams Your opinions and little schemes And send them off into the air But then find out nobody cares you post your story to your page You get some likes for what you’ve made A clever comment here and there But in the end you find that…
Starfish Memories
*********************************************** Feel the tangled melody of starfish dancing ‘cross the memory in the sky don’t ask why, I had no idea They called you Sweet remembrances deciding where we all reveal the nature of your smile all the while, then returning to the ocean depths Lights form familiar shapes advancing slowly to the rhythm of…
Into the Fire
*********************************************** Back in the last millennium I sang a young man’s song Didn’t matter much to me if I did right or wrong All the time before me was Forever waiting there Young as life’s adventure Wild, and free, and fair With two cents in my pocket And the clothes upon my back I made…
I Don’t Know
************************************************** Only thing, that I know Is I don’t know One damn thing When will people understand That we’re really all the same Each blindly searching hidden clues On how to play the game We think we have the answers We think we know the truth There’s always someone there To say ‘your wrong, and…
(1) Ashwood House
“A caution and a challenge!” Things happened pretty quickly between Lance and Donna after they met that magical night but when Donna saw the enormous stack of beer cans in Lance’s basement practice room she was concerned she was jumping into a relationship with another alcoholic. This absolutely could not happen! She asked around, “checking…
A Culinary Adventure
Here on Don Det as the rice is finished being cut, and the grains knocked off the stalks, all those helping, gather for a party to celebrate the end of the work. Our friends Kham Pau and Mr. King invited us to the King family gathering for this event. So we hopped into Kham Pau’s…
Our First Date – Grateful Dead, 7 September 1990
So, when Donna and I first met we discovered that we had both been to Grateful Dead concerts and I asked if she wanted to go to the next concert with me. It was to be our first official date at a concert in Richfield, Ohio over Labor Day weekend. When that weekend approached, we…
Dark Side of the Moo
So, I caught a cow in our yard. I warned the owner that I was going to paint it and while she wasn’t happy about the idea… it happened. She said she was embarrassed that I painted her cow. I told her the best way to avoid embarrassment was to keep her cow out of…
Dodecahedron Experiment
I had this “crazy” idea. I have a Dodecahedron, a 12 sided die. I’ve had it for years but never figured out what to do with it. So, I wrote 1 – 12 on a paper starting with 1=A 2=B, etc then 9 – 12 were all the # flats. Then I threw the die…