INVERSE VANDALISM

Dillon, it's time to meet your new boss, Dillon.
Why didn't I do this years ago?!
Years spent throwing watermelons and pumpkins,
drilling water wells,
carrying cables through the swamps of Southeast Texas and setting off dynamite in seismic survey expeditions,
designing urban sprawl in the foothills of Austin,
training political activists.
Not to mention the myriad of embarrassing links between.

I've always asked myself "Why don't I just go into business for myself?"
The answer was always "I've got no clue how to start, and I don't have a degree...in anything."
What a waste of precious time all of that was.
I've been working for myself the past couple of weeks
and it has been the best couple of weeks I've had in while.
I'm making more money, and I have tons more time for myself, which I've never had before.
Well, I guess I always had it. I was just too afraid to take it back.
Things are suddenly much simpler, and every breath is a sigh of relief.
I feel lighter and less tied down. I feel I can release to the world everything I own.
I have regained my powers and taken my life back.
This feeling reminds me of song I wrote a few years ago.
Still don't have recording software for this new beastly machine so I'll just jot it down.

The bright new leaves
tremble in the fresh breeze and it seems,
another day is gliding gacefully
in front, and soon behind me.
Simplicity.

A lonely child builds a treehouse
in a bygone afternoon.
Waiting on decisions of importance,
and their time is coming way too soon.
Remembrin' when the Cubbies played
and lemonade
only cost a dime.
And time was just a nuisance,
not a treasure
that I should have known
was mine.

The river knows not where to run
so it's always,
exactly where you find it.
Splashing in the stream
of childhood dreams
the magic rhythm binds it.
It runs through all the books
and friends and music
I've absorbed throughout
the years.
And sitting in the shade
out by the lake
I've just forgotten
all my fears.

And the bright new leaves
tremble in the fresh breeze and it seems,
another day is gliding gracefully
in front, and soon behind me.
Simplicity.


Dillon, meet Dillon. It's good to be the boss.
I think I'm gonna give myself a raise and take a vacation.
Peace.