My Viking Songs

This is one of my Viking Songs which does not have a title or music put to it as of yet. I call this a Viking Song because it was one of several I wrote which were inspired by a book about Vikings that I was reading at the time. I honestly have no idea at this particular moment what the hell I was talking about, but I still sort of like it, and will probably make a complete song out of it someday. Written November 17th, 2002

This tribute should represent
The sum of all the various,
History's precarious,
Prefabricated precedent,
Which midway is consisting
Of an artist's burial
Tradition; impulse, serial
Confirms we are existing.
This concept of variety
We see in practice old
And new; we do as told
And bow to every piety
So as to stay homogeneous
And knock the impulse dead.
We can not use our head
To skillfully vent ominous
Returns to all the extent
Centuries of independent
Means.