Gerald Prokop

I’m waiting for the calm I’m stepping in the weeds I’m ready for the clouds to rain down on me seeping in the ground and running to the sea making my peace and evaporating we’re all touching a different world at arms length but still so far away shrouded in the dark of night and […]

It might not sound like it, but this song is an experiment. I wanted to do two things. The first was write a song where the lyrics could function on a page as prose, with punctuation instead of line breaks, etc. The other thing was using a minimalist live drum kit consisting of a snare […]

following the dark that I left behind took apart the world, got lost inside I saw you in a dream so many times and ended up in some other life now I try to let go of the day try as I might, it doesn’t change the way I open up my eyes and adjust […]

it’s like it’s all there floating somewhere between the walls and the sea waiting for me you can’t look too far there’s space between stars no matter where you are you can’t take it apart patiently waiting for more of the same the effort it’s taking fills up this space the light hits my eyes […]

gone to set my sights on a sliver of darkness and lines of fading light it’s gonna take all night to make it anywhere that lets the time pass by the song still in our throats of holding on so tight time to let it go the ground falls from my feet one at a […]

it starts and then it stops it never goes away I’m eating up my time I’ll make it up someday they’re running up a wall it’s crazy how they climb I don’t understand at all it’s funny how we fall there’s nothing in the way of what we’re trying to get to know you get […]

I don’t know the problem anymore I could look forever and not see more than sky you pick at your thoughts and there’s always something bigger coming right up behind down and out and about separate the pressure from what keeps you alive fuzz me out nowhere to go, no time to arrive the summer […]

Today I pulled together some loosely connected thoughts I’ve been sorting out.  I’m working on a print publication–for now things will get posted here.  I’m writing a lot, but mostly I do my editing on People’s Plaza, in the cold, on limited battery power, etc., behind the Teach-In booth.  It’s an experiment. I’m acutely aware […]