Down in the holler we rest in caves and toss knuckle bones and agate rocks to see our future. We start dark fires in our dens and raise our arms to the skies while sparks fly heavenward and chant our animal pain as the war toms thump in maroon red distance. We are men debased, broke down in Southern floods, the great deluge as the earth's skin opens in hissing, spitting caverns.

Our friends dodge rockets in desert wasteland. Our sisters kill and are killed in the fertile crescent. Our brothers sit in metal beasts and see death coming in green tracer lights. Cousin be strong.

Let's make a pact—that when our criminal king is gone and all this land scorched and barren, and the earth becomes clay and mud and sand again, we'll meet in a long grass field where the winds blow and seek to raise the massacred heart of our people.

Until then watch our pain radiate forth and cook the sky in shimmering waves. See their silver birds bolt the heavens to the clouds, to the stars like sunrays. We are animals and we are men debased, torn away in tossing heaves, the brooding doom as the earth bends, shakes, and thunders with iron, tar, and steel. And will you watch or turn away when the fire comes raining down?

Cousin let's make a pact. Let's beat our fists against the glass walls and stone ceilings. Let's dodge great coffins that drop from the sky to scatter our bodies torn in twain. Cousin be strong.

We talk in letters and on phones and in the streets and we're afraid we've been down too long to change. But as survivors we transcend. As fighters we climb higher. Cousin be strong.

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I dont need to fight
To prove Im right
I dont need to be forgiven

Dont cry
Dont raise your eye
Its only teenage wasteland

Sally ,take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Dont look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Lets get together
Before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
Its only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh, oh
Teenage wasteland
Theyre all wasted!

Me
1. Full Name: Guy David Shannon
2. Nicknames: Shanno, Koala, Mr. Awesome
3. Birthday: 29 March 1993
4. Place of Birth: Griffith
5. Star Sign: Aries
6. Male or Female: Male
7. Grade: 9
8. School: Barellan Central
9. Occupation: Student
10. Residence: The Willows
11. MSN Screen Name: not sure

__Your Appearance___

12. Hair Color: Blond/Brown
13. Hair Length: A Bit Long
14. Eye color: Blue
16. Height: can't remember
17. Braces?: No
18. Glasses?: No
19. Piercings: No
20. Tattoos: No
21. Righty or Lefty: Lefty

___Your 'Firsts'___

22. First best friend: Keegan at Pre School
23. First Award: Auskick participation
24. First Sport: Auskick
25. First pet: Skip the cat
26. First Real holiday: Ayers Rock and northern territory
27. First Concert: Play School
28. First Love: some blond haired girl in playgroup (we never even talked)

___ Favorites___

29. Movie: The Girl Nextdoor
30. TV programme: The OC, Weeds, Heroes
31. Color: Green
32. Rapper: Butterfingers
33. Band: Silverchair
34. Song Right Now: Romeo And Juliet by The Killers
35. Group: Tom Cory Hillman
36. Sweet: Honey Soy Chicken Chips
37. Sport to Play: AFL
38. Restuarant: anywhere with good food
40. Store: JB Hifis
41. School Subject: Music
42. Animal: dog, monkey
43. Book: Hearts In Atlantis, Harry Potter
44. Magazine: Rollingstone
45. Shoes: anything that will fit

___Currently___

46. Feeling: Awesomely Awesome like a good boy should
47. Single or Taken?: Single
48. Have a crush: what's it to ya
49. Eating: nothing
51. Typing: This
52. Online?: No
53. Listening To: the sweet sound of television
54. Thinking About: whether i can outdrink the fratboy to get a free ringtone (believe me, it's tempting)
55. Wanting To Do: Ya Mum
56. Watching: Heroes (don't mock it, it's a classic)

___Your Future___

58. Want Kids?: I guess
59. Want to be Married?: One day
60. Careers in Mind: still not sure
61. Where do you want to live: ireland... love the accent
62. Car: anything with four wheels and an engine

__Which is Better With The Opposite Sex___

63. Hair color: Brunette
64. Hair length: somewhere in the middle between long and short
65. Eye color: Any
66. Measurments: Any
67. Cute or Sexy: Both
68. Lips or Eyes: Both
69. Hugs or Kisses: Both
70. Short or Tall: shorter then me
71. Easygoing or serious: Easy Going
72. Romantic or Spontaneous: both
73. Fatty or Skinny: in the middle
74. Sensitive or Loud: Both
75. Hook-up or Relationship: relationship
76. Sweet or Caring: Both
77. Trouble Maker or Hesitant One: Both, hesitant at troublemaking?

___Have you ever______

78. Kissed a Stranger: Nah
79. Had Alcohol: Yes
80. Smoked: No
81. Ran Away From Home: only when i was little, even then i only got to the gate
82. Broken a bone: never
83. Got an X-ray: Yep on my foot
84. Been with someone: not really
85. Broken Someones Heart: no
86. Broke Up With Someone: kind of
87. Cried When Someone Died: Yes
88. Cried At School: No

___Do You Believe In___

89. God: want to
90. Miracles: not really
91. Love At First sight: sort of
92. Ghosts: no
93. Aliens: Star Wars Is Real!
94. Soul Mates: no
95. Heaven: Yes... you gotta go somewhere
96. Hell: No
97. Angels: Only the ones in Dogma... hilarious movie
98. Kissing on The First Date: Yes
99. Horoscopes: No

___Answer Truthfully___

100. Is There Someone You Want But You Know You Can't Have? no