Tom's story: 2026
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2026 — Tom was 47 and 48
4 pieces on this year: 1 dated to this year · 2 from a range of years, shown here in the middle · 1 made this year or later.
DATED TO 2026
1740547 TITLES p. 300 to 329
2026 (age 47 or 48) BEST GUESS
SET LISTS, SONG LISTS, TITLE LISTS AND INDEXES
Tom's printed 547 TITLES pages 300 to 329, lists of his song titles with their numbers used to build the 2026 edition of his lyrics, from Changing and Treading Water onward; a few titles (for example KICKING THE CAN and SLEEPLESS) are also poem titles in A Lifetime Of Rhyme (2020); the list itself is not in that book.
the card says: printed while making the 2026 edition of his lyrics
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ABOUT 2026: FROM A RANGE OF YEARS, SHOWN HERE IN THE MIDDLE
1628Zionation
about 2025-2027 (age 47 to 48) BEST GUESS
POEMS IN THE 34 ALBUMS
Tom's typed lyric pages for ZIONATION, a fifteen-song list including KAYFABE, NOBLE PLACE HATE, BEFORE NOAH and SUN, MOON AND TRUTH, paper-clipped with his handwritten purple-ink notes marking it the second-to-last version; published in 34 Albums, Books 1 and 2 (2026) as Set List 23.
the card says: written at age 47 or 48
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1645COLOR-CODED SONG INDEX / THEME CATALOG CARDS
about 2025-2027 (age 47 to 48) - an estimate NOT PROVED
SET LISTS, SONG LISTS, TITLE LISTS AND INDEXES
Tom's thick stacked deck of typed song index sheets cataloguing his songs by number, each tagged with a color for its theme - love, government, drugs and alcohol, funny, inspiring, autobiographical and more.
the card says: written at about age 47 to 48 - an estimate
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MADE IN 2026 OR LATER
These carry a first possible date (a print date, a date on the paper). They may be later.
2008MASTER FILE REFERENCE COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES
March 2026 or later (age 47 or older) BEST GUESS
SET LISTS, SONG LISTS, TITLE LISTS AND INDEXES
Tom's printed master plan for the second book of his 34 Albums project, listing all 48 files from WHO TOM IS to FINAL THOUGHTS FROM THE AUTHOR, taped into long strips and covered in his handwritten notes and circled letters (add intro, make category legend, too much for one book).
the card says: made at age 47
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MEMORABILIA FROM THIS STORY
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What the words mean: PROVED a date or a dated book proves it. BEST GUESS our best reading, not yet proved. TOM SAID Tom's own word. LIKELY strong clues, not yet proved. NOT PROVED an estimate from the pieces around it. NOT SURE the sources disagree. No word: the card gives none yet. "About 1996-2002" means somewhere in those years; the piece is shown once, in the middle year.