Thursday, July 6, 2017

Grrrlistening

Thin
Glistening 
Pigs
On the wing
Don't talk about sin
It's nothing

Din
Listening
Kids
On a swing
Don't talk
I'm talking

Talking
Talking
Talking
Talking
Talking 
Talking
Talking 
Talking
Talking

Thin
King
Constancing
Things
In the gone
Not on the forks
You listening


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Seen
Dunzowing
Lean
But keep going
Don't talk any more 'n
You're listening 

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Odelle

Odelle 
I don't know if I want you
But I know I don't want to
I don't want to

A friend of mine
Said a picture never lies
But I'm sure they might
If we try
But I don't buy

Odelle
I don't know if I want you
But I know I don't want to
Just think I've got to

My girl
You're an ice cream swirl
I see the golden curls
I see the vaudeville show
The black weighty throne 
Some other guy you know
Fists, fights, gowns, kites

And I want to prove
I can do right by you
The guy who makes you move
The one most loved by you

But I've seen the signs

Odelle
I don't know if I want you
But I know I don't want to
I don't want to
There's one here before you

Sunday, November 27, 2016

The Sum

What's the sum
Of all the zeros and ones
Of all the bends and the beguns 
Don't you concede 
What you know makes you bleed

Where's the fun
When only heroes can become 
More than friends with loaded guns
Defined by deeds
And never by their seeds

Who's keeping score
Not the Christ and Jesus whores
Or some sacred prophet's poor
And twisted men
Only living for their end

I wanted more 
Each day's one less than before 
Forever passing never pause 
Without an end
Except the one that we're now in

The fear is real
The only real thing that I feel
Still I push it ever under heel
And on I run
Another staring at the sun

One last appeal
If I was ever meant to deal
If I was meant to climb this hill
Don't hold a gun
To my head so I'll succumb

Don't want to die
With all my hopes expired
With all my dreams retired
Or lost at sea
Along with who I'll never be

No longer lies
That I've learned to keep inside
Painted so vividly they've flied
Out around of me 
So that even I believe 
What a tale I've learned to weave
I've learned to hide
Instead of learning how to fly
And now there's only time left for goodbye

Thursday, June 30, 2016

End of June - Nothing's Now

One dozen months
Long enough for what
I have to do yet somehow not 

50 weeks
Plus two for me
For 50 years then I'll be free

Which days are life
Which hours are mine
Which years will make my memory shine

Which days are lost
Which hours I cried
Which years live on after I've died 

Nothing moves
Except the times
Nothing lives that doesn't die

Nothing's bright
Like my blue screens
Nothing's now except what's been

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Love and Words

Love and words - they don't combine
To fittingly show the former's shine
So today, instead of lines and lines
I'll give a touch to send tingles up your spine
A smile soon mirrored ear to ear
Connected eyes, making moments clear
A laugh to melt away concerns 
A cuddle to warm you as fire burns
Inside our hearts, just like that day
When we professed our love would stay
Through every year we ever know
Shall the depth of our love always show 


 

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Big Bird Soup

Big bird soup
Boiling your feathered friend whole
Til it all falls apart 
Freeing the muscle from the bones
Then you slurp the yellowy broth and hope
That somehow it helps you heal
But either way just bones remain 
and you're unsure how to feel
So you throw them away

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Two

Two
In different rooms
Of the same round gold house

No view
Always looking through
Towards the other prison brother

A tune
They both once knew 
Is now an illusive wail on the wind

They lose
And search for more to lose
A sacrifice to the God that gives back past

Inevitably 
A great storm comes
And tears the whole gold round house and all it's walls to the ground

Two alone
Staring at each other, unclothed, exposed
Seeing things they'd both hoped to dispose

Then one
Not wanting to see, runs
To embrace the other, see over their shoulder 

But one
Has seen the question
They'll need to answer from now til forever

Or maybe from now 
until they turn around 
and leave the other, leave the round gold prison, and their brother