I was born in BabylonTime stamped three a.m.Maternity was packed and jackedWith what we knew as men The fog was thick in BabylonThe day I came of ageIt broke three hearts when I climbed the stairsAs the ink dried on the page I’ve booked a trip to BabylonTo shush up chatty tombsIf I’m not back … Continue reading Lawrence Immemorial (unfinished)
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Posse at Twitter Gap
The Devil came in the nightChanged hats black from whiteAt dawn the posse awoke They gathered their gearTrusted year after yearBut not one brother noticed the joke When they rode into townTo gun bad guys downThey frightened the God fearin' folk And were soon dead in the streetBlack hats at their feetCross haired in the … Continue reading Posse at Twitter Gap
Tuned Out It Wasn’t Me
I heard the tuned and hammered stringStrike out a note that I could singIn that moment I would bringA voice among the choir I harmonize in David’s chord!A thought my mind could not affordThe Devil, friends, does not get boredWaiting by the fire Soon I sang another strainOf voices only in my brainIf I’ve a … Continue reading Tuned Out It Wasn’t Me
Song Written In Five Minutes of Uh-Oh
Song for a diagnosisSong for a spidey-senseThings ain’t right ‘n it ain’t the lightIt’s a bodily recompense The odometer’s pushingWay past the warranty cushionI can’t say it comes as a shockGet the paperwork inNotify next of kinNothing left but to run out the clock I wish I could sayI had my dayBut the truth is … Continue reading Song Written In Five Minutes of Uh-Oh
Four Stanzas In A Minute Of Panic
Another friend called With little time left After the Fall Every moment’s a theft Seeded on Sunday A knock at the door Fangs in a nightmare Neck in a claw Who comes to help? Rapists as Saints Hand on the Holy Book Dripping white paint Facing the Altar Facing the Cross Some yet won’t tremble … Continue reading Four Stanzas In A Minute Of Panic
Sorting
This song popped into my head this morning. Mid tempo rock. Unfinished, a different breathline than usually occurs to me, but what the hey. My imagination is sheltered in place too. Found an address book in the back of a box of Not much of anything worth moving to a smaller place And I opened … Continue reading Sorting
The Mood This Morning
Will it keep my mother in my mind Or hold me down until the shadows pass? This thing I do in slowly pulsing light That finds the center of black * If in this room I had the say I’d cut it surgically around Place it glistening aloud On my wobbly lusterless tray (Preserving just … Continue reading The Mood This Morning
Note To Self
Sad and blue Sad and blue Pick up pen Red will do News is news It’s never True It’s chewed up bird Spit for you They don’t love you Never did Of course you kept Your motive hid Through a window In the glass Who we are Is how we pass Sad and blue Sad … Continue reading Note To Self
Daily Doodle 730
Whimsy came and whimsy wentFor Lent * Save me save me down the holeThe Hour pressesSomeone spottedA kiting SoulAgainst the brimming darkness * Still and be stillMind I loveWhile we are ableStill to speak The light bulbblows out at the soundOf striking matchAnd hissing leak
Cover Girl You Are
(Song, Uptempo Rock) Please cover up you cover girl You don’t gotta show Everything that nature gives a damn about Gonna notice in the work place Gonna notice in the first place Who you are who you are Cover girl it’s in your face They don’t get to hack If you don’t turn your back … Continue reading Cover Girl You Are
Water Heart and Seed
If you live your life like it was held for ransom every time some shadow rolls across your heart You’ll pay and pray plead with your captor But you’ll cry alone in the dark If you live your life like a bursting fountain water for the garden all the flowers and the weeds You’ll see … Continue reading Water Heart and Seed
Ballot ’16
The Bully barks in orange glow Stuns the weak ones row on row His politics are of a piece He burps up sheep and dabs with fleece The Bubble’s head turns right or left Dependent on the donors’ heft Her policies perch on a vane And all her answers, Puddentaine For the Ballot fair and … Continue reading Ballot ’16
It’s So You (Breaking Wave)
Chorus: Well now here you are, where the years fade away with a whisper And the people you loved, oh the people you loved they fade away too And you, standing at the window with a cup of tea, making a silly face, that would have made them smile It’s so you The laughter comes … Continue reading It’s So You (Breaking Wave)
An Explanation?
On its face at first blush It’s just crazy enough If it were a lark it would fly To be howling within Round a ravenous sin While the face is a whitewashed lie * On its face at first blush It's not something you touch It’s that something you taste with your eye It’s more … Continue reading An Explanation?
That Mood Again
* I’m dead, but needn’t say so so sleight the hand sleight of hand sleight of His most grievous hand eyes that meet mine never know * Pry the purpose out Is that a Clock? No, that’s a Cross. Yes, that’s a Clock. Sweet wave of Christ wash over me, these sad sack bones, this … Continue reading That Mood Again
The Hour is Coming, and Now Is 