Putting Down

Held a bird’s egg between her breaststhere’s reasons for the road, I guessto document the indigenous,to paint and sketchpaint and sketchI’m starting to fail to be impressed. United state of ricochetfrom the boardwalk to the Appian waythe diamond files, the corporate ravesyou’d practically killnot to be afraidand I’m staring to chokeon the things I say […]


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Killing Time

I need your confidence need to know you’re minewhen it gets right downto the killing timeI know you’re heart is badbut it’s all I’ve ever hadwe can live our lives on this righteous crimeI got kicked when I was downand a sailor took my girl to townthen she licked my woundswith the sea dog’s saltI […]


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Cordelia

Angst on the planks, spittin from a bridgeJust to see how far down it really isRobbing a bank, jumping on a trainOld antiques a man alone can entertain It takes all of your powerTo prove that you don’t careI’m not Cordelia. I will not be there. Tin can man, dragging from a carJust to see […]


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Chagrin Falls

By design by neglect For a fact or just for effect When they met where they connect At the confluence of travel and sex More a trip than a quest Plunged into the deeply freckled breast Where to now? If I had to guess I’m afraid to say Antarctica’s next or Chagrin Falls, Ohio Where […]


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Emperor Penguin

I like the tone of your trumpet C’mon let’s spill some paint Let’s raise a glass of milk to the end of another day And to the kiss that’s still intangible The kids are alright just unmanageable They won’t do a damn thing you say Your voice is all detached on a radio-wave breeze We […]


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Grace, Too

he said I’m fabulously richC’mon just let’s goShe kinda bit her lipGeez, I don’t knowBut I can guaranteeThere’ll be no knock on the doorI’m total pro that’s what I’m here forI come from downtownBorn ready for youArmed with will and determinationand grace, too The secret rules of engagementAre hard to endorseWhen the appearance of conflictMeets […]


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Lets Stay Engaged

It might be latebut it won’t be earlyyou got me to the gatewith time for a coffeeit’s getting latesounds like a departureit’s getting closesounds to me like a departureUntil we meet againlets stay engageduntil thenlets stay engaged Lies over timefloat to the surfacelies over timethey equal surfacelies over timethough the reasons desert uslies over timewith […]


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As I Wind Down The Pines

As I wind down the pinesit’s the lines on your faceplaying on your face. Without thinking so muchas abandoning thoughtI went through open countryover water meadow streamslakes and wires and roosts in reedsto a nest in the hole ofthis deadtree. To play without stopping or pausenot for silence not for applausenot without thinkingand thinking’s abandoning […]


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Cemetery Sideroad

I had heart, but I used to be olderI’m not like I used to behad you, but I guess its all overyou talk, but you’re not like me. you talk and you talk like some weird saintwhat do you think that we could taint?when you’re nothing I am and I’m something you ain’t hold me, […]


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Small Town Bringdown

een to Renodrives an El Caminocan you dig that style? hip canteenyou always make the sceneyou’re a crazy child it’s a sad thingbourbons all aroundto stop that feeling when you’re livingin a small town you’re long and leanbut things don’t get you downyou’re a top ten kingpin in the bordersof you’re hometown you can’t get […]


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