like anyone I knew a Davedrove a Plymouth shallow gravesaid, "my girl don’t just walk, she unfurls"with motorcycle languagehe stumbled through his slang pledgethen he dragged the mud for wedding pearls he closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kisssaid "don’t worry baby about what you’re gonna missthere will always be a […]
I’ve got a job, I explore, I follow every little whiffAnd I want my life to smell like thisTo find a place, an ancient raceThe kind you’d like to gamble withWhere they’d stamp on burning bags of shit.Looking for a place to happenmaking stops along the way Wayward ho! Away we go,It’s a shame to […]
September SeventeenFor a girl I know it’s Mother’s DayHere son has gone aleeAnd that’s where he will stayWind on the weathervaneTearing blue eyes sailor-meanAs Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrainFor a boy in Fiddler’s Green His tiny knotted heartWell, I guess it never worked too goodThe timber tore apartAnd the water gorged the woodYou can hear […]
Whether laying down yourself beside it Or slipping into its cool and rushing effects Or drifting on it to where it broadens Your admiration for its more elusive aspects Being draw along by it Carried under carried away By its long-term membership By the time the ice-huts hit the bottom We were already home in […]
You’re older, you’re hauntedyou’re ahead of your time.In corners of acres of blocks ofstraight lines.Blurringly, hourly we cross somegreat dividessome heritage moments and somemelodious minds…a voice above the engine and thejet stream combined‘it’s time..sir…The time sir…Do you have the time?’As the moon groomed the airplane in abenevolent wayAgain with the myth that’s neither here,neither there.Again […]
Does it diminish yoursuper-capacity to love Walk like a matador,don’t be chicken-shitand turn breezes into rivulets flamenco-sweep the airand weave the sunand stamp your feet for everyone Does it exhibit yournatural tendency to hate Maybe a prostitutecould teach youhow to take a compliment maybe I’ll go to New York,I’ll drag you thereyou said, "no one […]
The man ‘cross the street he don’t move a muscle Though he’s all covered in dust When constitutions of granite can’t save the planet What’s to become of us With a painted restraint I don’t move a muscle Though a turbine roars If the bathwater’s clear and my ear’s underwater It’s a tolerant hum from […]
First we’d climb the treeand maybe then we’d talkor sit silentlyand listen to our thoughtswith illusions of somedaycasting a golden lightno dress rehearsal,this is our life that’s where the hornet stung meand I had a feverish dreamwith revenge and doubttonight, we smoke them out You are ahead by a century Stare in the morning shroud […]
Does you mother tell you things?Long, long when I’m gone?Who you talking to?Is she telling you I’m the one?It’s a grave mistake and I’m wide awake. Drive-In’s rained outWeatherman wet-fingers the skyHe pokes it out, he pulls it inHe don’t know whyIt’s the same mistake It’s been a long time runningIt’s been a long time […]
Everything is bleak.It’s the middle of the night.You’re all alone and the dummies might be right.You feel like a jerk.My music at work.My music at work. Avoid trends and clichés.Don’t try to be up to date.And when the sunlight hits the olive oil,don’t hesitate.The night’s so long it hurtsMy music at work.In a symbol too […]