1
Flexible, incessant
High spirit on the move
Lovers chant in descant
Get off on the groove
Shining, whining free on
Spirit fading fast
Dreamers scream in neon
Forget about the past
Waiting, still expectant
Looking for a rhyme
White and disinfectant
Yet subtly sublime
Eloquently styling
This gleaming stream of thought
With rhythm so beguiling
That love so soon forgot
2
Fleet - the small bird flies away
Wings gently above waving trees
Receding gently into the horizon
Pierced - the hunter’s arrow strikes
Breaking slight wing to bring
Death landing on the earth
Child - the small mind weeps and cries
For it did not deserve to die
He stands alone and wonders why
A tear - honest without fear
Falls on broken body here
Seen through eyes a-blind and bleared
Life - through love it seems to bring
The bird attempts to stand,
Succeeds begins to sing
Fleet - the small bird flies away
Wings aloft with child’s gaze
Who stands his jaw agape amazed
3
Beautiful crystal thunder cloud
Drifts aloft unknowing
Wearing summers golden shroud
Floats, a soft wind blowing
Shine, shine
Upon thy soul I resteth mine
Little girl sits and laughs
Again at things unseen
White light moonbeams crystal shafts
Chagrined what might have beens
Please don’t cry
You’ll succeed
If you just try
Beautiful voices speak aloud
Love is shown, love’s showing
Love is riding on a cloud
Love is known, love’s knowing
Yourself
4
Green grass, bright flowers
Crushed down with the weight of our
passion
Hot sun, your dress undone
And strewn across the daisies
I lift and stretch and mold you to my
needs
I shift and twist and you bend me to
your will
We are one
5
Warm soft water
Trickling down your back
Sparks a fire in my heart
Your gentle hands
That flutter, like birds
Over my skin and give me gooseflesh
Your slippery legs give me shivers
And I quiver with antici - pation
You melt like butter
Salty, yielding
On the floor
And it is done
6
Cruising through the park
Sky slowly growing dark
I see you walking by
You glance and catch my eye
A spark jumps the gap, bright hot blue
And stopping in our tracks
The heat, in waves, attacks
Magnetically attracted and
We’ve got to feed the need
And there against the tree
You give yourself to me
And I catch the scent and burn
With your fire
Drawing down your skirt
You ripping at my shirt
And the animals
Go slowly
Down
7
Splashing naked
In the lake
Teasing, pleasing
Attack, retreating
Touching, seeing
Chasing, fleeing
Caught you. Turn
And kissing me into oblivion
I am lost
Climbing quickly to the shore
Heaving heavy
Dripping sweat and needing more
And I chase you round the tree
Hypnotizing with my eyes
Entranced, you dance
Naked, enticing
And I concede
Rigidly
8
Swift, enamored, fleet to fall
Stern and armored, one and all
Free to fly, afraid to move
I try and try, but sadly you’ve
Hid your heart with walls of stone
The seed of pain, so deeply sown
Cannot abide a love so bold
And wraps itself in chains
9
Peace my lover
Fret no more
Tears fall painless on the shore
Of an ocean, deep and wide
Planets pulling
Moons collide
Peace my friend
Fret no longer
Sometimes pain
Can make you stronger
Shouting crowds may scream and throng
But they can’t make you sell your song
Peace my brother
Don’t you sweat it
If you can’t deal
Then just forget it
See you finally broke your tether
Hope down there you find fair weather
Peace
10
Her rich ultra violets have blinded my
eyes
I’ve stared at the sun far too long
Entranced by her beauty, I gaze at the
sky
My sad heart breaks out into song
Crystal clean crystalline, up in the
blue
Her wisdom so far past my years
Sun shocked and locked up in her amber
hue
She cares not for my sightless tears
O mother sun, o you electric sun
You’re my queen
O mother sun, o may your will be done
You’re my dream
Her bright aimless visions have taken
my sight
Too long have I stared at my queen
Her loving warmth soothing my eternal
night
Helps me recall what I’ve seen
11
Stern and subtle ocean waves flow
across the sailor’s graves
Time in time the blink of an eye,
fish’s chainmail, seagull’s cry
Crab in armor on the beach falls
within the seagull’s reach
A child sees, face ashen gray, the
sated seagull soars away
12
Filled up to capacity
Prepared to unload
In this society
You get fit into a
Mold of insecurity
Emotional coldness
Tempered purity
Just watching as your destiny
Prepares to unfold
And
It’s such a strange calamity
The sick and the old
Get named insanity
And live on the road
Forgoing property
They never dress for proper tea
Or go to university
Or carry their load
And
The critical political
Establishment so cynical
Statistically clinical
A rather wide variety of
Of martyrs with their piety
Displayed for all of us to see
Their high moral code
And
The simple folks like you and me
Are climbing slowly from our trees
To sail upon an endless sea of
troubles
Without care.
13
Little blond-haired beauty queen
Says to me OK
I can’t leave my husband
But I’ll be your lay
What the hell is marriage for
It seems like eternal war
She don’t love him
Any more
I see my ex-girlfriend
She says she still cares
Every time that we make love
I’m so bored I stare
What’s the point here any way
I’m so sick of it I say
I don’t love you
Any more
14
So amusing, so capricious
My precious little starling
Darling it is better
For bitter sweet passion
Is sweeter when wetter
And those precocious stylings
So infinitely beguiling
While whiling away the hours so
fashionably
Drive and thrust my dusty pride
Inside a bottle
There to hide
Beside attempted suicide
Forgotten and alone
Free my soul to laugh
So unsuspicious
My bright delicious sunlight sprite
So right for me in every way
On every dark and cloudy day
Please stay a while and tease me
Say that you’ll remain and
As we slowly go insane our
Lust will flow through
Rusty drains unchained
Forever more.
15
A portrait of pleasure
While taking my leisure
Languidly licking
Your musky pink treasure
Your limbs all a-quiver
Your frail body shivers
Lusciously loving you
Into oblivion
Hot beyond measure
A passionate seizure
Tongue slowly flicking
My skin like a feather
The picture of bliss this
Misses lingering kisses
Wistfully twisting my soul as she
hisses
Master oh please
Take me faster and break me
Love me or kill me
But please don’t forsake me.
“But miss you’re mistaken,
All the women I’ve taken,
Have sooner or later
All wound up forsaken.”
Yet below and above her
I pushed and I shoved her
And damn if I didn’t just tell her I
loved her.
16
Ice cold beer
The campus bar
A sweet subtle hint
The walk to your car
And a kiss much more borrowed than
stolen...
Unshed tear
A twinkling star
Wedded to pain
With a soul that was scarred
But a heart much more rocking than
rolling...
The summer that year
The things we are
Champagne ‘n’ nicotine’s
Thick black tar
A sweet tasting memory of falling...
Unspoken fear
Aching and hard
The ash of my heart
Broken and charred
And the sound of your
Husband’s voice calling...
‘twas short and sweet
Like summer’s heat
And I hope we meet again my friend
And may you enjoy
Your brand new toy
As much as you loved me
Good luck in school
Maintain your cool
Until the bitter end again
And when you think
You need a drink
Have a drink for me
17
Magic moment
Frozen fast
Picture still
Plaster cast
Fame and fortune
On the fly
Picture perfect
Slowly dies
Rock ‘n’ roll’s
Pretty maids
Those junkie holes
Die of AIDS
18
Memory sparkles sharp and bright
It’s hard to tell what’s wrong from
right
You stand still in your endless flight
And fade to black to see the light
Try to fit circles in squares all day
Ignore the cost, the price you pay
Forget the rules of the game you play
And try to draw a tie
19
Sweet jaded innocence
Reflects in your eyes
A mirror before me
Shiny and blue
Seeing my own face
Eyes amber disguise
No way around it
I’m thinking of you
Seems in my dreamscapes
You’re on every turn
No way to tell
But I knew
Those salt sultry images
On my retinas burn
Feeling so pleasant
I’m dreaming of you
Slow fading luminance
The moon on your skin
Just on the edge
Pushing through
Painful impermanence
The sinner and sin
Become one for a moment
Remembering you
20
Ya dudda da dudda
Dah dudda da dah,
Ya dudda da dudda
Dah dudda da dah,
Ya dudda da dudda
Dah dudda da dah,
Ya dudda da dudda
Dah dudda da dah.
ta dah!!!!
21
Sixteen? No you’re joking.
She can’t be that young
It must be that joint that you’re
smoking.
It must be you’re just poking fun.
She comes like a daydream and moves
like a star
She can’t be too young to be driving
my car!
But taming that demon who claims I’m
the one
Was easier far when she was
twenty-one!
22
Sextitsasscomewetslickslitherquickcomehitherbreastsdanglingponderousachinghardponytailagonyponysandwhipsnippleclampstighteninglipsslowlywhiteningdroolingandwankingbeggingforspankingblanklystaringandsmiled
Mildlysmokingthedarkdeedisdonewigglingwantonlywantingsomemorechortle
Loudlyandproudlyshelaysonthefloorpantingheavilysweatinghotterbetting
Onhowmanytimesshecandoitsoscrewitharderherhandhardlymovinggroovingin
Hittingtheclitjustrightnightlyunsightlybulgeshidbythecandlightshadow
23
Slit
clit
clip
clap
crap
trap
trip
grip
grit
writ
wait
bait
24
The lift of the pen
Or stroke of the sword
The characters nodding
Their silent accord
Toward the mad dance of chaos
In the bright land of light
With laughing and crying
The smiles and tears
And thousands of lines
Getting dropped through the years
Still curtains fall
Curtain calls close the play
To molder forever
In a box in the clay
25
Impassioned moment
Passion spent
Imprisoned wandering lonely
The leading edge of night
Briefly bright
Thrashing solvent
Slightly bent
In terror running blindly
A mad unceasing flight
Toward the light
Rashly flagrant
Heaven scent
Sensation that is only
The bleeding ledge of fright
Not quite right
Brashly vagrant
Torn and rent
The error finally turning
Sad releasing sight
Pales to white
26
Sing a song of six packs
A belly full of rye
Four-and-twenty Bud talls
Living to get high
When a beer is open
The bubbles start to rise
Don’t know why I’m hoping
That it won’t cloud my eyes
27
Insatiable desire
Sweet anesthesia
Unquenchable on fire
It was never easier
Fully stacked aphrodisiac
Lips so red and eyes so black and blue
What to do with you?
Positively positive
Sweetest panacea
Passion pure and love so bold
I guess I’m just growing old
An over-acting heart attack
Fully whacked out hate to say it’s
true
What to do with you?
Sorry that I feel this way
There’s no way I can sing today
Nothing I can sing for yet
My voice too rough from cigarettes
My fingers sore from rusty strings
So neither can my guitar sing
To you what am I to do?
28
La femme
The bright sunrise
Shines in your hair
Your bright green eyes
Tell me I’m there
It might be true
No more rain
I can’t wait to
See you again
If you look you’ll
Find the answer
The question asked has a
Strange reply
In the morning you’ll see clearly
You won’t wonder why
It’s the way you move
It’s the way you walk
It’s the way you groove
It’s the way you rock
It’s the way that you
Tell me just what to do
Party all over my block
We can make it if we try
Spread your wings and you can fly
29
Standing by the stage
Just slightly underage
In purple lipstick
A fully stacked overacting
Heart attack
Named Polly Rhythmic
It was an East Side
Free ride
Lickety split
Another trick
Slippery nipple
Way hip
Uptown chick
Named Polly Rhythmic
Photographic dipstick
Starring in a pornographic flick
Quick pick
One-way ticket
Out for a kick
Polly Rhythmic
Smack hack
Cracker jack
Flat on her back
So smooth n slick
Super flip
Day tripper
Ready to strip she’s Polly Rhythmic
30
Overcome with aggravation
I’ve been getting quite impatient
Want to start a new sensation
Whole wide world a single nation
Like in the movies
Stimulation simulation
It’s becoming regulation
Who needs all that masturbation
Got to get to penetration
Like in the movies
Hmmm..............
Hookers hangin at Penn Station
Livin on a quick gyration
Could be time for contemplation
Put some latex on that patient
This ain’t the movies
31
Sun drenched plain, a wind washed
field
Under the sky so wide
Something about the way you feel
Something I just can’t hide
Feeling that won’t subside
Don’t know what it is but I like it
(3x)
What is it about you?
Moonlight shining on your breast
Dark red curls so fine
Feeling so good, better, best
Floating in red wine
Darling you are mine
Don’t know what it is but I like it
(3x)
What is it about you?
Sweat just glistening on your skin
Kiss your lips so sweet
Knock on your door please let me in
I miss your funky beat
Sunshine you are my sunshine
Moonlight you are my moonlight
32
A fat frat cat named Matt
Hatta hat zat sat pat
A vat that nattad n chattad
Anna ratta tatta type gat
Dat spattad an splattad
Gray matta like batta
All ova da choich udda
Latta Day Saints sometime las
Sattaday.
33
Money power sex and fame
The more things change
They stay the same
A minor nuclear exchange
After all it’s just a game
Umberto echoes feared deranged
The rose stays red
So what’s its name? It’s
gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme power money fame and sex
To pay in cash
Instead of cheques
A piece of gash
From someone’s ex
She’ll take her cues
I’ll just direct she’ll gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme
Fame money sex and power
Political king make
Millions cower
Fat white snakes in
Cold steel towers
This is the hour
For us to go and get ours
gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme sex fame power and money
Soft as silk and
Sweet as honey
Mother’s milk
From Playboy bunnies
Hangin’ with the ilk
From the pages in the funnies
Moneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoneymoney
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Lick my thickness
Stick my prick
Itsa cinch I’ll
Give you inches
Nice t’ meetcha
Have a seat
Eatin my meat
To the funky beat
On your knees you
Wontcha suck my thumb
An if you please
I’ll make you come
Howabouta quick one
Hiccup my dick
My fly’s undone
Now flick my Bic
Give me head
Here on the bed
That’s what I said ya
That’s feelin fine
Reelin on the floor now sixty nine
35
One fucked-up unhappy soul
While I was keeping her young
She was making me old
Married woman’s lover
So big and bold
I saved her but
My soul got sold
She was so beautiful
I fell into one deep abyss
When I fell asleep
With this sweet hot miss
I tried to recreate her state
Of sexual bliss
But the price of my soul
Was a single sad kiss
She was so beautiful
Now I’m wasting my time
On words and rhymes
Trying to forget
The sound of her chimes
But I can’t forget yet
She was on of a kind
And my silent tears fall
As I lose my mind
She was beautiful
36
She doesn’t want diamonds, cars, or
minks
But it doesn’t matter what I think
And I think I need a drink
That’s why I’m on this bender - silent
surrender
Phone sex free just dial up
It’s hard to keep my smile up
And this fifteen car pile up love
Is just a fender bender - silent
surrender
She’s sleeping she is woken
But not a word is spoken
Every time that she gets broken
That’s when I try to mend her - silent
surrender
You can’t change time and that’s a
fact
So marshal your forces for the coming
attack
The letter I sent just came back
Marked returned to sender - silent
surrender
Leather soul and high top sneakers
I smoke a bowl and crank the speakers
The things I do they sometimes freak
her
Who ever said that they’re the weaker
gender? - silent surrender
It came out worse than I intended
And she came out of it offended
I feel the pain that I engendered
A great idea so poorly rendered
I’m sorry that it ended
In silent surrender
37
The saints and the sinners
Live out their lives
Dodging the bullets
And the well placed knives
I did not mean
To shoot that man
But the gun went off
Right in my hand
Bullets flew
Through the air
As I stared
Def and dumb
At the gun
In my hand
The few and the fearful
Hide in their homes
Giant steel towers
And concrete domes
The young and the restless
Live on the edge
But I did not mean
To step off that ledge
Falling free
Through the air
Without a care
All in all
It’s not the fall
It’s the sudden stop
The old and the lonely
At last left alone
With no earthly possessions
Or homes of their own
And watch my own life
As it still unfolds
But I do not hope
To get so old
Seeing me
From the air
With long gray hair
My vacant stare
A silent glare
In the end
38
Understanding my muses many uses can
be quite demanding her standing
Hand on hip stone white dress and
blood red lips tipping her glass till it spills and it’s practically killed me
a number of times
With her cold dead words and def dumb
rhymes caught up in couplets and I grow quite contrite not to mention uptight
trying to gain some control of the ungainly plane that I’m flying till I feel
like a mime shouting silent words feeling screaming swords cutting through the
tender fabric of my brain I suppose you could say that it’s rather a strain I
didn’t and still don’t intend to attempt to suggest I’m exempt from temptation
I know that I tend towards this aimless oration in fact it’s a source of severe
aggravation with yuddas and duddas falling over themselves till it seems that
my best ideas end up on shelves I guess sooner or later some bright aimless
vision that I stole from some much greater poet will present itself in such a
way that you’d scarce even notice my mission remaining insanely incomplete me
meekly and neatly defeated by the muse who insists I continue rhyming garment
and varmint till I nearly vomit with disgust at the comet and cupid and
prancing sweet vixen’s incessant insistence and my mindless persistence of
memory believing I’m leaving when really I’m coming I think I’m on top but I’m
really just slumming while numbing integrity laughs in my face I just keep on
running the opposite direction from everyone else in the race
39
I usually gain my inspiration from
pain though I try to refrain from sounding inane (or completely insane) but I
seem to remain unable to avoid it and I generally end up rhyming endlessly
I despise punctuation since in real
life (as if my poetry were separate therefrom) I more or less ramble and babble
with pauses only for breath and please try to forgive the pun but I damn well
am going to do it to death the crystal meth all around me I’m glad it’s not
found me yet but I bet it will eventually my being such a junky is taken for
granted but I planted my feet so damn firm on the ground that I scarce see a
thing and I can’t hear a sound but I won’t leave a trace of the space I took up
while I was alive except perhaps for a book or tape or two but these hardly
last longer than a lifetime or ten so I s’pose I should just rack it all up to
Zen
Since my music and verse are so finite
I might just give it all up still I can’t seem to stop this or cop out at all
as much as I’d like to but since I must be me so you too must be you truthfully
screwing off sniffing life’s glue I believe that we must be getting off since
this page is still swelling and shrinking and we’re drinking the apricot nectar
aphrodisiac crackheads in place of a faceless contortion overdriven distortion
of guitars and senses that stars are immense and dense as my verse I guess that
it could be much worse cursing the fate that left me this plate of inedible
chatter what the fuck does it matter if I like it or not since sooner or later
I’m bound to be caught masturbating with these words and lazy phrases that no
one really cares about anyway but today is still the first day of the rest of
my life so I’ll put down this gun and go pick up my knife to pare off the edges
of my bent twisted soul and if nothing else works I can always use coal to burn
off the
Excessive distress that I felt from
the moment I took off her dress
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Perhaps a small stream o consciousness
yes while we ponder and wonder I wonder does it all make a difference and what
do I mean by a difference and to whom already the stream is disrupted of course
flowing on a completely different course in the time that it takes me to type
this shall I not rhyme it I wonder what you think whoever you are and why are
you watching me are you watching me who are you and who am I who is calling I
would understand this if you’d understand this that is calling me into tomorrow
tomorrow we’ll all understand I don’t understand I don’t understand I don’t
understand I don’t understand.
41
Hello there
How are you?
That is fine
And so am I
It isn’t true
And that’s no lie
Sorry I asked
I don’t know why
Just leave me alone
Killing floor
Is killing me
Willing whore
Is filling me
When I want more
She slams the door
I’ve gone insane
It’s a quite shame
Just leave me alone
Dressing up
Like a man
Messing up
As best I can
Don’t know why
I just did
Don’t ask me
I’m just a kid
Just leave me alone
A house of pain
So gently built
With walls of guilt
That still remain
Unchain the fear
That’s living there
I can hear
But I don’t care
Just leave me alone
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I don’t know how you can treat me the
way y’do
I don’t know why you keep running away
I don’t know how you can look in the
mirror
I was your lover not just some cheap
lay
I know that one day it all will come
back to you
Sooner or later that shit comes around
I know that one day your lies will all
end up true
Broken to pieces they lie on the
ground
I can’t see how you can treat me the
way y’do
I just don’t see things the way that
you see
Turn it on turn it off you don’t know
what you want
And I don’t know what the hell you
want from me
Goes around comes around that’s what I
hear y’know
And I am quite sure that is a fact
First say you love me and then it’s
just go away
What kind of way is that for you to
act
Backwards and forwards you just can’t
make up your mind
Inwards and outwards you fit like a
glove
Upwards and downwards you drive me out
of my mind
Leftwards and rightwards your dodging
my love
If you don’t watch out one day you’ll
end up alone
Money and power don’t mean a thing
Love is the only thing that really
matters
And if you don’t love him then give
back his ring
43
Sister moonshine on my shoulder
Good to see you here again
Lost in time I’m feeling older
So much more than I did then
Sister moon and brother sun
The deed is done
Tossed and turning
Torn asunder
By the things I feel inside
Crashed and burning
Like the thunder
Nowhere else for me to hide
Sister moon and brother sun
The deed is done
Brother sunshine my eyes blinding
Feel you softly burn my skin
I’m a seeker but I’m not finding
Any way out of the mess I’m in
Sister moon and brother sun
The deed is done
Tossed and turning
Torn asunder
By the things I feel inside
Crashed and burning
Like the thunder
Nowhere left for me to hide
Sister moon and brother sun the deed
is done
44
Uncontrollable fatal attraction
Set off a massive chain reaction
I gave you love and satisfaction
Was I just another piece of your
action
I miss you (sorry to be a distraction)
Now that I’ve gotten your attention
Lest I’ve forgotten I think I should
mention
It was never my intention
To be left hanging in suspension
I miss you (is love only sexual
tension?)
Please excuse my confused confession
I don’t mean to give the wrong
impression
It’s just that she has become my
obsession
Is passion just repressed aggression
I miss you (is love only an
expression?)
Could I describe my aggravation
I fell I love above my station
I know I’m only a musician
How did I get into this position?
I miss you (missionary/69th home
position)
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My little love
Sweet little woman
Just gotta say
Treats me OK
My little love sweet
Little lady every nite
She just loves me all day
We took a walk went on down by the
seashore
Lordy my God she was lookin so fine
We had a laugh and then made love a
bit more
Was then that she swore she would
always be mine
My little love
Sweet little lady
Lovin to love n’treat me all right
My little love
Sweet little woman
Every day she just love me all nite
We went n dined at the fanciest places
We’d go dancing the whole night through
Just another two of a thousand faces
Livin to die in our warm embraces (I
mean dying to screw)
Chorus I
Finally broke down an I told her
"I love you"
She only smiled and turned away
She said I’m sorry I don’t know what
love is
But baby y’sure a good game t’play(a
damn good lay)
Chorus II
I hear it’s funny the way some love
goes
You can end up with a broken heart
Here today and it’s gone tomorrow
Over before you can really get started
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Welcome to the pleasure dome
We’re gonna make you feel at home
With leather lace and polished chrome
Come on
Don’t be shy just come inside
There’s nothing that you need to hide
Just let us take you for a ride
Come on
Nothing here you need to fear
Won’t you let us dry your tears
We’d really love to grease your gears
Come on
Just a little touch of class
Broken flowers and broken glass
A leather belt across your ass
Come on
We’re so glad that you’ve arrived
You’ll love this place that we
contrived
‘cause no one here gets out alive
You’re gone
47
Young and breathless
I sing loudly
Bright and aimless
Fun allowed
Wild and reckless
Free and easy
Standing high above the crowd
Mmm y’gotta be timeless spaceless
Yea y’gotta have no fear
Oh y’gotta be thoughtless faceless
You got no choice cause
You gotta be here now
Old just breathing
I speak softly
Dull and boring
Just no fun
Lost and frightened
Trapped and troubled
Slowly dying
Beneath the sun
Mmm y’gotta be timeless spaceless
Yea y’ gotta have no fear
Oh y’gotta be thoughtless faceless
You got no choice cause
You gotta be here now
48
Who knows what next?
Brand new day beginning
The next could be our last
How long must the future
Be guided by the past
The crystal ball so empty
The cards may all turned blank
If leaders solve their problems
With missiles guns and tanks
Who knows what next?
For now the day is over
Night is drawing near
Living in the shadow
Of our growing fear
Look the tide is rising
The fuse soon finally blown
To meet at last the reaper
Of the seeds of hate we’ve sown
49
Driven to drugs driven to destruction
We’re all livin on mass production
Driven acid driven to smack
Driven to cocaine driven to crack
Dirty needles aids infection
Livin to die for that injection
Driven to suicide on that brink
Dying for a cigarette
Driven to drink
When do you wake up n change?
Nuclear bombs drive me to distraction
We could all die in a chain reaction
Chemical warfare on that ledge
We’re all livin on one thin edge
Port blockade an trade restriction
Causing international friction
Red alert sound battle stations
Waiting for annihilation
When do you wake up n change?
Driven to kill driven to that notion
Dumping waste in our toxic ocean
Mounds of garbage to the sky
Watching while our mother dies
Radiation poison air
Clear-cut case but hell who cares
Driven to sadness soon to die
Underneath the purple sky
When do you wake up n change?
50
Nuclear bombs away, nuclear bombs away
Nuclear bombs away - today!
Try not to think about it
Remember to forget
Try not to think about it
You won’t have to fret about it
Nuclear bombs away, etc.
Uncle Sam knows what he’s doing
Grins from ear to ear
Listen when he says “don’t worry”
That should ease your fear about those
Nuclear bombs away, etc.
Try not to think about
Just one more bloody war
Peace don’t worry much about it
Just another whore to those
Nuclear bombs away (throw those), etc.
51
Sexy rhythm spark of life
Bodies sweating sparkle like
Diamonds
Heartbeat pounding gets me psyched
Your pretty blue eyes sparkle like
Diamonds
Brilliant sunshine blinds my sight
The constellation sparkle like
Diamonds
Pretty smile blinds my sight
Your perfect teeth babe they sparkle
like
Diamonds
52
Caesar had Brutus Rome had Nero
Everybody’s got their stupid heroes
But she’s my, she’s my heroine
Long dark night on a big white horse
She seems like a dream of course
But she’s my, she’s my heroine
They say a hero’s just a sandwich
Somethin’s been happening I didn’t
plan which is
She’s my, she’s my heroine
Nothin plus nothin adds up to zero
I’m so tired tryna play the hero
But she’s my, she’s my heroine
Romeo Juliet
Sampson Delilah Jesus Christ Magdalene
She’s my, she’s my heroine
53
Heaven forbid baby
Best keep the lid on it
Don’t wanna be no bee
In nobody’s bonnet
Did what I did I guess
I shouldn’t be down on it
Cause if you offered it again
You know I’d go to town on it
My best guess is
You must be messin with me
What you tryina do
Dressin in that getup?
While you smilin
Yer eyes a gettin wild on me
Listen here baby
This best be no setup
Don’t you think that this might be
pushin it?
Don’t this seem a little bit strange?
Don’t you think that it’s a bit
dangerous?
Ah what the hell it’s all the same
54
Love walks up knocks n walks in
Takes off her clothes cause she knows
When they begin it’s not a sin
It’s only love
At least she calls it love
Love comes round and she strips and
gets down
Heart beat in time to wordless rhymes
She knows it’s not a crime
And she thinks that she’s so sublime
But she’s only love
At least I call her love
Love can come just like a firefly
Love can come just like a lightning
strike
Love is like a child dying
Sometimes love is just a woman crying
Sometimes love
Is only love
Love can be so much more than this
Soft caress and tender kiss
Sometimes love is lemon with a twist
And love is only
Hit or miss
They call it love
And you can call it love
55
I’m in the mood I’ve got the itch
I’m a street walkin ass kickin son of
a bitch
On the road on down the line
Running with the devil and wasting my
time
The drinks go down till the sun comes
up
But it never seems to be enough to
fill up my cup
Wouldn’t it be nice if I said
something witty
And gave you all a thrill
Talkin about some sweet little pretty
Girl that someone killed
Wouldn’t you flip if I said nothing
Would you feel unfulfilled
Livin on the street can be so hard
Like a constant climb uphill
56
The lion walks
While the lamb is sleeping
And the lion stalks
But the lamb is keeping to herself
The lion roars
As the lamb is weeping
The lions bored
As he creeps up upon another sheep
Now the lion runs
And the hunter’s gunning
And the lamb just laughs
As the lion’s running for his life
And he eats from the hand
Of the farmer’s daughter
And doesn’t think about the slaughter
And doesn’t even see the knife
57
J’ai une petite amour
Et j’ai l’adore
Elle est une tres jolie fille
Elle a mon coeur
Beaux cheveux
Et grands yeuxs bleus
Elle me rend joyeux
J’ai lui souris
Simple amoureux
Elle me sourit
Je suis joyeux
Elle est mon amie
Je la veux
Elle me rend joyeux
58
Some people love mass production
Some folks got cold hard cash
Some fools want mass destruction
And worlds of dumb white trash
Never knowing where they’re going
Never knowing where they’ve been
Always freezing ever flowing
Never coming back again
Some people just got no feeling
Some folks just hop that fence
Some fools got senses reeling
Some times just got no sense
Some men have perfect timing
Some women have no control
Some clouds have silver linings
For those who sell their souls
Never knowing where they’re going
Never knowing where they’ve been
Always freezing ever flowing
Never coming back again
Some people are two together
Some folks are too apart
Some lovers can’t stand the weather
Some fools just got no heart
59
These lyrics are explicit
They’re totally obscene
Your children mustn’t hear them
You must see what we mean
These lyrics are satanic
Occultist and deranged
These lyrics could cause panic
They must be rearranged
These lyrics are too violent
They beat you black and blue
You must do as we tell you when we
Tell you what to do
These lyrics are too sexy
They’ll burn your soul in hell
They’re sado-masochistic and they
sodomize as well
These lyrics must be censored
They should be rated x
For lez erotic antics and they mention
oral sex
60
Naked and illuminated
By a candle flame
Making love until we’re sated
Hungry, unashamed
Tear me up baby
Under all of God’s creation
Who remains to blame
Some of us are armour plated
Some of us play games
Tear me up baby
One of us wears golden rings
One lives life for fame
You can always change the singer
The song remains inane
Tear me up baby
Still with all our subtlety
It’s easy to complain
You can beg for mercy
But you can’t escape the pain
61
A dream apparent
On the shore
Of a mind
In the darkness
Seeking resolution
For the days remorse
And the evenings loneliness
A sitcom of sleep
Acting out hidden emotion
A thought translucent
Slips through the network
Of the streets of the mind
Seeking realization
Through my fingertips
It’s the center of life
For that moment in time
A feeling electric
Coursing through
The chemical waterways
Of the soul
Instigating thoughts
That cause the dreams
Which cause emotion.
62
Whisper
The wind is a whisper
Whispering through
The vast caverns of my mind
Cry
That cry
Like a heartbeat
Pulsating through
The memory of you
Scream
That scream
Like that painting
A moment of agony
Making me blind
Sigh
A sigh
Like a whisper
The wind is only a whisper
Whispering memories
Of you
63
Storming and scathing
Blistering tears
Biting and scratching
Intangible fears
Dream awake screaming
Old love unrenewed
Empty and lonely
Feelings reviewed
Inches to touch you
Miles to speak
A mind somehow distant
My whisper a shriek
Begging and pleading
And endless remorse
Naked and bleeding
I yell myself hoarse
Aimless we wander
Painfully broken
Love torn asunder
A single word spoken
Goodbye
64
Time in time
Integrity failing
Sending the young man
Out to die sailing
Hunting for whale
We sing the sea chantey
Weather the gale
As we try to be
Shan’t be
Thar she blows matey
Better step lively
Hold yer course strong
And harpoon quite tightly
Tars nothin for it
She’s headed straight for us
We’ll die at sea boys
Dear Jesus help poor us
Swim fer it mateys
She’s hit amid ship
If we don’t get clear
We’ll go down with her to
Not that there’s anywhere
We could swim to
But you cling to your life
I’ll cling to mine too
65
Drug slave street walker
Hard core punk rocker
That’s the way
Society child
Chain saw blood shocker
Rich politicians talk
It’s a game
Society child
Television elevator
Murder it’s exciting ‘cause
That’s today
Society child
Gang bang coat hanger
Rape victim shang-hai
It’s a shame
Society child
66
I’m in love with a woman
Who doesn’t exist
My dream life her world
One in all
Her blue satin dress
And red lips that I’ve kissed
I’m in love with a woman
Who doesn’t exist
At all
A magical vision
Of homecoming warmth
A dream much too sweet
To be lost in the dawn
Violent blue velvet
So softly sun kissed
I’m in love with a woman
Who doesn’t exist
At all
67
Boxed in
Tied up
Losing my mind
Locked out
Lied to
Just can’t find
My love
Nod out
Tied off
Shootin up stream
Sprung up
Strung out
About to scream
For help
Faked out
Trippin up
Haven’t got time
Flaked out
Tippin off
That land mine
Tonite
Laid out
Played through
Hole in one
Drinking wine
Feeling fine
In the sun
It’s all right
68
I’ve got lonely empty spaces
Standing in a sea of faces
Hundreds of thousands of people
All alone
I’ve got thoughts that can’t be spoken
A back getting slowly broken
And I stand here wishing I could get
you
On the phone
I’ve got my musical instruments
I’ve got frustrations that I can’t
vent
I sit at my grand piano
Falling asleep
I’ve got swollen aching hands
I’ve got a rocking and rolling band
I’ve friends and lovers that I know
I can’t keep
69
Endlessly making sweet love in the
grass
By the lake
I know you don’t notice but you give
me more
Than you take
That look in your eyes sweetly
satisfies all
Of my needs
It makes it all worth my restoring
your mirth when that
Son of a bitch makes you bleed
You give something I want and I’ll
give you something you need
Walking and talking about all of the
things
That we’ll do
No one has ever made me feel this way
Except you
Older and colder but our lust is still
Shiny new
Won’t you believe that I just couldn’t
leave you
I can’t face this life without you
U think that I know & I think that
u know &
I think that I know U better than U
think
Eyes softly shining you look so divine
All the time
I just can’t wait till the day you are
mine
You’re so fine
You give just what I want & I give
you just what u need
Sexy sweet velvet your lips are as
soft
As a dove
What can I say but when I feel this
way
I get the impression that I might be
Falling in love
U think that U know & I think that
I know &
U think that U know me better than I
think
70
The pain of parting is more than I can
stand
And I’d die to hold your pale white
hand
Again
Leaving you is more than I can bear
And I’d die to touch your golden hair
Again
The sorrow is pounding in my head
And I’d die to kiss your lips so red
Just one more
Time again
I can’t live away from you
And I’d die to see your eyes so blue
Just one more
Time again
I cannot handle my desire
And I’d die to feel your passion’s
fire
One more
Time again
Must you stay must I leave
And I can’t believe
I can’t believe it’s happening
Again
71
You and I laughing dancing in the
sunset
You and I making love till morning
light
You and I we were meant to be together
You and I we were never meant to part
You and I caring sharing dreams of
passion
You and I never had much time to fight
You and I kissing touching in the
sunshine
You and I friends and lovers from the
start
You and I walking talking by the ocean
You and I making love down by the lake
You and I scheming dreaming of our
future
You and I grabbing all that we could
take
You and I setting all our dreams in
motion
You and I staying saying I love you
You and I we were meant to be forever
You with me and I with you
72
Let me choose my own path not blind
religious zeal
Upbeat rocking ragtime or rapid reggae
feel
Let me beat my own drum (meat?) And
march to my own time
Compared to mystic rhythm a star could
seem sublime
Give me peace and freedom the stars
galore and more
Censors? I don’t need ‘em yeah and
Tipper Gore’s a whore
Let me walk my own road explore new
realms of thought
Heaven must be searched for and hell’s
so cheaply bought
73
So you want originality
I hardly know where to begin
It’s hard to beat I heard you are what
you eat
Original thought’s worse than original
sin
Yes I hate all this banality
But I barely know where to start
The mold is cast from echoes of the
past
To attempt the unusual would break the
masters’ hearts
Multimedia reality
Is something we all have to share
What I mean when I say never mind
Is I don’t care but I don’t care to be
unkind
Don’t declaim your lame morality to me
What does it matter what you feel?
Mediocre jokers form tomorrow from the
borrowed
But all the greatest artists steal for
their next meal
My claim to fame is the majority
To quote from greatness makes you
great
Newness breeds contempt for mediocrity
And sows those ancient seeds of hate
Paternal gifts from the fraternity
For all their sisters at the gate
Will always last they say from here
until eternity
We must not steal the food from
hunger’s plate
74
Everything I ever thought that I might
want to say
Already got said by someone else in a
far more elegant way
Why express myself when no one really
listens anyway
Someone’s quoting Shakespeare every
moment everyday
The spoken word is wasted when a look
can say it all
Why ask how it tasted or the meaning
of a scrawl
TV scripts radio shows and shopping at
the mall
Lyric sheets can clearly state what I
can’t say at all
It’s just a matter of opinion what? Oh
well never mind
You weren’t listening besides I’m just
talking myself blind
Don’t even bother looking there’s no
meaning there to find
It’s a pointless conversation of an
unproductive kind
75
There’s a hole in my soul
Yeah I fill it up with pain
And like rock and roll
It’s driving me insane
Insane
You’ve been hard on my heart
Over and over again
You’ve been doing your part
In driving me insane
Insane
There’s a strain on my brain
Yes it’s all that remains
Of the mind that was mine
But I have gone insane
Insane
Where is the sun
In this endless rain
And where is the one
Who’ll take away my insane
Insane
76
Love love love
I don’t know what to do
All I think of is you
You you you
You are all I see
I guess that it’s just me
Me me me
I don’t know what to do
So in love with you
Love love love
I don’t know what to feel
When you make love
So unreal
77
You’re such a sweet dream
You know what I mean
Y’ long hair and tight jeans
And red boots
Hard core attraction
Hot interaction
I need satisfaction
Red boots
Yeah you look so fine
I wish you were mine
And I’m losing my mind
For red boots
Come on and love me
If you want to be free
I’ll make you happy
Red boots
78
Words words words
I waste them all the time
Words words words
The pages stained with pain
Words words words
Between sin and isolation
Words words words
Words can be a dangerous operation
Words words words
Words to kill and words to heal
Words words words
Words to give and words to steal
Words words words
Why can’t I express the way I feel
79
Piddle in the middle udder riddle as
the widower
Diddled underneath the little
fiddler’s frock
An diddy boy or dinny suck
The little
Beggar boy’s cock?
Ravenously consuming
His cavernous bloomers
Slavering and slathering it
To the tune of his too incautious
tongue
And he stung the young lad well nigh
in the bum
Well!
80
A hymn of forgiveness
Given only of stress
Living less for the more
And more for the less
I guess this foolish mess
Is all for the best
But the tightening in my chest
Feels like lightning the most
And like comfort the least
And the beast in my breast
So alive I’m nearly dead
I’m surprised to find out
It’s all in my head
81
Lady du Pris
A woman of price
Lady tres long
A woman so far
Lady du lac
A woman so wet
Lady du Pris
Let me place your bet
82
Long black hair
And skin so fair
A kiss as fine as wine
Steel sharp wit
A slick tight fit
And won’t you please be mine
Voice so loud
And walk so proud
A figure oh so fine
Sweet hot sweat
I can’t forget
I’ve got to cross your line
We’ll create
A perfect state
Of majik bliss divine
Be my moon
I’ll be your sun
I know that we can shine
I’ll be there
When gentle air
Blows through sighing pine
Dry your tears
I’ll face the fear
That shivers down my spine
83
You don’t have to make me slippery
I’m as wet as I can get
You don’t have to trip me
You just got to be the best
I’ve had yet
Y’got to
Make love to me
Make it up to me
Make love to me
All nite long
You don’t have to make me happy
I’m glad as I could be
I don’t need you to slap me
You just got to be all
You can be
Chorus
You don’t have to make me smile
You don’t have to soothe my fears
You just got to make me wild
You don’t even have to
Dry my tears
Chorus
You don’t have to make me angry
You don’t have to make me cry
You don’t have to hang me up
You don’t even have to get me high you
just got to
84
Y M I so damn compulsive
Y M I so damn extreme
I guess I’m just too aggressive
I’m just too obscene
Y M I so damn impatient
Y M I so damn deranged
An intense infatuation
Slowly driving me insane
Y M I so goddamn foolish
Y M I so damn whacked out
Sometimes I’m so goddamn mulish
That I simply can’t back out
85
Tie me down
Beat me up
Turn me round
Fill my cup
Softly stroke
Take it off
Have a toke
Please don’t cough
I want everything
Pull me in
Push me out
Suck me hard
In your mouth
Give me head
Your majik kiss
Upon the bed
Achieving a state
Of sexual bliss
I want everything
Ball me love
Call me names
So far above
These petty games
Feed my lust
Drink my juice
You’re so tight
It makes me loose
I want everything
It’s a gas
But not the same
Fine piece of ass
As hot as flame
White hot blast
Of icy fame
Not so fast
Oh shit
I just came
I want everything
86
When I was just a boy
I went to nursery school
And even as a child
I thought I was no fool
I’d kiss the little girls
Because that broke the rules
But now I’m reaching higher
Now I kiss the teacher
I think of all the education that I
miss
But then my homework was never quite
like this
N’est ce pas?
87
Orgasm to sarcasm
Lust straight to pain
Heart turns to hate
Sweet shifts to snide
Love into anger
Blessings to curses
Tender too violent
Kind words to slurs
Softness to slaps
Passion to silence
Hugs turn to tears
Whispers to screams
Kisses to spit
Bastard to bitch
88
I don’t need a million bucks
Money only makes you greener
I just want my pickup truck an’ Jalina
I don’t need no fancy yacht
Down at the marina
All I need’s my swimmin pool an’
Jalina
I don’t need no French masseuse
In Los Angelenos
All I want is my lemon juice an’
Jalina
Don’t need no Mercedes-Benz
My bicycle is cleaner
All I want’s my few close friends an’
Jalina
I don’t need no DJ man
To say I’m hot on the scene
All I need’s an old guitar an’ Jalina
I don’t care for big hair girls
Or high school beauty queens no
I just love that string of pearls an’
Jalina
I don’t look like Cary Grant
On the silver screen
All I got’s my pair o’ pants an’
Jalina
I ain’t much of a Valentino & I
ain’t no Jimmy Dean
All I’ve got’s the stars above and
think I could fall in love
89
Be my brother
Be my sister
Fuck that stupid
Aggravation
Be my mister satisfaction
Be my mistress sofistication
Be my blood hole
Be my blister
Be my master of
Plasteration
I only kissed her wrist you bitch
I swear it’s no exaggeration
Be my father
Be my mother
Yes I missed her
Ministrations
Simple sexual relations
I could use a long vacation
Be my lover
Be my cover
No restrictions
Quick convictions
Agony to pure elation
Who the fuck needs information
90
Sometimes sand castles
Have ivory towers
That just won’t wash
Into the sea
Sometimes they only
Last for hours
Sometimes eternity
Some times and places
Drag on forever
You can’t get where
You want to be
Others pass away so soon
You didn’t even see
Some holy houses
Have walls of stone
That never set you free
And the one I’m in
Might be a sin
But at least the sun
Can shine on me
91
Bright shining light
Fire fly through the sun
One with all and all are one
Smiling styling rays warming comfort
With you the pretty witty star of my
life
From here until whenever and perhaps
until forever
Let’s face it you’ve got to have some
happiness somewhere sometimes
92
Lyle
Blood heart brother
Friend o mine
Where would I be without thee?
My life has a much sweeter taste
And the world is a much safer place
With you here
And I would not be without thee.
I pray every day that we always will
stay
Together as one
Since life is so much less fun for one
And truly more beautiful
Much better far
As we two
And even if I had to
I still wouldn’t be
Without you.
A poor man made rich
Though I’m sometimes a bitch
Or quite like one
I’m healthier and wealthier
Far in your company
Just basking with you in the sun
Or our walks in the rain
With us straining our brains
On the infinite convolutions
Of our lives and our women
And I hope I can someday repay
All the help and the love
And passionate compassion
You’re constantly sending my way
But the feats that we’ve dared
And the lovers we’ve shared
Can never compare
To the heartfelt devotion
And deepest emotion
That grows longer still
Than our hair.
Peace my brother.
I love you.
93
Mysterious so serious
I slowly grow delirious
Imperiously leering
At the queers who smear
Their tears across
The fearful desert
Querying their weary masters
Bating the cheery demons hooks
With sexy books and pictures
Flicking tongues in aspic
Asses pumping humping furiously
Awaiting the interrupt spuriously
Ticking tocking time
Attacking rhythm cock and rhyme
Sublimely chiming bells of hell
So god damned mother fucking
Finely
And I cease to wonder why
A certain angel fell
After all, would you try
To sodomize
Your God?
94
Sweet
So soft and sexy
Passion grace
And liquid fire
Yes fear I may acquire
Too permanent a taste
For this chaste
Addictive lust
Industrial strength my dear
Or bust
Though I think perhaps
I must be going
Just a bit too
Far and wide
Still the more I get inside
The less I care
For the air out there
And I really truly wish
You would not leave
Me drenched enmeshed
In wrenching sexual contemplation
But I leave you at the station
Since I know the only
Way to keep you happy’s
First to let you go
To conquer death you only have to
Die my love goodbye
95
Sex love passion peace happiness joy
comfort pleasure suck fuck cock come sweet yummy tasty more foreskin sweat
togetherness messy smiles yes baby darling lover mother brother sister father
cousin aunty mum uncle cozy cuddle power struggle snuggle up my dear grin by
the hair of my chinny chin chin bum floss across the waist land jammin within
the waste band music of the spheres the crowd cheers wildly one mild
Bit of highness brings the whole damn
bunch around midnight’s chiming
Stage lights blinding finding any
excuses to feed the starving muses
96
The way you move drives me to tears
Big strong muscles out to here
Ain’t seen a body like that in years
Slammin your stick shift into my gears
You just drive me crazy cause you’re
Sexy
Hot sweet stylin pretty face
Need your leather to go with my lace
Pluckin my feathers with poise and
grace
I want your lawyer to try my case
You just drive me crazy cause you’re
Sexy
I’d just die 4 your gorgeous eyes
So big soft blue they make me cry
There’s no need for you to ask me why
Cause you’re the drug that gets me
high
You just drive me crazy you’re so
Sexy
97
Stepping thru time
The watch growing limper
Draped on kitchen door way
Looking at the stove
Could be I’m going
Out without whimper
Could she be may
Maybe she’s June
In Paris anais
At least another
Whore or lay or stripper
On the rove as you might say
It’s definitely about
Fucking he chuckled
Let’s get a bite to eat
But the poet was too beat
And besides the lion was hungry
Might it not be a crime
But it’s getting much simpler
Raped the bitch on the willing floor
“Hey
He said when it was over
Baby maybe I’ll see you some time”
And that was the end of the play
98
This insults women could be what they
say
Perhaps they’ll say this insults men
Who is they anyway and who says then
That the Avid
Dollaria when seeing
And being so paranoid and critical
Had a problem? I (I have noticed)
Am much more creative by day
And much better laid in the night
When embracing the dark and ignoring
the light
After all anyone can see the sun
But who can see the abyss?
Picasso was never called an asshole
Or so at least I’m told
And Miles Davis is recalled as bold
99
Saint and sinner
Loser and winner
One for breakfast
One for lunch
One that I’m saving for dinner
After one or two more
The nun and the whore
Will only be names
Of games that I’ve play
Since I’m the one keeping the score
Bombastic contrast
Losing grip fast
With the right role
I’ll play the right hole
The next one just might be my last
The tame and the wild
The meek and the mild
Childlike eyes
In a demon’s disguise
Platonic my lover
Electronic my lies
Holding me closer
I’m dosing my doe
Taking off makeup
And breaking the hoe
But where I go next
I guess nobody knows
100
101
Sacrifice the carving knife
The farmer’s wife is dead
The farmer’s field a dried up crack
The mice live in his bed
The blood of stones
And cattle bones
Have choked the farmer’s seed
And broke the farmer’s back upon
A river Styx of greed
The sandy ground
The earth so brown
Completely torn
Worn down and rounded
Topsoil toil lifted and drifting
On winds of pain and drowned in rains
Of blood stained oil and poison grains
The sands of time are drifting
102
He wants to be your sun
His gravity would hold you tight
His light as bright as day but for
tonight
He’s just one of your satellites oh
yay
And he’s saying circle me
Suckle me
He wants to be your galaxy
Revolve round him or he’s too dim
He’s just spinning over you but he’s
not
Winning over you and he’s not
Saying circle me
Suckle me
Are you a black hole strong and chaste
Sucking all right into place
Is he just waste in outer space
Begging for a taste of your milky ways
He keeps saying circle me
Suckle me circle me
Mother suckle me
Lover circle me
Baby suckle me
Oh circle me
O suckle me
Circle me
103
One of you
And two of me
The three of us could easily
Be four if only
More of us were
Here to be a part of what we see
104
Simple but so complicated
Easy but it seems so hard
Paranoid and condescending
Enemies but oh so friendly
Over now but never ending
So close yet it’s oh so far
Screaming now but oh so silently
Slow but oh it goes so fast
Hoping we could make it last
Fast but oh it goes so slowly
Oh so high but oh so lowly
Blew so bad I guess it only
Sucks but it was such a blast
Kiss so deep but fight so violently
Felt so good but oh so tethered
Best but it was getting better
Blessed but it seems so cursed
Bitter it was getting worse
Eloquently growing terse
Look so close but don’t go getter
You can’t tame what’s oh so wild and
free
105
Slatternly patterns
Of Uranus and Saturn
Forming forms within forms
C’mon storm the warm battlefront
Conform to the norm Norman
Them poor worms can’t confirm
Or define the word firmly
The Japs or the Germans
Can’t stop the germ warfare
Who cares the blue stairs
Still stare out into darkness
The sharks nibbling swiftly
Adrift on the wavelengths of chaos
Completely oblivious to the holes
In the airwaves the sun streaking cold
On the fields in the distance
Scatter the matter
All over the universe
Slamming the glorious
Damning the glamorous
Stances of princes
Who dance like they’re prancing
On comets from Jupiter
Maddona’s a vixen
And Nixon’s a criminal
War is a whore
And what’s more
This is Babylon sister
106
There is a place where
Only we can go
Free from the hurricane
No winter snow
Lover’s sweet scent
From the fine lilies white
Meet me in our secret garden tonight
Silken and lace there
The red flowers grow
Humming birds sugarcane
Green fields below
Evening falls bent
In a rainbow’s delight
Meet me in our secret garden tonight
The moon on your face stares
In soft ghostly glow
Maybe we’ll go insane
Maybe we’ll never know
Yet we can vent
Our frustrations in spite
So meet me in our secret garden tonight
107
Stare at the stratosphere
How did I end up here?
Where did I come from?
And where shall I go?
What am I doing now?
Wait by the telephone
How did I end up alone?
What does it matter
That I’m getting scattered?
A fat old mad hatter I can
Hear the glass shattering
Swallow it slowly
I guess I’m the only one
Standing here shaking with fear
Sinking in whirlpools
Of my own designing
Spinning in spirals
Of morbid delight
Killing the girl fool’s
Erotic emotions
The blood wells up rapidly
Filling up oceans
And swamping the ships that go
Bump in the night
Well all fucking
Right...
108
It came to that
That came to this
This twisted love
Love come to push
Push come to shove
Shove like a shovel
Shove all that shit
Get it on down
Get down to it
He went for her
She came to me
Wanting to come
And she came for me
So he went to hell
Hello my love
Shove all that shit
Didn’t need that but
That night it was he
Me I just stared
Stared into space