pale purple nipplesgoose pimpledshe shivers shifts from a walk to a trotalone in the cityinfested with facesimmune to new friendshipsinterested in places she’s never seenshe says everything is grey hereand nothing is greenthe girls from down the streetsixteen, seventeen years oldyou can smell them getting pregnantyou can hear their rock and rollthat’s americayou have to […]
Category Archives: Ani DiFranco
On Every Corner
deathhas been your loverhe has brought youthe edges of your lifeand now you are looking overand all we can say isit’s gonna be all rightand I am looking forwardto looking back on these dayswhen on every cornersomeone holds a signthat says I’m homelessI’m hungry andI have AIDS how will they define our generationin the coming […]
Pick Yer Nose
How come I can pick my earsbut not my nosewho made up that rule anywayhow can you say that’s the way it isthat’s just the way it goeswhy don’t you decide for yourselfwhat you can doand what you can say how come I can pick my friendsbut not my enemieswhat is it about me that […]
She Says
she says forget what you have to dopretend there is nothingoutside this roomand like an idea she came to mebut she came too lateor maybe too soonI said please try not to love meclose your eyes, I’m turning on the lightyou know I have no vacancyand it’s awfully cold outside tonight the rain stains the […]
Buildings And Bridges
Buildings and bridgesare made to bend in the windto withstand the world,that’s what it takesAll that steel and stoneis no match for the air, my friendwhat doesn’t bend breakswhat doesn’t bend breaks we are made to bleedand scab and heal and bleed againand turn every scar into a jokewe are made to fightand fuck and […]
Amazing Grace
amazing gracehow sweet the soundthat saved a wretch like mei once was lostbut now i’m foundwas blind but now i see ’twas grace that taughtmy heart to fearand grace that fear relievedhow precious didthat grace appearthe hour i first believed through many dangerstoils and snaresi have already come’twas grace that brought mesafely thus farand grace […]
Asking Too Much
I want somebody who sees the pointlessnessand still keeps their purpose in mindI want somebody who has a tortured soulsome of the timeI want somebody who will either put out for meor put me out of miseryor maybe just put it all to wordsand make me say, you knowI never heard it put that waymake […]
Dog Coffee
perpetrating counter-culture she is walking through the parkfirst light ugly and more muscular than the darkpushing poems at the urban silencedrawing portraits of the passers-bysitting on the curbcombining traffic soundsgetting dirty looks and dirty jeanson the dirty groundshe says I can’t figure out what kind of life this iscomedy or tragedy I just know it’s […]