Let’s sail awayPast the noise of the bayLet’s sail awayPast the birth and death of the dayLet’s sail awayTo where the blues and greensSwirl into grayLet’s sail awayLet’s sail awayPast the cradle of these wavesLet’s sail awayPast the tide and its slow decayLet’s sail awayTo where the water goesSome endless open spaceLet’s sail awayTake only […]

So, I’m just the medicineYou take when you’re sickYou get well and that’s itI’m put back on the shelf in your mirrorAnd it isn’t exceptionalThe course of our fateSo, people love and they hateAnd I guess it’s just our turn to hateYeah, you were just some song I wroteA poem on a pageA sculpture I […]

All eyes on the calendaranother year I claim of total indifferenceTo hear the days pile upWith decisions to be madeI’m sure all of them were wrongInto this song, I send myselfAnd with these drinksI plan to collapse and forgetThis wasted yearThese wasted yearsDevoted friends, they disappearAnd, I’m sorry about the phone callAnd needing youSome decisions […]

Now and again it seems worse than it is,but mostly the view is accurate.You see your breath in the airas you climb up the stairsto that coffin you call your apartment. And you sink in your chair,brush the snow from your hairand drink the cold away.You’re not really surewhat you’re doing this forbut you need […]

I had a brother onceHe drowned in a bathtubbefore he’d ever learned how to talkAnd I don’t know what his name wasbut my mother doesI heard her say it oncePadraic my prince, I have all but diedFrom the sheer weight of my shameYou cried but no one cameAnd the water filled your tiny lungsAppear, my […]

Sitting around, no work today.Try pacing to keep awake.Laying around, no school today.Just drink until the clock has circled all the way. It’s late afternoon, as you walk through the roomsof a house that is quietexcept for unanswered telephones.You stand near the sink,you mix up a drink.You think you don’t want to pass outwhere your […]

I had a girl I knew, She grew, became a woman nowI think that she teaches atone of the schools downtownWe used to roll the windows down and play the music loudSmoking out in her carLost in west OmahaAnd we’d get drunk and kiss, our bodies twist like shoelacesAnd we never came untiedI guess you […]

I spent a week drinking the sunlight of Winnetka, CaliforniaWhere they understand the weight of human heartsYou see, sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold youWith the fear that it eventually departsAnd the truth is I’ve been dreaming of some tired tranquil placeWhere the weather won’t get trapped inside my bonesAnd if […]