The sun reflected inThe back of my eye.I knocked my head against the sky. The dragonflies are busy buzzing me.A seahorse as if we were in the sea. Half way from coalHalf way from diamond.My fall knocked a mean chip out of me.Gathering as far as I can reach.Perched up on a precipiceAnd this is […]
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Summer Turns To High
Mercury is rising stillTurn the fan on high I won’t step on my own shadowNo-one wants to cry Someone put a pox on meI spit in their eyesSummer turns to high Lift my bed sheet keep in sandlesCircle search and there are candlesSummer’s here but night is raising hopes and dragonflies If those hopes are […]
Beachball
Tonight’s aliveThe beachball’s set to flyThose well tequilaed guysWho smile at strangers. A tes souhaitsA tes amours chériYou give a little squeezeAnd dance the rua-rua-rua-rumbaThis life is sweetYou’re dancing in the streetWho knows who you might meetWho to find. The little week ends hereThursday has an earThe coffee clash careerShe talks to strangersAnd kissing by […]
She Just Wants To Be
It’s not that she walked awayHer world got smallerAll the usual placesThe same destinationsOnly something’s changed. It’s not that she wasn’t rewardedWith pomegranate afternoonsAnd Mingus, Chet Baker and chessIt’s not stampede and fortuneOf prim affectationsShe’s off on a riot(?)And she knows nowIs greater than the wholeOf the pastIs greater and now she knows She just […]
Old Man Kensey
Old Man Kensey wants to be a sign painter First he’s got to learn to read He’s gonna be a clown on TV Flexes his elbow taunt and free That’s my folly, I believe Drink up the lake Kensey’s awake That’s my folly, that’s my mistake Old Man Kensey wants to be a goalie First […]
Everybody Hurts
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on. Don’t let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes. Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it’s time to sing along. When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on) […]
King Of Birds
A thumbnail sketch, a jeweller’s stone A mean idea to call my own Old man don’t lay so still you’re not yet young There’s time to teach, point to point, Point observation, children carry reservations Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold, leaves me cold. A mean idea to call my own, a […]
Circus Envy
Here comes that awful feeling again Welcome the ugly animal. I hold my breath to what you sing, My pyro acrobat ball and chain, I’m not afraid, I messed it, messed it, messed it, messed it up I’ve got my telescope head in the haystack I’m getting tired of your dodgeball circus act Put pepper […]