As It Were
My mind so weighted by ransoms
time-drenched dimes
purblind, unconscious to silence
barks ring sublime
So old that cob webs grow cob webs
and thoughts bleed in rust
in wells reflecting the shadows
smiles sunk in dust
My heart's a wound, my eyes are empty
my soul been trapped inside this century
As it were.
Knelt down to pulpits of paltry
faith-based toil
a world made of concrete so faulty
kissed turned to soil
My heart so ravaged by commerce
beats down the man
my mind a seed fed by sorrow
laps up Iran
And if I beg and weep for pleasure
My heart be torn by dimes forever
As it were
Kneel down, cacophony skyline,
pale face gaze
Moon round in the blue of a bright dime,
hell's beat, erased
flowers flow and melt into body,
hear dolphins purr
come down to heaven below us,
to another world
Cold heart, cold senses, Osiris
Bird corpse sublime
release the lockness, O sadness
moaning the time
Pipe song of heartfelt abandon
hum, whistle, blow
god thoughts will sugar my senses
rock, rabbit, and snow
I'd bleed my mind and break my angles
just to be wept upon by angels
As it were
As To Why
Captured in the wake of lightning
cotton in the core of God
whisper in a trance I bleeding
As to why, unknowing
As to why, it’s fleeting
As to why.
Shackled to a suit forever
pigeons peck our souls away
and screaming like a babe I’m leaving
As do I, feel frozen
As do I, fear music
As do I.
It’s the wake as you move
inside my consciousness
It’s the light
and I’m lost without your motorbike
It’s the night
and I’m shucked by all those concubines
It’s the wind
and I’ll lose all my copper pots
It’s the dawn
and I walk inside a parrot’s yawn
It’s a weigh job, day job
get a wake-up, Wacoit’s
a clay-pot day spot
it’s the day-glow bay bog
rods of clear god, day job
rods of clear god, bad dog
wash my hands clean, heart clean
lick the dogs clean pagan
want a pay way hay day
In the stable fable
Get a wait job, day job
Locked into the stare of sunlight
to catapult our tears away
wincing in a knave toward summer
As to why, I’m breathing
As to why, it’s ending
As to why.
Poodles In A Shrine
When we are together
and how we pass the time
when we wring our hearts dry
and slowly undress our minds
Let all pettiness fall
Let all hatred dissolve
Let anger only reveal
What awkwardness conceals
When we are together
Poodles in a shrine
barking at convention
happy lapping wine
Let all inhibition melt into wine
Let all action melt into mind
Let the wake of love float us home
Let the words in our ears form to bone
When we are together
When we are together
I need you
to help me escape
I need you
to wipe this apathy off of my face
I need a reason to cry
and no reason to lie
when we are together
Let all pettiness fall
Let all hatred dissolve
Let anger only reveal
What awkwardness conceals
When we are together
When we are together
I Got Sick
whistling through the willows
wailing through the tears
waking in the mirror
I got sick
Touch the devil's body
by torching up the days
I listened to your heart beat
I got sick
sick of endless restitution
for the crimes committed in my mind
If I wait for just an hour
I'll be fine
Well, I got sick of all times I
could have kissed the corner
of your smile
but the joy got beat all hallow
by the mind
sticking out of blood streams
stumbling towards the grave
someone flipped a lightswitch
I got sick
The Time It Takes To Blink
When all of life's pleasures tilt heavy
and your love is clouded by sleep
your heart can be broken in pieces
in the time it takes to blink
And we sweep up each shard
of our false dreams
and build a new love by collage
but in blows a million new pieces
in the time it takes to blink.
In the time it takes to blink
I've no longer thought what I think
and no matter what cause
will have made it
it will never be as it was
How long must I master by folly
and finish nothing by muse
I get stuck and confused
by the devilish new
in the time it takes to blink
Yet there is a constant star shining
out here in the darkness of night
I turn toward your eyes
and I just want to cry
In the time it takes to blink
In the time it takes to blink
our hearts and minds can be taken
but with you I'm never mistaken
you will always be as you are
I'll be caged in your arms forever
and yet flutter like flies on a farm
mind forms like dew
and then melts with the new
in the time it takes to blink.
Blue
Blue in the morning
Blues weigh constant on my side
But you keep me satisfied
I wake so weary-hearted
want to hold my breath and die
But you help me change my mind
will that liquor keep on flowing
tainted tongue and murmured cries
until the morning burns my eyes
So many nights that break
so many hearts that waste
so many lives I wait
for the dogs in my eyes to
be barkin’ at your blue
Ooooo got no feeling
ghost words falling from my lips
like my soul went off and hid
So many nights that break
so many hearts that waste
so many lives I wait
for the dogs in my eyes to
be barkin’ at your blue
Blue in the morning
Blues weigh constant on my side
But you keep me satisfied
I'll Never Leave You
I will never leave you
Like the wind from a tree
sparked from the start
that glows till it's dark
and reborn without end
though our cattle deceives us
mud floor doesn’t believe us
tomorrow can’t conceive us
and no metaphor explains thus
how blue
I will never leave you
I won't give up your hand
on this cutting floor
where people lose face
and the drive out all grace
and all dampness of love
though time mocks and folds us
hysteria scolds us
this world turns to old rust
and sand
I won't give up your hand
I won't stop whispering your name
from the wake of a train
caught in the wind
where love began
and whirls without end
as the tape pulls my beard off
suits tare my tears out
buying my words with their veins
I won't stop whispering your name
Conformity may attempt to prevent us
Conformity which has claimed to have
invented us
I will never leave you
though our cattle deceives us
mud floor doesn’t believe us
tomorrow can’t conceive us
and no metaphor explains thus
how blue
I will never leave you.
Nothing Ever Changes
Nothing Ever Changes
in this cobwebbed world of sorrow
when depression starts to wane
it'll be back strong tomorrow
and If things goes as planned tonight
I'm gonna bitch myself to sleep
Sooth my wallet heart with a
thousand slaughtered sheep
cause nothing ever changes no no.
It's the circle and the line
it's the bleak black road of horrors
the arrow and the cross
that taints the lips of martyrs
When all roads lead to Hell
best to let ambition breath
as it courts you in the desert
until you let believing cease
cause nothing ever changes no no
Right now
I wanna drink this slop
and sleep forever
Right now
I wanna tie my tongue
and feet together
Right now
I wanna burn this billfold
up to heaven
Right now
ain't no here no how
You wanna break your legs and bleed
against the heartless cogs of money
when all the women bankers plead
just to drown your tears in honey
Well, you've got your mouth to screa
and you've got your heart to bleed
at the pigeons in the temple
peddling weaselry and need
how nothing ever changes no no
God's Name
There is a face,
blazed in my mind
caught in the waves
I see in the tide
and in that face a happenstance
and in that face a loneliness
in that face a future tamed
with thoughts bogged down
by chains of same
but when it whispers,
it whispers god’s name
it whispers god’s name.
Down by the brook,
lonely for sound
the echo of wind
the music of birds
I called out the names behind
a tangled wood of tortured mind
and questioned where life surely stood
coiled beneath a rotting world
but when they answered,
they whispered god’s name
they whispered god’s name
I've got a match
to evaporate tears
to steal away stars
and to burn away fear
but all my falling memories
blaze and crave life's amnesty
and like the mind in sleepless pain
seeks the broken man's refrain
but when he whimpers,
he whimpers god's name,
he whispers god's name
In Your Bones
Let the wind blow the hair
away from your breasts
like waves away from the stones
and at the end of this life
you'll still be my light
bury my body in your bones.
Like a shipwreck out a sea
let death sweep over me
and sink through passages unknown
rested in the arrow,
the splendor of your marrow
bury my body in your bones.
In your bones, in your bones
bury my body in your bones
in this world of grief and woe
my gladness you have sown
bury my body in your bones.
When the reaper comes to town to
take my soul on down
to Hades, oblivion, or birth
let the Heaven we have found be
six feet under ground
bury my body in your bones.
I pray to God above,
let be immortal love
warming in the coldness of the soil
and though life has gone away,
let loving bodies lay
bury my body in your bones.
In your bones, in your bones
bury my body in your bones
in this world of grief and woe
my gladness you have sown
bury my body in your bones.
In your bones, in your bones
bury my body in your bones
If heaven cannot be,
let flesh be memory
bury my body in your bones.
bury my body in your
bones
