like anyone I knew a Davedrove a Plymouth shallow gravesaid, "my girl don’t just walk, she unfurls"with motorcycle languagehe stumbled through his slang pledgethen he dragged the mud for wedding pearls he closed both his eyes and sort of gave her a kisssaid "don’t worry baby about what you’re gonna […]
I’ve got a job, I explore, I follow every little whiffAnd I want my life to smell like thisTo find a place, an ancient raceThe kind you’d like to gamble withWhere they’d stamp on burning bags of shit.Looking for a place to happenmaking stops along the way Wayward ho! Away […]
September SeventeenFor a girl I know it’s Mother’s DayHere son has gone aleeAnd that’s where he will stayWind on the weathervaneTearing blue eyes sailor-meanAs Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrainFor a boy in Fiddler’s Green His tiny knotted heartWell, I guess it never worked too goodThe timber tore apartAnd the water […]
Whether laying down yourself beside it Or slipping into its cool and rushing effects Or drifting on it to where it broadens Your admiration for its more elusive aspects Being draw along by it Carried under carried away By its long-term membership By the time the ice-huts hit the bottom […]
You’re older, you’re hauntedyou’re ahead of your time.In corners of acres of blocks ofstraight lines.Blurringly, hourly we cross somegreat dividessome heritage moments and somemelodious minds…a voice above the engine and thejet stream combined‘it’s time..sir…The time sir…Do you have the time?’As the moon groomed the airplane in abenevolent wayAgain with the […]
Does it diminish yoursuper-capacity to love Walk like a matador,don’t be chicken-shitand turn breezes into rivulets flamenco-sweep the airand weave the sunand stamp your feet for everyone Does it exhibit yournatural tendency to hate Maybe a prostitutecould teach youhow to take a compliment maybe I’ll go to New York,I’ll drag […]
The man ‘cross the street he don’t move a muscle Though he’s all covered in dust When constitutions of granite can’t save the planet What’s to become of us With a painted restraint I don’t move a muscle Though a turbine roars If the bathwater’s clear and my ear’s underwater […]
First we’d climb the treeand maybe then we’d talkor sit silentlyand listen to our thoughtswith illusions of somedaycasting a golden lightno dress rehearsal,this is our life that’s where the hornet stung meand I had a feverish dreamwith revenge and doubttonight, we smoke them out You are ahead by a century […]
Does you mother tell you things?Long, long when I’m gone?Who you talking to?Is she telling you I’m the one?It’s a grave mistake and I’m wide awake. Drive-In’s rained outWeatherman wet-fingers the skyHe pokes it out, he pulls it inHe don’t know whyIt’s the same mistake It’s been a long time […]
Everything is bleak.It’s the middle of the night.You’re all alone and the dummies might be right.You feel like a jerk.My music at work.My music at work. Avoid trends and clichés.Don’t try to be up to date.And when the sunlight hits the olive oil,don’t hesitate.The night’s so long it hurtsMy music […]
You did the best that you could do.You were a great crew,who tried to nurture and preserve yourfaith in you.And with the bureau chiefsand the shrugging spiesYou could stay, but why? You see a light and then anotherand everything you fought fornaught’s uncovered.You’re not a fighter, you’re a lover.You got […]
If there’s a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in ol’ 72 We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger And all I remember is sitting beside you You said you didn’t give a fuck about hockey And I never saw someone say that before You […]
Sled dogs after dinnerclose their eyes onthe howlin’ wastesKurt Cobain, reincarnated,sighs and licks his facethen they drift past stripsof Serengeti and the gatesof Sleepy Hollow tooyou can pause in wonder,they paused in wonder andyea, I paused in wonder toojust don’t wake daddy They can lay their headson their futon-beds,so many […]
twelve men broke loose in seventy-threefrom Millhaven maximum securitytwelve pictures lined up, across the front pageseems the Mounties had a summertime war to wagethe chief told the people they had nothing to fearsaid, "the last thing they wanna do is hang around here"they mostly came from towns with long french […]
