ON THE HUNT AGAIN
there was a well earned burnfrom the scorching of the sun
clothes all torn to smithereens
and the gleam of sea salt dried
how one survived
a blinded eye
stood lone upon the sands
hand lifted to the sky
he said
lofty ship that brought me here rise up from murky depths
take me further still beyond this vision, end this pain to which i wake
repeating endlessly a shadow on a shadows trail into the gale of hell
this fall shan't be the last fate as we trade the weight of karma's hand
cause everyone deserves a chance to know just what it is they love to hate
so while the outer's unaware of inner's dwelling on the poison plate of payback
Boy... you know
whispering ghosts from old colts stole, still hot from hells discharge
angry lead with vengefulness for justice none the less.
spoke first and fell the foe
before he held him to the ground
and looked into two eyes
he said
one of these belongs to me
and wasted no more time
the knife appeared plunged soft and scraped bone and blackness fell
he walked away while the other one lay there screaming and fingering
a bloody cavity
though I fall I shall not be cast down utterly...for the lord holds all in his hand
MAN IN A SHACK
old man lonesome snuck in with the sunshinethat burns through my eyes into the ache in my head
entertained by the pills and the bottles
meant to
chase dead memories and that old coo coo clock away
i give up ghost
lead the way to the valley
a stir of leaves and i'll play you a little tune
the quietude when the music's concluded
hums to remind me that i aint never alone
whispers softly you aint never alone
LONESOME FOG
sleeping medicine to pass the timemy mind a tangled string of beads
rides gondalas through bleeding streams
into a leaky sink
koala hearts slice viciously
then stitch me up all nice and clean
still comatose from self implosion
its the great outpouring and the souls sent souring
the stalking hawks sweeping cold calm hollow cry
the diesel rhyme the darting rabbits gambit
teeth marks on my skin again
every day for thirteen weeks
what's doing this to me
what's doing this to me
what keeps doing this to me
the stale simplicity of working
slipping gears of all i dreamed would be
the time has come
to write the story to unfold before me
and leave the carcass in this well worn rut behind
to taste my purpose i'll face every hazard
i'm gonna play with fire
i'm gonna burn this house down
then run like hell or snuff it
when i'm out on that road the points the broken pattern
when i'm makin that wager the bets on me to fly
i'm leavin that lonesome fog be hind me
i'm gonna spread the fire
i'm gonna burn this town down
just try like hell and stop me
CARD SHARPS
when the skyline's bathed in the afterglowcome out come to the shindy
coyote crying out - cactus stands guard
tie your ride come inside buy yourself a drink and one for me
bruno toasts the keep here's to those thighs
lifts his pint dew drops crator silhouette moon
through which his hand plays
her scent peppermint, her leg a stump
molly's red painted nails in fingerless lace glide up the rail of the staircase
intimating fold
caravagio calling a bluff
gunshot blast, broken glass and a jack of hearts falling down
onto the dusty floor
BUDAPEST
upon a hillside not far from Budapesti found a place to lay my burdens down and rest
that old vagabond song to which I was listenin'
stirred up a chorus trying to call me back home again
they're erie voices rang out
come home come home son
I breathless tried to scream back
I'm not I'm not done
cause in this distance crossed I've learned a better way
to stop and see the little things and move my feet when I pray
so if I return home I know I'm bound to roam
just like I have from every other place I've left along this road
so I must say out loud
this whole world is my home
just to remind myself
it has always been my home, my home
its the faces not the places they're what mean the most you see
and the one i'm searching hardest for is one inside of me
yet every face I meet's a mask I wear forever more
and when I know them then I know this motion and my self in one accord
Allons! Allons! the open road awaits stretching on and out before us
Allons! Allons! come traveler of earth there's much to see yet beyond
Allons! Allons! the open road will teach lost then found with time to prime the soul
Allons! Allons! leave all behind there's more to find as we learn to
come and go - to and fro - ebb and flow
LOST AMONGST THE WHALES
bodies carve upon our soullies never told
attending the passage way down where we unfold
fading light drifting down from on high
dancing glint's steal of our lips skin away
soft and hard change
caught up in the wake
where the old not erased slowly drifts to new
so when the time comes
to tell truth to blue depths
we'll break just to know breath in liquid
THE SEA AT LAST
"run like hell" swirled cyclone masses screaming"all the womens gones crazy"
swept up a moments madness
robbed of time to reconsider anything
betwixt the fisticuffs down on the jetty over little row boats
some jumped in and swam
trapped between those crayon skies
and vicious laughter", cute eye cruelties, lollipop horrors forever more inside of loves brick walls
climb aboard to save yourselves"
a captain with a whiskey bottle
threw a ladder down
out there on the water no sight of shore
(for miles around and endless days )
breathless wet and tired lived aboard a madmans VESSEL
the captain grinned
the devil calls we sail for hell tonight
then shouted
hold her tight boys raise the canvas man the mast
and turn t'wards starboard
wriggling and writhing
swooping up from underneath a swarthy lot above the bilge
the net had pryed
from fingers of the deep amongst the fishies
something that provoked this strange
reaction and he just hasn't been the same since
he started wearing that squalid wedding dress around
and singing songs of sand and whisky
pass around the bottles for we set out on our way
to a realm where there's some scary island fairies
who will offer up drink to those who dance the beach in measured time
THE FOOL
Behind a curtain the bustle the rustlesettles to a hush
ushers dousing house lights announcing
please take your seats
waiting, waiting...waiting
pull the grand rag away
i dangle dance to light
and they just laugh
and they just laugh at me
while I cry
my love, my loving sin,
only now you're sitting next to him as his royal concubine
so why dont you laugh at me with them
shouldn't you
be by my side?
facing the bitter wrath of your jealous king
starving in chains awaiting a guillotine
one dance of breath and tongue
to build your temple walls inside the Ghost
this alter spilt
DOG OF SADNESS
widow children
witnessed
under your shadow
heart ever bleeds out but she's lying still
black and gray dress from the past
cast in
dim light
where your wounds show
hand to the dull edge of heaven
outlaw
aren't you
tired of
running away
outlaw?
you shot the daughter
and you shot the boy
and left the old dogs eyes etched like yours
tears on the daughters cheek
dried clutching an angel
the boys eyes still open surveyed remains
in bashed bags of grain
sprawled out in disaray
while a growl of an old coward dog
turned a whimper as it
waddled
away
WE'RE REALLY ALL CRAZY
we're really all crazyi see it so much in my life
the world is ever changing
no the things will never be what they were once before
this evolution is taking place
evoke what is within
goodness is not what has been it is ever what shall be
words rushin in
like a peaceful morning wind
its comin through me
but i step back
scared cause i feel it movin me along
this evolution is taking place
evoking what is within
goodness is not what has been it is ever what shall be