For Your Consideration

Here's a little something before I go.
Don't take hot baths,
Don't play in snow.
Never take your shoes off at the end of the day.
Don't jump in the deep end.
Work always trumps play.
TV and games will sour your mind.
Read the ending first.
Avoid all streets with neon signs.
Here's to living the good life
And drinking in moderation
Free from silliness, free from strife.

City Life

Relentless pounding of the drum
Sleepless nights, spiral sun
Broken waves, crooked shore
The pan-handler cackling for more

Hissing cats crying home
Rotten dog wandering alone
Shattered glass, littered lives
Shelter never, covered eyes

Mumbled yells echo from the alley
Helpless blasts, death count tally
Sewer vents, city fog
Blue lights, another hog.

Modern Curse

Please come and entertain me
I long for it so
I need action, adventure
Endless music you know
I need to sing along
Recite lines
Laugh at jokes
Life is nothing without entertainment
It unlocks the spirit and frees the mind
Give me my fun!

Hit and Run

Drip drip drip
The rain falls
Right where it's supposed to be
On the rooftops
Nourishing the grass
Making steam on the street
Where your body lays

The beginning

Where are the songs

Where are the protests

Why is there no empathy?

Killed for a cause 

Murdered for a purpose

there is no life without the

constant dreaded view of death

floating above 

scanning, deciding, devising 

from a terminal 13 worlds away

dots. pixels. photos moving without reason

kill them.

your toilet paper has more layers than your soul

the ocean may wash away the blood 

but it cant erase the life that you took

Hush

It's alright baby please don't cry

It's just the rain and mothers lullaby.

The thunders passing the lightning too

The sky is clearing and daddy loves you.

Drops of rain drip from the trees

Onto the roofs and bring the steam

The song is carried by the birds

Reminding us to not forgot our silly words

Our outer-space tales seem closer for now

The dew on the grass mach the stars on the clouds

So close your eyes, drift away 

Tomorrows coming, and its our day.

So Humble

Death is a semi-sweet verse

Enshrined with a tombstone and hearse 

Loud is their praise

And tears for to raise

But they all really know your the worst

Annoyances

There's always someone with something more to say
I've always felt it better not to get in his way
Let him speed on ahead
Life's too fast to get caught up in something
So annoying.

Friday Nights

Riders piled high

Reckless racing midnight sky

Red embers, cool smoke

Mindless

There are no words to express the true meaning of what i am

Because here they are my fingers placid in the grey warm of your spittal

Let me adorn your majestic sapphire crown of corded glory

Oh you sweet apathetic fool

How i envy your ignorance

Your stupid smile

The way you are able to laugh along

how empty your mind must be

Im drowning 

Some long lost lampoon on the sodomites shore

where am i going 

which directions the door

Some kind of inspirational video is playing somewhere far off

Telling people how they can be the best if only for another payment

Is it not enough that I've given my life to this school, this job, this place!?

Somewhere far off a koala gnaws relentlessly on a leaf

some leaf they say takes your mind away from the gnawing teeth of the bored

I can seek no such satisfaction

It's too easy

bastard koala

Gladly we walk to the edge of any cliff never fearing the impending fall

Its too risky not to be on that cliff, for if we fell, well, we'd surely fall

There they are with so many words and so many sheets unrefined, mocking us

Your airplane mind always seems so focused on timezones

How can it be comforting to wake up in Berlin and walk to Chicago?

Your fingers look like fixtures, built into place, too fragile to move

I will scrape them down and finish them

Maybe that will make it better

Stop that incessant clawing at my eyelids

Let me sleep

Don't take my covers. 

The First Signs of Spring

The streets are erupting with parades

and pavilions and parasols and him-haws

about how dreary the winter was

Oh and lets not forget the alcohol

Bring on the sweet sticky sweat of summer

The hum of a thousand air conditioners 

turning on at once

Dogs barking, children playing, 

the rosie reenactments of war

socials, bar b ques, swimming pools

They march on like ants

Relentless and unswayed

by the yellowed world around them

Seeking sugar and something special

It's death to you winter

and time for a new world. 

Second Love

This time, forever.

Like the wind, we dance all night

Hopeless and alone.