I'm lazing with my baby
Rolling down life's road
She let's me do my thing
There's no overload
I'm allowed to snooze
Kick back and seize the day
With cool reads by Elmore Leonard
I get to say "Aw shucks"
Hang by the pool
Watch some good TV
There's a lotta yucks
Hanging out and hanging on
It's a cool, cool breeze
Self-contained on our yacht
In the pod for we two peas

If you ask me what I'm doing
I'd say nothing much
Don't need shiny shoes
I can wear the scuffs
I'm without inhibition
Inhabiting my world
That means kisses from my baby doll
Best sangria be assured

So catch some rays and tap your feet
Jack Johnson sings away
All about the life we lead
Beach music all the way

the rain streaks the house,
mist thick with sticky-sweat
like the furrow of your brow
amidst the drone of fellow worker bees
buzzing furiously in the hive, hollow--

this work we do,
this constant give

and

give,

to the corporation of fools
and zealots destined to become sheep,
however fully compensated & empty, too--

oh to have wings,
but be afraid to fly free
fast, strong & able
as a mind without a doubt, cellophane-
clear and successfully damaged
to take threatening direction,
to find the golden ticket
amongst racist Oompa-Loompas
but walk away from the true reason for being alive--

c'est la vie--

Clouds all whizzing by
As I free fall from the sky.
The ground comes into view
As my eyes search for you.
I pray you're there prepared
To catch me from the air.
But I look to my side and see
You're falling just as fast as me.

- p. winter

Wrench me open like       a nut
into two, I crack beautifully.    one
half for me     and one half for you.