You first touched my heart
When I was inside you
Then the gates opened
To a cold, cruel world
You counted my fingers and toes
But something else was missing
Maybe it’s in a picture book:
All those steps to climb
Rules to learn
Angles of pain
The animals collect dust
The bubbles burst
The night lights fade
The seashells lose their sound
The rocking chair breaks
The goldfish die
The mandala dissolves-
But visible bruises heal
Often I blame you for what can’t heal
For what’s inside of me-
The spiral staircase
But for all I know,
I chose you
Why?

There’s a god in this space computer
There’s a person in this space cocoon
There’s a spirit in red defeating the holy
There’s a trio of sailors flying past the moon
There’s a left-handed man drifting in a probe
There’s an astronaut gliding in an earlobe
There’s a malfunctioned leader stuck on Mars
There’s a determined machinist amidst the stars
There’s a sacred yellow Judas in the jaws of life
There’s a bloated bellow shooting from the tree of strife
There’s a solitary soldier among the aliens
There’s a black slab of faith between here and then
There’s an eight-pointed star of architectural riddles
There’s a cow, a spoon, a dog and a fiddle
There’s a god at number two, a bird at number three
And there’s always Jupiter to seem higher than thee
There’s an eye full of molecules
There’s an eye full of stars
There’s a blind man full of loneliness
There’s an empty void at large

You’ve got your ragtime, got the blues
Got country, rock, dubstep, each a different hue
Hip-hop, rap, Americana, funk
Disco, electronica, they all go bump
Indie, groove, folk and heavy metal
Screamo, emo, punk, they’re for the rebels
Pop, classical, tribal, thrash
Dark wave, bluegrass, techno, acid
Garage, roots, acoustic, dance
Alternative, jazz, *******, trance
Afrobeat, christian, reggae, jam
******-tonk, surf, ska, big-band
Ambient, industrial, club, tin pan alley
But who’s ever heard of plow music?

It fell away
Guess I did the same
A house of broken pipes
Somehow set aflame
Made what no one knows
Irregular and grey
As I slide into dark belts
They lean towards the day
Heavily scarred, cravenly armed
Substituted by snake charmer’s son
Such a lasting fever on
Ice, rocks and methane
Guess I got a freezer burn
Can’t come out and play
Death is going out of style
Its permanence a haze
By the never-setting moon
The craters wait and pray
Heavily scarred, cravenly armed
Sits the ice dwarf with a core of sun
New Horizons coming on
Like a wood-chip piano
Hope it finds something on me
Besides ivory, lamp or vine
Cause this double planet
Has got the third zone blues
Hanging lonely like a
Disco ball of golden hues
Heavily scarred, cravenly armed
Bound to leave this perfect circle, cloud and crumb

Girl
Can't be anything but
A girl
*** an ESP
Girl
Sensitive is weak
Girl
Rescued becomes rescuer
Girl
Dance for yourself
Girl
Water burns too
Girl
Came from his rib
Girl
He came from you
Girl
Bodies in quicksand
Girl
Stabbed your origins
Girl
Cheered for your tears
Girl
I told you so
Girl
When you went off alone
Girl
Perfume and death
Girl
While your wearing a ring
Girl
See the imprint it leaves
Girl
As you chisel it off

I'm sitting on the porch, watching you analyze me
Guess I was crazy to think any of this was behind me
And I don't know what's worse-
A chaperone in wolf's clothing
Or being led to the slaughter
By your one and only...vice
It must be nice to have an army
All I got is a dissonant symphony
That we used to play, back in the day
Before these times of euphoric disarray
So you can perform for whichever side you're on
Cause I'm used to being alone
And I just don't care anymore...

Where is that portal of love
Love that has no opposites
Can’t rely on him no more
To provide me with my happiness
I’m sick of all the addictions
They arrest and keep me blind
I think I need to step outside
Where I’m open, spread wide open
And I come to some narrow stairs
And I feel the glory of nothing
And behind me is all resistance
But I don’t care
I don’t care
I’m enlightened because I suffer
And I’m conscious of my disaster
And my presence seeks to devour the past
And my light tries to dispel all the darkness
I think I’ve found that portal of love
And it’s within, not without

If you took a picture of me
And really looked closely
You'd see the demon on my back
Pushing down so heavily
He's always in the shadows
But when I try to bring him to light
He freezes like a frightened gargoyle
And I keep trying to reach that portal
Where the magic rabbit with one eye
Takes me by my hand
And guides me through all my disasters and accidents
With him I can crush bronze
Close a school
Expose the truth
Be ruthless
Instead of this wet, sensitive mess

Antsy and tired
All of the time
*** belly
Where no baby should be
Going on only what was said
Always misinterpreting
And a football game
Is win or lose
To some it’s live or die
I see now what it is to be
I see now what it means to fly
Don’t know how the cherubs turned to demons
But just as quickly they took the right form
I never wanted these angels to be demons
I see now that limits end with heights
And now, all I want is to be alright
Don’t care about being right
Right now all I want is to be alright
By you
And who knows why
I prefer things better broken and frayed
Don’t want to be a symbol for why our God
Allowed me to be made
Yeah, cause what I have hurts
Oh well

Pray for other people
And you might sleep at night

Sugar, don't you put that white suit on
Just slither over here into my arms
Honey, don't show up in mother's pearls
Don't ever shed your skin
My reptile girl

Words in my brain
Money on my mind
And you're over there
Fumbling with a zipper and a
Ten-foot-long cigarette-ash

Honey, don't you put that white suit on
Just slither over here into my arms
Sugar, don't show up in mother's pearls
Don't ever shed your skin
My ***** little creature

I bought you a locket
To put in your pill-box pocket
And you're over there
Touching your neck with a
Glazed look in your eyes

Honey, don't show up in mother's pearls
Just come over here, don't ever unfurl
Sugar, don't you put that white suit on
My rainy day woman number one
Don't ever shed your skin

The bite from the apple
Happened to match the
Crescent shape of the moon
Soon all that was blameless
Turned into a carnal place
Where all is without
And puffed up
And ****** up
This bad luck
Will last forever
The foliage of the soul
Turned into dead branches
They’re breaking off piece by piece
Falling beneath
Into the fire of no return
Where all is without
And ****** up
And puffed up
This bad luck
Will last forever
Outnumbered by atheists
Who’re always quick to judge
There is no charity left
The stone will not budge
And this bad luck could last forever

Pulse is racing
As radio plays a dirge
Can't feel a heartbeat
As dead as these words
Night once provided cover
Now it gives fever chills
But belonging to no other
No choice but TV and pills
The regime is closing in
The captain gave her orders
Holy Moses can't contribute aid
Already passed the border

So don't tell me you'll mourn me
Don't put roses on my grave
Just give me a grain of solace now
I liked sunflowers better anyway

Don't doubt my imagination
Don't tell me it's in my head
Just give me release from indecision
And the machinery in my bed

Don't tell me to go into the light
Cause my heart's been there all along
But my mind has always adored the shadows
Can you tell me where I belong?

Nauseating waves of nihilism seep through my eyelids
All the doors of normalcy are locked-
Suddenly I have no fear of death
This is the in-between, the veil of life-
A sepia tone
Here we express our joy while excreting poison
Heaven must only have one extreme (if indeed it’s heaven)
Back to the blankets, but a discontinued thought
Here we can’t admit we’re already dead
Paying the piper
Or was it a past life, a past purgatory?
I have no fear of death
But I need answers soon-
A scavenger hunt for pieces of the soul
And they play music
And I’m out of my mind
How many more years till I figure it out?

Once upon a time
There was a man
In an apartment
With flesh-colored walls
And a perfect view
Of skyscrapers
And rooftops
He has a brother
In a jail
With a perfect view
Of warehouses
And factories
Cover to cover
He reads magazines
And newspapers
And he likes two
Sugar cubes
In his regular cup
He doesn't worry
About ends
It's just progress
And we've all
Got to bend
Less the world breaks
If the bomb comes
It'll come in a neat
Little package
And someone
Will build new
Quadrilateral colonies
For two

He lives in a world of rockets and dead clams
He flies but goes fishing often
He lives in a world of digital demands
He tries but can’t find a daughter
Once upon a time he used his heart
It got him wrapped around a tree
Such cold, cold walls for such a warm, warm mistake
He said goodbye and blessed be
Now it’s whips and chains and haircuts
Tinctures of manmade joy
And then it’s gone like a picture never thrown out
The lens only destroys
He lives in a world of rockets and dead clams
He flies but goes fishing often
He lives in a world of digital demands
He tries but can’t find a coffin

Am I in hell
Or are there fluorescent lights up there
I tapped on the bulb
And it blossomed into darkness
Fast-forwarding like a dead tulip
And here is where I call home
Where two lovers can bloom
Without fear of being seen
They can dance without tripping
Pray without ripping a magnetic field
Making snow angels on dust
On force-fields of antigravity
But something grew eyes
It had instinct to survive
And the modern man gets offended
When you call him a monkey
Am I in hell
Or are there fluorescent lights up there

Parting the red sea I saw thousands of
Big dead letters strewn across the path
I wanted to read them but I knew if I did
I would never make it back

I made it to the other side
And watched the waters crash together
When under my staff I found
A wet red letter

It’s time to go outside
It’s time to go outside

Soon these scars will bleed
Onto the canvas of my soul
Spent so much time on my knees
Put all my keys, time, and jokes in a bowl

And these thoughts will die with me
Along with all the wasted minutes
You can spin it any way you want
No one knows who started this war

And there’s a battle raging on
For my destiny
Don’t know what side I should be on
Only hope I return to the stars

Cause soon these scars will bleed
Onto the canvas of the universe
Wonder, if in heaven, you need to breathe
Wish I had time to rehearse

Surround me
Astound me
And if you leave, take care
In your eyes
In your smile
You take me there
Let’s renew our vows
Before we take a bow
Let’s get together now
You’re so pure
Of this I’m sure
Don’t you ever change
Silver or gold
Young or old
Our love is strange
So let’s get together now
Before we take a bow
Let’s renew our vows

With eyes wide shut
I blew a hole in my soul
Burnt the house down
Closed all open doors
And this dark forest
Seems to have no end
My legs are tangled
In the moss and weeds
Then someone comes along
Singing a familiar song
They walk on different paths
But they offer you a hand
And their bad karma
Should be a warning sign
But you’re stuck here
Might as well take your time
Cause even fickle tenderness
Can lead you to another mess
That’s less intense than yours
The grass might not be greener
But I could use a change of scenery
Where the pitch black becomes shadows
And the shadows roll like meadows
And the meadows lift your feet
To a resurrection beat

We live a clockwork life
And Saturn thinks clocks are wise
We spin on clockwork time
But she is counter to it
Second from the sun
Uninhabitable
Yeah she is the son
Rising in the west

I long for those long days
Here is only tall tales
She twirls retrograde
And no one posts her bail

Top of the pyramid
Are the tiny shiny kids
They take all our bids
Yeah they’re friends of Lucifer
Seconds from the bomb
They invented time and talk
Thinks she is the bomb
Rising in the west

I long for those long days
Here the horses are pale
She spins retrograde
She’s my nightingale

We live a clockwork life
And we think clocks are wise
We spin on clockwork time
But she is counter to it
Second from the sun
She flipped upside down
Waiting for another son
To rise in the east

I long for those long days
Here is only blood and nails
She twirls retrograde
She’s my blackest veil

They print paper
We make copies
Lumps in their soup
Lumps in our blood
The Great Divide
Label me doomed
Tickle me tired
With your barbed tail
But she's got room
To powder her nose
And he loves the steam
While the devil
Adds ten pounds
The sweet **** of the middle
The coddled and befuddled
Spawn
Padded walls
Will lead you to
A shallow grave-
Three feet under
Yearning for a box
While they dance in circles
Generations of
Insulin an Insulation
Widen the gap
Here comes the bomb
Numb is not a temporary state
But it sure is a comfortable place
We're all on the lam
Don't ask for more
Ask to return
To the source
They print paper
We make copies

This may serve no purpose
I don't wanna make you nervous
I just wanna make you think
Summer will be over before you blink

You see, I am just a pile of ashes, trying to rise from the floor
And you are just a magician playing with your trap doors
Revolving as I'm dissolving as you're evolving

Well I went searching for big bad love
When a demon landed on my doorstep with a thud
It told me not to worry 'bout the cosmic hierarchy
My lotus flower angel's still stuck in the mud
And Philomena wasn't around to catch me when I fell down
So I dove into the fires of the moon's cold underground

All the colors and the echoes of my dreams resided there
All my superwomen and all my nightmares
You casually say, let's go downtown
But I'm not a free agent, I am bound
By a force you could never understand
So please don't take my photograph, just take my hand

But I don't wanna make you nervous
And I probably don't deserve this
I am just trying to make you think
Before this pen runs out of ink

We're eating jellyfish
We're crashing oranges
We're bleeding evidence
We're smashing elements
We're erecting animals
We're subtracting syllables
We're electing cannibals
We're extracting visceral
We're worshipping magicians for a piece of the pie
We're recruiting musicians for a sound from on high
We're creating beauticians for a smack on the thigh
We're repeating contritions for an act un-divine
We're poking and prodding as we sing lullabies
We're rocking and rolling as she shifts to the side
We're planting and plowing as the baby lays quiet
We're twisting and shouting from the vat where we writhe
Rockabye baby, you've sure grown up fast
Let me embrace you, before I suffocate you
Rockabye baby, you've sure grown up fast
Let me cradle you, before I blast you away

Feels like I’m fading
I’m counting the days
Till demon no more
I’ll be up in the clouds
But the same one who tempted
Is the same one who saves
Who knows where evil has its home

Feels like I’m fading
I’m counting the beads
Till demon no more
I’ll be up in the trees
But the same one who saved
Is the same one who tempts us
Tell me where evil has its home

Feels like I’m fading
I’m counting the ways
A demon can turn
Into something good
A dash of some energy
And a twist of fate
Who knows the identity of themselves?

I don’t belong here
This artificial paradise
It drugs and kills me slowly
People bring out the worst
Fear lives in my blood
The sweetest fruits are rotted and empty
Tradition reigns but roll away the stone, I say
Give the secrets to the low and poor
Feel the world rumble beneath the sun
Let us test each other
My heart burns, not with desire but a scorching hope
That lost memories will find a home
In the gaps in between all our veils and the unseen
My heart thumps at a sign of sincerity
Sensitive and numb, that’s me
Words crush but I rather feel those blows
Then hear your whispers of rumors, slow
Do you see the caves crawling up my mind
Can’t you see I’m just like you
But on borrowed time
Do you see the webs clouding up my head
Can’t you see I’m just like you
But a little more dead

Every hear-say has its heyday
Every rumor has its birth
And it stains the sheets of those that breathe it
It reigns supreme of those that face it
Did you ever wonder, ever?
Did you ever wonder?
Pea-brain with a caustic smile
Do you ever wonder?
He said this and she said that
Small-minded ****
I heard this and I heard that
But I don't give a ****
Circulating press like their own day-job
Doesn't matter you're just breaking the girl
Draining her life away
Did you ever perceive
That perhaps these words don't register
To the one whom it's about?
Did you ever conceive
That memory's a tricky thing?
Did you ever believe
That perhaps these words don't make sense
Until you realize you're being put down
In a code
It's all in a code
Of stares and glares and cheap hellos
I know, every rumor has some truth
So let's trade minds-
You'd collapse in an instant
If you knew what I knew
You take their words at
Poisoned-face value
Didn't know amity could be so shoddy
Didn't know it was all a nasty plot
This scarlet letter was pinned by you
Fastened tight by you
By those that once meant something
But let me ask you-
What do you know?
What do you stand for?
What do you see when you look outside
When inside doesn't matter?
I'm sorry to interrupt your leisure time
But mine is soon to run out
Yet I don't hate you, only pity
I only pity you
Or maybe I'm just speaking in sadness
But when your cosmic movie runs
Count me in
I made a disappearance
But count me in
So don't lean on me
When you can't afford a ticket
Out of cardboard city
When your life is dull or when you need a voice
I've got enough in my head
Thanks to you
Thanks to you the world's gotten smaller
Thanks to you I'm weary of strangers
Thanks to you I have no will to live
But I still love you-
Guess a fool is always a fool
Cause everyone knows
That those who truly care will
Help you tear down The Wall-
Not throw bricks in your direction

People call it running away
I say I’m running towards something
We’ll all be sold on judgment day
So why must we wait around
Raindrops fall and look like bullet-holes
On the hood of your car
There’s always a victim inside
Wet and full of scars
Escaping gravity with faith
We cling to the unknown
It’s great to see a lighthouse
And angels made of snow
There’s a sweetness
To the acid in your mouth
A silent riot, cold and quiet
We are the art and we are bound

Motel moons, left of face
In room 12, a thing named Grace
She's missing ***** & he's missing eggs-
Band-Aids on the neck
Royal Hawaiian
Big Ad's A-Flyin' (Bye!)
Cowboys in black dusters
And aliens in track suits
Drinking coffee with the common man
Blue-hooded and faceless, walks by again
Third-reel-real headshot,
Kept as a souvenir by an FBI actor
A man can do a lot with his chin
Uncle Sam's tonic & gin
Not made to be an Earthling
Not fit to be an alien
Stars are flickering lights
On Big Empty nights
Three days in the desert
Minus pie sauce in the sky
What's in the blue suitcase?
Why the blue bowling shoes to get to that place?
"Just get on the bus, Gus...
... And get yourself free"
Blue-sky clouds on black
Whipped cream & jack
The United States of Aliens
And a Person in a circle

I'm fainting
As the spirits **** me dry
An essence not had in so long
An essence must be a heartbeat, then
All possessions are rusted
All clothes are ragged
And still they paint me as queen *****
Ungrateful, unrepentant
Twisted little witch
Daughter of a place
Both cursed and blessed
Where lovers want to **** me
For they despise me
And yet they still call themselves lovers
Who just love a mess
He was scared to death when he flew
But the wind was constant there
And he didn't fly alone
He took me captive and made me sing
My song gave him a home
And the hill becomes a plain
That the mountain people
Love to trample on
They won't quit till the mountain and she
Becomes one

This brainstorm
Is menacing
Coming from a handless maiden
Made of steel
Her scattering feels unreal
We cleared her orchard bare
After writing her name on petals from there
She went where she was called
But there's a line drawn in the earth
You can only see it if you're one of us
We didn't care about her hard injuries
Her inborn curse of death and disease
Her twisted soul and her cruel destiny
The natural disasters aligned with her feet
The wrong turns taken by strands in her genes
The soporifics that put her to sleep
The poison that we put in her dreams
All cause she was different from you and me

I look like a ghost
My hands would agree
My partner
He wants me to give up hope
Also known as letting go
But I'm not done

The one that got away
Had candy in a pillowcase
And could dress up everyday
Without fear of hating face

I look like a cloud
My inside's falling out
An ideal realist
Just stole my inspiration
Also known as salting wounds
But I can't speak

They call me sane
But insanely-cheap ****
The bubble-gum on the bottom
Of their two-hundred-dollar shoes

I look like a corpse
Your weapon would agree
Me, myself and I
Want to give up this course
Also known as letting go
I hope I'm done

Devil plays whisper down the lane
Jump, drown, crawl or don’t remain
Meanwhile back in my own brain
I’m eating grass and drinking the ocean

Devil makes everyone the same
Reciting verse from books of Cain
Meanwhile back in my own brain
I’m flying without wings in motion

Devil’s play is always work
Recruiting souls who love to hurt
Meanwhile the last me becomes first
A subtle, strong and strange old notion

Devil’s roots are in the dirt
Making all our dreams inert
Meanwhile my heavy heart it burns
A side effect of earthly potions

Devil has gardens full of weeds
Where one plus one equals three
Meanwhile I’m down on my knees
Suffering the world for my devotion

This feels like
This feels like
Eden repeatin'
Had it all
Fresh starts
And rainbows
Somehow got stuck
In the middle
And that one dream
Got me three strikes
Three millenniums to try
And take back
One simple little dream
Third time's the charm
But will they call me
Lucifer
Or will it all be
Over and done
By my eighth birthday
You can't see the color
And you can't see the light
Without darkness
Standing idly by
Oh, the October gore
Oh, the November bore
Oh, the December lore
Will it ever end
When can I start again
This feels like
Eden repeatin'

Righteous soul
Emerge unscathed
From fires of temptation
Ignore the Hydra
Study the centaur
Link the division between
Destruction and creation
Goddess, queen, princess, witch
God, king, wizard, demon
A demon’s in the way
But the animals are on your side
Says Francis of Assisi
Observe the three in OM
Chant till you come home
Oh, righteous soul
Emerge unscathed
From fires of temptation

The universe embraces
As the world spits you out
The earth it braces
As society knits you out

“Please bleed for me,”
We know you have a disease”
Shouts the eyes of twelve cobras
Leaning in their courtroom seats

Volcanic
Androgynous
Raunchy
Delicate
Torment
Ecstasy
Free

You hypnotize me as you paralyze me
And you make me have ***** dreams that blur the lines of reality
And you’re the calm before the storm, you’re the weather when it’s warm
You’re my guiding light, you’re my satellite

Can’t kick the fever of the night when the moon is shining bright
Reaching infinity with you below city lights
And our love is so galactic, erases pillbox blues of plastic
The Milky Way is envious, we dig deep down to the earth’s crust

And no matter where I am, committing sins or making amends
You will always be my friend, no matter how the story ends
So let’s make a pact out of blood and powder
Let’s turn the stereo up a little bit louder
Let’s vanquish all our fears
Make our love like a light year

Birds are dropping from the sky
In the garden where I hide
The men hunt the buffalo
Cause the stars tell them so
Woman carries her child
Horses fall in the wild
Electric fingertips
Make the earth and sky kiss
Nature swallows the bride
And the sun doesn’t rise
Groom knows it could be better
As the planets crash together
Scorpio’s falling
A new night is calling

The condensation on your lips
Lets me know that you’re still breathing
In conversation you have slipped
In my brain I must be bleeding
The fornication known as bliss
Leaves your shell open and seething
Just tell me who I have to kiss
To make this news somewhat relieving

The captain has jumped the ship
Now we’re swimming for the shore
I’m drowning but you sure know how to float along
Can only take such doom in doses
Small, aloof and precocious
And you smile as the water fills my lungs

Your words are second hand
Somehow your smile’s right on time
How’s that conscience taste
Without a hint of the divine
Give me honesty
Or give me a goodbye
There goes another chain breaking
Another nursery rhyme

The void is formless-
Nothing that is something
An existence which is non-existent
Yet it has form
It appears grotesque like a monster
So we scorn it
We only love the beautiful shapes
We only understand symmetry
And still the void has a face
Limitless, lawless and free
A great heaven and a little earth were made
In great time, supposedly so
But this great heaven is unreachable
And this earth is the lowest of the low

Well I’ve lived a life just like yours
But I made some choices that were poor
So instead of having it my way
I’m selling flowers on the highway
I have a home but it moves around a lot
Maybe my rent’s the one thing I forgot
If I had my choice I’d dream by day
But for now I’m selling flowers on the highway
And somewhere, somehow, a man in a suit is burning sage
And somewhere, somehow, a woman in a dress is filled with rage
I’d like to tell them all to be proud, witty and gay
But instead I’m selling flowers on the highway
And these roads have an ego, about the size of a town
And the faceless people driving by, to me they look like clowns
Maybe I’m getting old, maybe I just need to feel okay
But for now, I’m stuck here, selling flowers on the highway
I’ve got hyacinths, marigolds and roses
I’ve got one cure for my neurosis
So pass me the bottle, if you may
I’m stuck here selling flowers on the highway
I just want to walk like I usually do
Beneath the tall buildings on the avenue
But for now I’ll bask in the sun’s rays
I’m just a human being, selling flowers on the highway

Diamond planets on layaway
Stellar corpses thrown away
Purple ribbons of DNA
And silver spoons in mouth

It may look white, but it's blue and red
A race of oranges on a narrow thread
While satellites mess with our heads
The sun dyes our hair

They're selling space to the googolplex kids
With golden grahams of fake eyelids
While android hands place their bids
Ignoring their embedded denial

Fifth dimension sure looks green
Entropy has gone obscene
My solar twin must be quite mean
But there's not much we can do

If you're blue
You're bleeding through
If you're blue
I'm bleeding too

To be
Or not
Is get
-ting caught
In webs
Of thought
An I'm
At such
A loss
It seems
That some
-One else
Is boss
Yet proof
Is not
In the
Right sauce
It lies
With those
Who say
They're not
A hard
-ened heart
Or a
Cold part
And yet
To save
Their soul
From harm
They don't
Turn down
My thoughts
Which weave
Like yarn
Yet break
Like thread
Nor do
They de
-ny my
Strange but
Strong ties
To all
Things fra
-gile and
Too wild
For I
Am not
From where
They are
But they
See this
As met
-aphor
When it's
Quite ve
-ry lit
-eral
The last
Or the
Ori
-ginal
So let
Me just
Leave you
With this
You came
From your
Mother-
I came
From a
Place called
A word
That is
Not in-
Vented
Yet.

Seven demons you cast out
A hundred more could take their place
So I’ll stay close to you
The savior of the human race
She witnessed the execution
She sees where he is laid
She brings spices to anoint him
She weeps by the empty tomb
She sees two angels in white
He appeared to her first
She, who was last
Seven demons he cast out

Summer of scales
Red dresses
Unpeeled oranges
And handwritten TV guides
The brink of sin
American dream
Whose post-war dream is it?
All the Art Golds and Hart Silvers
**** down in succession
All the shortcuts to success
All for heavier footsteps
The sacrament of mess
A body for a piece of soul
An asset for a process cold
Goddess is lost, little girl
Find her in the rippled snow
Approval looks off-red
A mailbox of empty hope
Grinding teeth and grapefruit
Strung-out taxis, rising moat
Bed is genesis of wounds
Hot and cold, a foursome’s tomb
An all doesn’t end well
Mother fell off the pier
Father has a golden arm
The only shared position is fatal
The only shared position is fetal
Falling off the plateau
To make tomorrow feel alright
To love the sun
To see the stars in plight
Truth with legs together
Death with legs apart
The tree is collapsing

My shaky hands are unsteady
But it's ok cause the surgery's on me
And everywhere I see
People dropping bombs or dropping ecstasy
And I've done both
Guess my demon's got a degree
He holds my hand when I walk in shadows
And kicks me when I'm on my knees

My shaky heart is unready
But it's ok cause the love is on me
And everywhere I see
Helping-hand strangers and ignorant pharisees
And I am both
Guess my angel's got a diverse pedigree
She lets me hold the wheel in daylight
And jinxes me everytime I throw away the keys

My shaky soul needs a wedding
But it's ok cause the spirit's on me
And everywhere I see
Cheap plastic parties and celestial ceremonies
And I attend both
Guess my god's got a strange disease
It lets me make honey with the birds
And fly busted-winged with the bees

You cry tears of water
I cry tears of fire
Maybe a little blood and dust mixed in
Crack in the ice
Crucify the dishonest
Collapse into infinity in one little bedroom
Curious and curiouser
Animals begin to talk
About the shapes and colours of souls
The higher you climb
The more you want to sing
So grab a ladder and join them if you please

Your words, however strong, fall as broken glass to my bare feet
The more you talk, my mandala grows, as the sun strokes the ground with its heat
They all say do what thou wilt, but I’m the wilting flower
Put in my place by their conventions and rhymes of the hour
Inferior would they be in a superman’s eyes
But there are no 21st century heroes, lest they wear a disguise
Their white noise has an acrid taste, disharmonious and brittle
But I’m the leaf who constantly falls, hovering just a little
Who then is winning and who is defeated?
Power by numbers gets all outsiders deleted
Your words, however strong, fall as broken glass to my bare feet
The more you talk, my mandala grows, as the sun strokes the ground with its heat

She wears a mask, strong and confidant
But inside she’s a scared little girl
And everything she has is resting on a house of cards
And just the tiniest gust of wind could blow everything over
She’s walking in a land of personal turmoil
And she has a big infusion
Of some grand delusions
That tell her she should be bad
Cause the world is too real, too harsh
And it hurts to breathe
And she wonders if one moment of adventure
Is worth a lifetime of despair
Cause the candle blew out when she saw the palm reader
And she fears the worst is yet to come
And her only friends are the stars
But the one inside her is collapsing in on itself
Cause God make her pure with
A past of unforgivable mistakes
And her light is androgynous so no one can see it
Her inner spark has become a grenade
And the man in the moon was swallowed by the tides
Controlled by the woman who owns the satellite
And night or day, in sun or in snow,
Nature tells her she will be bad
That which is lost
Can’t always be found
She will be good
When she’s put underground