The former artist formerly known as the artist formally known as the artist formerly known as Prince
Was always my proof that Minneapolis really is in outer space
Any one up for a game of basketball?
How about you and your friends versus me
And the revolution?

Death is an amerous being
Whose arms only want to hold you
The sky in Ohio is gray
Deny
Refute his claim
His conquering of your flesh
His irascible nature incurable
That your not ready to join him
In whatever darkness is his aim
His joy
His lonely and greedy demands
His need for fossils
Keep your light
Give your life
When the time is right
The sky in Ohio is gray

You have a chance
Take it and run
Away from his hateful clutch

This is the sunlight
Breaking clouds apart
And bursting in my eyes
Like ten million angels
Playing the most beautiful songs
In heaven and earth
Her body
I am no longer afraid of night
I see her in my dreams
And sense with everything
Even my hands
Even my heart
Her soul
And the flowers will bloom
Only when the time is right
When spring brightens the day
And melts the ice that covered the world
That covered my sight
And covered my hope
Her being
And could be
Winter is coming
But her love
I will still be warm
As all that I need
Her life
Is my life

Everything I love
Becomes the roots underground
Become the leaves falling off of the limb
I watch a nightfall with no stars
And the face in the moon
Only frowns
Everything I love
Goes away

It isn't cold enough
But I am dead yet?
I find fire
My anger burns this forest to total ash
Because you couldn't see the forest for the trees
And you could never see outside yourself
Until I destroyed you

Everything I love
Goes away

I'm afraid the way she walks into the night
Will become hands from hell and darkened stars
That she denies the moon which fights to save her
And no sun may rise again to grace her skin
Even the scars tell a story
Even the stars
But evening is calling
I'm afraid the way she walks into the night

Do not know hell the way I do
Do not step barefooted on the rocks of futures torture
Let the sharpened edges scream
And carve the flesh

She was born with a name in your heart
A whispered truth
As the world around grows loud
It speaks to her

I'm afraid the way she walks into the night
With a ghost in her shadow and a pain on her palm
That even the beauty of love would not be felt
And no morning comes with this loss
Even the moon cries her image
Even the nebulas grow her direction
But evening was meant to be dark
I'm afraid the way she walks into the night

Do not know hell the way I do
When we wish on satellites to maybe see a star
And we only ever know the witching hour
In all its hateful dimensions

She was born the hope of the light
A frenzied dream
A constellation mind
And silent screams

I'm afraid the way she walks into the night

This little bit of time that is my life
Through hope and desperation
We only have so much
So long
And the colors can't shine bright
Forever
The sun won't always rise
My colors only fade
And maybe dreams are really all that is
I dream I live
And that I get it right

Change the red with blue
There is no truth
Besides the love me make
The love

We give

This little bit of time that is my life

I dream a cemetery
Shadows and silhouettes taking the hand
And guiding the traveler to a grave
No morning comes with flowers
No hymns are sung
No prayer begun
I dream an empty planet
I'm afraid of the clouds where she might be
Lost in darkened hopeless sight
Where no sun is shining now
No stars
No horizon
I dream the birds are crying
A lingering pall and hidden tears
Wings are broken
Nest abandoned
And me
I dream a yellow field
Once with planted seeds
A scarecrow menace lurking
No warning
Only wind
The crow has gone away

When I'm not drunk
I wish I was
When I am drunk
I wish I wasn't

And really
I don't know how to feel

Because I want to be strong I am weak
Those fickle petty rules by which we live
            Have made me sick
I'm not immune to having dreams and desires
When every better part of me
            Has been seduced
By the velveteen swans that flash as images in my mind
And on the plasma screens for which I bleed

And really I have grown
Grown sick and tired and exhausted
From breathing the air I need to live
The toxic vile air
Causing cancer
From drinking from the well
Which has been poisoned

I like my poison undiluted

I like my poison clearly marked
By sinister skulls and crossbones
          With the worst of intentions
I would actually enjoy the knowledge
That this poison in my blood
           Is going to reach my once enamored heart
Which used to beat with the hope for tommorow
And now is a rhythmic device in a song full of sorrow

And really I have died
Dangerous oderous chemical sand timers
I've died a thousand insecure lives
In a false world
With fake meaning
And my arteries and veins will attest
This disease is a foe that never rests

I like my poison undiluted

The eyes of the moon
I wish it were that
They watched over me

The skin held the scars
But still as always
Revealed a story

The moon is not real
I never got to
Hold her in my arms

I only ever felt
Her more than any
Ever felt before

I reach out a hand
But cannot touch you
I know what it means

The moon is not real

Religion
Has ruined
Spirituality

Imagery
Symbolism
Some of us have never heard of meter
Imagine this
A day and age
When poetical expression became base

I have feelings
And so do you
In a quick temperamental flame
Writing it down
Can never mean
That it is poetry

So avoid it
Or destroy it
Calculated words to fit the verse
Instead just say
Or just complain
Denying the works of great masters


I matter
Shouldn't you
Our voice becoming clouds to cover out the sun

She's the kind of girl
Who has a hiccup
And thinks its a heart attack
I'm the kind of man
Who doesn't concern myself with what it really is
Only what she thinks it is

And while I nurse her back to health
That she never really lost
I'm dying

other planets
other worlds
different galaxies
new worlds of fascination
deeper meaning
oceans on moons
with seasons unseen by the eyes of man
alien homes in outerspace
terrestrial but foreign and familiar
Beyond the realm of the known
but waiting so I can find it
and bring my love to it



An­d
I am a rocketship
flying in through the void
The darkest dark ever known
stuck in between galaxies
where no sun will rise
And no light will shine
I am a rocketship

They taught you to read the lines

Did they teach you to read between them?

Sometimes the empty space
Contains more meaning
Than the sharp shock of loud noises
Made by people in distress

Sometimes those who have more to say
Can't say it
Because they are tired from the fight
And only wanting to sleep

Somewhere near the globe
Where the ghost of Elizabethan actors
Still roam the streets

London Bridge Is Falling Down

I think about Buckingham Palace
Where the guards protect the queen
Who cries all the time

London Bridge is falling down

Somewhere close to Big Ben
Where the Westminster Chimes
Still haunt the ears

London Bridge is falling down

The prison cells in the Tower Of London
Where sacred life becomes apparition
And weeps at the thought

London Bridge is falling down

I'm caught in an
Egocentric predicament
What's outside
my phaneron
Solipsism
Or is it real


How should I know
How should I know
How should I know
I can believe

It's synapses sparking
Creating memory
And I'm only
The moments I've seen
Are you real
Or just a dream?

Soon enough
This soggy eyed pollution
Acid rain and broken logic
Soon enough
The old man tells the young
It all will become clear
Soon enough

That maybe a rose
That grows from her hands
Reaches through her lips
Speaking words without thorns
That even the beast
In the seas can understand
Leviathan

Soon enough
All the years are leading to
what is to be
Soon enough
The wars have been fought
Are part of history
Soon enough

That a child in her heart
Sings a song of innocence
It gives color to her words
Soft and gentle hues
That even shine into her eyes
As I look into
And feel creation

Soon enough
We will see the hidden constellations
Are stars that we call home
Soon enough
The dreams we hold onto
Become something we can feel
Soon enough

Always was a word to slay my mind
No other world
         Give me peace
         Give me bliss
         Give me hope
Days that only end in storms
Raging thunder and ravishing beauty
        Give me joy
        Give me truth
        Give me light
Everything I couldn't save
Everything I'll never be
        Give me strength
        Give me time
        Give me love
And I'll give my all
         Grave from a cradle
                     Kiss from a stranger
                             Nothing could ever mean as much

Its a darkened room
The candle you lit
Is not a light for me
I have a memory

A lantern
If there's no oil does the fire go out?
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
I'll be left in darkness

Not a helping hand
A knife in the back
I feel you twist
You tell me that you miss me

A lantern
If theres no oil does the fire go out?
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
I have my broken hands
I'm punching walls

You aren't you
I'm not me
Never again
So why pretend?

Why now in the darkness
Can I see shadows?

Breaking point
I want for you to suffer with me
Taking note
Its only miles into the nether
Shake it off
I want for you to understand
my aching heart
How many miles until it breaks

I could say I love you a million times
I could say
But simply saying can not convey
My depth of feeling for you
I love you more than the plants love the sun
Or the tides the moon
I love you more than a rich man loves gold
I love you more than I love the world
The world I love because it brought me to you
I will show you I love you a million times
I will show
And my exhibition for your amusement
My reaching into your soul
I show you more than colors
I show you Rembrandt and Monet
These images are made in my heart
I see when I close my eyes
And when I look to the skies

Kindred spirits
congregate
Through levity
Frivolity

Because the world
Is way too serious
And the most serious thing you can do
Is find someone

You have fun with

Hello beautiful
Do you feel it?
The dreams you had
Coming true

You are beautiful
Are you beautiful?
At least I think you are
It is my truth

That what you feel
Is what is real
Do you feel beautiful?
Do you feel love?

Just a throwaway poem
For someone that I'll never know
Someone who is beautiful
Its my way to say hello

So hello beautiful
There are fires in hell
And storms on the seas
And darkness in between the points of light
There is loss in life
And pain in love
And hope in the bitterness of sorrow
And then there is you

Hello beautiful

Is this real,
Everything is empty space

Take for instance the atoms,
That make up the molecules

Carbon is only six ping pong *****
Dancing around my fist
In an area the size of my hometown

And we see it as something solid
We see it is coal
And what we are made of

Well I see it as a bunch of empty space
Its only my perception
That sees it as you

You're afraid
If I say now or never
Its either you can't have anymore fun
(Whatever you think fun is)
Or you lose me

Well

Its now
or its never

Homelely lonely snaggle-tooth smile
Tongues urging words forward
Surging as an ardent sword
Swimming in saliva
Ivory incisor
Cruel cuspid
Fangs
And sharpened islands
Teeth

Decalcified
Recalcitrant

There's an empty feeling in a mouth

Provender as a need

Viscious victuals

Forget the taste
Remember appetite
Just when you feed
Don't eat but devour
Mulling molars
Curious carnassials
Fangs
Longing for the flavor of flesh
Teeth

Putrescent
Holy cavity

There is an empty feeling in a mouth

Eat all you can

While you can

Take full bites
And swallow whole

It surely is difficult to fathom
How the mere act of reaching out to someone in need
Can save the whole world
Shining light on a soul
Shines light on us all
By saving someone else
You save yourself

I have loved you longer than time
Walked with you before I had legs
And told you many times
Without the mouth to speak
Or the air to breathe
I have loved you longer than space
Collected your dust before the stars
And felt you many times
Without the hands to hold
Or the fingers to touch

I loved you in the ocean
And swam between your knees
I loved you in the sky
In your kiss of gentle breeze
You knew my face
Before your eyes could see
You felt me
Before skin

I have loved you before mountains
And before rivers carved the rock
I loved your canyons
Your precipices
Your crevices
When there was no earth and no sun

I have loved you
Before I knew what love was

We were lost
Caught in the blowing wind
And putting your head in the clouds
Feet no longer on the ground
I couldn't hold your hand
I didn't want to hold on
I lost my nerve
We were lost
Me plodding my way
One foot and then the next
On a dark and lonely road
And right now is all that is
Everyday is forever
Forever without

We were lost
But we will meet again later

We were lost
And your clouds turned to grey
But the rain never came
Just anticipation
And you can't be patient
You can't be blamed
I can't be there
We were lost
Me alone in a crowd
Finding lodgings every night
Just someplace to sleep
Never to be known
And not sleeping to dream
Not waking to be

We were lost
But we will meet again later

Talk to me
We were lost
When we shouldn't have let it go so far
Let me know
We were lost
And it was the last thing I ever wanted
We were lost
But we will meet again later

We were lost
You falling down as rain
From the clouds you use to hold
And upside down
As a face I try to forget
It's your face
I remember
We were lost
But I know that I journey
Not for fortune
And certainly not for fame
I journey endless roads
To find a place
To call my home

We were lost
But we can't be
Because we know
What we have found
We were lost
But we will meet again later

Talk to me
I'll let you know
We were lost
But we will meet again later

Let it die
And let it swallow me with it
No escape, I dig with spades
I scrape my knees on asphalt
And live in empty streets
In my mind
I have a fist-fight with Auden
And as he's bleeding he's making money
A mockery of my divine art
He's in the textbook
And I am dying
In my eyes
The sun has lost all meaning
No true light, but neon signs
****** who walk the block
Glamour dolls bedecked with rouge
Make-up to cover scars
We call beautiful
Despite ourselves

You live inside a box
And I can repeat words
Mad Mad Mad
paper can't survive the flood
An old man
Man man man
man
Deny the works
And suffer worms
You were taught to love dirt
Become slaves
Embrace the hurt
I shine a light of truth
And I would die for my cause
I sacrifice myself
To save you
But you know only to save the pain
I die in vain
A martyrs death
I give it all until nothings left
And nothings right
There is no way I can prove
This is too good for you

Living like a shaman
Reading stars in the night
And feeling the spirits
We are the same
Just cosmic reflections
In a pool of life

I speak to the shadows
My constant companions
I speak to them
But they don't speak back

Dying like a soldier
Fighting through front lines
Tanks and bombs
Bullets to strike me down
A manifestation
The pain of life

I speak to the shadows
As though they understand
And I understand them
We cry together

Being as a madman
A lunatic howling at the moon
With a pain I can't forget
A pain that pushes me on
A realization
The truth of life

I speak to the shadows
With nothing in my hands
A hole in my heart
And a hope that they can hear

My perfect meter
Is a haiku when I want
To write a haiku

Iambic pentameter that I write
So often goes unnoticed by you all

Dachtyl meter
Trochee meter
Even lord Byron's
Anapest meter

And then there is meter I invent
Sent to my soul
From the stars
But always very rhythmic
Read it aloud
You'll hear my voice
Through my words.

Mind never stops
A rock tumbler filled with thoughts
Becoming polished jewels

Here it comes again
Destiny
I fight against
Fate and faith
I'm heading for an end
And maybe I deserve this pain I feel
How many times
My naked blood
Disbelief
I'll reach oblivion
And no memory shall remain

If you **** one person,
You **** all of humanity

If you help one person,
You help all of humanity

Its plainly written in the Koran
I guess some people just can't read

These are the feelings
A whirlpool
In the ocean
Where I can only drown
The feeling that I've been wrong
I'm not upset with you
I'm angry with myself
That I could project such expectations

Because without wings
You came flying
But really I was so far beneath the surface
I saw you above me

When in reality

One man knows about god
And emulates
Another knows nothing
And it becomes apparent

And so you let me down
I never should have looked to you to lift me up

I don't think
You'll meet one person
Who would tell you
They decided to fall in love

Red is red

Its just that pushing a river
Won't change its course
But going with the flow
Brings you to the ocean

Blue is blue

How deep is your world?
Mazes etched into hopeless surface
When we can never get up
Lakes of fire
Souls ensnared still screaming
We can never give up
The sound of the end is beautiful
But its only the end
Its only a sound

I do have hope
I just don't know for what

Only the end
Makes us look at the beginning
As the subtle yellow light
That kills the shadow
When we never could believe
The way the promises were broken
Because everything will grow
And nothing really dies

The sound of the end is music
The most glorious symphony
The most heartbreaking tones
Tragic and beautiful
And when the song ends
Its only the end

I do have hope
I'll never know why

My next poem
Will be a masterpiece
Enough to please the mind
And the soul
The next poem
That I set down in concrete
To last throughout the ages
Will last throughout the ages

It will speak
Not only to your heart
But to your soul
To every better part of you
To your reality
To your dreams
Speaking loud above the muddle
The average trying to be heard

But that's my next poem
Not this one
I'm still only building to
This is only practice

My next poem
So utterly true and profound
It will change the world
Will change your world

Blisters and the sunset
Run if you can
Worlds and art and words and heart
I am what I believe
And me
And I

Roses on the hillside
Rest if there's peace
Pain and joy and loss and love
I am what I believe
And I
And me

And I see suns catching fire to the meadows
Fire without light
Rage on into the darkness
And burn
And me
Completely in the mire
Still holding palms skywards
Feel because you are alive
Love is not lost
Even if its gone

Love
And I

I am what I believe

Ë

This is not my poem
It's my problem
Like solving equations
Using alien numbers
And imaginary math
I have so many things to do today
And I don't want to do anything
But its okay
I learned long ago to not complain
Nobody really cares about your problems anyway
And no man should spend all his time *******
Leave that to the dogs
I just need to focus

Find an outside source of strength
And combine it with my inner
Count my blessings
I have many
More to come
I'm in good humor
I'm a loaded rifle
And I'm aiming at the world
But someone will speak
And I'll slip into a dream
I could never focus
My laser beam

It's my problem

The world wasn't made for lovers
It was made for those
Who smile in your face
And then stab you in the back
I don't see the satisfaction you get
From watching me bleed
You smile in my face
As my blood drips from your knife
Do you live to watch me die?
Is your hand so wicked
That you offer it to me
with hateful intentions?

You smile in my face
While you're killing me
You look into my eyes
Just to make sure the life is leaving them

I always believed
Not in god
But in whatever it is
God does

Maybe giving us reason
Or giving us meaning
That whatever pain we feel
Is all a part of a plan

I always believed
Because the truth is
I can't live my life
Without believing in something

I love you....
Simple enough
In a complicated world
I love you
And you love me

Still
And always
As it was
As it will be
As all I ever know

My pen produces painful heat
As I hold her in my hands
Glorious

Because I write
On your skin
I write well considered verse
Flowing though your veins
I write my soul
On your very heart

I write boiling blood

Because the depths of my being
Burn hotter than suns
Becoming the day
We find light

I write forest fires
I write igniting sparks
I write dying embers
As odes to your heart
I write the only thing I can

I write your name

I create life in you
You
Who I've never seen
And never spoken too
I paint colors on gray skies
And feelings on the wind

I give you dreams
You
Who only know me
As a name without a face
I trace lines in outer space
I give meaning to constellations

I teach you imagination
You
Who wonder mindlessly
Through lifes daily procession
I reach heaven and hell
Bringing you the better parts of both

I am your hope
You
Who knows that art will still exist
Even if unappreciated
I was born for a purpose
Even if its lost on most

I show love to you
You
A better thing I'll never do
A deeper truth found only here
In the words
Of the poet

I aspire
To nothing higher
Than to bring light into your world
A fire
Out of control
That keeps you warm

I want to be your favorite song
Because you know that I was written for you

I become
Not a strum from some guitar
But chords in your mind I play with
Sweet music
I cannot help but create
To let you know that you are loved

I want you to be my biggest fan
Because it matters if you sing along

Wait for you
In a darkened room
Light a lantern
I wait and watch
The shadows
I try to give it up
A candle you lit
Is not a light for me
I have a memory

A lantern
Without oil does the fire go out
I have no doubt
In all this doubt
That I'll be left in darkness

I tried to save a soul
Or maybe two
I failed you
I failed myself
You watched my fall
And not a helping hand
But a knife in the back
I feel you twist
You tell me that you miss me
You really don't
Your not you anymore

A lantern
If there's no oil does the fire go out
I have no doubt
I have my broken hands
I'm punching walls

You aren't you
I'm not me
What we used to be
Never again
So why pretend