Pairing aces and jacks
on dance card bingo
whistle past grave yards
fingers crossed lingo.
Even or odd on cards?
Is the stick yes or no?

I'm a cowboy without a full moon.
  My world completely all fenced in.
  I'll be a wild west show pretty soon.
  Pretend sheriff wears a star of tin.

  Towns are cities concrete canyons
  Midnight cowboys rent their guns
  by the hour to rich companions
  wake drunk by noon in neon suns.

Bury my heart
at Wounded Knee
I played my part
now set me free.

I'm a cowboy who's run out of time.
  My world completely all fenced in.
  I'll be a wild west show pretty soon.
  Pretend sheriff wearing  a star of tin.

Elder aunt adored
lazy Summer bored
reading Hardy Boys
stroke mystery toys.
Sleep in tent on her lawn
chickens wake at dawn.
Spoils us with ice cream
old man's boyhood dream.

We'll bury our hearts
in their aching parts
later when blood dries
we understand whys.
We love certain things
hate no wedding rings.

I stare in a mirror of ice
see myself in paradise
fever warm that night
walking into the light.

We met at Rugby's bar
shivering seeking heat
drink wish upon a star
mirror our heartbeat.
Born a crooked womb
drunk in a tiny room
push a baby carriage
now a sterile marriage
daily we both pretend
a marriage just smoke
laughs are our friend
old hearts just broke.

A filthy, disgusting,
morally corrupt place
where government
sows its disgrace

their power to abuse
jail with impunity
our taxes they steal
congress immunity.

**** all the atheists
our Christ to crucify  
hope is our pacifists
rain is tears they cry.

I will forgive you
I hope you will
remember the dew
naked on the hill

I have my fathers war anger
my gramps drunkard laughter
an angry funny drunk stranger
cruelty demands unkind disaster.

I came upon a deer that was caught up dying
  on a fence in pain and fear. Places I've known.
  I tried saving it but I couldn't lift the burden.
  I screamed for help but wasn't heard. It bled out.
  The throes of death were horrible. I wish I died
  instead of innocence that died in a silent shout.

Turn my mind off.
Gift me my sleep.

I'm moving to Nirvana
a place beyond the sun
millions of promises
never a broken one.

75 and moving to last page
time to clear an empty nest
just accept the final stage
then  throw away the rest.

Dumpster in the driveway
collects my broken dreams
books bought never read
nothing as it ever seems.

Guitars and keyboards tossed
lyrics forgotten as stutters
all my words are dead lost
poems die in wet gutters.

I will feel your lips
send me on my way
beyond life's blips
and the day to day.

The devil checks hell's manifest
every day looking for my name.
The mortal sins never confessed,
unrepentant sins of my shame.

God keeps me unto Himself.
He knows my romantic heart,
My ideals are always top shelf.
Put the horse before the cart.

Innocent kids defiled
by adored self styled
monsters of the young
always forked tongue.

I drink Your Chardonnay blood
I eat Your Triscut ******* flesh
flush my sins in my holy flood
Still say small prayers. God bless.

Cousin Mike more than a brother over years.
You had *** at 14. I kissed them made them cry.
Wyoming was roaming with eager wet tears.
You broke your heart and used ***** to die.

Not a poem or tradition
just if only perdition
my end of world lover
kiss bye as we smother.

You mean that much to me
   more than I could ever be
   even rhymes at odd times
   committed our tiny crimes
   books, food, truth's lies
   always holster my alibis.

We all thank our sacred gods
we're living the American dream.
Our slums are better than the others
less disease more milking mothers.
Irish, Italian, German, English all
came through Ellis Island hoping
for tickets to a better maybe place
looking for the better opportunity.

Break wind, break promises,
break hearts but never ever
break Sacred Marriage Vows!
All the gods will have cows...
All kittens will die I swear on a
bible made in communist China.

Each and everyone I knew
I'm blistered in my grave
cold earth warms my blue
lie dead wait to be saved.

We're drowning in lies
innuendo and suicides.
Lift us above the fatality
rearrange our dark reality.

I love our weeping shame
the edge of suicide's game.
Closing time once again
last chance for mortal sin.
See you in the piano keys
haunting dreams please.

Vinyl lover named Susan Tucker
the first girl I kissed and missed.
I blow her up she lets me **** her
she yearns for me she can't resist.

Bottle thuds
cap clatters
Drink the suds
nothing matters.
Bathroom sounds
destroy fantasies
no decent bounds
marriage freeze.

Hungover on a bench
in our own Eden Park
smell of the beauty sins
from screams in the dark.
Pretend marriage in flight
never able to lose the night.

Your flesh so inviting
  but we kept on fighting
  ******* until I was bored.
  Lust beheaded by my sword.

Am I your lover?
Or pretend Mother?
Criticize and flatter
find war's splatter
on the kitchen wall
wake in shame all.
Perfect hair perfected
my children neglected.
We'll always own stain
and confused love pain.

I'll let my bladder
leak and explode,
ignore the sirens'
song from a road.

Hormones
pheromones
sexting on our
cell phones.

Calling from
a phone booth
talking for hours
Love is our proof.

Death is the forever
no clocks or never.
No pesky calendar
no future or past
no appointments
no nagging or
disappointments
forever no more.

I offer my feeding tube,
unintelligable prophet
welcome the **** ****
better than just the spit.

Two lovers court you
give you sweets and all
the lust you would want
peg, hole or blow up doll.

We live
then die
we laugh
and cry
wonder why
still try
to pray
for a day
He comes again
we answer sin.

My conscience is a loud cat.
Quincy wants this and that.
Always now never in a bit
3am wakes me up, the ****.

Love is splendid!
Love is never ended.
Lust soars above
mocking her love.

Is there any other kind
young without any clues?
I'm a Helen Keller blind
off key singing the blues.
Fire's desire demands touch
forbidden by all I've heard.
West Side Story is too much.
I Love You forever my word.

Vows

  We'll be together
  forever lusting
  8 children mother
  forever trusting
  life is many fears
  house of mirrors
  reflecting tears
  many rough years

I'll go to hell on an escalator
**** all the god's elevator.
Nobody pushes button HELL.
In the end it's just as well.

If I ****** you into
a loveless marriage
with a child or two
frozen baby carriage.

The body aches still
yearns for your touch
day to day until
I fear cage's clutch.

I died. Doesn't matter how.
Behind a ***** or a plow
Don't kneel at my grave
sing loud hallelujah brave.
My life has been a dying
of the broke vows lying.

Some die in pain
others in soft rain
of kind Morphine.
Look alive machine
gives the false hope
a pretend tree rope
church choir swinging
from ugly trees singing.

I'm dead desert skulls
listening for living  calls
to arms the second coming
warriors hymns humming
Eat the rich raise the dead
take a Xanax and off to bed.
In morning's light  I blink
in secret dream black ink.

Somewhere near puberty
corner of nuns and set me free
I blew up my past for tomorrow
drown guilt in beer and sorrow.
God please forgive my lust
and give me more to borrow.

I live in Van Gogh's
mad sky of midnight
dance with the ******
settle in our delight.

I keep scarring my heart
with scabs from my tears.
I keep playing my part
for too many years.