I'll write a song
with music and rhyme
and poetry dripping
like dew from a vine.
I'll steal an orchestra
and God's own choir
and serenade you
to my bed on fire.

Oh, God forgive me
I lost my keys
to Your Kingdom
crawling on my knees
over every piece of me
too drunk to hope to find
Your lost and found
I just step out of my mind.

I had no idea it was happening.
      The world caught fire and I blinked.
      My skin smelled like cooked meat.
      I was hungry and couldn't help myself.
      When I came to strapped down I thought
      I had died. I talked to you with sorrow.
      We spoke of beaches and sand and sun
      and salt that we would visit tomorrow.

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 had it framed in my mind.
It got caught in a wrinkle of
my brain. Don't worry, baby.
It's frozen in ashes of Pompeii.

I smell your hair
I love you then
we kiss us there
perfect within.

Falling in love is wonderful.
Staying in love is impossible.

I think your synapses and wires and circuits
are state of the art. Your beauty is flawless.
You're a '57 Chevy with a 4 in the floor and
a V8 engine that screams along the highways.

We met in an airport bar on our ways to who
cares anyway? We fell in love and cancelled
flights and left it all to the carrion eaters.
The circus was in town. We went and never left.

I'm torn between intense lust
and a vapid spent reality.
I live above a shop with my *****.
We play at marriage but know better.
My past vows and children haunt me.
When the bill comes due I'm spent,
nothing but debtor's prison of
my own guilt. I love in madness.

I'm an undying romantic.
  My heart has been broken
  time and time again. I always
  go back for more Love's token.

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

I Love You! Every living one of
you. I think kindly of you all.
Come over for Sunday supper
and bring a dish and stories.

I love you with insane love we shared.
  Nobody else would understand. I'll die
  in a garage with you, my love. Fill me
  with your poison and we'll share death
like lovers in tall grass on a picnic
blanket sharing our first kiss.

I love you with insane love we needed
  nobody else would understand. I'll die
  in a garage with you, my love. Fill me
  with your poison and we'll share death.
You are my youth and desire from back
when it mattered most. I miss you.

I could never find you
in the vastness of living.
We never shared a beer
never found a wedding.
You bent chords like I
bent my tiny day to day
shuffling decks forever
without a card to play.

I'm 68
   lessons learn
   accepted fate
   bridges burn
   no more hate
   worms do turn
   not too late
   for you I yearn

I'm 75
still alive
beat the odds
defied the gods.
My libido dead
wet the bed
depends instead
Keep your head.

I'll make my own God of split atoms.
The sun stares at Him and goes blind
leaving the world in total darkness.
It ends not with a whimper or a bang.
I still have a big bag of marbles.
I found one that looks like Earth.
I confessed my sin to my Priest.
10 Hail Mary's fix everything.

I didn't turn into a pumpkin.
I have both of my shoes.
Now I take a sleeping pill
and dream my dead alive.

I look the same day to day like the
dogs and cat and cereal and toast.
I wake a stranger every day afraid
of different outcomes with unknown
villains plotting my demise. You are
the only constant in this universe.
You are my sword and armor and
resolve. You are my Bedlam with
restraints and pills and cruel men
with straitjackets for my comfort.
Strength is deep inside us all.
It's my ever present Hallelujah.

I was born
torn forlorn
alone storm
sorrow ****.
I broke rules
made by fools
for useful tools
and Govt. mules.

I watch the wall clock
seconds tick then tock
stranger blows my ****
I come on my left sock
and ask what's your name
she says I'm all the same.

I bring you pain and hope
let you hang noose rope.
Bible predicts your world
future's truth flag unfurled.

I'm launched into life
from silence into noise
no choices just chance
don't tilt against boys.

I love you in fierce ways for a night or two
  then sober up and break my own heart again.
  We meet in a park and feed the ducks, back in
  your room we fall in love for an afternoon
  **** ourselves in pleasure and pain but stay.
  You haunt my dreams then die on Thursday.

I love you in fierce ways for a night or two
  then sober up and break my own heart again.
  We meet in a park and feed the ducks and go to
  your room and fall in love for an afternoon and
  **** ourselves in pleasure and pain and kiss bye.
  You haunt my dreams then die on Thursday.

You call, leave a message
"call me back when you can".
I check my schedule see
appointment for my scan.
Films like a Xmas tree
tumors invade me again.
Call me. I'm afraid to die.
My phone is dead as am I.

I'm drunk asleep
in this JFK casket
looking for a job
in an empty basket.

USA gave it away
take it all back
destroy us **** us.
Kids die in flak.

I shouldn't be allowed to
operate a keyboard really.
I should have to type
qwerty or walk a line.
I did say I'm drunk so
maybe I'll die in my sleep
or suffer cruel sunlight in
morning after last night.

I said I do and she put my *****
in a vise and we had a daughter.
I felt the closing in of walls
and waited for the slaughter.
I feel like a blow up *** doll
Bill waiting down the hall.

Polio or stroke or death?
Macabre Picasso thought?
Pocket watch ticks breath
was I only sold and bought?

I think I've had my fill. I'm 71.
My hands shake and I can barely
hold the needle to hit the vein to
calm me for another day to act
like living matters anymore.
I look for death's  final sting.

I put the melted ice in my cup
and pour one for the road again.
This is my final last call. I'll drive
home one eyed to keep the road
from ******* with me. I stay in
lines and park crooked. I'm home.
I thought by now I'd figured it out.
I'm older than my grandpa was
when he took pessimism to a grave.
I'll drive until I see the green moon.

I finally accept I'm insane
nothing will be the same
I no longer have a name
nobody is to blame
USA consumed in flame
burn my number I remain.

I think the world's become a
cartoon we're expected to believe.
We'll drink and smoke and swallow
pills and clench fists to shoot hope
into our veins. Nothing is forever.
We die in mourning. Always noon.

I have reached an age
without another page
pay an obscene wage
shouting more rage
on my silent stage
death's final gauge.

I missed me when I had to go away.
  They said it was for my own good.
  I sort of existed in a Lithium fog.
  I was gone from me except in dreams.

I dreamed of the sun born from hell.
I dreamed of angels called sisters.
I saw a cruel king with eyes of hate
who threatened me with his love.

  Now I'm kind of back. They kept pieces
  of my brain, the pieces that made me
  cut myself in a tub of tepid water to
  bleed out this life of threatened love.

My life is smoke from years ago I
can't remember with clarity.
The feelings are sharp as razors.
I miss everyone and everything.
******* my lap was fire in my ****.
I'm still in love with that poker card
with my first time you know what.
I miss time past. I'll miss time wasted.

Everyone I've laughed with
and parted ways awhile
I laugh at every memory
I miss you with a smile.

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

I'll weave words
into a quilt of who
and not forget what
time demands when
point the map where
***** explains why.

I'm lonely tonight in a house full
   of laughter and bars full of friends
   and work and church and funerals and
   birthday parties. I feel nothing now.
   We do our weekly ritual of *** and I
   think of the waitress at lunch today.
   Hate me if you will. I never feel it.
   Nothing ever happens any more.

Pretend boy made of wood.
Call me whatever you would.
I love you with splintered heart.
Burn me down from our start.

Friends ask how are you?
I say I'm doing fine. OK.
I smile and walk along
to my dealer for blow
or **** or ecstasy
or crack to blow my
mind inside my mind
feeling dead above life.

forever love

I'm not gay
in prison

I'll respect you
in the morning

Voices whisper
Jesus in my mind

I'm God by default

I'm forever 21
and a size 0

Nothing makes
your *** look big

I don't *******

I'm an imposter
pretender of me
cannot get closer
but I want to be.
I can't fix it now
just set me free
I don't know how
In dark I can't see.

I'm trying to look sober. I'm drunk.
I know she knows it and I'm drunk
enough not to really care. I'll still
pretend as will she. Punch and Judy?

Everyone needs saved.
I have tiny purity to give.
My world finally caved.
Nobody here left to live.
Reptiles and roaches
carry on life at last
Cinderella's coaches
to mankind's past.

I swear broken promises for
entry to your secret garden
I stab your heart once more
and once again beg pardon.

Love is nothing but a memoir
broke hearts are just keepsakes
remember to fall in love no more
'til you find your perfect soulmates