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"harmonica" poems
worlds converge in a papercup come, come you on the tambourine me on the harmonica let's make music without the adjectives let's live on the jingle-jangle of coins   tara na! this pavement is our carnegie; metaphors sans adverbs -- no illusions, no fantasies. you and me and this street -- dancing like gypsies on a prairie   later tonight, while the moon watches over we'll upstage the stars with **** adverbs & adjectives
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Mar 31, 2012
Mar 31, 2012 at 8:57 AM UTC
**** Adjectives
The snow drifts were quite high, piling up into the northern sky, burying towns and trees and the poor souls who had fallen asleep on the grass and had awoken with shivers as snowflakes left little kisses on their eyelids. Except that, it was never grass. There was never any grass to begin with. There was no grass or spring or sun or summer or birds. There was only winter and snow. And the blinding, white terrain had become both a place of desolation and s a n c t u a r y. The Aroura Borealis danced like a beautiful blue fire across the night sky. Stars blinked in and out of existence. And somehow, the halls always remained. The blue halls. Imagine, if you will, the Colosseum cut into halves and shaped like an elbow macaroni. Drop it out in the middle of an arctic wasteland and wash it in the blue glow of the northern, night sky. A bright yellow light poured out of the windows and onto the snow, but no one was ever inside. Some say it's the doorway to heaven. Others say it's the gates of hell. And then there are the strangers. Strangers who wear their lavender, silk headscarves and avoid the rumors of such an exquisite and eclectic piece of architecture. Others like myself. "If there is no one inside, then where is the music coming from?" He asked me, his blue eyes shining as blue as the heavenly hues against the midnight clouds. " The halls will hum if the wind passes through them just so." We listened to them once more. A low and ancient hum emanated from the structure. It was an old sound that resonated within me-unnerved me. The mysterious blue halls were not a simple door to some glorious silver city or the passageway to a fiery lake. The halls were the most beautiful and interesting instrument the universe has even known. "It's the harmonica of the gods!" Perhaps one of them dropped it. Perhaps it was a flaw in design. Perhaps it was meant to be silent and with one teensy miscalculation, an entire orchestra of notes were born by the wind. Perhaps it is telling me to tell you that you should look not towards all that makes you perfect, but the imperfections because that is where true beauty rests. And you are so beautiful. The kind of beauty that doesn't know it's own beauty. Like when you are sleeping, and the moon washes over your face. I like when you are sleeping, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware.
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Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 at 9:45 PM UTC
Blue Halls
The snow drifts were quite high, piling up into the northern sky, burying towns and trees and the poor souls who had fallen asleep on the grass and had awoken with shivers as snowflakes left little kisses on their eyelids. Except that, it was never grass. There was never any grass to begin with. There was no grass or spring or sun or summer or birds. There was only winter and snow. And the blinding, white terrain had become both a place of desolation and s a n c t u a r y. The Aroura Borealis danced like a beautiful blue fire across the night sky. Stars blinked in and out of existence. And somehow, the halls always remained. The blue halls. Imagine, if you will, the Colosseum cut into halves and shaped like an elbow macaroni. Drop it out in the middle of an arctic wasteland and wash it in the blue glow of the northern, night sky. A bright yellow light poured out of the windows and onto the snow, but no one was ever inside. Some say it's the doorway to heaven. Others say it's the gates of hell. And then there are the strangers. Strangers who wear their lavender, silk headscarves and avoid the rumors of such an exquisite and eclectic piece of architecture. Others like myself. "If there is no one inside, then where is the music coming from?" He asked me, his blue eyes shining as blue as the heavenly hues against the midnight clouds. " The halls will hum if the wind passes through them just so." We listened to them once more. A low and ancient hum emanated from the structure. It was an old sound that resonated within me-unnerved me. The mysterious blue halls were not a simple door to some glorious silver city or the passageway to a fiery lake. The halls were the most beautiful and interesting instrument the universe has even known. "It's the harmonica of the gods!" Perhaps one of them dropped it. Perhaps it was a flaw in design. Perhaps it was meant to be silent and with one teensy miscalculation, an entire orchestra of notes were born by the wind. Perhaps it is telling me to tell you that you should look not towards all that makes you perfect, but the imperfections because that is where true beauty rests. And you are so beautiful. The kind of beauty that doesn't know it's own beauty. Like when you are sleeping, and the moon washes over your face. I like when you are sleeping, for you are so beautiful, yet so unaware.
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On a clear sky night The sound of harmonica dancing By the angles of the Moon Drum pounds  widespread Waves floating in an ecstatic pace The quiet bay listened with radiant Shells Star specks lit sky humming The Earth murmuring deeply Pines reverberating in back chorus Kids giggling around trippin' in thick dark Tripping over some minor rocks, happy to Embrace the unexpected music, dogs wiggling Heavenly carousel shining upon their faces Theater dreaming  of the joyfull now This exuberant laughter unsyncopated Steps rhythm fading on their paths Instruments put down, sounds of Crickets, bare naked, two plunges
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 11:52 AM UTC
Harmonica and Drum
The chao phraya river song by: David Wayne Clare Down by the River (echo-ee, a Capella) Down by the River (echo-ee, a Capella) Down By the River, don't dive in, them sharks are real-damn-mean but, that's where you'll find me... along with buzzards, ******** and kumoi dope fiends... Chorus we love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're my home ! now... oriental Asian Ladies, Thailand's **** Siam queens I dig them slant-eyed ****** them sticky cat-faced chicks on Soi 13! (Miami Hotel) cause they love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're my home ! (Harmonica Solo) You'll find me trashed one morning (smashed!) Iced-down in China Town; all crying alone... One day I'll never leave here (Lord!) Unless an Esan Girl might claim me for her own... 'cause I love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're my home ! Refrain Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Buddha! Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Oh, Bangkok, Thailand... you're my home! (Sharp jumps from river with snied smile... big splash sound...) (c) in perpetuity, David John Clare Clairvoyant Music BMI Thailand...
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Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 1:25 PM UTC
Chao Phraya River
*A father's love... whether throughout times of sorrow, or times of glory, is all but shallow.* A father's love is a thunderstorm, rumbling through a once peaceful sleep, finding my awakened soul as company. On the back porch, we seek credence, as we share stories, and simple silence. A father's love is a music tune, carried from good intentions, deep in the lungs. Becoming bellowing blues from a harmonica. A father's love is rolling mountains, as endless as eyes can see, resonating with nature's peace. Where he finds sacred hollows, and gains perspective on his woes. A father's love is a blissful brew, aromatic, donning a frothy cover, incredibly complex underneath. It is a multifaceted flavor, sweet, bitter, delicate, of earth. A father's love is in the now. It is there when the water is muddy; it is there when the mud has settled, and the water is clear. It has nothing but patience. *A father's love... whether throughout times of sorrow, or times of glory, is all but shallow.*
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Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 10:12 AM UTC
A Father's Love
***Put on your yamaka, it's time for Hanukkah So much fun-akkah to celebrate Hanukkah, Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights. But when you're the only kid in town without a Christmas tree, Heres a list of people who are Jewish, just like you and me: David Lee Roth lights the menorah, So do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-ah Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli, Bowzer from Sha-na-na, and Arthur Fonzerrelli. Paul Newman's half Jewish; Goldie Hawn's half too, Put them together--what a fine lookin’ Jew! [Esus] You dont need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bell Rock Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock--both Jewish! [Esus] Put on your yamaka, its time for Hanukkah, The owner of the Seattle Super Sonic-ah celebrates Hanukkah. O.J. Simpson-- not a Jew! But guess who is...Hall of Famer—Rod Carew--(he converted!) We got Ann Landers and her sister Dear Abby, Harrison Ford's a quarter Jewish--not too shabby! Some people think that Ebeneezer Scrooge is, Well, hes not, but guess who is: All three stooges. [Esus] So many Jews are in show biz-- Tom Cruise isn't, [tacit] but I heard his agent is. [Esus] Tell your friend Veronica, its time to celebrate Hanukkah I hope I get a harmonica, on this lovely, lovely Hanukkah. So drink your gin-a-tonic-ah, and smoke your mara-juanic-ah, If you really, really wanna-kah, Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah……. HAPPY HANUKKAH!***
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM UTC
HAPPY HANUKKAH! Adam ******* - Hanukkah Song Video
***Put on your yamaka, it's time for Hanukkah So much fun-akkah to celebrate Hanukkah, Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights. But when you're the only kid in town without a Christmas tree, Heres a list of people who are Jewish, just like you and me: David Lee Roth lights the menorah, So do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-ah Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli, Bowzer from Sha-na-na, and Arthur Fonzerrelli. Paul Newman's half Jewish; Goldie Hawn's half too, Put them together--what a fine lookin’ Jew! [Esus] You dont need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bell Rock Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock--both Jewish! [Esus] Put on your yamaka, its time for Hanukkah, The owner of the Seattle Super Sonic-ah celebrates Hanukkah. O.J. Simpson-- not a Jew! But guess who is...Hall of Famer—Rod Carew--(he converted!) We got Ann Landers and her sister Dear Abby, Harrison Ford's a quarter Jewish--not too shabby! Some people think that Ebeneezer Scrooge is, Well, hes not, but guess who is: All three stooges. [Esus] So many Jews are in show biz-- Tom Cruise isn't, [tacit] but I heard his agent is. [Esus] Tell your friend Veronica, its time to celebrate Hanukkah I hope I get a harmonica, on this lovely, lovely Hanukkah. So drink your gin-a-tonic-ah, and smoke your mara-juanic-ah, If you really, really wanna-kah, Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah……. HAPPY HANUKKAH!***
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an oval antique photograph from the century just passed six youthful brothers must be sunday dressed exuding life and promise facing forward all in line symmetry pervading sister mary in their center on the photos right a startling recognition an image seen before colins great grandfather raymond often ray in features and a gaze seemed as colin would have stood photo has a crease fading but still clear now with photos recent privileged to compare colin next to ray both fully present yet a gaze away rays gaze anticipating army time in paris fortune seeking in the west fortunes to be found four generations branching to colin and beyond colins gaze capturing a journey now beginning does he see montana paris or the stars repeating patterns forward reflect photographic truth music completes the pattern with colorings of sound rays trumpet and harmonica introducing a guitar which colin has absorbed thus in his confirmation new dimensions now foreseen confirming four generations reflecting many more expanding light and love carrying our gratitude for the glimpse an old photograph favored us to find (poem written for my grandson's confirmation....)
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 12:38 PM UTC
confirmation
Blue, and sitting. The harmonica sounds like my mother. I need my guitar to get me out of here. The world is strange. I'm afraid. The harmonica sounds like my mother crying because she's telling the truth, that she's afraid. That the world is strange. That only my guitar can get me out of here.
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 11:52 PM UTC
blue, sitting
The chao phraya river song by david john clare Down by the River (echo-ee, a Capella) Down by the River (echo-ee, a Capella) 1 Down By the River, don't dive in, them sharks are real-damn-mean but, that's where you'll find me... along with buzzards, ******** and kumoi dope fiends... chorus 'cause we love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're our home ! 2 now...Oriental Asian Ladies, Thailand's **** Siam queens I dig them slant-eyed ****** Them Sticky cat-faced chicks on Soi 13! 'cause they love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're my home ! (Harmonica Solo) 3 You'll find me trashed one morning (smashed!) Iced-down in China Town; all crying alone... One day I'll never leave here (Lord!) Unless an Esan Girl might claim me for her own... 'cause I love that ***** water ... oh oh oh Bangkok, Thailand; you're our home ! Refrain Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Buddha! Chao Phraya River, Chao Phraya River... Chao Phrya River, Chao Phraya River... Oh, Bangkok you're my home! (Big smiling shark jumps from river with switchblade knife in between teeth...) fin (c) in perpetuity, David John Clare Clairvoyant Music BMI Thailand...
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 6:27 PM UTC
Bangkok Theme Song NEW
Harmonica and strums sail my shores Tell my whole clan sonny, he ain't good That I met a troller under a sycamore He passed me all the love as he veiled We walked around,camouflaged by leaves Tell mummy he was a preacher's son A soul that was open and hid it's stick Unharmonised in accapellas I drowned Swingers of melodic stormy strings Tell sassy to keep her tassels tucked To calm her tussles and noisy gongs Shake on the octave of the beats Whisked dreams of the lost yesterdays Tell Jimmy to listen to her heart raise Tie her down, bring her back home Liberate and let her fly like a wild bird
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 6:42 PM UTC
Stormy Strings (Blues Music)
Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
On the typewriter
Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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She looked at me and said I think you could be someone Who I would want to cry at my funeral Because you would have loved me forever By then Even in my nightmares You have no clothes And I wake cold-sweat And my ***** is confused It would be cliché for me to tell you about The doves Beating beneath my heart-heavy breastplate Only most days I feel like a sad piñata And I want you to beat the heaven out of me I know what Satan saw In his decent And it was worth the trouble It wasn’t you (Conceited) He didn’t see you Just the passion The things I want to do to you Like a lynching After being dragged for miles from a horse By the throat And called a suicide Only because I didn’t try to stop them from taking me I want to love you like I should have known better I want to catch your breath like a harmonica With my hand over your mouth A bent note all heave Slip between my fingers Let’s be wrong together Like a nun in a church Playing I Want Your *** on me As if I were a ****** pipe ***** Tuned to the key of hallelujah With a distortion pedal set to laughter She shook like a love letter Dropped from a balcony I didn’t offer my jacket Just my arms So much rusty bear traps Their damp hinges closing is a lonely song I want to leave here feeling like a shotgun shell Thrown to the floor hot And used for killing something Like the time between now And your next misfire Even if we’re just friends by then She says I would want you to be there crying I couldn’t imagine you anywhere else
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Jul 31, 2012
Jul 31, 2012 at 5:17 PM UTC
My ***** Gets Confused
She looked at me and said I think you could be someone Who I would want to cry at my funeral Because you would have loved me forever By then Even in my nightmares You have no clothes And I wake cold-sweat And my ***** is confused It would be cliché for me to tell you about The doves Beating beneath my heart-heavy breastplate Only most days I feel like a sad piñata And I want you to beat the heaven out of me I know what Satan saw In his decent And it was worth the trouble It wasn’t you (Conceited) He didn’t see you Just the passion The things I want to do to you Like a lynching After being dragged for miles from a horse By the throat And called a suicide Only because I didn’t try to stop them from taking me I want to love you like I should have known better I want to catch your breath like a harmonica With my hand over your mouth A bent note all heave Slip between my fingers Let’s be wrong together Like a nun in a church Playing I Want Your *** on me As if I were a ****** pipe ***** Tuned to the key of hallelujah With a distortion pedal set to laughter She shook like a love letter Dropped from a balcony I didn’t offer my jacket Just my arms So much rusty bear traps Their damp hinges closing is a lonely song I want to leave here feeling like a shotgun shell Thrown to the floor hot And used for killing something Like the time between now And your next misfire Even if we’re just friends by then She says I would want you to be there crying I couldn’t imagine you anywhere else
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my life is beautiful, not realistic. yesterday, i arrived on neptune wearing big boots and dignity the horizon was a nightmare of question marks and gloomy witches; i escaped from the religious enema and pegged a choir boy on my way out. i am no longer a pygmy goat on a foolish leash, i take my paranoia seriously. my journals guide me to a ruptured corpse, never censored. i have the ability to be given away on a whim, but i am becoming a famous soldier, an intoxicating ghost of dogma. my dreams are beautiful, not realistic. hallelujah, the hobos are wearing bathrobes, the ****** pillheads are anointed with ****** and sewer cleaners. i see a goblin grave advertised by luscious lips and fishlike shoulders. the texture of my dream is kaleidoscope and silver, haunted by a fat sherriff who cuts the throat of the jukebox queen. i have a personal god, and on her i bestow this passionate kiss, i have a favorite enemy, with no goals and without ambition. im sorry, i don't know any happy songs, only the movement of her young sensitive thighs and a nymph with an hourly rate. i am a buffoon with a blugeoned harmonica and weapons of sugar. my life is beautiful, not realistic.
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Jan 28, 2012
Jan 28, 2012 at 11:23 PM UTC
beautiful/realistic
I’ve got plenty of ghosts I promised her. I leave them wherever I go. At the house on 711 Ellen St there is the ghost of a dog named Hessa and a dog named Mac. They don’t play together, but they pant heavy, waiting my return. There is the ghost of a cat named Charles. He chases a raccoon out of a busted window that my mother fell through. There is the ghost of my mother pacing the living room, contemplating suicide. When ghosts die, they become useful fire, burning as long as necessary, and then blowing out forever. There is the Ghost of Louie, helping me fix my car. There are the ghosts of our tall cans crushed to the curb. There is the ghost of their fullness. Little drops that are left sit in the rim of the mouth. Every moment makes a ghost. Every time you move something from stillness, there is a ghost for it. When I come to see you, I will leave behind the ghost of laughter, the ghost of my warmth growing colder. Miss it if you want to. There is the ghost or your taste in my mouth. Certain foods bring it back to life. I let the Bud Light sit on my tongue. I almost tasted it. Something is missing. There is the ghost of your smell. It tricks me into craning my neck, eyes searching for you. There is the ghost of your smile which haunts me when the ghost of your smell tricks me into thinking you’re there. There is the ghost of my cool breath dying on your neck, then dying again. The fire it becomes extinguishes quickly. Behind your couch there is the ghost of a cricket. He has stolen a harmonica and plays only the high notes. Tell his family that he misses them. There are the ghosts of apples that I skinned when I learned to make pies in high-school. I have made many apple pie ghosts since then. I will bring one to you. It will be a slow ghost. The steam rising from the middle is its spirit returning home. Home is your chest. Breathe the ghost of my pie, the ghost of my cologne, the ghost of my eyes wet with poetry I have just read. There is the ghost of poetry as it mixes with my breath and exits my chest. Let it die and die again. Let it haunt your heart, your belly, the back of your neck like a gentle hand. I make graveyards. I make ghosts. I leave them behind wherever I go. I miss some of them. There is the ghost of my irregular heartbeat, when I feel the ghosts that I miss pass by. I breath slowly trying to feel them, but too soon they are gone. Ghosts don’t stay long. I can stay long. Make ghosts in the meantime. When I come to see you, I will leave you with ghosts.
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Jan 14, 2013
Jan 14, 2013 at 3:12 PM UTC
When I Come Over I Will Leave You With Ghosts
I’ve got plenty of ghosts I promised her. I leave them wherever I go. At the house on 711 Ellen St there is the ghost of a dog named Hessa and a dog named Mac. They don’t play together, but they pant heavy, waiting my return. There is the ghost of a cat named Charles. He chases a raccoon out of a busted window that my mother fell through. There is the ghost of my mother pacing the living room, contemplating suicide. When ghosts die, they become useful fire, burning as long as necessary, and then blowing out forever. There is the Ghost of Louie, helping me fix my car. There are the ghosts of our tall cans crushed to the curb. There is the ghost of their fullness. Little drops that are left sit in the rim of the mouth. Every moment makes a ghost. Every time you move something from stillness, there is a ghost for it. When I come to see you, I will leave behind the ghost of laughter, the ghost of my warmth growing colder. Miss it if you want to. There is the ghost or your taste in my mouth. Certain foods bring it back to life. I let the Bud Light sit on my tongue. I almost tasted it. Something is missing. There is the ghost of your smell. It tricks me into craning my neck, eyes searching for you. There is the ghost of your smile which haunts me when the ghost of your smell tricks me into thinking you’re there. There is the ghost of my cool breath dying on your neck, then dying again. The fire it becomes extinguishes quickly. Behind your couch there is the ghost of a cricket. He has stolen a harmonica and plays only the high notes. Tell his family that he misses them. There are the ghosts of apples that I skinned when I learned to make pies in high-school. I have made many apple pie ghosts since then. I will bring one to you. It will be a slow ghost. The steam rising from the middle is its spirit returning home. Home is your chest. Breathe the ghost of my pie, the ghost of my cologne, the ghost of my eyes wet with poetry I have just read. There is the ghost of poetry as it mixes with my breath and exits my chest. Let it die and die again. Let it haunt your heart, your belly, the back of your neck like a gentle hand. I make graveyards. I make ghosts. I leave them behind wherever I go. I miss some of them. There is the ghost of my irregular heartbeat, when I feel the ghosts that I miss pass by. I breath slowly trying to feel them, but too soon they are gone. Ghosts don’t stay long. I can stay long. Make ghosts in the meantime. When I come to see you, I will leave you with ghosts.
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Take my saxophone Take my piano Take my guitar Take my mandolin Take my washboard Take my harmonica Take my sunglasses Take my hairbrush Take my Bible Take my clothes Take my trophies Take my baton Take my ballet shoes Take my cane Take my sword Take my monkey Take my collections Take my cat Take my house Take my memories Take my plans My, that was a heavy load. I feel so light.
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Nov 25, 2010
Nov 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM UTC
Like A Feather
Like a discordant chord striking the piano deaf, Or a saxophone that lost its swanky *** appeal, When you breathe down the neck of my violin, The horsehair refuses to bow, When you huff out your limitations into my harmonica, You disrupt my harmony, Throwing me offbeat. [But I refuse to be beaten].
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Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013 at 12:16 AM UTC
Cacophony
Stretchy sticky tape can be used for plenty like preventing loose lips from spilling secret information make 'em taste adhesive next time they lick crackly mouths serve as a reminder of the importance of person-person confidentiality. Some just can't keep a good story in their head which is why they shout and beg for the forgiveness of their unpopular ways I love all these outcasts because I feel I should, as do many others they want to feel like good people holy and sometimes you find you do enjoy the company of the strange and I find that I thrive on absurdity and being a ****** because it's exhausting to try to be normal so you just act a fool and laugh because you love to read about politics and physics and you still enjoy being un-sober though it isn't apparent to all because you aren't so obvious (except now) and you know roughly who you are at least have some ideas as to who you aren't, you aren't a princess or an athlete, you're not valedictorian, not perfect just a humble little ****** with birds for brains flying out of your ears a whole flock of 'em chirping away eating worms early in the morn' just insane in the dark.
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Jun 2, 2012
Jun 2, 2012 at 10:32 PM UTC
Harmonica
what i really need to do is get a dog and name him teddy roosevelt and sing him john lennon songs and teach him to stomach gin what i really need to do is learn how to play piano and sing songs about cigarette smoke and lie about having a twin   what i really need to do is find someone who calls themselves petunia and bend low and scoop them up and teach her to stomach gin what i really need to to do is learn how to play guitar and sing songs about her knuckles and the delicate shine of her shins what i really need to do is shoot dice with old black men and hang out in alleyways and wallow in filth and bathe in sin what i really need to do is learn how to play the harmonica and sell ******* to rich white girls and not feel a **** thing about it what i really need to do is find someone who calls themselves best friend and bend low and scoop them up and teach him to stomach gin
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Oct 25, 2011
Oct 25, 2011 at 12:29 AM UTC
cocaine/richwhitegirls/johnlennon/teddyroosevelt/petunia/bestfriend
His heart was kept in a babooshka-doll that released memory smells with every layer that eroded. The wooden fences faded to damp brick in the corner of his head reserved for the harmonica that played through the microphone in his neck till the sound got lodged in his maudlin march that had him running like he was angry at the road. His Echostep vibrating in the kremlin skin and marrionette heart strings that kept him.... him. Despite broken wings he made the air around him dance with the resonance of each broken crystal ball shard used to predict the past. Each chime raised a mountain, folding back on itself hoping the hallucination would end, till tired hands batted away golden hawks. With rocks for claws. It was all the fights with the wind that had the clouds leaving the moon's Picaso skies, and sailing towards him on warships of rain and frozen effigies. They arrived, astronauts from outer space burning from the lips outwards revealing grey intent and red mists. He fought back with false start epiphanies and the falsetto prophecies that stung the air with pitch raining down. Leaving bare branches where once green hands applauded everything but empty air, like listless typewriters furiously trying to find their voices. Feirce winds and fake faces left blinking with closed eyes in the vastness of battlefield. Turning stomaches and blank canvas whirlpools, storms of anti-peace scarring the last conquests of the flightless ape lizard, and all his gorilla warfare.
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 4:23 PM UTC
Attack of the Flightless Ape-lizard
His heart was kept in a babooshka-doll that released memory smells with every layer that eroded. The wooden fences faded to damp brick in the corner of his head reserved for the harmonica that played through the microphone in his neck till the sound got lodged in his maudlin march that had him running like he was angry at the road. His Echostep vibrating in the kremlin skin and marrionette heart strings that kept him.... him. Despite broken wings he made the air around him dance with the resonance of each broken crystal ball shard used to predict the past. Each chime raised a mountain, folding back on itself hoping the hallucination would end, till tired hands batted away golden hawks. With rocks for claws. It was all the fights with the wind that had the clouds leaving the moon's Picaso skies, and sailing towards him on warships of rain and frozen effigies. They arrived, astronauts from outer space burning from the lips outwards revealing grey intent and red mists. He fought back with false start epiphanies and the falsetto prophecies that stung the air with pitch raining down. Leaving bare branches where once green hands applauded everything but empty air, like listless typewriters furiously trying to find their voices. Feirce winds and fake faces left blinking with closed eyes in the vastness of battlefield. Turning stomaches and blank canvas whirlpools, storms of anti-peace scarring the last conquests of the flightless ape lizard, and all his gorilla warfare.
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Packed in Van shifts Tires spin Band roams Desert dome Hippie echo Violin outskirts Nuisance collaborator Car crash drunk River rolls forward Boat rolls on Crocodile way Locust love Backwoods harmonica Dead wasp windshield Oil pipelines old Texas radio Kentucky derby fashion show Rock stars and movie actors Young kids and rock gods Music recorded on the road
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Apr 14, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM UTC
Music On The Road
I feel like a comic strip hobo With no money for deposit And still I step from slapstick to cement and hope court jester is enough here I have come out of the rain and into your home Drawn to you Though there is no pie in your window No ghostly fingers of your sweet smell beckoning me in You make me feel Like a ghost in a graveyard Praying for a new harmonica inhale and exhale So that this music can sound more like a dance for two A panic waltz for feet trying to match your grace And today Darlin' There is honey between my teeth A sweet sound Our love is backwards Blacklisted An elbow torqued and knuckle gutted dry heave halleluja Arthur Miller would have written a satire about our love I remember our early conversations You said you didn't believe in god I said that he was a fantastic literary device You said though you didn't believe in god that people themselves could be godly I suddenly wondered what you would look like with a jerry curl "Let's not call it godly," I said "What then," you said I don't know I just know that Your eyes are like second winds like Breathcatch memories of highway carjackings where you were the one left on the side of the road The warm summer pillow of your stomach And the peel of my face away from it Is sticky like candy Your stomach is like candy in that way So is my face I can be sweet too Your smile is speechless like the speakers are speechless And the music has stopped and our bodies are still save for your smile That quivers like fire And I am a comic strip hobo With a bandana backpack and not much to offer But I am drawn to you You make me feel like harmonica breath You make my mouth feel like honey
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Jun 28, 2013
Jun 28, 2013 at 4:34 PM UTC
I am a Comic Strip Hobo
I feel like a comic strip hobo With no money for deposit And still I step from slapstick to cement and hope court jester is enough here I have come out of the rain and into your home Drawn to you Though there is no pie in your window No ghostly fingers of your sweet smell beckoning me in You make me feel Like a ghost in a graveyard Praying for a new harmonica inhale and exhale So that this music can sound more like a dance for two A panic waltz for feet trying to match your grace And today Darlin' There is honey between my teeth A sweet sound Our love is backwards Blacklisted An elbow torqued and knuckle gutted dry heave halleluja Arthur Miller would have written a satire about our love I remember our early conversations You said you didn't believe in god I said that he was a fantastic literary device You said though you didn't believe in god that people themselves could be godly I suddenly wondered what you would look like with a jerry curl "Let's not call it godly," I said "What then," you said I don't know I just know that Your eyes are like second winds like Breathcatch memories of highway carjackings where you were the one left on the side of the road The warm summer pillow of your stomach And the peel of my face away from it Is sticky like candy Your stomach is like candy in that way So is my face I can be sweet too Your smile is speechless like the speakers are speechless And the music has stopped and our bodies are still save for your smile That quivers like fire And I am a comic strip hobo With a bandana backpack and not much to offer But I am drawn to you You make me feel like harmonica breath You make my mouth feel like honey
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Somewhere near the turn of the century, the walk was hot enough to burn your feet. Sometime after that I was born in Phoenix. My sister and I threw paint over a cardboard box in the garage and called it a spaceship. My grandfather was too tall to be an astronaut, but now plastic tubes in his lungs keep him tied to earth while he waits for sixty years of smoke to catch up to him. When we were younger, he drove us to the beach on the Chesapeake where we’d look for shark teeth. Before that, A German Shepherd ripped a hole in my cheek. Sometimes I feel the rough little scar inside my mouth. But more often I see round little scar on my hand When I was nine, my father taught me how to climb rocks. The trick is you don’t worry about the flesh left on the granite. Then a lake broke my mother’s back after she jumped in from the same height as I did. We decide to hike from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney, and I walk most of the trail ahead, by myself. But at night we all play harmonica and yell because we are the only ears around. On the stage, we yell because our ears are tired of being lonely. Then we’d stumble drunk and put out cigarettes on each other’s hands. And later I would pull my brother out of pool of his own ***** And later I would pull my brother out of pool of his own blood. And later I would let a lover sink into her own mind. Now my sister sees me through a screen, a brother is all foggy in Seattle, and my mother and father miss the way I’d play music all the time. The trick is you don’t worry about the flesh you left behind.
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 6:36 AM UTC
Climbing the Time
Somewhere near the turn of the century, the walk was hot enough to burn your feet. Sometime after that I was born in Phoenix. My sister and I threw paint over a cardboard box in the garage and called it a spaceship. My grandfather was too tall to be an astronaut, but now plastic tubes in his lungs keep him tied to earth while he waits for sixty years of smoke to catch up to him. When we were younger, he drove us to the beach on the Chesapeake where we’d look for shark teeth. Before that, A German Shepherd ripped a hole in my cheek. Sometimes I feel the rough little scar inside my mouth. But more often I see round little scar on my hand When I was nine, my father taught me how to climb rocks. The trick is you don’t worry about the flesh left on the granite. Then a lake broke my mother’s back after she jumped in from the same height as I did. We decide to hike from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney, and I walk most of the trail ahead, by myself. But at night we all play harmonica and yell because we are the only ears around. On the stage, we yell because our ears are tired of being lonely. Then we’d stumble drunk and put out cigarettes on each other’s hands. And later I would pull my brother out of pool of his own ***** And later I would pull my brother out of pool of his own blood. And later I would let a lover sink into her own mind. Now my sister sees me through a screen, a brother is all foggy in Seattle, and my mother and father miss the way I’d play music all the time. The trick is you don’t worry about the flesh you left behind.
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Floating like fans How we're lovers undone, Play neat, Look long, And clean. Tablatures razed, We read songs for none. The empty Is marked And deemed A Sounder's Facade, A Shuffling Nod. The sequence Is set And sown. A vastness to reap No illusion to weep. I grin the substance of All things unknown.
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 12:53 AM UTC
Gain-Harmonica's ***** Fruit