It’s a very big world for such a little boy. Mercy Mary scared of shadow shows you to a chair. And dons a morning spun from golden somethings sweet and pure as light comes and dances in her hair. And lines of strange new thought meander the mazes of your mind. And as you wonder…
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Quanah
Quanah smells a flower. Goes looking for that flower. Wants to be where such a flower grows. He climbs down his tower and there’s a little shower CFC but he doesn’t mind, it feels good on his toes. He crosses over the river, crosses over the road, crosses over, walks along the garden rows. To…
Phoebe Poem
Sittin in the shades of green in chickadee trills and the air is wet. I pet my dog and he knows what I mean, this is as good as I get. The radio announces explosions one by one, the bees are buzzing in their hive, dad is laughing up in his room and I’m alive….
Percy Boyd
Percy squished infinity to two links of chain. Slept under cardboard in a cold rain. The signs were two arrows and two over ten. If you don’t know what that means we may never see you again. A hobo named Percy Boyd hopped on a train that went to hell. Hopped on another went up…
Next Train To Heaven
All aboard, I swore I heard, I swear I went to serve the lord — got lost wound up where I was before — I heard them say, All aboard — now I’m ready again, when’s the next train to heaven. Dream of peace wake up at war, wake up screaming at the ceiling and…
Money Money Money
I can write one hell of a sad song but I can’t get paid to sing it. It’s gotta be diquised like a suicide and have a beat that’s really swingin’. They say, Don’t say so much and could you pick it up a bit. In not so many words and the few they choose…
Mr. Clean
Mr. Clean, on his high horse, trots into town a little before noon. Two empty guns flapping on his hips. A hush falls over the saloon. The bear trapper puts his hands in his pockets. The poet throws darts at a whale. The bartenders on his knees in the storeroom. The sheriff’s locked himself in…
Mardis Gras
Confiding in strangers. Torn at the stem. There’s a mardi gras in my head. I wish I wasn’t born again. If wishes were horses, there’d be some in my soup. Time until tuesday. Dames on the stoop. But wishes aren’t horses. Tie cans to the carriage. Throw those beads at my feet. This is the…
Liz & Emmy
surrounded by secada screams summer screens riddled with holes a million moths have lost the moon and found his room he’s been cooking on coals got here on a tornado rode it steady as a train tonight he’s putting on a show and I’ll tell you why he don’t complain cause liz and emmy, liz…
I Was Fine
I came looking for magic. I did not come looking for gold. Either story ends tragic. I’m not getting very old. CHORUS I was fine before you came along and I’ll be fine now that you’re gone. I went looking for heaven. That I’d die before I got there I was afraid. Sorrow, sorrow, yester-morrow….
I Think I Know
I think I know, I think I know, I think I know the way back home. I think I know, I think I know, I think I know the way back home. i didn’t mean to stray so far — i was following a shining star in the middle of the day it vanished and…
Hometown Blues
Lord, I’m lost in my hometown. Got More on my mind and there aint nothin stranger than a stranger who used to be a friend of mine. Can’t find nothin’ to settle me down. Tried everything I could find but the woman I loved- she tore me up. Now what you got from the vine….
Holly Would (if she could)
She wants to be a rock star, so she plays hard — just like she should. She’ll never make it too far, she’s waiting on a wild card — she’s not that good. She’s living in her van — but she’s got a master plan I wouldn’t but Holly would. When she was just fifteen,…
Good to be Back Home
Big spliff in the morning over coffee, bang on those bongos want to play. I got this rythm in my head I’ll be singing all day. My baby up and left me now I am far from alone. Someone is singing harmony. it’s good to be back home. it’s good to be back home. Gather…
Fish Head and Tales
I was running through some words when I came upon a pond where the ladies fish lies and the boys came from. There was a sign and I went closer to take a look. It said, Throw into me a penny and make a wish. But that is not the deal I undertook. First I…