August 2022
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Pocketing
in the pockets of my jeans are all the things that I might need it’s cash and coins and nails and string I keep my courage in my pocket I keep my armour and my strut right next to lint and fingertips and change but I lay down and feel that creeping crawling feeling as…
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oh Damn!
Hey Sweetness: Oh damn I think you’re up again, that flutter pulse notes consciousness, I guess I’ll just have to goodnight kiss again… oh DAMN. Hey Sweetness: Tilt your head up again for this, you know it’s not something you’re going to want to miss out on. Yeah, one more kiss and no-one’s going to…
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Ode To a Heat Vent
Our bathroom had a heat vent A dusty vision of heaven No clothes no needs just an envelope of heat And a steady firm belief that Nothing ever changes I’m never going to leave this place Where nothing ever changes It’s home We had a hammock And I would ride it Like a ship in…
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Oracle
I come to you, hu\mble and willing, brave stepping over the bones of my brethren I wouldn’t come here if I wasn’t desperate, but I am too small, I cannot lift this. One cement block could hold all I love each moment sinking deep in the mud and I would do everything in my own…
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Oklahoma Revival (1933)
Been five years since I said for better or for worse, and two years since the fields have born anything but dirt. How can love stay green when the fields won’t do the same? We were worn out as the ground, the day the dust storm came. I ran for the shelter, you met me…
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No Place Is Home
The days are getting cold – There’ll be coats this Halloween. All the children are disappointed, all their sequins will go unseen. And the pirates and the goblins will steal you far away from me, leave me nothing but hollow faces, all used up of their flame. (chorus) There’s a whisper in my blood of…
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No Blue Left
There is no blue left in your eyes The space between us shrank like your irises When I was once miraculous Held so high, I was afraid All the sharp things … And I lost my faith Broke what I gave There is no blue left in your eyes I lost it all, and now…
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Natural 20
My woman she likes to tug on my beard She says it helps keep a handle on me And I can see that As long as she’s gentle I am a delicate thing I only like the rough & tumble When it’s time to come & level up for the occasion And so I’d say…
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Molotov Swell
And if you are wine Then I must be turpentine It’s 3 o’clock not quite as dark as it could get the first frost was swept back to the sea and the rain keeps me awake with the hope of fingers on my window pane these are dangerous games for dangerous times You know, it’s…
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the MARC
are you going to New York with your guitar? or are you going off alone? are you meeting someone? will you think of me when you get there? do you think of me at all these days? this train will take you farther than I dare go just outside my head it’s 600 miles up…