tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74154873410658707862024-03-05T18:33:45.669-08:00WordMossWords as mossWordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-62058037672496085442012-03-21T17:29:00.001-07:002012-03-21T17:29:34.603-07:00A metaphor for Love.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
People are like liquids.<br />
When two people get together, it's like mixing two liquids, and you have to let them settle.<br />
And then the two people are settled.<br />
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And then something comes along and drinks it. </div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-51501589906627965882011-10-08T15:09:00.001-07:002011-10-08T18:51:06.718-07:00Monologue on Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Time is stepping back, he doesn’t stand there
beside me now, in his happy-elephant garb, I know he’s been here of course, he
has that distinctive smell of cigarettes and shower gel, I don’t think he likes
my girlfriend either, she doesn’t pay him attention, she only talks to him when
she wants something, when I’m waiting for her he stands there beside me
whispering ‘she’s a bitch, she’s a user, you can do better’, and when she’s
there he’ll shout in the window, or try calling me and send me texts asking what
I’m doing with my life, and it’s nice now that he’s here less. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We used to be the best of friends, I wouldn’t
talk to anyone else, I lost a lot of good friends because of it, I had somewhat
betrayed them for the company of time, and I can understand why he feels a bit
betrayed too now that I have suddenly stopped caring for him. He has loads of
friends though. “Friends” It takes a certain type of person to be friends with
him. It was never easy getting to know him and very complicated when I did know
him. It’s funny now, I kind of find myself forgetting what he was like, like an
ex-lover you have in those ‘low periods’ of your life and nothing really
makes an impression on you. I think we used to stay up late into the night and
he’d be glowing, wildly animated, and I would carry him around on my back, me
sweating, him laughing. I was drawn to him because of his intelligence, but
he’s bitter really, I can see that now that we’ve fallen out, all his
cleverness was really just spiteful complaining. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I’ll still see him, it’s not like he’s dead or
I’m dead or we’re both dead, it will just be much more courteous
and…business-like, it’s much easier that way anyway, I can finally be alone
with my friends and family and my beautiful girlfriend and her child and I know
that if ever I’m fading away on a bed he won’t be straddling me trying to get
me to look into his eyes because we don’t have long left and we have to spend
it together, because I’ll be holding other people’s hands, my family, whatever
combination they will be in, and they’ll have loved me in ways that he
couldn’t, and he won’t get past the doctors because it’s only extended family
allowed to see me, and when he’s summoned as Time Of Death he can look on and
say that he knew me once, before I asked him to step away, and that I was a
good man, and he will be accurate, down to the millisecond, just like he used
to be when we were the best of friends. </span></div>
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-14800243896044476322011-10-06T19:46:00.001-07:002011-10-06T19:54:49.774-07:00...meanwhile in the dictionary...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Jolly melancholy and mean congeniality,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Met up in reality to tear themselves apart,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Are you mad, coming here with that old
melancholy air,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And skipping through the streets as if a dance
you’re ‘bout to start?’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Said congeniality in his most meanest tendency,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">While jolly melancholy turned to cheerfully
retort;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I refuse to be accosted by your words; you have
lost it my congenial</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Remedial to kindness, you’re a tart!’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So they circled one another, both in bother, bitter,
bettering their biting</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Of the other until day had turned to dark,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Happy bastard’!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Crappy lover’!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">(Clever quips from quirky monsters)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And the youngsters whooped and wheezed</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And wheeled about them like the breeze,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And the dumpsters all went silent (curiosity
and cats)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Animosity (by the bathful), possibly was
running free!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Melancholy shouted folly (clearly he was off
his trolley)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Slammed his brolly on congeniality’s forehead,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Is he dead?’ he keenly said,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘I have him bet!’ (Now out of breath)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When congeniality shockingly said, ‘oh I
survive’,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">And he wet his lips and puckered,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Lets take five you jolly fucker’,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">But an oxymoron came and ate the pair of them
alive.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">How now, night’s cow, smalled by the oak tree?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You’re big to me,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The pain, the constant pain, pain appears and
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just a pleb for one great curse, each division
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the bones, on the muscles, on the kidneys
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yielding yawns, growing groans, and mining moans, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cramps and creaks are vultures laughing on
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have done this; I have made the body bleed,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And arm in arm we cape and grope the devil’s
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The blackest dogs of sweet mislay,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Super, we are hero, hope and I, hopeful heroes,
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who knows where the next bad hand will come
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Seizing, choking, who knows when that hand will
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And gently sway and rock me far away,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Far from sickly, twisted tinges of the torso’s
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Far from all dismay,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who knows when I’ll hate the hand that takes my
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And hope, still blowing in the absent-minded
wind, she asks of me</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To be a pessimist,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To be in the right mind and to be wrong of all
the things that do me wrong,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However long a life I’ve left, to use it to be
wrong of all the things that tell me youngness is long gone and set in stone is
death’s strong throng,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To be wrong too of the hand that longs to take
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And the sickly, twisting tinges of the torso’s
crispy hinges would be oiled and I would bow, down as low as I could bow, and
kiss the ground and would not rise until my eyes had cried a night of cries,
and with them washed I’d watch my water dry in new sunrise,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Under a sun that never shun before, a sun that
didn’t spell ‘goodbye’ that wasn’t counting down when it came up, just rose in
all its glory, just to say I am the sun and always will be, there is nothing
man in me, and hope and I could say the same, that we’re the sun,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And when we’re up we’re up, we shine, and when
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-61743616441804357162011-09-27T18:18:00.000-07:002011-09-27T19:18:15.505-07:00She's The Man For You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you're feeling like something new I got just the girl for you, </div>
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Bet she'd make you rethink the book with just one look, </div>
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Don't use lipstick, her hair is curled, the girl's a mystic, out of this world, </div>
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Someone told me she's twenty nine; don't waste no time, </div>
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Jack of diamonds, Ace of spades, she's seen all the cards been played,</div>
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Take a gamble, take a shot, raise the pot,</div>
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I hear she came from New Orleans, here she's treated like a queen, </div>
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And she's playing with her new toys: The Irish Boys</div>
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She's got extras added on, all of her bad bits are gone, </div>
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There's nobody could be her match, quite the catch, </div>
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Well she'd be wearing eight-inch heels, still as cute as a baby seal, </div>
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More than able to chew a bone; a Danger Zone,</div>
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And all the girl's are driven mad, </div>
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The boys all say she's the best they ever had,</div>
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She wouldn't be seen not in your wildest dreams, </div>
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Every time I meet her I think; 'Girl, you're bad', </div>
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So if you're looking for something new she's the man for you, </div>
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<a href="http://soundcloud.com/tommy-thompson/shes-the-man-for-you">The Song</a></div>
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-39205313496662678852011-09-27T16:55:00.000-07:002011-09-28T17:10:03.031-07:00'til old age is dream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Oh won't you wait 'til the morning comes, </div>
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It's only a moment away, </div>
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You're too busy thinking your time here's a race,</div>
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But we're all heading for the same place, </div>
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And it's only the body that tears at the seams, </div>
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If you let me, I'll sleep in your cradle 'til old age is dream,</div>
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'cause darling it's dangerous shutting me out, </div>
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We're seven years into our merge, </div>
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We don't have perfection; we'll do fine without, </div>
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Just come away, dear, from the verge, </div>
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Bodies bend and then break, faster than blinking it seems, </div>
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If you let me, I'll sleep in your cradle 'til old age is dream,</div>
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Love, I'm told, is not ours to own, </div>
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It's heralded and held hard with heaving hanging hearts, </div>
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And if love won't keep us together,</div>
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Then love won't keep us apart, </div>
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But the days; they move, to where from which they can't be redeemed, </div>
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If you let me, I'll sleep in your cradle 'til old age is dream. </div>
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<a href="http://soundcloud.com/tommy-thompson/til-old-age-is-dream">Song Demo</a></div>
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-58002540825093593562011-09-26T13:15:00.001-07:002011-09-26T13:15:46.459-07:00Eleanor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It has
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can still
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And the
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s slowly
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is dark
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Take it in,
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who knows
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dark and
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No,
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Poor lover
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Pity the
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It gets to
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some fight
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<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dark and
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<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a
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<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’ll be
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ll work
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Find a soul
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A favour to
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No, no
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Light is
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Long live
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dark and
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Infinite
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If one can
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A worsened
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The dark
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Her shores,
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The very
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<br /></div>
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-9134602799693140802011-09-18T18:12:00.000-07:002011-09-20T16:05:56.317-07:00All Things Come, All Things Go<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Deep inside of me she sits, sipping wine and
smoking,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I’ll give her everything, my last breath, the
songs I sing,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">She stirs when her name appears in lines, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And the paper tears have stained</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Tears and washes far away, where I cannot hear
her name,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Long before she walked away,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">That was all that I would say,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Hers was all that I would say,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Now my body aches in vain to lay heavy and
abstain</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I can only blow as dust held together, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Slowly free of her and chained to her,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">With clockwork whips, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And only for the child of pain,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My heart remains the same for I have shared
with her my name,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Long before she walked away,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I had shared with her my name,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Long before she walked away</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">As I stand here thinking all lies are hell,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">The bastard truth beckons both my crown and
root</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">To the hemlock, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">But I’ve crossed the coals,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And walked for four years more,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB"> I’ve
slept between her soul and mine, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And pined in prisons of my own where she has sweat
and swore,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And yet,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I have never borne her death as a stone, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I’ve only cried and known,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">That all things come and go</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/tommy-thompson/all-things-come-all-things-go">The Song</a> </span></div>
</div>
WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-78912116336620405762011-09-18T12:47:00.000-07:002011-09-18T12:47:48.535-07:00Fool's Moon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
There's something I've been meaning to say, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
We can't keep going on this way, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And I won't have you wondering, And I won't have you stay, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
So get up and be on your way, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
But can you make your own way to the door? </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
This shame's got me pinned to the floor, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And there won't be good reason to come back here for, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Just an old dog licking his sores, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I don't think I was born to love you, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And loneliness is heart-shaped, I'm sure, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Now there's a Fool's Moon rising behind me, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And a fool's wolf at my door</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
There've been skeletons here for a while, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
All lining the walls of your aisles, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And there's no point in digging up more bones to file</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
when we're already 'neath the dustpile, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I've been biting my tongue for some time, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Those bullets don't taste like your spine, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And I hear late at night you've been curled up and crying, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
One thing we're no short on is signs,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I don't think I was born to love you, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And loneliness is heart-shaped, I'm sure, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Now there's a Fool's Moon rising behind me, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And a fool's wolf at my door</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And it's you that I don't recognise, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
You're dressed in demure demise, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And I'm clawing my way through ceremonious capsize, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Without a whimper of surprise, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
So after thinking the whole damn thing through, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm pointing you toward something new, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And I'm sorry there's no compromise that'll do, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I just need, I just need to forget about you </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
And let the Fool's Moon that's been rising behind me </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Rise up behind me no more. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<br />
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/tommy-thompson/fools-moon">The Song</a></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
</div>
WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-20099366953182027142011-09-14T12:59:00.001-07:002011-09-14T12:59:59.187-07:00Dot the Eyes, Socrates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Common sense gimps against me, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Traditions and modes, renditions of old, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘You’re not to do this, you do that’, I am
told, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The old grey faces, solid and stone,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They bark in the wind and the rain,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For I am too young and too limber, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am taut muscle in no-man’s weather, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am the ancestor of grass,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same wind combed us ages ago, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When young Greek girls gave their clenched
wombs away</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Before their thirteenth birthday, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When meat was worn as gold, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Glistening slabs of elk’s thighs high on
sweating shoulders</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And dirty-robed women undulating like freshly
trampled crop, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am standing, adverse, in the senseless,
circular current</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Like an unhappy child in a waterpark’s facet, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With too big a faucet to fidget with, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I’m scared, more than unhappy, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Feels like a war that hasn’t yet started, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I’m ruthless more than I’m scared, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Feels like my friends are the faithful
departed, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But I am wonderful more than I’m ruthless, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ruthlessness hangs itself there in my holster, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To serve and to bolster my wonderfulness, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Somehow alone, again, a master, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Somehow left looking at value and mirth, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At virtue and worth, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At god in the dirt and the tongues of the
people</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Like worms in his heart, an orgy of evil, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When righteousness came in the form of a boy, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So little and needing and wanting to cry</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I cared for him dearly, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Up onto my shoulder’s to cross the mob’s river,
</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ll care for him, dear, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have the glare of the old institutions of Ireland</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Revealing my lean, tight and bold body’s stance</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While the green, white and gold gets a fucking
lap-dance, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The pride, the conceit, the people, the meat, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The poverty, piss, the principles missed, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The pale, the imprudent, their pricks are all
polished,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Their balls are all licked, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The eyes of the men by the fountains are
wicked, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s late in the evening; my love loves to
please,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
world is erring, dot the eyes, Socrates. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Never had I
felt so dizzy, </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Your baby
reached for my dradled life, </span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Lay his
unborn hand on my smoked edges,</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And I saw
his face; predicted, </span></div>
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</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">For a
moment, saw his unrelated grace,</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">‘He’s just
a baby’, I said, </span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">‘What’s he
doing…smiling at me?’</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Charmed,
looking up</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">To see you
lean over and take him</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">In your
long-forgotten arms, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Never had I
felt so dizzy, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">He wasn’t
looking at me,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Just
looking at where I was standing, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And you
couldn’t see me, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">You weren’t
even there, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And neither
was your child, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Just me and
the dealer and a kitchen at night, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And never
had I felt so dizzy </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">As to lie down
and try to cry</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And wash my
eyes of those visions</span></div>
</div>
WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-62543599382458338362011-09-06T16:20:00.000-07:002011-09-06T16:31:53.797-07:00A Bird among the Weeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">For years I lived in weeds,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I usually only came out at night,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the grass was at its deepest green, almost
wet,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My eyes grew bigger, kind of like TVs,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My teeth got soft for all I ate were leaves,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I liked to hide in mud or marshes</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And watch the lights from the town trip out</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the LSD’s kicked in,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d find things there, between the weeds,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Little things that people left behind or lost,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A small doll made of wood and string was my
hero,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Something I could be, damaged and beautiful,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A joker lighter, empty, but mysterious,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mysteriously empty – that was me,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An old broken clock told me time,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘Twice a day’ they say,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I spent a lot of time asleep but only dreamt
awake,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dreams were for the waking hours to act out in
the weeds,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I held an Oscar made from a severed thistle,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Belched my magnum opus to the rapture of the
breeze,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Saved all of mankind in the form of one
seven-legged spider,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They were good daydreams to send me to sleep,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My friends were all shapes and sizes;</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One man lived for fire and its friends,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d see him with his mouth around a chimney</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And a look of disgusted satisfaction on his
curious face,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or eating the ashes of cremation’s fire,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">His toes had hoofed from wincing</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And his nails had grown thicker and wider to
better handle embers,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another friend lived in the bins,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dirty and furry but friendly he’d visit for
warmth</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the silage I called my cottage,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And life wasn’t pleasant, it wasn’t unpleasant,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was just for survival, that’s what it was
for,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All for survival until I met her,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She was a creature, preened and clean</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And walked like she’d been somewhere no-one had
seen,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She saw me sniffing mint and dazzled, holding
dearly onto earth,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As if I’d sooner fly away than run away and
daydream,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She laughed at me, told me tawny wings are not
for dirtying,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘Don’t be dragging wings among the dirt, dear
bird’, she said,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then I noticed both my talons and the beak
marks in the stalks</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And how I hunched and dragged my breast to try
and walk</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Like something else,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I had come to some impression, some unwise
impersonation,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Authenticity replaced by masks of anonymity,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hopped at last and wondered of my ragged,
tawny wings,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Could they muster up the honesty to spread,
carry all that’s in my head?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Would they sell me to the dead or to the knees
of anxious kings?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Could I be all that a bird can be? To be a dove
and symbolise,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or take to silver like the magpies?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Could I be that bird?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And for a while, a longer while perhaps than
I’d intended,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I stood there by the weeds, by the breathless,
depth of weeds,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I watched another daydream flashing deep
within the weeds,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of a bird that fell and woke and thought it
lived between the weeds,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I looked to where she came from, somewhere
nowhere near the weeds, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was happy to be leaving the detentions of the
weeds, for</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The bird a bird not wants to be is a bird among
the weeds.</span></div>
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WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-64614290485420978892011-09-06T06:55:00.000-07:002011-09-06T06:55:01.780-07:00If my Heart was made of Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">If my heart was made of man,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It would be strong,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To shelter a woman,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Assure her of my staying, when she’d wake</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She’d find me praying to the labour of the
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If she felt she was alone,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It would lay its hammer down beside the sundial</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From her like the petals from a flower,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She could stowaway in autumn on my current</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To the lakes in my lungs, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wearing my warm breath; fond in her absence, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And all of winter would be the humming glow</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of a distant city tied to the red horizon,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If my heart was made of man,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I could pump the future full of air,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And to it tie two chairs and disappear</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And watch my children and their children shrink
and shrink beneath my feet</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Until the patterns of the earth painted one
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And beat one beat, one everlasting beat that I
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If my heart was made of man</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
die, </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I drop to a
heap and I am at my feet and I have feet again and I walk on, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Like the
world moves on from my death-lump; I walk on, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">My death-light
sends the shadows to my fore, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">All in
front of me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">In shadow</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
die and I bring someone with me, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Someone I
need to die properly, maybe heroically, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Beautiful
women, poets, an enemy, someone to juxtapose, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">My gravestone
disguised as door, I’ll beckon them toward and tell them</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">‘I don’t
think that we can go on anymore’, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And then
down with the door, the hammer’s ‘no-more’, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">The bottom
floor, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">The perfect
murder</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
die after dieing, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">A double-take
thing where I jerk like a spring, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And I’m
born</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
die without knowing, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I’ll look
for my love or my song and I’ll find that it’s gone, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Replaced by
a flower or something that dies, too, in times eyes</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Adieu</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
find myself rotting somewhere, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Somewhere I
haven’t been in a long time, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">The end of
the garden; the sweet shelf in Garvin’s, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I’ll see
some old rag that I used as a flag, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">My half-fleshed
finger pointing in some old, extinct direction</span></div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">From the
moist and mildewed sleeve, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Or I’d hear
the song of flies my body fed, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Get nostalgic
and then miss myself</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">A great
deal</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes I
save myself from dieing, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I see my
eyes roll and the grasp of gravity vacuum me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">From the
arms of a good girl or from the hook of a God’s rod, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">And I’ll
give me what I need; </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">More time</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Life goes
on; perpetual periphery, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I stay
still and leave the changes to the scenery, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">The window
of the train, </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">I’m forever
on the train, crying, dying not to die until it stops</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-GB">At some
specific destination far from death</span></div>
</div>
WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-61825442102348221812011-09-05T09:55:00.001-07:002011-09-05T09:55:59.113-07:00Love's Wolves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Let it
pass. Let it pass. Why wish for something you’ll never get? Wings on your back
or a heart that can’t see you, can’t hear you knocking, can’t feel you scramble
for an entrance. Let it pass. He’ll come to you one day, unbeknownst of himself
perhaps, and you’ll know him by the clothes he wears, the way he holds his
frayed hem and pulls at his laces nervously. Until then, if then, you can only
let it pass. Let this one pass. It’s unattainable, impossible. It’s just shapes
in the distance, colours you can’t name, lovers you can’t hold. Let it pass
then roll yourself away. There is nothing you can do. There is nothing, you can
do better to yourself than wishing for his love, all the pieces of yourself you
gave to him; he ate them, and he you left standing, bleeding, barely healing,
hurting, open, stolen, pieces others would have given back; upholstered. He’s not
for you. He’s not, for you to hold yourself together, that is bold, that is
brave, and it is woman; not insane. Take aim and fire yourself forward,
warrior. Be that, the warrior. For you, love is pain. Love doesn’t love you.
Love is a name, it’s a story that’s told, something that came from the history
books, where it cannot be questioned, and none here have seen it, none now and
none now. You’re running for love like a coward, a coward would be running for
shelter from wolves, from wolves you are running for shelter and love is a wolf
and you’re running and staring at all of love’s wolves, running straight into
the pack of love’s wolves, you’re running and each of the cunning monstrosities
lure you like prostitutes, why do you run to them? Running, as fast as you can,
you can’t run much faster, you’re dying for love! You’re craving so hard that
your body is caving! Aching so much that your poor mind is breaking! Running
toward wolves! Wolves! All of it! Wolves! What’s making you do this! What’s
making you do this! What’s making you run to a pack of love’s wolves!? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She keeps your counsel,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s true,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I counsel myself, tears</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t get wiped, they seep and stain,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You have the bitter bitch to fold herself</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Into your cheeks and take the luxury</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of her lovesick, disposable body,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You can bury her beneath the rubble</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of your troubles and she’ll rise again,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Christ of Love,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Phoenix of Polygamy,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bringing bandage and body</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Far from crusted clusters of crushed clovers</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the airy fields of Loner, I roam</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fields well, my skeletons smile,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My scarecrow’s hinges whinge and whine</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The air of good company,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Life is mine, however quiet at times,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And though I have echoes and whistles</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And thistle and thorn at the mercy,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And none of them flesh,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ll not be called mad,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ll not be called normal,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We’re not unlikely when we cry, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You and I, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">You and Me, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yours is a version of sanity</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And mine is aversion of sanity.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-29432688512829835242011-08-23T09:31:00.000-07:002011-08-23T09:31:04.866-07:00You’re Always the Last to Know Yourself<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am trying to be a better person,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Trying to certain my belief I have become</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who I want to be,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To prove that I Am Me,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Full of certain certainty,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(It’s all a myth, is certainty)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘Growing’s not easy’ – I’ve never been told,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think I’m grown up, but I’m not,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m just older,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My teeth, too, are bleeding,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Again,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My teeth, too, are bleeding,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From smoking and drinking;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Grown-up’s closest friends),</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I am no closer</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To being that person who’s better</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My heart, this muscle, is running in circles,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For miles! Up into the cosmos,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The moon’s marathon!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s a figure of strength,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(A strength long gone)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I want to write poems,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And some I have done,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m reading some Cohen when I shit,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh the pleasure of shitting with Cohen!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d shit there all day</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am no better a person,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No better I’ve done,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I conquered ambition;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That’s all.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My weightless ambition, I blew it away,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And all that is left carries on,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No better in status,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No splendid achievements,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or money to buy things,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No better in company,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Walking with ghosts,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A shade of the past that the present won’t toast,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I think of a proverb:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘You’re only as good as the person you’re standing beside’</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And I wonder; will I become better enough</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To stand alone</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-36351271166894925532011-08-21T17:37:00.000-07:002011-08-22T18:16:35.807-07:00Love as an Umbrella<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">You can stand under this umbrella,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">This canopy called Love,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And offer shelter to the one you love,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">But some days it won’t rain,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The sky will be love and you</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">Will only feel the shade’s shivers gale about you, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">She’ll walk north; love-hungry, glued, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Her goodbye loyal to you and for a while</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">You’ll wait and wonder;</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">clammy; balmed in over-love, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And if the rain should thunder,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And your hands lacklustre, lack the swiftness</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">To pull the lover’s hood,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Will you stand close together?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Will you warm the wishing blood?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Drown in a kiss, maybe? </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Some days too the wind will tantrum,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Wind will always, always tantrum,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">On those days; move,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Panther</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Through the sky with antlers high and hoof-hair</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dusting rusted clouds, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tear and claw at heaven’s rafters,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Bellow with the flesh of prayer between your tightened teeth; </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">You've come to scape the raging wind, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The raging wind beneath, </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">and keep her close, </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">and keep her softly, </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">for the heavens are abrasive; </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">what the wind won't do the angels will,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">They'll stop at nothing for the kill<span lang="EN-GB"> </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB">Steal the love-pie off your windowsill, </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">Love's umbrella needs to be taken down sometimes</span><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like us now, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like where we are; </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nowhere, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like, too, what we are;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yet more than before, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And more still to follow!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As all twos implore</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To roar, spit, swallow, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Grow and never try to follow</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ones again, for there’s no room for ones! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Happy for us, not for me, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Left with insecurity, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blowing bubbles, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dreaming grand and fabulous</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dilemmas, drinking gunk and goblets of letters,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Greasing your picture to fit in my throat, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Choking is better than fetching your coat, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If you ask me, but then again, don’t, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I couldn’t speak well with this lump in my throat) </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As for the rest of the world,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We’ll see, we’ll see just how much they give</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From their unbroken charity </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of love, unspoken, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Holy, sacred dove society, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Come blesseth me! Release me to the skies above!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or join us! Take our happy hands and coin us</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What that you can stand to coin us,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Coin us ducats, shy and locked to literary </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Locks of golden hair, so bare and so forested, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The porridge did what dad forgot; </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To parent it! The silly frog, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OH! Great coining society, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Coin us but this;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One shy of three</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing for to worry there, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Until the fours demand my care, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fours, if I were man of cloth</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’d point the finger at the cross</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And see it pointing back at me, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(I’m hung up on the mantelpiece)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The father, son, the holy fraud and I</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">(the sound of none's applaud) </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s nothing holy of the fours, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All are welcome, saints and whores!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The four corners of the earth! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The four horsemen! Horses too!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fourth amendment! Of july!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Four get me nots! Four goodness sake!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Four, five, six, seven and eight!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’m happy four us.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Basically</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve said it three times, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actually, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We’re two of a kind, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Presumably, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s only one us! </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Happily.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Frogmouth, frogmouth open wide, </div><div style="text-align: center;">Steady, while I climb inside</div><div style="text-align: center;">your glorious, green, gorgeous gut, </div><div style="text-align: center;">from inside i'll sew up your butt,</div><div style="text-align: center;">frogmouth, frogmouth, close narrow, </div><div style="text-align: center;">hurry, hurry, don't be slow, </div><div style="text-align: center;">let me sew you're mouth up too </div><div style="text-align: center;">then frogmouth, frogmouth! I'll be you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Heave, dear, heave the stoney statues<br />
of your love-heart's corridors<br />
to my door, dear, more the fool <br />
to you when I don't answer, laugh<br />
I may, I might, to see you break<br />
the best of yourself open like an egg<br />
and spill your musts and musn'ts<br />
like an anchor to my dirt, <br />
moaning your trust, errupting almost, <br />
you stupid thing, you devil's bitch, <br />
bleeting for my blades, to which I laugh<br />
again, no may, no might, just silver <br />
shades of sheer delight, <br />
I am no shepherd,<br />
nor an art collector, <br />
leave me at my door, my dear,<br />
to count the morning's yawns, <br />
weigh me down again at dawn when I collect you. <br />
Recollect you. <br />
Perfect King of love's reflections. <br />
Leave me be to recollect you. <br />
Leave me be, leave me be. </div></div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-59241240341430342512011-08-07T16:17:00.001-07:002011-08-07T16:17:26.351-07:00The Cat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It told me that I loved it, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I really had no say, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stood before me, there, announced</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">--and walked away.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">You are leaving me, </span></div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Your heart is hooked</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Love has grown out of you- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">A plastic mast</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">From your spine, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And two cotton wings</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And a halo of dust</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And you look like an angel, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">(You always were, love)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">But you’re lying on water, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the great stealing sea</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">(It adores me), </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Pulling out all of the tubes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">That connected our hearts</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">To the earth’s heart, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And the earth’s heart to space, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">You’re slowly becoming</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The look on your face</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">When I tell you I love you, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The look you hide by looking down ‘shyly’</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">And hugging with haste,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">I should leave before you, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Put you in your place, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">But how?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">How could I when<br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">all of my hours, whether spent </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">In bliss or the dawn’s white rain,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">With you are infinite. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">When you go, take them too, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Take the gifts of this death, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The blades of my heart,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">The tears I spit, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Your last loved exhale- </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">A sigh for your sail</span></div></div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7415487341065870786.post-51648828072214572702011-08-02T16:52:00.001-07:002011-08-02T16:52:14.613-07:00Patience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You open to me when</div><div style="text-align: center;">you want, I wait</div><div style="text-align: center;">with my hand on your handle.</div></div>WordMosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08853527901520670955noreply@blogger.com0