share each other

in my eyes you're an angel
couldn't get any more beautiful
around your head i see a halo
i can't wait to take your hand.

i can picture us together
on the beach one summer night
laughing as the stars are shining
slow dance with me on the sand.

we were made to share each other
til the end of life and beyond
making happy memories
til the dark of night is dawn
embrace the coming of a sunrise
until the light of day is gone...

save heaven for another lifetime
because we're living ours right here
take me to that place
that only you can
and i'll always be here at your side
i'll always be your man.

stranger things

stranger things have happened
stranger things have happened to me
stranger things have happened to you
it's true

better times have passed
better times have passed me by
better times have passed right by
my eyes

i've lived long enough to see
things i've wished i'd never seen
things i wish had never been
around for

i've lived long enough to do
things i've wished i'd never done
things i hope will never come
any more

when i look in your eyes
the clouds part
and my heart
knows joy again
a smile on my face
is in the place
of the sadness
that was there before

plant me

plant me in the ground
six feet deep
with a beer in my hand
and a rose in my teeth
stogie in my pocket
for the afterlife
got a plate of tacos
and a seat for my wife

i said don't leave it behind
i can deal with anything
but not that kind of thing
i'm sayin don't take it all away from me
cos livin after dyin is all i can deal with
livin after dying is all i can see

pleasure is so plain

catapult me into oblivion
i won't care as long as you are there
throw me headlong
into darkened skies
i dont care if you are there
when i open my eyes

pleasure is so plain blood has no stain
as i walk through the valleys of darkness
on my right are the huddled masses
on my left gather the humbled rich

here i stand trapped inside my eyes looking out
upon the city walk so gray and concrete
below my feet
far below my outstretched fingertips...

share my pain share the reality
i call my home i am alone
enter my world take a turn at the wheel

catapult me into oblivion
i won't care as long as you are there
throw me headlong
into darkened skies
i dont care if you are there
when i open my eyes

pleasure is so plain blood has no stain
as i walk through the valleys of darkness
on my right are the crumbled houses
on my left pile the slaughtered trees

the truth
can be spoken no more clearly
and it cuts like a razor
slicing thru cold flesh
when you're living a lie...
striking at the heart of the holy
piercing unholy thoughts
pinpoint cauterization
with surgical precision
vindicated elimination.

mah daddy

mah daddy grew up in a southwestern town
nothin but dirt and dust blowin around
he said son i don't wanna see you
windin up back there
so he bought me a dress
and put flowers in my hair

taught me to dance and sing
and how to lasso cows
bout taught me everything
cept how to to pull dem plows
then one day he looked at me
said no son that's all wrong
so he bought me a ticket to the city
said your too goddamn ugly to be pretty

so go git on your man pants
and don't look back ya see
always keep your eyes ahead
and don't ya follow me

my daddy was a good man
always lookin out for the ones he loved
my daddy was a real good friend
never said a bad word you could hear

he'd spit upon the ground in frontcha
rather than pick a fight witcha
but he'd be the first to shitcha
cos it'd make ya laugh & he'd hitcha
takin up his ax he'd splitcha ear to ear

he

on the stoop where he sat
with his cane and his cat
so brown and so fat
underneath his tophat
where his hair's growing flat
as he steps up to bat
swinging wide at a gnat
missing badly.

his teeth were so set
and his brows were so wet
with the dripping of sweat
just as wet as they get
and he's placing his bet
that it lands in the net
and to never forget
giving gladly.

he gives it a try
to sit and look high
like a cloud in the sky
so puffy so fly
to float and float by
and rain on the dry
while the wind makes him cry
drizzling sadly.

but no one can see
what he needs to break free
if it's climbing a tree
or practicing chi
he's quick to agree
he would love just to be
a man just like me
whistling happily.

voices

the voices
creep over static
riding airwaves
to your brain-
systematic

the whispers
slip thru the windows
sliding sideways
down the drain-
diminuendo

ink the tincture
thru your skin
pools of sassafras and gin
in the shallow puncture wounds
fell the elevated fear of doom
deep within...

darkened smiles
obscured by pain
twisting into wraiths of flame
like blurs of liquid novocaine
they wrap tightly
'round your brain
burning
branding
laying claim
parasitically ingrained...

bucket of crazy

with a bucket full of crazy johnny climbed the mountain tall
he didn't stop to contemplate it didn't think at all
he dropped the bucket on his head
and then his face turned shades of red
he messed his mind up now he'll wind up
eating plaster off the wall

jenny was a slacker now and drool ran down her chin
she never stopped to contemplate just the shape she was in
she climbed upon the tabletop
started dancing and wouldn't stop
smoking grass up locked her ass up
doing twenty in the pen

igor was a mushroom growing far beneath the stoop
in the shadows he did thrive betwixt the doggie poop
he dreamt of singing on the stage
or showing skin like bettie page
but there's no demand fresh or canned
for a tranny shroom

the anodized prophet

a shallow pneumatic whimper
belied his position below the shadows
as dusk fell like a stone curtain
indenting the surface as it struck
with a dull clap of concussion
and a quake of percussion

needles of electrical synergy
crackled through brackish crevases of skin
across the ribbed back of the anodized prophet
as fingers of ebbing lifeblood surge
between behind and beneath
the head heart and feet

to rise from the shackles of gravity
lift an optical gaze towards the sky
was all but a dream inside a deviant brain
never prospective to the practical mind

to take flight with uplifted ailerons
soar unimpeded to heavens unknown
throw off the bindings shake off the chains
and fly where no others have flown

ambiotic power pulses through fiberous muscles
stretching popping surging neurons weave
a cyclonic meshing of epidermic bonds
fully aware of the cross he must bear
though the anguish and anxiety
leave his vision impaired

needles of electrical synergy
crackled through brackish crevases of skin
across the ribbed back of the anodized prophet
but his struggle to stand
against the pressing wind
against the will of the earth
has prevailed

drawing in a deep breath of heavy moist air
erect against the sun as he drinks in the warmth
solar devices at full capacity
amplitude modulated waves
translated into fluid motion
the anodized prophet enters the realm
assumes the mantle of reign

i am machine

i am machine
i'm stronger than you will ever be
i am machine

i am machine
i can see all you can't see
i am machine

count on me i'll never let you down
put it on my shoulders i'll get you through
i'll hold the line never giving ground
i'll stand against the storm

give me your hand and your childrens' too
hand me your money and whatever you hold dear
take shelter in my shadow i will protect you
and keep you cool or warm

i am machine
i'm stronger than you will ever be
i am machine

i am machine
i can see all you can't see
i am machine

turn my opacity down make me as transparent as you want
if that makes you comfortably numb
just don't forget to ask my permission before you leave

harness my atomic power and enjoy the ride
it's nanotechnology on the very bleeding edge
controlling brutal mechanical strength
it aint doing brain surgery with a sledge

leaves

burning leaves i smell the smoke from neighborhood fires
in the late fall air i can feel the wind bite my skin
off down the avenue i can see the kids are playing.

frost on my fingertips as i look out the window glass
dusk darkens the yard the wet sidewalks the streets
moonlight outlines the clouds as it plays through
the bare empty branches of the trees.

light snowy flakes dust the autumn leaves
as a chilly gust pushes them across the drive
crunchy gatherings in curb corners and against the wall.

it makes me sad but not totally
it makes me wonder and think
of yesterday.

i can fill my head with thoughts of time
years passed by and times i've cried
or i can insulate my memories
with nice things shiny thoughts and happy dreams.

riding my bike my hair blown back
flying my mind above the clouds
anywhere i wanted to go nothing holding me down.

legs burning i would ride for miles
out to the airport out to the runway
watch listen and take it all in that was my world.

it makes me sad but not totally
it makes me wonder and think
of yesterday.