Not yet spring and the clubs are filled
with fat cubs lusting through winter, the longing thrust
and everywhere the golden calf of desire
rises up but I am drunk, once more,
smiling like a fool and so it is that
everything is make believe — laughter, the life, the disease.
Somehow I am not convinced,
a girl rests her head on [...]
Follow the edge of the calendar to the tacks
That hold the months in place,
This year hangs in suspense between two
Terminating points over empty space.
Elsewhere there is light
But the man upstairs screams every night
In want of mercy or what; he casts
Himself against the floor, great crusading flops
Thundering to drive the demons out;
Here in 207, the walls shake with righteous
Fury, but in heaven or some place else
He drinks and screams and wrestles the divine,
Vomits his gods clear across the balcony,
Moaning [...]
Everybody claims that they want the best things
outta life, (ha) but not everyone, not everyone
wanna go through the toils and strifes.
Like this particular fella, walks around
all day long singin’ this song
sha na lah dah dah lah dah dah dah dah
Harry Hippie, lies asleep in the shade,
life don’t bug him cause he
thinks he’s got it made.
He [...]
It is the end
Of all things, the book, the road, the shivering saber
That put out the vestigial eye; when I was young
I clung to hope and could raise the dead, the sun,
The son that might one day return home, prodigal
They would say and a black lamb would quiver readily
On a spit. But in the [...]
how long before our eyes found weeds
creeping up these doorsteps; did our footsteps
always echo so loud,
a setter yips into this californian sky,
by miles of kelp strung by sirens in tight-fitting ties,
we have hung
the sun from the rod that brought forth an ocean;
so you settle to sleep with secret silence
of stars and whispers, your mystery will [...]