Friday, April 18, 2008

Another Poem With A Theme

Sometimes I can't feel my feet
and I'm pretty sure it's either because they're not there
or I'm just too drunk to think
I never touch alcohol, so I think it's the first
and stare off into the distance on a summer afternoon

On occasion I fall in love all over again
and it makes the world so perfect
but then the flaws come back and make themselves known
and sometimes I'll be feeling pretty low
but that just means the highs will be that much higher
they nearly always are

And no matter how I act or feel
I'll always take care of you
I'll always do the best I can do
no matter what the weather

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Guinevere

I loved you Guinevere, I loved you
In the silence in the heartbeats in the leaves in the loam
I loved you Guinevere, I loved y ou

An d st ill inth e brok en pa nes o f g l
a s s
I loved you Guinevere, I loved you

The leaves, they fall far far too fast
Spinning down into our past, and brown and crinkly on the ground
Too dead to cry out the saving sound
"We loved you Guinevere, we loved you"

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Give Us This Day Our

We are made in the image and likeness of God but. where is the image, what is the likeness and who is God? Is he a big human, are we little gods? Is it our minds, our fibers, our fictions, our loves, our flaws, our? The wilderness is floating overhead, and I am lifted from everything. I will return to the One that gave me birth, and I will fragment and hover and blow away on the wind like warm stale air pushed away by a breeze. And I will become the breeze, and fly up to heaven, and dance there, and laugh with the other breezes, the other souls, the dead and the not yet living. And we will spin and wheel under the sun that is the Father, and it will somebody's birthday every single day, and there will be parties and cake and ice cream and there'll be a sprinkler in the sky, like rain but even purer, and we'll dance in our swimsuits or our birthday suits if we prefer, there'll be no lust and no shame. And when we're tired of walking on the ground, we'll walk on the air. And when we're tired of being awake, we'll fall asleep in lovers laps, and everyone will be our lover. And it will all be pure and shameless and I won't feel bad about it. You'll be there all the time, whenever I want you, and it will be perfect. And we'll run off by ourselves and gorge ourselves in a strawberry field, and Einstein will be 3 rows over hiding between the bushes, and we'll laugh. And oh, Darling! It'll be heaven, I promise! It'll be just like Heaven, and the sun will be just like God, and there will be Jesus and the Holy Ghost and Buddha and Mohammed and John Paul II and Darwin and Elvis and all these people! They'll all be there, and there'll be ice cream and mashed potatoes and limes and lemons and everything, it'll all be there and we'll never run out and we'll feel the Lord in everything like electricity, He will sing our bodies electric with His magnificent song and I won't have to cry anymore, you won't either, because we'll all be dead, and if we cry it'll just be for fun. It'll be so much fun!

Image & Likeness

Now I haven't been around for very long yet
But I've still been waiting for a long long time
To kill the evil that is bred inside
The flaws and weaknesses that are uniquely mine

And when my failures have gone
There'll be nothing in me that's wrong
Just a low key person who can wake up
Happy every day

But for now you'll find me driving on those country backroads
That lead somewhere special, but where that is, nobody knows
They lead to the center of the world and my heart
And I will dig and drive and fly until I am completely blown apart

Sunday, April 13, 2008

In All Times And All Places

Puella quam amo est pulchra. Meisje I liefde is aardig. L'amour de la fille I a les yeux les plus jolis dans le monde. Die Liebe des Mädchens I hat weiche Haut. Θα περπατούσα σε όλο τον κόσμο τρεις φορές για την. Nuoterei i mari più profondi ed arrampico le più alte montagne. 私は彼女を愛する。나는 그녀를 사랑한다. Eu amo-a. Я люблю ее. La amaré por siempre.