My troubles don’t come from my lover She’s wise and kind and true My troubles don’t come from working folks doing all that we can do My troubles don’t come from from past mistakes or knowing history My troubles come from liars trying to trash democracy My troubles don’t come from children or from those who have the least My troubles don’t come from old folks who deserve a few years of peace My troubles don’t come from nature or lands left wild and free My troubles come from tyrants trying to bring back tyranny My troubles don’t come from […]
Poetry - Song Lyrics
The country of unfinished dreams
In the country of unfinished dreams there’s one that still skips like a wreck there’s one that still skips like a record you left in the sun. In the country of unfinished dreams there’s one that still skips like a little girl playing in the summer Saturday sun. In the country of unfinished dreams there’s one that still skips like a rock on the river there’s one that still skips like a stone on still water and it sinks down into the mouth of a monster and you wake up in terror and you wake up and wonder well maybe […]
Journal
The only song
The surface of the world hums and throbs with songs. A stoned neighbor’s 70’s-radio playlist. A restaurant kitchen’s thrashy closing jams. A mother’s lullaby and a father’s lullaby. An opera singer’s audition. Dungeon industrial tracks. The call to prayer. The tipsy empire of karaoke. A nervous adolescent’s talent-show premiere. A crackling crooner from a digitized 78, uploaded. A paved-urban-playground song. A smores-smudged camp sing-along. A sneering, snappy set opener at the club. A busker’s folksified pop cover. Ecstatic humming and wailing in a village ritual. The junior college musical production. Dharma-chanting in the zendo. Ironic anti-songs at the new music […]