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[Mar. 27th, 2011|03:06 pm] |
there are days
when the clouds hang so low
that you could reach your arms in up
like church choir testimony
and you could almost touch them
i remember believing that i could stand on them
on the clouds
and sometimes
i still believe i can
i remember climbing boxcars
and pretending they were taking me somewhere better
somewhere where nobody hurt
i remember hands
covered in train track grease and dirt
and even if i fell
even when it hurt
i believed that there was something better
something that looks and sounds like art
and sometimes
i still believe there is
i dont remember music
but i remember dancing
i remember the sound of my mothers heart
i remember believing that my heart
like hers
would love with such a rhythm
that i could dance without music
i would dance with just love
sometimes i still believe i can
and on that day
i will be dancing on cloudy skies |
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| advice from a poet. |
[Mar. 24th, 2011|03:37 pm] |
read Henry Miller
don't have sex with french prostitutes
pick up a guitar
make as much noise as you can
drown out the sorrow
even the worst sound that comes from a sour string
is better than machine guns
echoing in 3rd world
battle fields
don't watch the news
go outside
drink red wine
stop watching entertainment tonight
johnny depp isn't real
he's like santa clause
...or jesus
don't take it seriously
things really aren't that bad
if they were
we would have given it up by now
if you ever find yourself on the edge
take 3 deep breathes
before you jump
i heard somewhere that that helps.
everything is a drum
if you hit it the right way
cats know exactly whats going on.
all the time
they are smarter than we are.
take a nap
and if you have a bad dream
wake up
and take 3 deep breathes
im pretty sure that helps. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 23rd, 2011|11:49 am] |
everything is perfect
we're all doing just fine
no one is running out of time
we will all receive the promised prize
everything we say will rhyme
you'll get whats yours
and ill take whats mine
everyone
is
getting along
just fine.
and the sun will continue to take his place
on the throne of the summer sky
and will fall at dusk
only because
very simply
it must
the kingdom of the night has its own king
and you and i are royalty with him
all hail the moon
a poorly lit room
the city
the streets
the highways are veins
carry us like blood
towards the towns where we will find love
and where we will leave it behind
at the truck stops
of loss
small town regrets
forgotten by dawn
and it'll be just fine, baby girl
everything will be just fine. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 18th, 2011|10:11 am] |
you cant change the tides
and you should never try.
a heart that outweighs the california sun.
love like an interstate
stretching across deserts and plains
ending at the place where it all began
2am
wrapped in an old blanket
on the shores of everything that ever meant anything
the taste of red wine still on her lips
the fruition of knowing
as a shared shiver runs through both of your chests
and in this moment you will finally know the solution
to an equation painted in dying stars
across california skies
millennia in the making.
and the tide comes in slowly. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 7th, 2011|07:44 am] |
i used to laugh at the suits and ties
used to live life
make art and write
after all the loves
and losses
the late nights
and slow days
the hard times
the good luck
after all the fights
and all the fucks
freeways of midnights
littered with cars
and trucks
cheap thrills
that helped to forgive
forgotten dreams
after all of this still
it seems
art has not yet paid the bills
writing this down
by the morning light
brought on
by another sleepless night
happy hours
hollow hopes
of heavens welcome
and god regrets to inform us
that its full up there
we should have died sooner
and now all i want is
a 9 to 5 |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 4th, 2011|02:08 pm] |
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you rarely see it coming, and you almost never see it go. love is reckless, love is violent, love is fucking dangerous, and then, suddenly, love is on a greyhound and you're left standing on a high hill trying to see Nashville. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 28th, 2011|02:17 am] |
death come swift
suffer no more
knuckles break
plaster cracks
we will bleed
for this transgression
the poets
will finally know
what it means
to die alone
they will bleed for absolution
the painters will finally know
the true color
of empty space
they will bleed
without discretion
and the wolves
will finally have their fill |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 13th, 2011|03:37 pm] |
when i press3d my ear against her hips
i prayed for the comfort of the ocean
heard the sound of traffic instead
the gray skies reflect
the empty sidewalks and streets
and its getting harder to breathe
every day
at least her skin looked gold
by the streetlight bleeding thru the window |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 1st, 2010|01:48 am] |
big dreams
of big ships
and paychecks
that dont run out
in the
in between
weeks
a belly full of red wine
and a head full of doom clouds
if you want any pasta
i
have
some pasta
if your hungry
i am hungry
for more than pasta
more than red wine
and i am thirsty for more than
this
empty
excuse for
love
and then again
my heart is
parched
most of the time
and then again
my belly is always full
of red
wine. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 27th, 2010|01:18 pm] |
double you
double you
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.poem |
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