Partners

The Straight man and buffoon
funny and sad, without a clue

They trade places, fighting and laughing
all the way, to an empty bank

Rhetoric

Your words run in circles
tumble all over me
I beat them all back
with a sharpened tongue
a neat little package
tied all together
just for you

Dreams

I'm hungry for dreams
the deep willowy sheets
of darkness that brings
all things possible

Waiting

Canvas with a thousand skies
waiting for it's due

Paints awash in monochrome
begging for their hues

Bristles sitting coarse and dry
thirsty for a dip          

Old masters waiting patiently
for masters that are new

They can't all be gems

The blankest slate

will have to wait

for another date

'cuz I'm late

or not at all

Procrastinate

Iron

In the back of my mind
you sit
A wrinkled memory
and that reminds me

I need an iron

Roller Coaster

Prozac roller coaster
straight and narrow
no highs or lows
any height
can take the ride

Don't forget

I forgot

warm ways
trusting means
full on
take my hand
It's OK

I forgot

Woof

Surreal rodeo
Cows bark alligators fly
See the penguin roar

Right

A clear danger
seeping through
heart and mind

hushed voices
hunkered over
all my secrets
in the rumor mill

Sharpie

This is where
I draw the line
nice thin sharpie
in my pocket
I pop the cap
at any time

In the cut

I come around the bend in the road
nothing to see over my shoulder
my battles fought and lost
are won when soon forgot

And the road now straight and narrow
no battles to win or lose
an ally now In my shoes
a brilliant white flag unfurled.

The last bridge

Angel of decay, a setting sun that stumbles into night, crashing waves of hopeless beauty.
You stride into town shiny and new, and completely vanish when you arrive.
You run away past the adoring crowd you love to despise.
The punishment you give, so petty and coarse, eye for an eye, heart for a heart.
The prophecy fulfilled for yourself once again, you put up your dukes and then take a dive.
And now once again the phoenix will rise, from all the ashes from the bridges burned.