Rent a Dream
The lady in the yellow
raincoat is naked underneath,
she showed me her treasures
It was like squirting me with
lighter fluid and setting my
heart and mind ablaze
Where are you going?
Where have you been?
Will you be my rent a queen?
We don’t have to be in love,
although it might be nice, let’s
walk into the darkness until
the sun devours the shadows.
Asleep in the Canyon of Love
Intense sheer walls painted
hyacinth and saffron with
brushstrokes of scarlet sulfur
Searching for silver spoon to
make sotol and datura for sun
tea and going on a magic trip
Dangerous peacocks in a raspberry
sky, green sleeping ducks by the
cattail forest and melodic stream
Rainbow cutthroat trout leaping
for the gnat hatch, fat frogs burping,
loons and cranes on stilts hunting
Thinking about the dancer at the
Crazy Horse in Paris and how I’d
stolen her a Gauguin, she asked me
my name and I said, Scaramouche.
Beware of Po Po
Annoyed Starbuck’s customers were
trying to enjoy their morning coffee,
but a young black man fell asleep in
the sun on a park bench in their view
The man wasn’t homeless or stoned
or bothering anyone, the yuppies got
out their cell phones and complained,
instead of buying him a cup of java
Three po po cars arrived, they hit the
man with a baton, he raised his hands
to protect his head and surrender and
then they shot him fifteen times
This happened in April 2014 near Red
Arrow Park in Milwaukee, it is now
September and nobody has been charged,
sometimes taking a nap could be fatal.
All You Want To Do
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My desire is growing and throbbing
and alive, I want you for my ice
cream cone, my sushi smorgasbord,
my velvet glove, my strawberry hills
I want to bury myself deep deep inside
you over and over and over, slow slow
slow honey dripping, fast fast fast jack-
hammer snake slither smooth silky soft
Quiver shiver thrill chill goose bumps,
moan groan back up and hang on, I’ll be
coming on strong and so will you, coming
with you coming on on and on together
You can’t escape from my sword of love,
my spear thrusting into your soul, we are
one, we are together forever, we can not
swallow our crazy love lust, it’s impossible.
Heroes Never Wonder
The shadow soldiers stand at
attention in the stone granite
veteran’s graveyard in the sun
I am the only one left in awe
wondering why you and not me.
The Ballad of Tucumcari
Smoofy sold a mixture he called weed,
he started with some high grade Mexican,
breaking up all the shake, tops, seeds and
stems, then he’d mix in about half catnip
He used a Mr. Coffee grinder on the stems
making them roll able, then he’d fill baggies
with shake, stems, catnip, seeds, and three tops,
his lids looked good and weighed one ounce
Smoofy was my best friend growing up, I was
making a living off the five finger discount,
there wasn’t much I hadn’t stolen, we were
quite the rip-offs, when the cops took Smoofy
My entire world collapsed, darkness smothered
the sun strangling the light from the sky, when
I visited him in Santa Fe in prison, I asked him
If he needed anything and he said, “Never trust
The candy man his treats will make your teeth
get rotten and fall out and beware of losing touch
from not touching, women that cry from one eye,
sometimes the happy ending is at the beginning.”
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