Category: verse

Damn

Is this all?
Dark as a hall
Candelabra
sheds drops of light
bright as the tears
of fear so near
the cheeks of peaks
as high as eagles fly
Escaping
Shaping forces
Courses
thru the veins
of claims portrayed
Arrayed
Displayed
Upon the canvas of conceptual deception
Correction
Edifice consists
of grains of rain
Contained
In whispers
Mister
Can you spare the time to find
out something bout yourself
To delve in doubt
depths left unimpressed
By dredges
Wedges
Driven deep
Into the meat
of living tissues
Issues forth
From sources such do not exist
Save on the lips and fingertips
of long road trips
at mother’s hip
As darkness slips and falls again

Time to Go

Doesn’t really matter
but I thought I’d let you know
I’ve seen about enough
and I feel it’s time to go
ahead and meet the devil
because hell can’t be any worse
than waking every morning
begging please god
stop it hurts

The Ballad of Orchard Drive

Just up the line from Orchard Drive
By the concrete factory
Sam Walton’s own is displacing homes
From the Bitterroot Valley
See all the folks who ain’t lost hope
Are moving far away
So that at night the halide lights
Don’t drive ‘em plumb insane

Now all Ravalli County’s
Had the chance to cast their vote
And those opposed weren’t even close
To sinking Wally’s boat
Because it seems that when convenience
And integrity collide
What’s good for me doth supersede
And sweep the rest aside

They leased the land from some old man
Who’d forgot what it's worth
To occupy the country side
And homestead of your birth
They done plowed the prairie under
And they paved it wall to wall
So in trade for self sufficience
The ‘Roots now got a shopping mall

Well I propose to them who chose
To bring that beast around
They trade their place and open space
For Wal-Mart’s neighbors’ ground
But somehow I doubt I got the clout
To make these poor fools understand
Sometimes the reason not to
Is just simply ‘cause you can

Poem (Untitled)

can’t find the source can’t find the sea closed system nothing gained nothing lost everything is constant just bounce along a stream is static and dynamic a single entity and a zillion individual molecules of hydrogen and oxygen all at once is it measured in an instant or over time why why not a crocodile in the kootenai but how does that relate to a billion people all concerned with immediate deliberations there’s no figuring it out it’s a circle or maybe a down around route coming back to a same beginning about food, status, reproduction, deduction of construction of this thing we call what is if I does for I and self for self what is love and why does it exist or does it exist at all do we know anything beyond words and chemical reactions refractions of light bend time and if a blind deaf dumb man with no sense of smell was floating in space would he even know if he existed and if he knew of self would he love is self-love innate if I don’t know what any word means how can I know what any other word means so do I know anything at all of course I do I don’t but how can a chinaman and I both know a rock will fall to the earth if neither of us has ever seen one another or a rock fall or would it even fall at all lofty goals are they really lofty and does lofty truly mean self-sacrificing?

Poem (Untitled)

You ever fasted
Outlasted
Physiological demands
Become the master of the outcome
Of any given span
Planned the future in a vision
Brought to fruition with the will
Focus your intention and faith can turn a hill
Into a mountain
Or a mountain to the sea
Remove all reservation
And the truth will simply be