Nothing Important
Break my back and soothe my mind
Sing my song from time to time
Drive me home through highways
and skyways with byways toward morn
Blind my eyes with lies and thorns
and mail me a life made of desire
through a bejeweled elevator door
operated by a lute player who is a liar
that breathes ice and is made of fire
Break my heart and kill my voice
Take away the sunrise that is choice
Strive to be one who does what others cannot
rise into saint hood and then get shot
by the crack pot who is not what he wanted to be
Make me into something I am not
Freeze the dinner and eat the free
then mail me a letter signed by Shelley
stating, “the boat is safety”
by a lake in an earthquake in Eden with the snake
Empty boat by the shore and time is no more
Sunrise at dusk and moonlight in mind:
Dancing, twirling diamond bodies entwined
in crime and rhyme and love and time
in valleys and cities and towns sublime
with sons and daughters alone below
caged mental defects and kings swallowed
by nature, thoughts, and money hollowed
they never leave for these make life glow
Subways and Rain
Titles and Names
Religion and Fame
Shame and Games
and in Chess
Pawns are pawns
all the same
