Character Development

We have the celebrity ghosts,
ridiculing disillusion,
and designer talk-show hosts
to exaggerate confusion.

The retail and wholesale
of popular cultures:
peacock and nightingale,
enjoyed by vultures.

They stand like individuals,
their heads in the clouds,
and sometimes they have faces…

I’m just a kid, a dumb kid and I don’t really care
And I run my mouth and talk about anyone who isn’t here
So when I’m being arrested tonight at a quarter to two
Just know I take…

Because no one can see her lately, not since last Hallowe’en, when she walked on our fence sedately…

Myrick was on the final leg of the race. His space ship had curved around Yiol the local moon, and waded itself free of the asteroid field that the route had took him through. Only a few minor traje…

The sirens wailed and I felt their pain

Distant damsels do not dare
display a splash of splendour,
sisters of the solemn stare…

I opened the door quickly, casually, as I always did. My feet finding their way over the threshold without me giving the order.

Don’t be deceived
As I break down and cry
Among the dead.
I appear dead, oh yes.
But you’ve got to believe.
This heart will be fine.
It’s a lie now.
I know in, like, a week.
It’ll be …

Somewhere in Alabama a woman is frying up some
chicken using a recipe that has been passed down
for three gnerations in her family.
Somewhere in Louisiana a woman who is a single Mom
is wor…

one prod to the gelatinous heap that was the hefty bag, renewed my confidence in a job not only well executed, but…

Every moment it kills you
Every beat of the drum
The pain somehow glorious
Like a battle half won
A torture exquisite
For a debt well repaid
and by the time it is over
You’re no less afraid.

I remember when me
and you
and all the kids in the neighborhood
We used to be hippies
We used to go hardcore
We used to wear hemp
We wore skinny-shorts before skinny shorts were popular
And I had everything…

in happy life or insatiable misery
a being that bows to neither death nor treachery
it bears a royal crest of red and scarlet
such a king to his territory that all will bow, instead of relent

My Muse Eternal, shall we find our hearts
among this brush of lovely things and fruits
where many loves sprout, to many apart
for in Love shall forbear and bore our Truth

Life for you comes down to the choices you make
For me it comes down to the pills that I take
Uppers and downers
Mean the difference between smilers and frowners
Or whether I’ll be drowning
In a poo…