InvisiblePigs

Starting is hard
And it’s rough and slow
And messy
And doesn’t flow
And the rhymes fall in all the wrong places
Spaces
Awkwardly standing by

And what of the flow
If it still doesn’t g…

Bobby’s a robot but nobody knows
His arms and his legs are not real
And never will sticks nor will stones break his bones
Which are made out of hardness and steel
And so is his heart, made …

Johnny’s a flower with petals he says
“Delicate, soft, subtle lines”
And long skinny legs that he calls his own stems
“Two shades lighter than grandmother’s vines”
So when the suns out and …

Ahead there is a corner that I haven’t come to yet
But knowing that it’s closing in is filling drenching me in sweat

i have in my pocket a flower or two
for boys who i once thought i knew
for boys who were lovely before they all rotted
and so i will count just a few

sow now like this
five four six
thoughts with no order, you see
so thoughts became piled and tangled and trapped
trapped in pile of free

Fernie was a funny mouse who couldn’t tie his shoes
‘Cause when he did his head fell down, and then he’d a have a bruise
See, Fernie had a bigger head, or bigger more than small
And if he mo…

But when you do my heart jumps high and thoughts leap from my head
This skull of mine is much too tight for thoughts that can’t be said

But still I was searching and carrying through
Looking for reasons for Wabble-di-doo

I will tell them I’m traveling
Through The Land of Hope-So’s and Somedays and One-Day-I-Wills

I knew a girl once who sat in a chair
I don’t know quite when, and don’t even know where
Wishing for who and for what, I don’t know
Wishing for someone to come or to go

Life is a song that I’m singing
Quiet and soft and controlled
I sing the right tones and I keep the right beat
And never stop tapping my feet

Have you ever heard of Sir Smarty Fladoo
The boy who thought lots and then said a lot too
The boy who said “life”. What is life? Am I dead?
The boy who said, world! Come and look what I’v…

I’ll make and mask and I’ll call a friend
And then we’ll trade places! But where does it end?
‘Cause then when I’m Fred I’ll just call myself Joe
I’ll say I’m a farmer who works with a hoe …

What if the dream world is your world instead?
What if the truth is what lies in my head?
Think for a second of which you choose
With two lives to choose from, which would you use?

A life…

And when you see monsters
Don’t tell me they’re there
Just hand me my armor
And say me a prayer

I want to stand in a tree and reach to the sky
And pull all the stars back down
And with stars in my hands and my head in the sky
I’ll scatter them all to the ground

And I wish I could say that when our eyes meet
My glancing away was meant to be sweet
But, boy, I’m not coy

Under a bridge lived Molly Sue Loo
She lived in a box with a hole to look through
And one day she spotted a boy over there
A boy in the shadows who wouldn’t come near
She said that boy’s Jo…

Troubles have found me after running so far
Life’s catching up, and I’ve got my first scar
I fell in the darkness after hiding in light
Sorrow caught up and I’m losing the fight