nancyames

... the ugly metallic sculptures that are lurking here, you know, on every single side-street…

"I see you think that ridicule can answer any question…"

Everywhere it smells like burning garbage and there are only fading memories of the once teeming human millions…

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

Lots of people would fight
but they held to their love,
and there’s one ray of light…

All around us, people were watching it in living-rooms full of television moon-glow and…

"So he told this girl that of course he
had been in love once, but that girl had
turned out to be a mermaid…"

But those electric guitars
were making waves in the air,
so I just laughed and danced away…

We say to ourselves,
"How could I ever have
been so naive?"

Someday words will lose their meaning,
when thoughts flow mind to mind…

The best make it look so easy,
and then the phonies take the credit…

... some guy brought flowers
instead of wine and when the girl
got all snotty about it…

It was sunshine, surf and skinny-dip
until, one day, he lost his grip…

... wings that flash and
flicker in sunlight, pursued by
relentless squadrons…

After ignotion,
you soar like a rocket,
over the moon.

... out into
outer space, where the view is always
magnificent – nothing but the best
death for you, baby -

...where raucous music and
phosphorescent fashions
are steady as a wave
or a pulse that must
start somewhere, so…

My armour wasn’t any good -
he’d always find my weakness.

He looked at my neighbour, who was standing in his overalls at the kitchen sink, and croaked, "Hey, man – do you got any aspirin? I don’t feel too good."

Sometime in the middle of the night, he began
to wander in the big country, where the deep
space sky knows all about you but…