Thursday, August 11, 2016

When I Die

When I breath
my last
if anyone
cares,
when they
carry
my casket
from the
church
door 
stairs
I want
everyone
to dance 
in their
underwear
and howl
because
they 
are
still 
alive
and 
have
a story
to tell, 
I want
to 
be 
known 
as a
man
who
strived
to love 
his life
and be
the man 
who 
found
much
more
ways
to use 
up lemons
than anyone
else
and 
the
tie dyed
Kool -Aid
man,
who
shook
his butt
all up and
down and
all around
Guadalupe
street,
and had
his glorious
tenure
in his
shirt
of many
colors,
as the 
last mayor
of the 
drag,
a man
with 
a zillion
holidays
inside of
his 
head,
the 
man who
loved to 
see stiff
stuffy
people
split
apart
in 
laughter
running
to the
John
before
they
soak
their 
pants 
and
most
of all
the
king
of 
fun
and a
point of 
light
that
would 
make
old
Reagan 
laugh
in 
his 
grave






The Forlorn Years

There were days when 
I wished that an asteroid 
would hit the earth
and that I would never
wake up
to see another morning
and my depression
stuck my face
to a grey wall
of despair
awaking day
after day
in the prison 
cell of
my oh so
hopeless
mind
walking 
in circles
my life was
so bad I thought
I could do
eternity in
hell
standing on
my head
and every day
each minute rode 
on the back
of a snail
and only
millions of prayers
helped me


escape

On Being Right

You pay the price
when you're 
always right,
no mind
is a library,
new things
are discovered
before the
sun comes
up,
yet some people
come off as 
if they know
everything 
about
the world,
when really
they couldn't find
their rectum
with
two hands
and  a  
flashlight
stop caring
about being
right
and focus
on what binds
us and brings
joy and peace
to the world,
there are two
ways conquer
the world,
one is
followed
by a
trail of
dead
relations
and 
the 
other
keeps
the world
sane,
for every
know it
all 
is a father
of new


chaos


Come On Lets Stop

Where are
we going,
down this
Potholed
road
with more
blood
and 
Bloody corpses
and enough
Vitriol
to fill
giant
blimps
day after
day,
it fills
my ears
and eyes
like 
Pepper
spray,
you can't 
catch fish
with a
shotgun
nor crawfish
with 
spear,
you don't 
win
hearts
and minds
and
souls
with 
the 
use 
of fear,
you only
make people 
afraid
and 
then
when their
terror
stuffed
stomach
can't take
no more
they will
flee,
or rise up
like a 
bloody
sea
against you
in revolt,
Oh arise with
love
and the 
banner
of peace
and bring out
the beautiful
cake
of 
celebration
and then,
why don't we
spend 800
billion on
ice cream,
ENOUGH!!
come on
let's stop









Redeemed

I am not worthy
of another day
or all the things 
that I thirst for,
I was a lump
of dung
and you 
have turned
me into a
an inferno
of
mighty
unction
and a
geyser
of zeal
and you
have restored 
all my bridges 
burnt and
Broken 
and give 
me a smile
on the days
when I feel
like a
faucet 
of
tears
and you
are the
cornucopia 
of my 
soul,
the captain
of my ship
of destiny 
and 
fate
and set
me free from
that wretched
tyrant 
called 
calamity
and those
cold hard
chains 
of misery 
and 
guilt
and
opened the
old rusty
Iron 
gate
to
world 
of joy
and
Liberty 





The Great Conundrum

If there is
no heaven
we might as 
well be
dry
dead
skeletons,
only bones
and 
sand
withered
skulls
leering
out on
the white
sand desert
of time,
if their
is no 
God,
all we are
is skin and bones
sailboarding 
on
vanity's
vast 
river
and all
the vain
dreams 
that we
have,
if there is no
purpose
then everything
we
do
is 
a waste
of
time
as animals
eat other
animals, and 
some eat plants,
and plants eat
animals,
long, long 
after 
they're 
dead,
that seems
like purpose,
and if you
think that
the theory
of purpose
does not
exist
why do we
have graves
and
monuments
and tombs?
maybe we 
should
throw
our
dead to
the animals,
without
God,
everything
is 
total
enigma









A Word Of Hope

Yesterday is dead
today is a gift
so close that
door
to the day
before
and chase
your dreams,
your story
has a brand
new page
not one
single day
is the same
if you dare
to look hard 
enough,
your destiny
is not 
cast
in
stone,
each day is
a blessing
and a mystery
and every
tomorrow 
is a
cheerleader
for hope,
you do not
know what it
has in it's 
suitcase
to give 
you
take a
moment
to smile
because you
are strong,
strong
enough to
make it 
this far,
God and the
universe
Applauds
You
and I 
do too.

The Battle For Sanity

You can't hide
from
your mind's
asylum
nor your dark
deep
secrets,
go to 
the
wilderness
and the
trees
and pull
out the
war chest,
the battleaxe
of 
defiance,
and the
dagger
of truth,
swing fiercely
at 
your
demons,
roar
and kick 
and 
scream and
fight,
victory does
not come
without
a
battle,
and if
you are
defeated,
at least
you
tried









True Love

It so hard to find,
rare as rain
in the Sahara
and we chase
it like
the wind
and 
with
great 
futility
for real
true love 
is only
dream,
the 
kind
of love 
that bears
all things
and can brush
off hurt 
like dust
and forgives
as smoothly 
as the sun
goes down
and its 
frowns
melt quick
like 
a slushy 
into a 
smile 
and treats
every friend
like a 
new


Porche

A Depiction Of Love

A Depiction Of Love



Love is a puzzle
growing as
pieces come 
together
to some day
make the 
picture
of what
you dreamed of,
it is a diamond
that shines
after much 
hard work,
for nothing
great and
glorious
comes 
easy,
it is not all
sunrises
and waterfalls,
sometimes your
heart gets scraped
and the waters
are choppy
and everything feels
like it's falling apart,
but then the sea
is calm again
and then you're 
floating beneath
the orangey, red,
mauve sky
of affection

People

People

Our world is
a hodgepodge collage
of clashing minds and
a sea of jumbled 
sketches 
and 
pictures
of ideology
that a heart
holds dear,
a soup
made of 
every 
emotion
and
fear
and the
sharp shards
of life 
we've walked
upon,
but in
everyone
there is
beauty
and it is
hard to see
through the
wrappings of
our inner
Judge,
people are flowers 
and some are trees,
some are like 
a nest of bees,
but whether you
believe it 
or not
we all need 
each other
in ways deep
and not so 
deep
we are 
all one
body
that 
makes
up
the
world.







The goodness of misery


Misery is the mother
of wisdom,telling
us the lessons of
our folly and
every misfortune
making muscle men
of our minds,
it is the
creator
of the blues
and our best
teacher
that we
ever had,
the spurs
that kick
the horse
of 
change
and the eyes
to help us
see a
blessing
and if it were
not for misery
we'd always stay
the same,
I once was
so miserable
that for 
months
I forgot
the sun 
and that
 the sky
was blue
and it reminded
me that every
day
is 
a blessing




For A Bad Morning

For A Bad Morning

Your eyes
wake up
to a new
day
every
morning,
and it's
up to
you
to make
it so,
for a 
good
day
does
not
fly
on the 
wings
of
glorious
fate
nor
rest
atop
the 
highest
peak
of 
situation,
Oh did you
know that
people
laugh
in prison,
or that
African
children
still 
make
time
to
dance
while
being
persecuted
and also
hunted
like
elephants?
Did you know
that there
are opulent,
silk stocking
folks out
there,
that sit 
in leather, 
gold 
trimmed
chairs,
that
want to
splatter
their
brains
all over 
their
walls 
and their
Indian Rugs?
Every
day
is
blessing,
embrace 
each day
like a
lover
who's
silhouette
is walking
off into
the
purple, 
orange
sunset 
forever,
never to
be seen 
again,
Oh treat
each day
like 
a
lover,
and 
kiss
the 
grass,
take a
long 
hot
shower
like 
you
will
never
see 
water
again,
eat breakfast
like you'll never
see another 
meal,
dwell on
some
good
happening
in the
world,
I promise
there is
at least
two.












Pep Rally

Pep Rally



Life is a movie
and oh the scenes
do change,
there is
an escape from
that bleak dungeon,
for hope and courage
are the hammer 
and chisel
that set us free,
when life is
dark as
Prison
we still
have our 
dreams,
hang in there,
make the best
of where
you are,
you are not
promised 
the sight
of another 
sunrise,
or another
blink of an
eye,
flowers have to
work 
to poke 
through
the
dirt
and diamonds 
are the product
of immense 
pressure,
if you're 
not
dead 
there is
a reason
that you 
are still 
here