laws/body

my friend is fond of saying
keep your laws off my body
and that about sums it up
you do you, i'll do me
and we'll make our bodies free
use em quiet, carefully
and our minds will come down 
from the clouds
remember they're just in that body
and we'll move them too
as we please

singer back when

something happened when you sang
you sang your soul
and i looked right into it
and you saw me do it 
in a mutual glance

now in all the idle interactions
i'm looking
and i just feel like a predator
cause they don't offer that

real film

come on friends
work with me a little bit
just hold the ground down
take the melodies easy
and for god sakes
help me see
this isn't about me
i have a good lens is all
and when this wind lifts me wild
i can't hold the camera 
let alone find a point of reference
for the composition
or anywhere that prints real film

answer

but then we grew up
having been to the bottom 
of the darkest hours of alone
having reached the end of the argument
about everything being so wrong and why
and we had no answer 
and we were still standing
and we noticed kids smiling 
and bumblebee buzzing
around the barbecue 
among the bloom of spring flowers
little reasons to keep on
without that answer 

worrytown

try so hard not to live

in your worrytown

condoned furrowed face

absent heart 

and healthy checking account

and if i die

eyes to the sky

liver failed

lungs burned dry

good for me

at least i tried

reed friend

you my friend are a reed
so tall strong and wild
in stretching toward the sun unphased

til the rain comes lashing winds
to wilt you to leaning too low 
to see your kind all around

so i'll right you when i can 
and wait to watch you find the sky again 

shades, no channels

draw the shades on these soul windows
don't need some lurkers looking on
at what i'm up to in this temple
they wouldn't get it anyway 

hummingbird monday

bouncing down charles street
7AM all aching
hold my phone 6 inches from my ear
playing a demo on speaker 
i imagine it as my hummingbird guide 
would be at my shoulder always
to steer me away 
from buildings like this 

nature writing

the words form and the words fall
then they're gone

the stereo or the cough
or the grackles crack comes up so
let them go

brain makes nothing but brain jerkoff
and art once in a while

while the hawks hunt
and the teeming clouds pass the stars unnoticed

AM open frequency

learn to tune into
my soothing static 
mid conversation

trust it to deliver its messages
words I widdle from whitenoise 
and under chit chat I churn 
feel for my switch 
and turn back on 
when a harmony note sounds 
on the FM surface 

bulletproof heart

lead with my bulletproof heart 
through this gauntlet of untruth 
the constant spray 
they never run out 

strange light above show
down through the deafening haze 
bulletproof heart reflect
to guide my frenzied way
stop for nothing

until some angel's silver arrow
pierce right through 
my bulletproof heart
stop in shock and disbelief
not wounded but relieved 
foolish fighter, see

it was never meant to be a shield