tulsa ok

winking neon
altavista liberal
military sad
sacred sopranos
swinging style
patriot shits
buffy vibrato
echoes of despair
snake suit
reptile boy
time disapears

sacred documents
farm house radio
syndicate universe
empty plains
tumble weeds
fullmoon brush
midnite dynamite
communications
blank substance
bloops

blinking teeth
over the horizon
voice over feral
weigh station trucks
rolling and stopping
buffalo bones
human beings
head bent, subdivisions
blue grass dreams
hopi highways
the lady tiptoes
uncle dead
rocky moon
tree trunks
steps on the dusty trail

stock yards
oil wells
police chasing corvettes
down the interstate highway fire
learning to forgive
marketing the fear
two matching cougars in the parking lot
god provides the gasoline
while i'm making payments
buying your pamphlets
being indoctinated
faith moves mountains
we lived with jezebel
we are watching tv on the floor
she is rubbing my dick with her foot
she was always looking for a new angle

he was afraid of his shell
we took him to the mechanics
they made him breathe into a bag
electric tridents
zeroes on the clock
magic syllables
please and thank you
pinball machines
we ate at the fishmarket
and bought magazines from the cigar store
step to the center of the store
she said you aint shit
if you don't got no heat
diabolic America
freedom and oppression
free to starve

recharging batteries
no words, no sound
we bought a truckload of firewood
no furnace
music lesson
one chair
making it personal
new york kids
the meatpacker went back to wv
he asked me if it was god's will
a college scholarship
throw it away
like a fool
stick to your dandelion wine
we walked past the whore house
me and the preacher's kid
the barrel chested man with no shirt
asked us if we were looking for some pussy

iron city
kens pizza
pitchers of beer
the red faced boy orders another round
eating with the Jehova witness
he is bullshiting us about women
he buffs the floors late at night
railroad tracks
up and down 61st street
he is buying a bag of dope
devils everywhere
high fives for everyone
no more innocent arms
the muscles depend upon resistance
solitude
be born
oh, human creature
learn to crawl
learn to chew on the bone
chicken bones

she moved to arkansas
to make guns
she always wanted a good job
a factory girl
she could never say no
as i unbuttoned her shirt
one more time for jesus
she thought i was going to be a preacher
a bible junkie spreading the disease
feeding off the imbeciles
bleeding gramma's of their money
give until it hurts


they are bringing the troops home
we sat quietly by the side of the road
waving our little flags
put it in the headlines
honkytonk tickle
to calm the nerves
another beer for the road
forked creature
spinning on the pit
congress fails us again
why should we believe?
black magic language
gold making formulas
broomstick world
happy little witch
stick your reality out
wave it around in the wind
taste the dust
as the trucks roll by
patriotic highways
investing in America

sunday church

as deep as the earth
came alive in the full moon
a name is just a name
so you told me
over and over again
still I can't believe
in your revolution
in your television spots
asking for money
to build your empire
to send children to the earth
back to the swamps
to fight with the aligators
instigators and agitators
you see communists everywhere
you think your world has been stolen from you
while you were sleeping and drinking
vodka and lemonade
the needle still dripping from the spoon
and you tell us stories about your sister
while your eyes roll back into your head
i saw your demon tremble and shake
it was your fever and pitch
the whale swimming up on the beach
futility is your friend
you cover yourself in tranquility
remember to blow out the prayer candles
put a coin next to the statue of the virgin
remember that you can't wake up
you are sleep walking through life
yes, life is but a dream
shaboom, shaboom

up from their kingdom

i craned my neck
concrete footprints
stupid and exciting
raccoon praying
horse chariot earth
swing baby
finished with half a bottle
sweet Gemini
click, extra light
escape the ever
up similtaneous
no idea symmetries
television dream
dying snap
shadows cast
stone bubble blosom
utterly completely
Zeus on electric switches
needle jumping
scratch public address
blue void
microphone jacked

perdition

stood close
bangles, nose ring
as possible
breathing on me
taking me in
one atom at a time
cute and clean
college girl
she noticed me noticing
she segued
made a show of it
stomped he feet
pouted her lips
international exposure
made a pretense of her car battery
and going to work


i think she believed in sympathetic magic
wanting me to hear her speak
asking if sad ever changes colors
we burn through the haze
through the bullshit of the day
buying one more trinket for the shelf
sort and organize this life
bleed off the being
torture the psyche
we stand and stare into the future
thinking that our eyes can see clearly
yet knowing that we see
what we want
and never really taste
the truth of any matter


we stare into the fame
the diamond studded leviathan
iron wired ears
up the belly
squared jaw smile
the skull mantled captain
with a mouth of gold
a tearful song
ancient memories
bash the legs
clapped the hands
asphalt highway
brown hands and hearts
one stood silent and invisible


guru walking the silver
hulking tavern slickers
uttering a mantra
something from trailer dust
laughing grounds
bottles of the road
muddy poncho
road hump knotted
gliding fishtails
no fear dharma
blue resevoir
tiny cars misplaced
green mountain insects
space aged afternoons

smooth skinned freedom
a hanged man
hanging from the tree
backyard barbeque
beer cans and vibration
red lights and painted gate
yellow lamp dreams
metal clouds pouring'
milk and honey
dusty mailbags
chisom trail
cutthroat trout
we stopped at the architect's house
listening to the radio
adrenalin long truck
there were sunflowers
taller than Orion