Alcatraz

her only question
this young girl could profess
'are you dancing?'

i took pause
something not heard for so long

dancing?
through life
lucky and left alone

i know i am

flowers grow always
around here
a perfect life

my emerald city,
Toto at my side
giving silent advice

but here alone
i am
resting on thrones

asking one question
'am i dancing?'

dreaming of love
across from luxuries
lustering light

harboring thoughts
this woman
she beckons it

here
alone i stand
facing my end

asking one question
'did i dance?'

Power of Love -- Preserves

mornings where
her body lie strewn as honey
across warm shredded wheat
its softness sweet
a taste
unlike any

other

Valerie, Becky
anyone and another

they were many
but not enough

all strewn as honey
across warm shredded wheat

pleasant perversions
Valerie, Becky
anyone and another

Art of Love -- Perfect Repetition

this curse of  loves
is with
those who know
desire,
this desperate want

such lust of taste devours saints
and departs this world
a bit topless,
spinning on her axis
she turns a top
a perfect work

thank the god
the one eternal,
beauty born
and born again,
for all that has gone wrong
somehow,

has made us
work

The Myth

with all the famine
disease and death
in this world
it is this ultimate
arrogance to believe
you made a difference

this human cry
of song
its verse being lost forever

somewhere in your marbled
distance

remembrance
is its engraved inference

knawing through this wall
of cardboard silence

Cost

the past few mornings
clang
like a banging bell
awakening startles complacence
and my soul sees
truth
its endless disgrace keeps waking

and i know what love does
its power overcomes
all of us

but then
often disgraces
shadowing our glory

to be everything is impossible
to be anything is not

to be virtuous
demands its infinite
and just amount of consent

give onto Caesar
everything again

Great Rule

i would say a legal prostitute
is one who does not remove her clothes
but exercises serious control

Two and Tow

do you know
the difference
between two
and tow

it is the distance
of the 'w' from
the 't'

otherwise
they are alike

except for the
ooh and oh