I know I’m in there somewhere , Someday it’s going to be right , I keep going on these roads that go from here to there And finish at the same spot I started, Samsara, samsara goes round and round like on the merry go round And after I fall I get up and I […]
The stars watch over us From long ago They saw our beginning and know our end So many mother’s and father’s have come and gone Rivers and seas , forests , and lakes, mountains , and hills They know the folly of all this wanting , desire and knowledge , They know who we are […]
To my friend, Benito , my old Saint Of public transport and of looking after Abbisinya ( Ethiopia) You have changed little Perhaps your accent , your hair more dramatic, and instead of pasta you now eat hamburger Quite a lot from what I hear Your ending will be your beginning Strung up on a […]
You think you know but you don’t , You don’t see what’s behind the concrete , The scared alcoholic afraid to come out of his room The Huntington’s man’s daughter who wants to kill her father because she’s got the disease as well or The man who runs disappearing into his room locking himself in […]
And when you showed me your Hermitage on God’s mountain Ah God, And when we went to see your strange friends Down below in Woods Point and we drank sherry in the general store , And all those characters that looked like they just crawled out of the mines looking for gold And then you […]
To be vulnerable is beautiful To fall down is beautiful To get off your knees is beautiful To sing out of key is beautiful For you need to eat dirt to appreciate the earth For in the end and there’s always an end Only madmen see.
God is a shaman turning tricks, an eagle dissolving into fish A fish dissolving into stone , a stone dissolving into mountain A mountain dissolving into lake, a lake dissolving into sky A sky dissolving into sea, a sea dissolving into man A man dissolving into woman, a woman dissolving into earth An earth dissolving […]
I bought you a bottle of wine The colour of blood Left it at your doorIn the time of Coronavirus We are all Stone dwellers Of some degree Hope your birthday was good Time is moving on fast You and me Both on crazy untrodden paths Shut the door Shut the light So The world […]
Stay with me Angels When I fall When I turn down wrong roads Stay with me When I can’t sleep at night Drowning in a darkness Of doubt Stay with me When my words Cut like razors Deep into flesh Stay with me When I’m feeling blue to the gills When the world has trouble […]
I was staying at the Adelaide Hostel in Isadora Duncan Lane, San Francisco. A fellow I met there said, ‘let’s have a drink down near the Tenderloin district’ , famous in the old days for its butcher ways. In a bar as dark as night, the owner said, ‘go down to Green Street to O’Reilly’s […]
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