They came to me that night Oh what a night The band played Waltzing Matilda Waited for me to sing as I roared like a wounded bear San Francisco on Green Street , The owner said put your money away The beer, it’s on the house Hey, ain’t you…. That guy No, I said , […]
We comfortably white Barrack for our teams on Those religious Friday nights As footballers crush bodies Into each other There he goes, Rioli , Buddy , Silk, Balletic dancing through myriads Of white befuddled faces Thinking what the hell As we champion their genius , But if they play for the opposite Side they are […]
After my work at the Mission I’d drop into the bar close by for a drink The name of the place was The John Lennon bar This was no hippy trip it was more grunge and grit The floor was concrete , easy to wash the blood away After the guarenteed fight It was an […]
I need to put some distance in my legs Have my mind reconstructed from dead to live Take the clothes from my skin and burn the lot Till everything becomes light with light so Walking on air through Pessoa land becomes like floating in space until I hit that big old church And there I […]
Red wine pain I rest on my Gatsby My mind circling An eagle on Vulture’s Peak Friends , lovers, enemies, family Coming / going Sand sifts through fingers Granules of eternity Time + time = no time without mind The great cloud follows me Where ever I go I remember to remember The day I […]
I’m a poor unaccompanied man travelling through time My feet and hands have felt this scourge of pain called life Tasted the wines of Jesus words, the perfume of Rumi , been dressed by Buddha’s jewells and scoured clean of my moral beginnings I have sat with holy ones in dreams and seen the secret […]
In the land of radiant virtue Will come days of darkness and rage Brother against brother Sister against sister And the false profit will hold up A holy book Among the teargas and cries And somewhere someone Will step forward And they will be black And they will be called Radiance Tathagata One worthy of […]
Magical shit happens when cowered by doubt unable to move forward or back. It was on a midnight clear in October when the sky shook with Thor like thunder rolling across the sky black waves from the deep. Show me a sign I uttered from beneath the bedsheets. And there it was , my Billy […]
After Shirley died she said let’s go for drive . I said, okay , where ? Let’s go to Albury she said. Albury, fucking Albury , what the fuck for ? I dunno , I just want to drive , let’s just drive. We ended up somewhere near Daylesford a long way from Albury travelling […]
The streets are lonely of people even when the streets are full of people there is emptiness , so much stuff going on, cheap rooms and cheap wine , scared old men masturbating away their fears on someone already dead , poor Marylin , I heard she wrote poetry , there was a lonely person […]
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