wizard absurd

fucking pinball,
chaos theory, and
what
the
hell
just happened!
BAM! BAM!
BANG
and you're off like a rocket
red glare in your pocket
thunder for a rainy day
not how you said, but what you say

stereotype, shake me like a rag doll
I got gunpowder and I ain't afraid
last chance, would you take the last dance?
all alone so I guess I'm brave

but now, game over
and I'm out of quarters.

illusions and allusions, marked with foam

5 cents to fix the love bipolar
(you don't really wanna stay,
but you don't really wanna go)

Romeo, that modulation
wasn't all it is when she sings
though I felt it could be;
when the devil's eyes
come into our lives, I told you I will
and still, well that ain't gonna change
because miss christina's got one thing right
(and you admit it, twice)

and Romeo, you know what's in a name
and I could count what you've inspired
on my fingers and toes, and your nose
and our list is just a game;

seven hours, eleven days,
it's not in my power to take on that blame
and even the list would be missed
(I am rather sorry
about all of this.)

a line for the perfect color, which I didn't find
had nothing to do with your evening or mine.

if she's too passionate to let herself go
then she'll never find what she's looking for
she is too passionate to let herself go,
and it took a long time to get through that door.

and then it snowed.

the artist and the muse

you are unmerciful, my dear
and i show the same to you
neither of us show our fear
and it's all that we can do.

i've been posed for a good hour now
i've never felt so cold
the music in my head is loud
and the refrain is getting old.

oh darlin', i can understand
why you became my muse
you're so careful with your frozen hands
but so loose with the ones you lose.

now it's in eternal song
like my body on your page
you're not sure about right or wrong
and i'm not sure that i'll fade.

cold/fire/thanks - take two (hoping for forgiveness)

galahad and gwydion could do naught but love
and the High Queen of Corona couldn't tell
while the view of the Tor towered above
echoes only a shadow of Avalon's bell

it burns! witchcraft, sorceress
give me reprieve
from the skeletal remains
i see in my dreams

i give thanks for:
heat
song
pillows
poems
numbers
snow
God
bodies
cemeteries
convertibles
nail polish
bare feet
and every single one of you

tunnel thrice

"a thousand lies and a good disguise!
hit 'em right between the eyes!
hit 'em right between the eyes!"

DAMMIT if i could i would,
i won't go as far as you.

i hope i find that commitment someday,
i hope i can appreciate it before insanity comes my way,
knocks at the sun-baked shattered wooden door
where those outcasts lean and recuperate
and long for more.

this is not my family.

my family pronounces chuck and larry and managed
to be civil this year.

it was weird.

not to not

there was jazz in the background,
a soft sound,
and the clinking of glasses and i
don't think this is where he really lives.
it's just where i thought he did.

his sneakers are slightly blinding,
the responses binding,
like a corset restricting your breathing
and that is not what i want!

i want to talk, to sleep next to you
to sing for you, to sing the blues
and i want to.

i'm not up for this world of words
and labels
and fools
and unpolished jewels,
because i know that i'm better than that.

even, alright,
already.

blackout

the silence of the black
was absolute and back to back
we shuffled through that old worn house
and found a place to curl up
and wait out the storm;

despite a lingering yawn
and the annoyance of such an early dawn
i slept through the dusk and rose ready
to go on;

"happy attack" - that's what it looks like.
stand back, and don't try to be right.
i've learned from their mistakes just how
lucky i am and how
hard that is to understand.

contemplate - if you make me wait,
i can chalk it up to her last date
and you're going to go cry, now
and i can't tell you why, now
and oh lord, i've been down
since she let you down
and you're never coming round, now

so we can; let's wait it out together.
the lights won't be off forever
and sooner or later, you gotta believe
something will rise for you and fall for me
and i'm okay with giving a just little bit up
so you can have your everything.