On Fire

twigs on fire
like a lit cigarette on the sidewalk
and sunsets in summer
a red cut on the lip
blood on its way up
I need you
accuracy fails
how bad can a lie really be?

one half of real love

you know what they say
but i don't know if it is you
or me
who has a problem with the other
for i love the earth
and you love what covers it up
i love to hold you
in my arms
to be held
to feel you
but to speak is just so useless
because we are different
in more than just a few ways
and i don't know if i am happy
with just one half of real love

Hatch you a Dragon

fetch me an egg
and i'll hatch you a dragon
tie it up to a fencepost
and tow it 'hind a wagon


hunt down a stag
with a gold flaming arrow
we'll feast upon dry bones
and toss out the marrow

dig for a clam
while the ships go to sea
stay here on the shore
while others go free

whistle for gray wolf
but run away screaming
he loved as a puppy
before teeth were gleaming

bring me your heart
keep it safe in a jar
you may wander forever
and never go far

climb branches to treetops
peer out 'cross the hills
from the birds with their full lungs
to the fish with their gills

fetch me an egg
and i'll hatch you a dragon
tie it to a fencepost
and tow it 'hind a wagon

Tarot Boy

tarot boy, i miss you already
why did i shuffle you back into the cards
after dusting you off and seeing your painted eyes
tarot boy, i wish you were here with me
i know that i hurt you
i bent you paper edges
tarot boy, i wish you could see my heart
but you are painted
and i am only a photocopy
tarot boy, i wanted to tell you
i wanted to hold you forever
but paper cards and paper worlds
cannot hold us right now
tarot boy, i will search for you in every deck
looking for your painted eyes
wait for me to find you again
before we shuffle away

here and far away

when you're here i want you far away
when you're gone i want you back
i don't know what is wrong with me
i don't know what to say
i say i love you
not a lie
but when you're here it seems so

you say there's something wrong with you
imbalance in your mind
i don't believe you
but i'm thinking
to myself
what i can fix

when you're far away i want you here
when you're here i wish you gone
i'm sorry that i seem so distant when i'm near you
and close when i'm so far away
i'm sorry for what i didn't do
didn't whisper in your ear
didn't tell you what i should have
didn't say what i knew would help you
didn't say why i'm how i am

i don't know why i am like this
it's like i fear what others think
which never happens any other time
but now when i'm with you

i run away, i don't know why
i tear away and don't know why
as soon as i'm home i wish i hadn't
maybe i only love ghosts

i dream about my plans for tomorrow
i wish i remembered the past
but as soon as i'm there
my plan starts to break
and i don't bother fixing it
i don't know why

i could keep writing
for years on end
my heart may not ever be free of this feeling
a desperate beat from deep within me
that suddenly stops and i'm dying

Tarot

the tarot cards said i would meet you
when i dropped your image from the deck
shuffling continued, but she said
"kinda shortish, brown-haired"
and fate was set

i join the speech team
with a friend
a neighbor for ten years or more
i met you then, though i've seen you before
i remember you little, a game of tag in a backyard
but it's a new introduction

frankly, i thought you a little weird
but those with braces on their teeth share a silent friendship
and we talked a lot
and you only talked to me

today we went off for a walk
i took my dog, i didn't know you'd fear her
and i didn't know she'd misbehave
and i didn't know we were so much alike
and you didn't think i was weird for picking up styrofoam trash in the park
into my pocket

on the way back to my house
where our ways would separate
i'm sorry that i said you were short
you seem touchy about that, sorry
and you have brown hair

the tarot cards said you would come
but not what happens next
i'm sorry i spoke over you
i wish you had said more
and finished singing in the rain


to be continued....?

i'm a nature freak, dammit! (potential rock song except not)

i'm closing my eyes
or i'm painting them black
i keep going forward
cause i can't turn my back
on this world i have known for so long

if the people would just wake up!
i can't take it much more now
and i'm going cold now
can't you just see it like i do?

you can't nuke the whales
i don't want you to shoot them
please lay off the monkeys
and don't kill the ants
i don't want to come off bossy
but it's breaking my back
i can't convince you they have purpose
and i'm about to snap

I don't want to hurt you
but you have no purpose in my eyes, either
I could say that I loved you
but that would be lying
and lying's not what I do best
so please just listen closely
don't throw rocks at that nest

I can't believe you people sometimes
pushing their luck for a few extra dimes
you don't need the styrofoam
you can do without the other shit you think you need to live
i think you'll survive

i'm just worried about the tigers


I'm no angel
sitting on my cloud of eco-friendly water droplets
singing sweetly to the creatures
watering the rainforest
but if you ask me one more time
why humans need an orangutan
i'll stab you with a recyclable spork

you can't nuke the whales
i don't want you to shoot them
please lay off the monkeys
and don't step on the ants
I could say i love you
but that would be lying
and this is the end of my rants.