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Call me pack horse…Sunday Oct. 19, 2014 / Nottingham, UK #SchwervonPoetry

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Call me pack horse
Call me living dream
Call me quiet strange lady
Sitting a cross from me on the train
Call me a liar.
She wasn’t strange at all
Actually quite nice.
But she did refer to herself as short.

Giant cranes swing their
Giant steely beaks
Through the air
Slicing through a Shepard pie sky
Dousing the clouds in a thick
Warm industrial gravy

I hear tale of an old model ship
That hasen’t been dusted
For a many many years
For fear that the chosen janitor
Be struck down dead
just like the last several in the past

Love is a test that you never fail
Stop trying to memorize
Start fighting bees

Pumping things up to win
Lambs on the prairie drinking cider
Waving at a bullet as it passes by
Is there a doorman at the gates of hell
Checking OD’s ?
Measuring the with of you sores

No shortage of green pastures around here
No shortage of rain
The rain comes and then it goes
Just like the sun

 (This poem was originally recited at Spanky Van Dykes on October 19, 2014 in Nottingham, UK)

 

Show Poem: Anger Is Not Love / 6-12-14 / KC, MO @ Davey’s Uptown w/ Folkicide + Estocar

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Stupidity is not rebellion
Listening is not losing the fight
I know you’re scared
I know you need something to believe
I know you feel alone
It’s frightening
Fear leads to anger
Anger feels like passion
I know
Feels like living
Feels like power
Almost feels like love
But it’s not
Love is not anger
Anger is not love
I learned this from my lover
I learned this from my mother
I learned this from a dog and a sheep and a Grover
Turn the radio on
Turn the radio off
It doesn’t really matter
Stop hating the radio.
Stop driving it around.
Stop letting it drive you.

Show Poem: Wed. May 7th “Acoustic Mayhem” @ Davey’s Uptown (KC, MO)

Daveys

photo by Rachel Sky

I’ve spent the last three days sweeping up thousands upon thousands of little helicopter seeds from the three soft maple trees around the back yard. The supply of these seeds seems endless.  I’m amazed at the idea probably not a single one will grow into tree. It reminds me of the millions of tiny sperms that I have wasted jerked off into into countless paper towels, tissues, old t-shirts and shower drains.

Anyone who says that nature is efficient and not wasteful is full of shit.
There used to be a book for everything
There used to be time for things
There was so much waste

How to
Write a poem
Think of something that could help people
There used to be a book for everything.

How to
Change a lightbulb
Stop nagging it about it’s future.
There used to be so much waste.

How to
Make an enemy for life.
Steal a person’s dreams.
There used to be time for things.

How to
Be happy
Learn to love the insanity
There used to be so much waste

How to
Help a blind man cross the road.
Put small bumps in the sidewalk
There used to be a book for everything

How to
Sleep comfortably on an air mattress
Do not over inflate
There used to be so much waste

How to
Manage a migraine headache while performing a rock show
Focus on your hands. Relax in the car until right before you have to go on. Do not
stare directly into the merch light.
There used to be time for things

How to
Get along with idiots.
Act like they’re hurt children
There used to be  so much waste

How to
Stay alive
Six 12 ounce glasses of water a day.

But there is no survival of the fittest when you’re a  soft elm helicopter seed in the suburbs of Shawnee Kansas. You’re  just the one in a million lucky bastard that hitches a ride on some yard waste trash truck and flies off into a nice warm, ditch somewhere on the way to the land fill.  A soggy fertile ditch just begging you to sprout and grow.