Basket
I want to write the raincoat not the song — that i can find and put on. yellow, red, or blue — that i may sing to you when the skies are wet and grey i want to write the…
Nathan Moore
Dum da da
If you can spell it out, you can have it. My God. My Lord. If you can count ’em out, you can have ’em, they’re yours. It’s a fact of science, a law of nature, a magic spell. We can…
on the futility of words to describe my love and the merits of humming auld lang syne
nonsense on a napkin stained with rings of wine calling on my wandering heart it’s off in another time in the silence of the dancers another rhyme falls in the deafening din of answers i hear my heart, it calls…
Tommy Chong
The day they put Tommy Chong in prison for selling water bongs, I was hittin’ mine sitting there screaming at the television how could Tommy Chong be doing time!? O the breaking news keeps breaking my heart taking my morning…
When My Time Comes
When my time comes, I want the world to know though I loved my life, I do not hate to go Nonono. Nonono. it’s always been clear to me. I smile to think I’m here for but a little while.…
Wasted Was Ted
there’s a guy i call him Ted who lives inside my head and if you ever met him then you may be dead i don’t much like him but once he saved my life and now he says i owe…
Van Jones
when you’re young you’re radical by nature when the old just leave well enough alone this man is just inspiring hatred there’s nothing wrong with Van Jones Van Jones he’s a man I understand him gave his heart to the…
Understand Under
i want to play like jelly roll morton, write like waldo emerson, sing like Odetta — say give me Liberty like Patrick Henry escape like Houdini on the very last breath i want to fly straight as an arrow, crooked…
Turn Me Loose
I know you like it when I’m playing it cool, but babe that’s getting harder and harder to do. One of the nights and it might be soon I’m gonna be dropping down and begging you to turn me loose,…
Traveling On
Tossed a penny watched it roll said “heads I’m heading to New Mexico, tails I’m staying right here where I sit.” Would you believe me if I lied said it stayed up on it’s side so I hitched a ride…