Bubble - Educated Guess
I hated to pop the bubble Of me and you But it only held enough oxygen For a trip or two To the moon and back again Tell me, do you remember when Our love had such grace We were floating above this whole place It’s dawn on the corner Where the city tests its […]
Akimbo - Educated Guess
What dreams cause me To abandon my pillow each night? Push away each of them, in fact Since there always seem to be more than one Then wake to aching stiff neck twisted Tits and face smashed against the mattress Legs and arms akimbo Like the high pitched body of a jumper Waiting for her […]
As dolls go I am broken And you could just let that get us off the hook But from under the umbrella of the unspoken I see you giving me that look Baby, you’re right as rain about the benefits But you might be wrong about the costs And it feeds my heart that you […]
Company - Educated Guess
What’s the point Of all this pointless proximity If you won’t talk Take me for a walk Through a little story All these years Have made me sick to tears Of such mysteries Why should I keep you If you won’t keep me Company? Til I get to know you I ain’t gonna show you […]
I love my country By which I mean I am indebted joyfully To all the people throughout its history Who have fought the government to make right Where so many cunning sons and daughters Our foremothers and forefathers Came singing through slaughter Came through hell and high water So that we could stand here And […]
Animal - Educated Guess
More and more there is this animal Looking out through my eyes At all the traffic on the road to nowhere At all the shiny stuff around to buy At all the wires in the air At all the people shopping For the same blank stare At america the drastic That isolated geographic That’s become […]
There you were day after day Six feet Twenty feet Two feet away Right in my pocket singin me a song Makin my heart race all day long And we talked it out and we talked it down But your eyes were not listening And my ears were looking around For another song to sing […]
Bodily - Educated Guess
You broke me bodily The heart ain’t the half of it And I’ll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way In fact I’m laughing less in general But I learned a lot at my own funeral And I knew you’d be the death of me So I guess that’s the price […]
The light blue flickering rhythm Of the neighbor’s big console T.V. Is basking on the ceiling Of another insomniac spree And outside sleep’s open window Between the drops of rain History is writing a recipe book For every earthly pain Oh to clean up the clutter of echoes Coming in and out of focus Words […]
I said Venice You heard Vegas Now I say either way Baby let’s go I get so shaky And I just can’t shake it I bliss like this I’m one of those But I don’t wanna wear you Wear you like a band-aid Wave you like a ticket Out of my good grief I just […]
