Grace - Minstrel In The Gallery
Hello sun. Hello bird. Hello my lady. Hello breakfast. may i Buy you again tomorrow?
Baker street muse —————————————– Windy bus-stop. click. shop-window. heel. Shady gentleman. fly-button. feel. In the underpass, the blind man stands. With cold flute hands. Symphony match-seller, breath out of time. You can call me on another line. Indian restaurants that curry my brain. Newspaper warriors changing the names they Advertise from the station stand. With […]
There’s a haze on the skyline, to wish me on my way. And there’s a note on the telephone — some roses on a Tray. And the motorway’s stretching right out to us all, As i pull on my old wings — one white duck On your wall. Isn’t it just too damn real? I’ll […]
Requiem - Minstrel In The Gallery
Well, i saw a bird today — flying from a bush and the Wind blew it away. And the black-eyed mother sun scorched the butterfly At play — velvet veined. I saw it burn. With a wintry storm-blown sigh, a silver cloud blew Right on by. And, taking in the morning, i sang — o […]
Come, let me play with you, black satin dancer. In all your giving, given is the answer. Tearing life from limb and looking sweeter than the Brightest flower in my garden. Begging your pardon — shedding right unreason. Over sensation fly the fleeting seasons. Thin wind whispering on broken mandolin. Bending the minutes — the […]
And ride with us young bonny lass — With the angels of the night. Crack wind clatter — flesh rein bite on an out-size Unicorn. Rough-shod winging sky blue flight on a cold wind To valhalla. And join with us please — valkyrie maidens cry Above the cold wind to valhalla. Break fast with the […]
The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the Smiling faces. He met the gazes — observed the spaces between the Old men’s cackle. He brewed a song of love and hatred — oblique Suggestions — and he waited. He polarized the pumpkin-eaters — static-humming Panel-beaters — freshly day-glow’d factory cheaters (salaried and collar-scrubbing). He […]
