So deep in the water Sleep, dark as the night Somehow it seems it was all another dream Soon dissolved in the light. Oh, we were by the waterline. Vague, the song of the night. Innocent to all the peasant gods with you, So, we drink to be renewed. On the long, deep river Where […]
Crime and punishment in tuscon Back to normal in the sun Playing blackjack in the drive-in Shooting snake-eyes in the mud And when the moonlight came out, we were gone, long gone. They found a body on the race-track; No identifying signs In his pocket was a notebook With a number inside And guadalajara’s just […]
I was dreaming It’s a hundred and ninety degrees We were crawling around on our knees Till the sun came up at quarter to three But the time we had Dirty clothes and dirt on our walls Swinging on the bathroom doors Thinking we were having a ball Until somebody said they’d Been there, done […]
Up on a hill, as the day dissolves With my pencil turning moments into line High above in the violet sky A silent silver plane – it draws a golden chain One by one, all the stars appear As the great winds of the planet spiral in Spinning away, like the night sky at arles […]
Cordoba - Wrong Way Up
A man was sleeping under a tree. He wrote to me from cordoba. After the theatre, we went to his house. He’s a very generous cordoban. We waited at the door, but he didn’t come. According to his father, he’s very ill. There was a long line of cars In front of me. I came […]
So they rode the sea, It went on and on They were years away Though it seemed so long But the captain never told them what he knew As the poor ship laboured on through the endless blue. Oh the storm was strong And the ship was so frail But they stumbled on Raising broken […]
When señoritas walk at night, Habañeros on the move, It’s music to their ears in the backroom. If there’s money to be made, And it’s a hundred in the shade and in the backroom, She’s sentimental like the last Of the foreigners running past her to the backroom. And if things aren’t sweet in mecca […]
Night-time is falling on the louvre. It’s been a lazy afternoon. We walk to the house, the air is clear, The water’s still moving in the pool. You say one word. The same one sound. Thing it makes Again. the world go ’round. One word; you’ll see We fight. you can’t win – We’re in […]
lay my love I am the crow of desperation I need no fact or validation I span relentless variation I scramble in the dust of a failing nation I was concealed Now i am stirring And i have waited for this time. I am the termite of temptation I multiply and find my population I […]
