human mind machine

human mind machine
never switches back to "off"
working thru the weather
working thru the night

human mind machine
you don't cease to amaze
human mind machine
how do you see so much?

you never miss a bit
you never miss a smile
you're always carrying a tune
you never slow down
I try to watch you one day
I try to read along
following your code
something always stops me
human mind machine
throws a wrench into the tears

two eyes
the world will never see

The shells I find on the beach of my mind
Skeletons of what I once believed
They crawled along the ocean
Moved the sand along
They crawled along the ocean
Tried to be whatever they could

I don't know what's good
I don't know what's crawling in the sand right now
Polishing the rocks
Swimming in my tears
Swimming through the fears
What made those skeletons drown?

I love being near myself
I love being here by myself

I'm gonna think about you
Till the lights come on again
I'm gonna think about you
Till I finally pick up my pen
I'm gonna think about you,
been thinking since
(God knows when)
I'm gonna think it all through
And then do it all over again

I'm gonna watch you breathe
Gonna watch you move
I'm gonna watch your eyes as they light the way
I'm gonna peel your skin off the sides of this afternoon
And watch the moon shine down
I don't see any clouds tonight

(go for a third verse!)

I'm gonna walk by the ocean
Gonna walk by the sea
I'm gonna tell my emotions, now you listen to me
You listen to me
I'm gonna find out who's ready
Gonna find out who swims the best and the fastest
and send them to you with the hope that
You'll come back for the rest yourself someday.

Stay busy and bloom

Stay busy, busy, busy – take roots

And bury, bury, bury them deeply

Till you’ve seen everything

You’ve seen it all.

You’ve been soil shocked

Pulled up, pulled out, dry and writhing

Making it, and faking it with honesty

Delivering a drop of sun, a drop of rain

Spider comes along and sees it eight new ways

Crawls along my shoulder and tells me secretly

I’ve seen nothing at all.

you rode on a kite

You rode on a kite

Down from where the winds catch every skirt they can feel

You made it feel real.

You bathed in a cloud

For nearly half my days you bathed and you lazed

Around in a cloud

I hope it feels bright.

Your smile is the sun

Golden streaks still don’t know where to run

Looking for some children’s face to kiss

They always miss

I shed a tear

You made it feel just like a kiss

Can you handle me?

Can you handle me?

Do you know what hit you

Are you remotely prepared for it

Are you a porch with a patio and swing

Or a deck I need to swab over and over again

Just like the rest of the platforms every set of steps has led to

Can we make it all the way through the litter scraps and waste

Decomposition may be all that we know anymore

And there are shorter vines now, receding

Draw back, line by line until

You find that you still

Can’t handle me

simply lovely

people are simply lovely
in the evening light
sitting on the patio
coffee cups at the lips
lifted
this is a picture of reality

i remember evenings
sitting in the garden, the light was pale but heavy with
possibility
i forgot those days
and now they look like dreams
and i wonder if i ever really saw those nights
or bathed in those summer days at all
if the silence can mean anything
then it ought to just at least give me a clue