Replacement killers
Gone overboard
Drowning in current events
Lost like the back lights
Of an oncoming car

One day the ground grows up
And reaches the sky

The universe won't brake
While dreams cross the road

Nevermind

Never think
Never care
Never talk
Never share
Never love
Never cry
Nevermind

Is there something wrong
With letting a moment mean something?
Or is that just the latest
On my long list of offenses.

Is it not ok change your hair?
Is it not ok to be aware?
Is it not ok to run a mile in your shoes?

Will you tell me you hate me
And ask me to fly
And then when I do
Will I slip through your eye?
A change is more permanent than a holiday
Sooner or later your insides come out

Changing

I could tell you of my bones
Aching in old weather
But green like someone
Has only just moved in

They bend and grow inside
Gnarled like old leather
But yearning with promise
Of sunshine to come

Pouring into my stomach
All lightning and acid
Chipping at my spine
Restitching it new

You cast me in a different mould
So my hands aren't where
My brain last put them
A new frame crammed inside
Churning beneath numb skin
So it won't show up in photos.

Prize

Eyes on the prize
The trick is in
A famine on blinking
Hope you have the stamina
When looking away
Is heart and soul

Forgiveness is healing
Excorsising hate
But surgery is painful

Nine times
Home
Never

What in forest fires
Burns, comes back to life
And ends.

One way day
Singing to the light
Don't know what to say
One way day

Just Like People

Shoes come
In all shapes
And sizes
And patterns
But only a few
Match my soul.

Magic Wobbles

Hocus pocus
Out of focus
Picking lies out
The atmosphere
Click and hum
What have you done
To me
My dear?

Spider

Hide until
You lose track
The unseen spider
Bites you in the back
Unheard unfelt
You can unwind
It's much to late for never
But never is a long time.

Don't you weigh down on me
You don't mean to
Something so big
Has its own gravity.

The future kills
One day at a time

Foot in Mouth

Whenever I'm around you
I trip over my tongue
And land head first on my foot
Mouth wide open
The perpetual idiot

Sometimes pressing two pages together
Is the best way to keep them apart

Poetry is a way
Of walking around
A wall too big to climb
Poetry is breaking up heavy things
Into brainsized chunks
So you can carry them inside

The strange sad sickness
Comes on so sudden
Thick with tears and sellotape
Getting better only with reluctance

Everything changes
Like a whirlpool
Or a tidal wave,
Relaying the power lines

The strange sad sickness
Hides beneath the skin
Brushing green fingertips
On everyone around
Grinning in your heart
When it gobbles up
A smile that strayed too close

Faded boxing gloves
Make you remember
That time way back when
You swung the universe
On the ends of your fists
You were water on the grill
Sizzling like the crowd
You played for time
Till time knocked you down
And you evaporated
From all but a memoried haze
Gloves growing a skin of fade

I wave at you in the distance
And let my thoughts race threeleggedly
I lick the frozen metal of my mind
And give my heart indigestion
Your mirror is nonchalance
So I can watch me melt off you
And leave not a mark

In the final time
In the countdown
When the lines are read
Sentences
Look out for falling rocks

In the darkness
In the grip of fear
Did I place my feet on
Intersections
And one way streets

Can you look God in the face
Of everyone around you?

Those who sit on hillsides
Should not turn their back on the view