Monthly Archives: March 1997

SEPTEMBER 1986

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SEPTEMBER 1986

I’d love to share my southern friends
the northern lights tonight
as they shimmer and they flow
in a dance of pure delight

A thousand miles of motion
at a hundred miles a minute
with every color of the rainbow
shading in and out within it

A rainbow just above my head
but a rainbow now set free
where greens, and blues, and pinks
can each take a solo spree

Then melt into the whole again
and softly fading fly
to white light and to rest
against a moonlit sky

While I in love’s sweet afterglow
wish all my loves this love could know

PROJECTION

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PROJECTION

She has reels upon reels in her mind
and a bright light farther back in her head
and in a little theatre on a screen that is me
she plays films of her father who’s dead

And the flickering light makes it real
and we soon forgot it’s a movie again
as we both got caught up in the action
and those magnets of fear and of pain

But sometimes I heard an outside sound
and started to remember and look around
And I tried to get her to stop the movie
and awake to the pain of this dreaming
or more often in the dark I just panicked
and ran from the theatre screaming

SANTA BARBARA ‘89

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SANTA BARBARA ‘89

In a seaside park
the homeless camped
and breathed the rich air
and slept beneath strong arms
of living things that seemed to care

And the people in million dollar homes
were deeply touched by this sad sight
they said “it isn’t right, it isn’t right”

“We’ll show you that we have
some values in our town”

So they had
the trees
cut down.

GOODNIGHT MARILYN

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GOODNIGHT MARILYN
(or dyin ain’t easy but it’s a livin)

All heroes will be expected to die young
to keep their fans from growing old
and will be well rewarded
in unspendable gold

If it’s sex you give then sex it pays
so take along the two young Ks

Though a frozen instant Porsche crash
could be worth a lot of cash

And the Colonel smiles as the money piles
for haunting supermarket aisles

But for biggest gross and longest run
it’s still the cross at thirty one