SPRING WAS YESTERDAY

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Once again he's ignored 
the Steely admonition
not to go for that cotton candy
the kid will live 
not learn
as his ship of state burns
(Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water"
 in the background)
heading straight for that looming
thing ahead 

His little Engine That Could 
having jumped the tracks 
way back in New Jersey
keeps plowing ahead 
through the shit fields of time 
out of 
sheer 
fukU
disdain

So let's go downtown
and find out where 
The Mikado is playing 
I need some color
in these grey days
rapidly fading to black 

Put on a grand show
cuz I need you 
to take me for that ride
to fool me again
and in the end
pretend again
that I'm surprised

FILM NOIR

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads--dVerse Poets Pub

I know secrets
tucked away in perpetuity
that are too dangerous for the world 
to reveal

and so do you

I wonder whose secrets
would make the world
blow up faster...

yours or mine?

FIRST DAY OF THE POETRY CLASS I'M NOT TEACHING

Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Stop looking for the
pretty word
and start looking for the
relevant one
there are so many pretty words
blocking the sun
and the cold light of day
I'm 'bout to choke on the perfume

get over the sweet sickness
of wanting to make pretty words
and come to your senses
there are five of them
(six if you ask Bruce Willis)
and you can use them all
do ya hear me?
do ya see what I'm sayin?
are ya sniffin' out my meaning?
you can almost taste it now, right?

(has this touched you in any way?)

cuz nobody writes like you
when you sayin' things that have a meaning
and not just a sound
nobody else can do it
egg-zachly like you
and that's the beauty of it, pardner
right there