I sleep well

Because a God is steel

I am very likely bendable

But skyscrapers

Time seizes lemonade

And rockers on porches

When your promise rings

And worms and leeches

Do their very best

But you restore

All they disfigure

I am very likely undependable

But bridges

I go to you

Because you own

I go to you

There is the it-factor

I am very likely un-enchanted

But flagpoles

I am very likely heavy-eyed

But I sleep well

 

 

A bead of water

Rolls down the dashboard

Its hot as hell in here

Windows are down

But there’s no breeze

Cool of the day

But there’s no cool

And even in this

You don’t drive

You sit

Like a fool

In a bath

Naked

In the middle

Of the town square

Just so fixed

On doing what you’re doing

To cover yourself

So you’ll boil here

If you have to

And you’ll wait here

As long as you need to

For your sin wagon

For your sin wagon

For your hot sin wagon

Well

I ain’t heard

A canary sing

A spiritual

In six weeks

Now I’m singin’

Yep

Now I’m singin’ singin’

And there’s a chubby-cheeked

Laughin’ laughin’ baby

In my week

Cute as can be

New and needed and neat

’Cause that chili’s been too hot

For the whole group to take

And today’s water bath

Left a tingling refreshing cool

On the tip of our tongues

It’s a new

Beautiful

Melody

Human river

Freezin’ over

Not near enough

For any kind

Of warm

On account of all

The sin blisterin’

When the fool

Holds a sign

That says

Ima fool-singin’ fool

Ima shaky man shiverin’

Tryin’ ta stand

On a slippery oil

Drippin’ with grace

That ain’t never been

Bee’s speak

Fall then

Fall, boy

 

Boo

Said no one

If it don’t fit

It don’t fit

Coulda talk talked

Coulda built a water slide

But some would rather

Keep reading

Their kindergarten primer

Deeper and deeper voiced

So get on out of here

Cause helium, right

Theres a lot of it

We got a whole city

Of balloons to fill

All lips smack the same

When the soul speaks

And there is air

And there is water

And there is sweet

If you scrape the bottom

And the sides

You will find

The same hunger

The same thirst

The same itch

God-given and true

The deepest desires

Are not solo acts

But a choir

More and more these days

I’m finding myself stuck

Not wanting to power up

Not wanting to shrink back

And I think perhaps

It is an invitation

Of sorts

To spend time

With someone higher

And more noble

So it’s a blessing

I suppose

To realize

I have no player in the game

Nothing to manage

Nothing to promote

That isn’t lit on fire

Illuminated

By great light

And that I

Even I

Am bidden

To sit

And stare

I don’t close my eyes anymore

When I kiss you

‘Cause I’ve seen it all before

I don’t close my eyes anymore

When I’m near you

Because I’m afraid of the dark

I don’t close my eyes anymore

When I’m alone

‘Cause it hurts to move my mind that way

I don’t close my eyes anymore

When I should be sleeping

Because tomorrow is a heart attack

I don’t close my eyes anymore

 

Who said you could act that way

From then to now

A big change

You look through

That crack in the cement

And you see a scorned boy

Who simply was

Existing

But wasn’t especially liked

Unigue

In the most plain way

Liked

As utility

And I suppose

That after awhile

You just snap

If more people

Show that they

Cant see

Anything valuable

In the ordinary

The unimpressive

Begins to roar

But not to bellow

No

Simply to breathe

To survive

It’s a gasp

 

You don’t start

With a message in mind

You just

Ask a lot of questions

Fine then fine

Oh and I know

You sell tons of books

But friend

Who’s gettin’ out of the fire

Who’s gettin’ out

Cause they’ll storm your house

And raise your flag

And have you sign their forehead

But who

Who’s gettin’ out

Who’s gettin’ out of the fire

They’ll circle around you

And place you on their shoulders high

And they will probably raise a glass

But who, Friend

Answer me

With their blood on your hands

Who’s gettin’ out of the fire

Who is getting out