Fool Am I

Fool Am I

 

The jester was short with a contorted face                            

He preached that salvation was by works not grace              

Jokerman had files from the palace to the slum                    

More than the queen was under his dirty green thumb          

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

I was reading penthouse letters in the attic

There were some true confessions from a fanatic

It was there the jester first came into my mind

How secret lovers discovers life ain’t kind

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

She was wearing nothing except her golden crown

The jester commanded baby let’s go downtown

A smile crossed her face on sweet lips ruby red

She cackled pretty soon were all gonna be dead

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I

 

Well the king had three wisemen who listened before they spoke

They knew the jester was something more than a running joke

We don’t recommend the nuclear option unless it’s an extreme

They said push the red button and we’ll see if life’s but a dream

 

Desperate the king challenged the fool to a duel

The jester wasn’t strong but he was plenty cruel

The queen couldn’t lose she had spread out all her bets

Swords flashed egos crashed blood spilled with no regrets

 

Tell me what kind of fool am I

I make the good women lie

I make the bad women cry

Tell me what kind of fool am I 

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Slipping Into A Blue Sky

 Slipping Into A Blue Sky

 

I have a secret alphabet where new letters abound                            

I dream all day of new ways to say I Love You                                

The salad’s a kiss I’m hungering for the main course                       

Peace is flowing like a river and the Good Lord’s the source           

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

Sipping Champaign I hope it’s plain the special way I feel

Allow me to explain that my Love is genuine and real

Put forever in a bottle pull the throttle to full speed

Whatever your desire I’ll light the fire for all you need

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

Mellow my mind I find a new universe gentle and kind

Come take my hand understand destiny planned to leave all behind

Past the moon soon we’ll be sailing beyond the farthest star

To a place of grace of leather and lace called Jupitar

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

 

One and one makes one when all is said and done

Making love all night the morning light’s just begun

With certainty eternity is a time much too small

God bless what I possess I give you it all

 

Time is merely a cosmic flow melting into supernal tide

We don’t gotta run forever I know where we can hide

Arm in arm safe from all harm a paradise built for two

Slipping into a blue sky a high made for me and you

 

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

I’m slipping into a blue sky heaven’s so high

I’m slipping into a blue sky let’s give love a try

I’m slipping into a blue sky and you’re the reason why

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Sunset Sonnet 9

Sunset Sonnet 9

 

It’s getting late Syl the clock is ticking

I isolated penning poetic verse

You playing your game the keyboard clicking

A few words back and forth so we converse

Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day praise His name

Six days for men one for the I Am

Twenty six years on my path free of shame

The water’s of wickedness God did dam

We shall travel to the inner city

Newark a place in decay forgotten

But I know from high to low God is with me

The first shall be last so seek the bottom

In glorious voices our praises ring

Glory to God and glory to the King 

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Train Wreck

Train Wreck

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

 

Running down the line looking so fine

A hell of a train called make it all mine

Iron and steel it’s a fire of fury

Get off of the tracks it’s in a hurry

A world away it didn’t seem true

I fell in love like young girls always do

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Mother picked my man before I was born

Between custom and Love I was torn

Outcast I rode the plains with Crazy Horse

The elders would not let me divorce

We were free as the sky never knowing

It all would end with a whistle blowing

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Liquor lies and soldiers ready to fight

So much for us making love all night

I kissed him hard as we said goodbye

I knew we were through I broke down to cry

Our hope was just to live our own way

Before the iron dragon had its day

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Like the Buffalo we are no more

We won the battle but lost the war

Like my people I am of the past

Love stories have no choice but to last

At six every morn the train rolls by

When something is born something must die

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck a world of pain

A train wreck life’s insane

A train wreck coming in vain

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

A train wreck and it’s coming again

 

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh

 

I ride the plains you can still hear my cry

When something is born something must die

Ooooh oooh oooh oooh 

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Now I See

Now I See

 

Farm Road was a dusty trail

With a creek and a bog

Quick Mathew would catch a frog

And we’d keep him in a pail

Tadpoles would flourish in the stream

Wiggly and slimy in hand

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand

 

There were woods thick with bush

Branches, twigs moved with a push

All around lost in bliss

Of Mother Nature’s wilderness

The river shallow with slippery stone

Mathew and I crossed it alone

Trying not to get wet feet

As if soggy socks signaled defeat

 

Now the stream is dark and void

The frogs, the fish all destroyed

Farm Road is paved like all the rest

Houses built where there was forest

Progress they say I want to scream

I see your progress, progress be damned

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand

 

No rocks to turn to see a millipede

Our refuge of nature is now gone

A victim of man and his greed

Yet still life it must go on

There is little in us worth to redeem

The world goes on as Satan planned

We were living in a dream

And we did not understand  

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Mother In The Nursing Home

Mother In The Nursing Home

 

Mother was a rock of support

Always advocating for my welfare

A fierce defender

Defeating the number one contender

Apathy

She saved all of my writings in the attic

Considering them precious and priceless

Who knows one day?

Still it is the nature of humanity

To soften in the latter years

To fall into the hands of frightful fears

And so Mother was in the nursing home

After the breast cancer, the pace maker and the stroke

We sadly learned the cancer had returned

A terminal diagnosis

Six days a week I visited her

Only absent Wednesday as Sylvia and I went to Bible study

An hour after work it was my steadfast duty

I'd sit at her side making my presence known

Lord have mercy on those abandoned alone

We'd watch the nightly news and I'd depart

Saturday Sylvia and I were all day by mother

My wife, the marvelous cook she is, would make

Piping hot chicken soup from fresh whole chickens

Enough to last the week through

Delicious and nutritious

And Sundays it was between services

To stay a couple of hours

I did all in my power that I could do

I remember the last days

They sent mother home to die

Marianne was by her side

I got the call at four a.m. in the morning

My heart descended below the depths of Sheol

The rock had been grinded to dust

Mother had died 

I cried

There is a solace

I was there when she needed me

A true champion she lived six months more

Then the doctors predicted

She was in the fight of her life, for her life

I did not repay what she gave me

Love keeps no score

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Under The Wire

 Under The Wire

 

On La Rue Avenue the traffic light is stuck on red                            

All the working girls trade their entire worlds just to be fed             

Big Tiny’s cruising losing time in his pink Cadillac              

Listen to what I say one day the sun will set and never come back  

 

She cries out I got love some love for hire

Give me my desire under the wire

I got a fire and I wanna take it higher

Lust is a lousy liar under the wire

 

Down on Wall Street the bankers compete for just one more buck

If you’re poor and don’t want to fight this war you’re out of luck

The U.S.S. Liberty tells me everything I need to know

We can fornicate at eight get dinner then catch an early show

 

She cries out I got love some love for hire

Give me my desire under the wire

I got a fire and I wanna take it higher

Lust is a lousy liar under the wire

 

Mother Teresa chit chats about the poor devouring lobster and steak

Writing lyrics on pages of dreams looking for my big break

In Utopia Todd is called God and he still don’t wanna work

My the unknown has grown fear ferments in the shadows where they lurk

 

She cries out I got love some love for hire

Give me my desire under the wire

I got a fire and I wanna take it higher

Lust is a lousy liar under the wire

 

A gaggle of drunks stumbling along mumbling a song that they used to know

I knew Michelle very well it was hell watching her perform on the go

Meanwhile without a smile the poets create free verse not worthy of time

I’ve gone half way around the world in Timbuktu I found a happy rhyme

 

Home’s where I want to be I read that in San Francisco Bay

He was the man of her dreams but unfortunately gay

Love is a mysterious force the source of everything good

I would bring peace and joy to our planet Earth if I only could

 

She cries out I got love some love for hire

Give me my desire under the wire

I got a fire and I wanna take it higher

Lust is a lousy liar under the wire

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