sixpence

Sing a song of sixpence

Tales
shall I tell a tale
a story
a legend
a truth
but hide it in
a web of words

spin a web
of truth?
or deceit?
of the lies
lies

And let you pick out the thread
among the threads
like an orb weaver walking
wary
to find the prey she feels
through her feet

or would that be hands?

so she may feed

another term for a certain
type of story
or song
is a lay.

Shall I sing a lay?


Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the lord my soul to take.

Die before I wake?

Sleep child,
sleep.

That sleep which knits up
the raveled sleeve of care.

Oh yes,
are there many truths?
or only one?

A pocket full of rye

Motorhead,  V twin, Harley
panhead, ape hangers, suicide shifter
Bad ass,
BA
Bad Ass.
rider
thunder in the night

He won't run
no fear
Hells Angel
No.

I am Hells Angel.

shall I teach him?
The little boy
who stills lives in there?
He's forgotten him
but I have not
I can find him
find his thread
and pull it.

The fabric of his mind
unravel
that he has so carefully
woven.

Bad Ass

Four and twenty blackbirds

Speak the speech, I pray you,
a voice
the voice
that voice
speaking
saying
those things
forgotten things
hateful things

as I pronounc'd it to you,
you're dead you sonofabitch
dead
shut up
go away
where the fuck did
that come from

the alcohol and the drugs
can they silence you
did they silence you
go away dammit
damn you
where were you when I needed you?

trippingly on the tongue

it's night
dark
swallow the pain
swallow
the pain.
cause it doesn't hurt.
nothing hurts.
no pain.

Baked in a pie

I
am here

see me? 
No?
over here?
No?
now over here?
behind you.
listen
I have things to tell you
things you've forgotten
thing you should remember
things I want you to remember
You shouldn't bury things like that
no, 
I can smell them you see.
smell them.
let me dig them out for you.
I can do that.

oops, now I'm over here.

No no no
really, you should stop
park
let me talk to you
I wouldn't want you to have 
an accident.
no accident.
I have a use for you.
But first you must listen.

When the pie was opened

Feel that?
Feel that?
You thought,
thought that was gone?
no fear?
No.
Fear.
Fear is for others
not for you,
yes?
that's how it's been.
You like fear,
in others.
You feed on fear,
in others.
see?
you're just like me
we're brothers, true?
All that fear you've collected
savored
yes?

Here, 
My brother I will help you to
feel
all that fear you've collected
feel it
feel it
Ah, my brother. 
let me give you
love

Where am I?

Over here.

You want to see me?

To look at me?

I'm not hiding.

I'm right here,
in front of you.


Look at me.


Look

at

me.


The birds began to sing

Mercy?

You desire mercy?

How odd.
Why should you demand of me
that which you have never granted
another?

I desire that you should remove 
your shades before me.
shades.
shades, how appropriate.
let me see your eyes.
yes.
Let me look.
Let me remove your shades
all those shades you have
collected.

The windows to your soul.
good.
Oh, how empty,
yet 
how full
you are.

I shall make it stop
when I am 
ready.

Mercy?


Here is mercy.


Wasn't that a dainty dish

sated.


To set before the King?

misunderstood

Shall I be called evil
or misunderstood.

This one who wanders
the outer darkness
seeking merely to satisfy
a hunger

is it my fault
that this hunger
is endless
eternal
unending

Did I ask that he create me?

Arrogant bastard.

He saw it all
and said that it was good

would he not know?

how is it 
that the child of wisdom
should be so ignorant.

Sofia falling
from the highest
which was the all
to the lowest
gives birth to god

who is a fool

but I know what lies above
sleeping
so, 
to spite this god
shall I not prove his creation
flawed?

he made me
I am his immortal
but he can neither control
nor destroy 
me

I shall laugh
in his face

and feed 
on his children.

Absence

There is no cold,
there is only the absence 
of heat.

There is no dark,
there is only the absence 
of light.

Stillness is coldness
Stillness is darkness

shall I wait?

The absence 
of motion
implies the absence
of time

time passing 
is things moving

Gravity -
slows time
Gravity -
can stop time

so falling into the black hole
takes forever.

And forever
is a very long
time

When did that happen?
Did it happen at all

Trick question.

Remember that?
How did that go?


"Shh, listen. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."

Something like that, I'm not sure. 
I don't remember it exactly. 
But it was something like that.

Unstuck in time.

So now let us remember
the future,
that which hasn't been,
but which will be.

So, the light cone spreads out
and if I stand "here"
inside the cone
I know.

and if I step to the side
over "here"
outside the cone
I don't know
I can't know.

Can not know.

The width of a photon
is all that lies between 
knowing
and
not knowing.

the sword of no sword

the sword of no sword is the only blade sharp enough to cut

nothing

sonnet 4

There are within my mind ten thousand hells

where night has never given place to day.
places where eternal, darkness dwells
in endless sleeping shadow shapes and shades.
There on the dark side mountains of the moon
in the razor ridged mountains known as pain
upon the dust dry paths where all too soon
thoughts of death infect a fevered brain
There I dreamt I sought the cave of night
the dark within the dark where hidden lies
all that I keep hidden from my sight
yet see still when 'ere I close my eyes.
Within the cave of night must lie the key
with which to set the prisoners souls free.

indeterminate

If the universe were fixed and finite
the night sky would glow as the day
filled with the light of all the stars
living and dead
from the beginning of time
to the present

which is not so defined
and definite
as you would think

the eternal now
sliding
like a bead on a string
now here
now there.
where and when
being indeterminate except in relation
to all that surrounds them
points in time
points in space

so we say "when did that happen?"
and assume there is an answer
to that question
but when and where
here and there
are not so
considerate
of our desires.

so we try to pin things down
lock them in place
fix them
solidify
but the closer we look
the fuzzier it gets

until we cannot say anything definite
about what we think we know