Back at It

Back on the road

48 hours in tow

Here we go

Another long haul

From the nights of deserts moons

To the Gypsies of Boulder

We will roll on down the highway

Tour

Perform

And do it again

Evacuation Deadline

Here it comes

A blazing infamous glory

From the tops of Washington

A news story

The pipeline will continue

My heart hangs on a line

People held in embrace

The dust settles for a difficult time

The hope was for some change of hands

The force of power

On sacred lands

But for now people head home

The risk of arrest to great to run

From that single act a stable life

Can be undone

I will research I will hope to understand more

The fields of dirt washed with northern snow

Where will the lonely hearts go

My heart goes out to the lovers

But the old train is going to roll along

Right after the last standing protester is gone

Gone

Out of Sync with The Human Race

What’s the news

News new about the blues

All around the doom and gloom

I guess it was coming

Whether it be now

Or sometime soon

I hope there is a better narrative offered

How can any feelings be not fraught with anxiety

Highly toxic situations playing out on TV

Grieving hard to find solutions

Not all caught in one place

Somehow I am out of place

Out of sync with the human race

The Impartial Egg

Dark snow on a light morning

Somehow these days develop

With no warning

Rain falls

Snow to follow

Swallowed up in the lack of light

Untidier and unclean

Steering down the road

Coffee awakes the soul

Somehow I know that more is to come

More uncertainty

More long nights

And warm mornings

Crack the egg

Make the meal

The seal of a simple morning

As the lights come on

 

 

Rhetorical Noise

It all comes down to the wire

Unwired and unplugged

Unscrewed undone

Why are we all caught up in the glue

Of the everyday

Power is power

Love is love

What comes above

Is respect and dignity

Unbeknownst to me

How to relearn

Love and noise

Are separated at the inception

I hope we all separate the truth

From deception

I Didn’t Pay for This

Stars in the news

Youtube megamillions

Billions of views

PewDiePie

Honestly, what the hell

Is going on

Where did we get it all wrong

From one not to the next

This is a most horrendous song

You get what you pay for

But I didn’t pay for this

Bombshells like his

Goodness

Consider My Age

What will become of the hundreds

Thousands

That end up giving up everything

Come up just a bit short

Short of the goal

Slightly off the objective

What happens when those souls

Examine minimum wage

And reconsider everything

Starting with their age

These revelations come on off days

When I am at the store

Realize somehow everything moves along

Push the grocery shopping cart

Keep shopping

Shake it off

 

Hourglass; Tell Me

Hourglass tell me what time will bring

What joys my heart will sing

What pain will be laid on my heart

How I will be broken

And how I will put it all back apart

Will I be rich

Will I be poor

Will I have to ask for help a little more

Hourglass read me my hours

As I fall asleep

Tell me what will be lost

And what I can keep

What is whole

To me known and unknown

Hourglass fasten my eyes on the future

Hourglass bring me hope a little sooner

LA On A Saturday Night

Pull down the street with lights not the cars

Cops interviewing a man on a bike

“Is it safe to pass”

I ask

“Not quite sure what all happened here,

A shooting I guess”

Was his response

My stomach turned a bit

“We are staying up the street,

Will we be alright?”

“You should be fine”

This is LA on a Saturday night