Remain

Work to the wire

Up late night transition

Up early again to run 

To try and stay on top of 

The words that I attempt

I plunge into life

Creating and hoping for creativity

By my side

All through the night i lay and wonder

What the next day brings

But only in the silence 

I realize 

That i can not predict 

Hope 

Or regret

I must just remain 

Remain 

Change 

And don’t stay the same

One Man Ego

Oh no 

Secrets disclosed

How many 

Who knows

The top of the hill will call for immunity

While the rest of humanity

Asks for simple decency

Don’t sell out the American Soul

To the cheap hand met

Along the road

Hidden discoveries 

Hidden words

Hidden curtains

Blighting even the birds

On rampant edges

A man 

With distorted thirsts

All hope lies

Awaiting another arrogant move

Here we go

Down the slippery slope of 

One mans ego

Breaking News

Breaking news 

This late at night

How the hell

Is this alright

Selling out

At minimal prices

Underlying lies

Holding 

Keys

Sided

How can one man have such rampant

Dissenting

Infection 

What is happening

Where did it all go wrong

Cascading to Our Graves

For every step of progress

I feel I regress

For every advance

I retreat

There is no perfect balance

That I can keep

No way to create perfection

Keep the lies from a second

Resurrection

Days where weights feel constrained

On my neck

My throat

I go to yell and all I have is a moan

I go to scream

Nothing more than a thin veiled beam

I don’t believe in conspiracy theory

But here we are

Saluting the one percenters

While we are sent cascading into our own graves

Way down

Where the banks collect our clothes

Where the dollar man knows our home

There is no protection

When the problems of insufficient funds

Makes it’s final connection

How did we get to a place of such

Deadly extremes

Some blow up Bentley’s

While other can’t keep up

It seems

Today I fear my future

For more progress means more indebtedness

How can I pull through

When it all seems too much

I get a rush of blood

To my head

I must start again

Create my own hope and go forward

Look to the sky

Keeping my eyes on the prize

Hope will come

Success will come

It has to come

Or we are all to be undone

 

 

 

 

How Words

How did this come to be

Relish the memory

Revelry

Indifferently

We pass through the New York Times

As writers beg for our time

Full blown controversies

Buried in the depths

Cover ups 

Sentencing our own deaths

How be

How be

Did it come to this

Pay Up

Vulnerable dues

Unlikely news

Pay it to the man in the coat

In the long black trenchcoat

The snake oils salesman

The PhD pay him your money

Let go freely

Trying to get caught up

Is just digging further in the rut

While your at it

Take 2 punches to the gut

Guttural reactions to prescription drug contango

Have to keep the doctors fat and happy

So just hand over the checkbook

And don’t get sick