I just saw some new songsIt looks like I am going to have to right a few wrongsHave no fearI’ll be in your hemisphereLater in the yearMy dear First, I have to write my storyFull of tragedy and very goryBut it’s ultimately the storyOf how … Continue reading Hail Mary

I am cursed in the cityI am cursed in the fieldI am defeated before my enemiesI am struck with madness and confusion of mindI am oppressed and robbed continuallyAnother man ravishes my wifeI built a house, but I do not dwell in itI planted a … Continue reading Diaspora

I had something to say, and didn’t say itI had something to do, and didn’t do itI had a place to be, and I leftSo I will die down south in Jethro’s tentWhile Pharaoh fucks my wife My people are so few and far betweenEach … Continue reading Stream of Consciousness Before Bed

She doesn’t care about youShe is like her familyShe is not the good SamaritanShe does what all the others doYou are not in her familyHer purpose was to show you a charlatanTo not do what you need her toTo show no love for an enemyTo … Continue reading The Nine Inch Nail

I wish I could be happier for youYou were supposed to be my inspirationI should let my memory of you define what I doInstead of wallowing in disappointment and desolation When you read everything, you’ll know the situationDon’t let scraps from the internet cause you … Continue reading Patience

Noah will not contact youNoah will not allow you to contact herWhen the ground is dry, the fleece will be dryWhen the ground is wet, the fleece will be wetYou are the scorpion under the rockYou are not the eagle in the skyWhat you need … Continue reading The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Decades in the making was the thing that didn’t happenThe random paths afforded by life seemed to have a directionThen there were all those years of waitingOnly to destroy it because confusion was dominating I have a daughter in GermanyI didn’t send her thereI can’t … Continue reading Drawn and Quartered

I can’t let you goYou were supposed to heal me, and now you’re goneI’m pretty close to doneI just have to write this book, so everybody will know And you’ll finally understandWith my words in your handBut then it might be too lateBecause I might … Continue reading Until I Know