Magazine

See their faces in the magazine
All traces of the scum they've seen
Obliterated in the cases of
Top quality wine drunk through a skein

All the faces on the magazine
These old rotten guys, these girls
In the knackers yard
These caked on masks
They light comments that bask
In the glory of former days

Those days of Hey,
Of when the grass was green
Those faces in the magazine

Whose faces are they we've seen
Bits of our own broken skin?
Flaking pieces of a jigsaw puzzle
Because if you don't ask the questions
Of your own life in childhood
Beyond a certain point
It doesn't exist
And no amount of interviews
Can ever summon back those summers
Except on the covers of those Magazines

Those film stars of films that they've starred in
Like your own lives only you jarred
And forgot to grin
Or grinned to hard
And lost the musket, lost the mustard gas mask
So you choked slightly all summer
After the war
And in the yard your pet dog died
In an agricultural accident
But it didn't play out that way in the film
It was edited down when they cut that scene
Just so it would fit into the magazine

So what we want are the lies
Fill us with bull shit
Make us eat pork pies
There are no more spies
No more double agents
Double pages of print
Of ties that leave you
With tears in your eyes
Nothing but splints, crutches
Pig sties and butchers
Who hold up bloody shoulders of lamb
That has been fattened on the green
That once frolicked on the
Pages of the zine

In the heat of the sun

In the heat of the sun
In the dead of the night
I carry a gun
So I know I'll be alright

But the Stinging bees
Begin to bite
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

I'm at a million to one
In the odds at the fight
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

50 times fifty ton
Of weight feels light
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

Don't shoot me son
I'm far too bright
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

The bulls in the field run
Broken fences in sight
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

Who knows where they've gone
If there will be a fight
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

The land is undone
The sea is in flight
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

The baker burns his bun
The king turns white
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

Blue habit of a nun
Black birds of fright
In the heat of the sun
And the dead of the night

Shooting Stars

I hope you stay on the bright side of life
Always going up
Stay away from strife
I hope you suckle on life's bosom
Like the bee on the honey blossom
I wish you get the good things in life
And all the happiness found in freedom
But most of all above all these
I wish you love and wisdom

I cannot count the ways I love you
There are too many for my hand
I stand like a cockerel in the morning
And crow the dawning over the land

My love has risen like the ocean
Swelled up like a wave of emotion
But comes crashing down on the shore
Whose beach stretches to your door

I see you like the colours of a rainbow
Multifaceted dream like knit
The colours painted in a nebula
A cloud of gas, where new stars sit

Where new stars burn and light up
The darkness
Of all space and its vacuum starkness
Naked in your heavenly body
I fall into your void black hole

But worm tunnels pull me out again
I am the worm in your Swiss cheese cube
And God has rolled me as a dice
But I cannot see where through Hubble's tube

There is like a kaleidoscope of images
Each one me and each one you
And we dance inside these lens
Through which creation has made us huge

And if I were an astronomer
I'd have named you a star by now
But I am but a poet and a liar
And so I sing songs of a sacred cow

All the crows fly up the tower
And the bats are circling round
And what love there is in the hour
Is enough as each ring hits the ground

As each shooting star must know
To each up there is a down
And as you fall remember me this reason
That for tonight you wore your crown

Baguettes Again

So the Frenchman said his brake,
And the frogman said whose benches?
I sat down here last Tuesday Eve
But the rain like a candle drenches
The rain like wax it sticks, it stenches
It drips from the flame of the Sun

And God held the candle
Like he held me as a child
When I thought he and I were one
And he squeezed the sun
And I'm always trying to get back
That time when all was full
The sun I mean not moon
The moon is always waxing when
You become an adult
And the Sun is always waning on
Having melted its impossible shell
Of a candle
That make you believe perfection is soon gone

Bridge over the Danube

I met my love on Margit hid
Beneath us The Danube
Like a King snake slid
Serpentine and too tempting
We lifted the lid
On the can of worms

River out of Eden
Flow beneath the bridge
Cold inspire of hell fire
And heaven is a fridge
Blue and green and brown
Orange pecan bugs
Sweetly dying on the ground
While chestnuts scorn the rites of Spring
And push their fresh buds out

Bridge of love
Cross over
Who would cross the border line
Migrate, and break
The boundary fence
Clip and snip the pine
Twisted oaks grow on the island
Love lives out in the stream
Two beings brought there
Buda and Pest
To live out a peaceful dream

Sap is rising

The Sap is rising from the ground
Sticky sweet with life it sounds
Out the hollows of dry wood
Press-ganging life into its hood
And strangely swaying in old limbs
The things birds know on the wing
And trapping flies in its ointment
It elucidates life in an amber spyglass
Fifty million years ago
This same sap was on the flow
Pushing up from mother earth
Giving life, giving birth

Hard

Give it to me in a matter of yards
I'm sick to death of you being so hard
A nail isn't half so scarred
By a hammer blow
A pebble isn't half as rounded
By the river's flow
But you manage it
in a breath
Just why are you so hard?

The filo pastry chef is bloated
Fat on all the cakes he's gloated
Such as this soft bellied pig
Am I
Where as you are as hard
As a wrought iron rig

I am soft as a runny egg
Soldiers may dip in my yoke
I put on the mantle of leader instead
But compared to you
I'm a joke
You're so hard boiled
That I have to beg as I swim
Around the hot water we're in
And I'd be an armadillo
But my armour's wearing thin

Just walk with me as my shield
I promise to bury my hatchet
Inside the nearest field
Then our remains will be discovered
In a thousand years time
And they'll wonder who could catch it
This true love passionate crime