17 Elderflower street

 In the aftermath of sorrow

I heard the bluebird call

You will live again tomorrow

And learn in a new school

How can I borrow The green

From the trees

How can I learn to love

This land of miseries

Why must I shift my heart

Each time on downhill skis

Faster, going faster still

Into the maddening seas

Wishing I had a calm path

One not of trouble but of ease

Why must the light be balanced by the dark

The open field with the shadow's leas

upsala

 I sat upon the pavement

and set the world on fire

and anyway teach me

Bring back my desire

I sat upon the pavement

Brought the world a liar

You think are different

From the ones who went before

But you're only guardians of the fiery door

You step inside the building

Of the house that is on fire

And ask for a cool drink 

To quench your hearts desire

Exploding hearts

Fireworks are blowing up

Secrets from undercover

All in a day

Surprise

Once in a blue moon

Tears of Joy

Headless chickens

Electrical charges

Set off

The storm has passed

Septic tank

clear out

Love barrows

Red hearts

running

through

the quagmire

Then he will propose

to her

She'll say yes

He works on a luxury yacht

While she lives in it

Heart shaped fireworks

When they explode

Love flies off in all directions

Professional fireworks companies

Pyrotechnics

No mistakes tonight

A field behind

She is quite needy

Like a sheep

Asti Spumante - deeper colour

Keep your expensive Champagne

The riff-raff are having Asti

It's all about presentation

Dream aged seventeen

 Last  night I dreamt of antlers

They were balancing in the air hovering

Like a plane the positive and negative effects of time

I searched a house in my dream

Looking for something from my childhood

And I couldn't find it

Then in a hole in the wall plaster

I saw a legoman

I picked it up and examined it

The more I looked at the face the more I saw my own

I was holding myself as a boy

Or as a plastic man perhaps

A toy man

I put the legoman back in the hole in the wall

Then at the bottom of the stairs I saw the stag

It turned away quickly and I rushed downstairs to follow it

It had disappeared

But there appeared another door I had not seen before

One down below into a basement, like a coal cellar perhaps

I opened it and walked down the stairs

The light was dim,

Some torches on the wall

Were flickering casting long shadows

The stairs seemed to be sandy and made of stone

And gradually I realized I was walking beneath 

What must have been a pyramid

On the cellar floor was a table with a desk lamp on it

I recognized it from my study in my old home

Then in the shadow of the corner beside the stone staircase

Came a groan and a chinking of chains

A dark figure was rising from a crouching position

"Who are you?!", I screamed!

But the figure did not answer

Then suddenly he lurched forward 

in an attempt to capture me with his arms outstretched

I leaped back in the nick of time and he missed me, but could

go no further forward on account of being chained to the ground

To all intents and purposes

The creature seemed a spitting image of Frankenstein's monster

Complete with bolts in his neck

Different pieces of men sewn together to make a whole

He was wailing and moaning

And I felt sure he would break free any moment

And tear me to shreds

I looked around at what was in the vicinity for a weapon

There were archaelogists tools for digging, trowels mostly 

and a spade

I picked a trowel and waiting my moment

I threw it like a dagger and it stuck in his heart

Count to ten

 When you get back in

When you get home

Will you count to ten tonight

Leave the dog a bone,

Leave the ringer off the phone

Will you count to ten tonight

Oh those leaping sheep

As the blackness creeps

And you begin to lose control

Oh the man steps in

When the ghost flies out

Will you count to ten tonight

I had a million pins

A million stars

They were tired of staying so bright

I said now count to ten

And then blew them out

Will you count to ten tonight

Star man

 You have to see

That I said I loved you

With my eyes and not

My tongue

This means 

I wish you sweet lullabies

But not another rung

I climbed the ladder to you

Up in the stars which sung

Cold about stories from mars

And the man in the moon who hung

Do you hear what I'm saying?

The way that it is
Is this inability to communicate
There is no way that this is
Something that we need
To do this

We don't need to do this
This is the sore
The wound
To scratch and all the mirrors
Are cracked

Are the truths of
Tragedy
And dumbing down the boiling
Rage of passing
Out the plague of houses
And brown nosing
And blood baths
And calamity of ages

Shame is this point
Where they don't listen
Or don't hear
And he doesn't say
And he won't
And there is no understanding
Because men have to know
They need answers for everything

Yoyo
The four transformations
Of killing yourself
To be able to understand