Chicken stew

Chicken Stew, chicken stew
Mix it up, make it pew
Kneel down and give the offering
Like a priest for the proffering
Heal the soul
Chicken body
Legs patrol the earth

Lift the chicken up to God
Hold its wings and see it nod
This is what you were born to
Chicken stew your soul

Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Which to choose breast or leg?
Which witch cooked
Which beggar begged?
For chicken stew hen pecked or pegged

Hang it up
Cut it down
Like a cup
Turned upside down
Empty contents over the floor
The chicken pecks the grain some more
Grain of whisky
Grain of field
Grain of wind
Of piece meal
Grain of gleaners
Bowing low, humble cleaners
Thoughts in tow

Chicken stew for your soul

The Webdings of Yu Mincho Demibold -the writing is on the wall

I want to see Calibri's body
I want to meet Arial
Or Times New Roman marching down
Fleet Street with all the journalists in a bow

Tell me about Agent FB
I
wish I could meet such an exciting guy
Or Lucinda without her unicode
She should have passed it on by now

Perhaps Bahnschrift passed it to
Baskerville Old Face
He was hounding Bauhaus 93

He wanted an autograph
But left in some disgrace
After Dante and the Engravers MT

I would like to lie with Georgia Pro Black
Or wrestle with Goudy Stout
Tell me how long will Miriam
Be fixed on Narkisim
Will it be ad Perpetua?
Before Poor Richard Shouts

And we all knew Rockwell was Extra bold
When he wrote in Italics
To Sitka Small

But she was not meek, no not at all
When after a week
She wrote the Univers condensed on the wall

You see Verdana Pro Semibold
was christened in the font
and named Yu Gothic
In wide Latin

But what got everybody's goat
Was that Courier new note
Comic Sans MT
Was really born in the attic

Of all the things I thought I knew

Of all the things I thought I knew
There was always you
And yet the beams of the Mercedes Benz
Ring true
They caught you in the head lights
And towed you for a mile
It was a white rabbit dawn
That caught up with you

What did I know?
I thought I knew it all
That there was nothing left to teach me
Then I met you

I thought I knew
How the story goes
Girl meets boy, boy gives girl rose
Some such saccharine thing
I remember in the throes
Of all the things you taught me
That one thing is true

I thought I knew
We sailed off into the sunset
And the hero gets the girl
There are diamond studded pianoes
And Rubies on dancing shoes
That all the world's your oyster
And the whole ocean blue
But the briny has some surprises for me
That much is true

I thought I knew
If I stayed on the beach
That I would be safe out of reach
Out of harms way
But that was only half true, anyway
The truth was like a speckled egg breaking
Like a broken heart aching
What more can I say?
That much is true

These prison walls

We were born in a prison
Locked inside
Between our mother's womb
And our father's dark side

We come out into the sun
Fresh and screaming with life
To be put back in the prison
One of toil and strife

I was born in a prison
The walls were high and wide
I could not look over the other side
The Prison of Pride

I grew into my prison
And the bars began to rust
Sometimes the rains came
Dissolved the bars between I and Us

But between the lust and the trust
They were my jailers
My torturers too
One put me on a crucifix and nailed me there
it is true

The other took me down, pulled me apart
Examined my entrails and my heart
Then they called me an animal
And sent my soul to the zoo

I was born in a prison and there I will stay
From the first breath I take
Until the final judgement day

Tell me what it's like on the other side
Is the grass even greener there?
I can see it, but can't touch it
Lord knows how hard I've tried

Try to tame eden
You put a wall round paradise
Try to break even
You only end up breaking your eyes

By the lights of the big city

Traffic lights in the window
Lightning disco in the sky
I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of you and I

Too much self reflection
Doesn't make a nice guy
When you forget the important things you know
Like when you forget how hard to try

Lightning bolts crack the black glass sky
All that I thought I knew
Now I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of me and you

How do I separate myself from the lightning?
Creation and destruction
In the mirror's reflection
Dividing like the tram lines
Two sides of the road
Keep your Gods under different signs
Your Odin for your odes
Your Thor for ....who knew?
There were certain doors you should not walk through

Now the lights have changed from red to green
And little bells of rain ring on the window screen
And the bells of church towers are ringing in the wind
As the storm the summer promised
Comes to shatter summer dreams

Its blowing like a tempest
Come to deal out its punishment
No mercy for the faithless
Its tongue is like a serpent
Forked fiery flames
With fangs ready to strike
The ocean is no match for its electric pike
That snap and whip and maim
As it hurls its sea at us
The buoys which float in the sky are pounded into dust

It is lathering up its hands
Showering us with blood
Clapping its salty palms
Churning water into mud
Washing and rinsing up to its arms
In a Noah's flood

Slinging down all from the heavens
Sent from an all powerful judge

Come lady

Oh Lady come down your hill
oh lady come down your hill
Well the gathering tide
Goes far and wide
And your moat it would like to fill
Oh lady come down your hill

Oh lady come down your hill
You've spent too long
In your ivory tower
Let your hair hang down
From your window sill
Oh lady come down your hill

Oh lady come down off your hill
The army is strong and it may kill
But while the soldiers are strong
The fight must go on
So kind lady come down your hill

Oh lady come down your hill
The night is long
And it can chill
Come warm yourself
I'll keep your health
Come lady from down your hill

Oh lady come down your hill
The buzzards soar and shrill
The sky is clear but there are
Grey clouds still
Come lady down your hill

Oh lady come down your hill
I know you have a strong will
But put that aside
Just be my bride
Oh lady come down your hill

Bone Kissing

I didn't want to turn back
Didn't want to face the storm
That I knew would turn me black

Didn't know that I was torn
Like a rending thunder
Shaken to the very core
Of my foundations laying under

I never got used to your face
Never could learn to trace
The outline of your cheek
Nor to draw the breath you took
Just before you speak

I never learned to call you mine
Never learned to drink the wine
Never knew what a fine line
I had had to walk

And now we do not talk

I chose to come here
I chose to stay
I chose that some year
I would fly away

But the swallows return each Summer or Spring
Are they the same ones
Who left on the wing
Is it the same prayer
I can hear
The choir sing?
As their voices rise into the skies
Of a horizon forever setting

She plays the cello
On her own stage
Keeping back the fellow deer
Like a do rey me so far te da
Like a guardian of her age

She guards the garden
She turns on the hose
She turns over the earth that hardens
around the Summer rose

She is like a starling
Singing in a flock
Away arise, the may fly flies
Dragon fly alights upon a rock

Sweet streams and rivulets
Stun the lady Juliet
From her reverie of regret
In too many long walks

Suddenly the walls
Are trembling from the thunder
Suddenly all she knows falls
And is cast asunder

That the one strike fell
Like a hammer on a bell
Rung out the good
Rung in the bad
Wrung the clothes on the line
Wrung the water into wine

One fine day when I look back
It will not seem so blue
Just the Sun fading into black
Before from behind the clouds
It appears a new