cumulus clouds collide
then say goodbye swim on
like a new school of salmon
into the wild blue sky
falling leaves lie listless
until traffic passes in stereo
i can hear it in your echo
that it’s time to go away
you were sitting in the grass
taking pictures of the moon
i got poems in the bathtub
and songs on the kitchen floor
don’t mind the mess
a man needs a maid

“but when you don’t feel good and you still get hits, that’s when you know you are a bad man.”  manny ramirez 10.06.07

“mckinley grand”

the ghost of tom joad
went swimming in the yellow sea
drunk off a 12 pack of tsingtao beer
he dried off ate some fish and rice
and sent an email to humphrey bogart
cc-ed rashkolnikov as well
all the time in the world
got ambition in the eye
down the road going by
western skies that hypnotize
and make me feel a rhythm in my bones
“not so close, not so fast.” we whisper
put it does pass, she keeps on
and our memories are the songs we sing
late at nite in hotel rooms
intoxicated with the ones we love
and when you got friends you love
and who love ya right back
from pisac, peru to canton, ohio
might be singing in china
maybe dancing in la
don’t matter where i stay
or in what language i may say
cuz my heart is my home
wherever i roam
got music on my mind
i’m an amorous soul