These are the lyrics I penned for the opening track on an album I'm writing. More to come.
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Rolex Laxative
Kern County time moves a wholly different pace
Cosines alone can’t chart residents’ space
Airport Café and the Five Finger Pub
Exercise their lottery rights, and there blow the rub
Do a double-take at the Brewery as I believe that’s the guy
Who’s the multi-instrumentalist of Hundred Digits of Pi
A teachable moment
The Great Emancipator
I had a dream as an omen
On her graphing calculator
Kernites exercise their watery rights
Could’ve sworn I dialed 3-1-1 a long time ago
One plank creaks while the others don’t
McNally’s Outpost and the Pizza Barn
A “Steal Your Face” sticker spins sticky yarn
Charting her course in seconds, cosecants
Garbage bag fragrance and indifferent sequence
A teachable moment
One hand dangling free
Drawstrings are drawn open
To chuck that disused tambourine
Kernites exercise their watery rights
Behold the spirits milked from the net-entangled dairy-deer
Believe it or not, you’ll never find a ride-share here
Buy fish-market jackal-meat then perfume it with make-up
Even dumb-bell Lake Isabella dogs can sense a break-up
It’s all true about me in California with an Arizona tag
On the way I re-rigged Peter Frampton’s tubes for colostomy bags
No bombs will ever fall on Kern
Will ever fall on Kern
Never-ever
Never-ever
Writing well is the best revenge
Is the best revenge
For what you want
For what you want
Evidence of my single hike proves my proactivity
Flexing my tendons and choking on reflexivity
The neighbor’s lights at night lend dimension to the space
Rolex laxative
Rolex laxative
The radiance
The radiance •
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