Lullaby

Waltzing Song

Father drives steadily
Hands are at ten and at two
The windows are lit
Rushing by on a dim afternoon
Mother she combs through her hair
With her fingernails deep
She sits in the front seat
Her head turned away
And there’s nothing to make her say peep

Colour and lights at the
Strenuous burp of the clutch
Sawdust and straw
Flattened grass, Father doesn't say much
Painted, named ponies and
Romany rainbows and black
Rosie stands striding and
Proud with a pillar of
Gold running right through her back

Winding and whirling
The carnival blurring
The ferris wheel turning alight
Standing there stoically 
Gazing at Rosie 
And me on the Carousel ride

Rosie rises and she falls
Mother folds her arms again
Father goes to touch her hand
She stares straight out from where she stands
He smiles and he pretends

Driving back home
In the cold country dark half awake
Radio light has the 
Cool of the night kept at bay 
Out the rear windshield 
The light in the darkness below
The wheels keep on spinning
The kids keep on winning
The candy floss candle aglow

Winding and whirling
The carnival blurring
The ferris wheel turning alight
Standing there stoically 
Gazing at Rosie 
And me on the Carousel ride

Carousel

Back in the early days
Abstract light through the polaroid prism 
The chewed up yard police car rolled away
Grey little cartridge game
Turn it upright and blow down the barrel
To flush out all the dust and start again

Places where we hid
Trunks and treetops nets in the river
The biggest hole we ever tried to dig 
Snapping through the twigs
Make mistakes and be learning to listen
Like breaking bottles, taking back the lids

What’s the sense in growing up?
Time just gallops on
It’s calloused, casting shadows long

Life is tough and it’s bad enough before you
Need somebody too
Never fussed the two of us cause you had me and i had you 
Nobody sees me
Nobody deems me important
No one bleeds for me the way you would and i would do for you
Cause no one ever got it
Always felt like no one ever could

Tackle me with ease
Crack you up with a wit you could never quite
Master like you did the tallest trees
Last but never least
Asked the same old question forever
‘Are yous two twins?’ never quite believed

Cartridge

Paper

(titleless nonsense)

You judge me day by day
You say you'll make me pay
Those scars that hide your face
Vanish and leave no trace

Fold your arms and play soft
Pack your bags and take off
Hearts on fire and head in hands
There is an ocean
And there's a promised land

When you say you'll sing your heart out do you really mean it
When you say you'll try your hardest are you buying time
Now it's time to cut your losses better settle quiet
Use your lonely hours wisely don't forget a word
Take a moment to reflect then draw your own conclusions
Watch the constellations dance that bright one's always north
Perfect circles on the paper drawn with such precision
Won't be long until your beard grows do you feel a man?
Letters sent to wrong addresses tacked up in the window
A drunken fistfight in the silence of the falling snow

Spooky Woods.

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