point a to point b (mason proper) vs ice dance (danny elfman)

come quiet or you'll wake your parents
they're the ones who called me in
to fix the son the world has broken

sign here before i lose my patience
sure i know you know your rights
but is it right to keep me waiting

all night with your misbehaving
didn't anybody tell you
where you're going you won't need to
pack your bags or remember your name

oh christopher just wait
and when you wake you won't be the same 

blindfold yr books
they've been lying about who's in charge
it's the man who writes them
the man in the stars

you'll be free only
when he instructs me
"here is one who's fit to run
the generations yet to come
of children we can train to carry guns"
and with each passing day
you're well on your way
by the time you leave here you'll be sane

and there are no heroes
they died or were forgotten
long ago before your birth
and their death barely made a stir

but i'll make sure
you are remembered
love but fear will take you further
make this fist and say these words
and if you don't
then what is your life worth?
so if we make you hurt
it's because we love you christopher


-
for matthew behling

Christopher (Demo)

i'll make a moat of my blood
stream if you'll cross to me
before the drawbridge is up
so no one can get to us

i'll be the dragon demanding
all your most precious things
and when you don't choose to be with me
lover i'll eat you up

no one can hurt you
safe in my bedroom
i am a monster
i'm scared of the dark too
i'd light a candle if it wouldn't scare you
to see me like this with my claws and my teeth and my

no one can hurt you
safe in my bedroom
i am a monster
i'm more afraid than you
i'd turn the lights on but i do not dare to
reveal all the need that i hide when i don't speak

so i don't speak
there's nothing i need to say
that you're not already thinking

safe in your company
no one can hurt me
i am a monster
who'd ever love me
i was not promised
a happy ending
but i would be happy with you thinking of me

i'll make a song of my silence
if you'll sing to me
like i was the child
you sent down the nile
toward destiny

who put the sword in the stone instead of the ironworks?
who showed little red a path through those woods?
who put the window in every jail in those fairy tales?

you be the portrait of dorian
i'll be the nail



Picture Books (Demo)

little bird who ripped your stuffing out?
little bird who pinned you to the ground?
and does their satisfaction suffice 
to make up for your lack of flight?

little bird who ate up both your eyes? (the rats and the mice)
little bird did all the early worms lie? (the rain on the pavement)
and if i make a heart of my fist
and beat you will you come to life?

little bird they took you from your nest
	& broke your little head
what a world little bird
maybe you're better off dead

and when i die they'll fill my bed
with feathers i can't feel or comprehend

and if i make a heart of my pen
and drain my veins
	little bird
could you fly again?

Little Bird (Demo)

crawl up to the beaches
that's where you'll find them
pale and round like little moons
galaxies future glass beneath your feet
and tender to the teeth

you're beautiful, you must be good to eat
and if you make me sick
i know where you live
wouldn't it be lovely wouldn't you love to taste my lips
while i digest yours with my fish & chips

starlight dims the city
while all the sea's sleeping
small fish ate a small fish in the biggest sea
and no fish is smaller than me
but i've got sharper teeth

you're so pretty, you must have pretty meat
and if your bones stick in my throat
i'll spit them out to build a home
of muscle marrow stick & stone
& stick & stone & stick & stone

is it not a crime
for such a big mouth as mine
to ever be alone

Bottomfeeder (Demo)

under clothes
under bones
where your epiphysis meets cartilage 
i'll make my home

in your blood
where it runs
beneath the avalanche of gravity
that you've become

if there's a crack in everything
then tell me how the dark gets in

i'm the bottom of the ocean
no one goes beneath my skin

pills and wine
spoil your spine
it takes no thought to rot
but learning to stand up takes time

to stunt and stall
to build you tall
to hold the canopy your body 
up until you fall

if there's a crack in everything
then tell me how the dark gets in

i'm the center of the earth
i hold you up, you hold me in

Osteocytes (Demo)

slow down your pulse
until the color runs its course

your quicksand classroom
full of silver stars

hollow shells
blink and unawaken

siphoning the sirens 
from the halls

captain tell them
does an empty body sink or float

i know water fills the walls
the ambulances pull us from our boats

earthquake your lungs
shake the dust from under your tongue

you were born like me
screaming

but hush
he's leaving

ripples standing still
one-two-mississippi 

underneath the desks 
and windowsills

captain take them where the apples
fell no daughters from the tree

sons be tempted from their branches
by the call of gravity

love thy neighbor
make him welcome
when he enters
with his weapon

New Town (Demo)

please could you stop the noise
i'm trying to make my own
the ghosts from those that leave
leave ghosts that won't leave me alone

but what you don't leave
love there's no need to return
you can't leap from a bridge 
that you've already burned

if i should not be stopping here
just say the word
the silence rings out loud and clear
but what it said i never heard

when i am king you will be 
first out of the ground
with what would be apology
could you still make a sound

this is my house my neighborhood
i could have loved another one

this is my house my neighborhood
i could have loved and i still could

this is my house my neighborhood
we watch the snow fill up with woods

Fallout (Demo)

bake me a cake
full of yr mistakes & 
able-bodied i will
fickle frail & fumble
core yr brain an apple
baby i'll be gentle

ask me about my process
i dare you
ask if i'm making progress
i'll bury you

goldilocks ate
all the furniture &
when the bears returned
they sat upon her angles
made her skull a table
til her body crumbled


The Source (Demo)

flame, what do you owe the spark that rose to raise you from the night?
you take and take; you never burn the same as what you set alight

god, let me be the more loving one for once, the one left wanting
more, not the one compromising what i have for what i'm waiting for

what do fields expect from clouds condensing vapor into rain?
i only do what i was made to - weren't you meant to do the same?

your short skirt, your smoke signal, · · · — — — · · ·
if you won't flirt, then don't smile; everyone will say you're asking for it


(see http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15550)

Song For Auden (Demo)

Darling, wait - all of this will be here 
when you wake. If the sky's still 
white, I will paint it any hue you like.
Earth is just the sun's satellite.
When our orbit comes its way, don't you
want to see that light? Just wait.

Darling, wait - mountains take millennia
to change. If things look the same, look
a little longer at the way waves 
collapse; the sea stays the same.
There's no loss, there's no waste.
Can't you see I need you? Darling, wait.



for M.L.
after Galway Kinnell - see http://readalittlepoetry.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/wait-by-galway-kinnell/

Wait (Demo)

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