An American Prayer
Do you know the warm progress 
under the stars? 
Do you know we exist? 
Have you forgotten the keys 
to the kingdom? 
Have you been born yet 
& are you alive? 

Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths 
of the ages 
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests 
(Have you forgotten the lessons 
of the ancient war) 

We need great golden copulations 

The fathers are cackling in trees of the forest 
Our mother is dead in the sea 

Do you know we are being led to 
slaughters by placid admirals 
& that fat slow generals are getting 
obscene on young blood 

Do you know we are ruled by T.V. 
The moon is a dry blood beast 
Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers 
in the next block of green vine 
amassing for warfare on innocent herdsmen 
who are just dying 

O great creator of being 
grant us one more hour to 
perform our art 
and perfect our lives 

The moths & atheists are doubly divine 
and dying 
We live, we die 
and death not ends it 
Journey we more into the 
Nightmare 
Cling to life 
our passion'd flower 
Cling to cunts and cocks 
of despair 
We got our final vision 
by clap 
Columbus' groin got 
filled with green death 
(I touched her thigh 
& death smiled) 

We have assembled inside this ancient 
and insane theatre 
To propagate our lust for life 
and flee the swarming wisdom 
of the streets 
The barns are stormed 
The windows kept 
and only one of all the rest 
To dance & save us 
With the divine mockery 
of words 
Music inflames temperament 

(When the true King's murderers 
are allowed to roam free 
a 1000 Magicians arise 
in the land) 

Where are the feasts 
we were promised 
Where is the wine 
The New Wine 
(dying on the vine) 

resident mockery 
give us an hour for magic 
We of the purple glove 
We of the starling flight 
and velvet hour 
We of arabic pleasure's breed 
We of sundome and the night 

Give us a creed 
To believe 
A night of Lust 
Give us trust in 
The Night 

Give of color 
hundred hues 
a rich Mandala 
for me and you 

and for your silky 
pillowed house 
a head, wisdom 
and a bed 

Troubled decree 
Resident mockery 
has claimed thee 

We used to believe 
in the good old days 
We still receive 
In little ways 

The Things of Kindness 
and unsporting brow 
Forget and allow 

Did you know freedom exists 
in a school book 
Did you know madmen are 
running our prison 
within a jail, within a goal 
within a white free protestant 
Maelstrom 

We're perched headlong 
on the edge of boredom 
We're reaching for death 
on the end of a candle 
We're trying for something 
That's already found us 

We can invent Kingdoms of our own 
grand purple thrones, those chairs of lust 
& love we must, in beds of rust 

Steel doors lock in prisoner's screams 
and muzak, AM, rocks their dreams 
No black men's pride to hoist the beams 
while mocking angels sift what seems 

To be a collage of magazine dust 
Scratched on foreheads of walls of trust 
This is just jail for those who must 
get up in the morning and fight for such 

unusable standards 
while weeping maidens 
show off penury and pout 
ravings for a mad 
staff 

Wow, I'm sick of doubt 
Live in the light of certain 
South 
Cruel bindings 
The servants have the power 
dog-men & their mean women 
pulling poor blankets over 
our sailors 
(and where were you in our 
lean hour) 
Milking your moustache? 
or grinding a flower? 
I'm sick of dour faces 
Staring at me from the T.V. 
Tower. 
I want roses in 
my garden bower; dig? 
Royal babies, rubies 
must now replace aborted 
Strangers in the mud 
These mutants, blood-meal 
for the plant that's plowed 

They are waiting to take us into 
the severed garden 
Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful 
comes death on a strange hour 
unannounced, unplanned for 
like a scaring over friendly guest you've 
brought to bed 
Death makes angels of us all 
and gives us wings 
where we had shoulders 
smooth as raven's 
claws 

No more money, no more fancy dress 
This other Kingdom seems by far the best 
until its other jaw reveals incest 
and loose obedience to a vegetable law 

I will not go 
Prefer a 
feast of Friends 
To the Giant family 

(II) 

Great screaming Christ 
Upsy-daisy 
Lazy Mary will you get up 
upon a Sunday morning 

"The movie will begin in 5 moments" 
The mindless Voice announced 
"All those unseated, will await 
the next show" 

We filed slowly, languidly 
into the hall. The auditorium 
was vast, and silent. 
As we seated & were darkened 
The Voice continued: 

"The program for this evening 
is not new. You have seen 
This entertainment thru & thru. 
You've seen your birth, your 
life & death; you might recall 
all of the rest-(did you 
have a good world when you 
died?)-enough to base 
a movie on? 

An iron chuckle rapped our 
minds like a fist. 

I'm getting out of here 
Where're you going? 
To the other side of morning 
Please don't chase the clouds 
pagodas, temples 

Her cunt gripped him 
like a warm friendly 
hand. 

"It's all right. 
All your friends are here." 

When can I meet them? 
"After you've eaten" 
I'm not hungry 
"O, we meant beaten" 

Silver stream, silvery scream, 
impossible concentration 

Here come the comedians 
look at them smile 
Watch them dance 
an indian mile 

Look at them gesture 
How aplomb 
So to gesture everyone 

Words dissemble 
Words be quick 
Words resemble walking sticks 

Plant them 
They will grow 
Watch them waver so 

I'll always be 
a word-man 
Better thn a birdman 

But I'll charge 
Won't get away 
without lodging a dollar 

Shall I say it again 
aloud, you get the point 
No food w/out fuel's gain 

I'll be, the irish loud 
unleashed my beak 
at peak of powers 

O girl, unleash 
your worried comb 

O worried mind 

Sin in the fallen 
Backwoods by the blind 

She smells debt 
on my new collar 

Arrogant prose 
Tied in a network of fast quest 
Hence the obsession 

Its quick to admit 
Fast borrowed rhythm 
Woman came between them 

Women of the world unite 
Make the world safe 
For a scandalous life 

Hee Heee 
Cut your throat 
Life is a joke 

Your wife's in a moat 
The same boat 
Here comes the goat 

Blood Blood Blood Blood 
They're making a joke 
of our universe 

(III) 

Matchbox 
Are you more real than me 
I'll burn you, & set you free 
Wept bitter tears 
Excessive courtesy 
I won't forget 

(IV) 

A hot sick lava flowed up, 
Rustling & bubbling. 
The paper face. 
Mirror mask, I love you mirror. 

He had been brainwashed for 4 hrs. 
The LT. puzzled in again 
"ready to talk" 
"No sir"- was all he'd say. 
Go back to the gym. 
Very peaceful 
Meditation 

Air base in the desert 
looking out venetian blinds 
a plane 
a desert flower 
cool cartoon 

The rest of the 
world 
is reckless and dangerous 
Look at the 
brothels 
Stag films 
Exploration 

(V) 

A ship leaves port 
mean horse of another thicket 
wishbone of desire 
decry the metal fox 

Copyright © 1990 by Wilderness Publications 

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The Celebration of the Lizard

Lions in the street & roaming Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming A beast caged in the heart of a city The body of his mother Rotting in the summer ground. He fled the town. He went down South And crossed the border Left the chaos & disorder Back there Over his shoulder. One morning he awoke in a green hotel W/a strange creature groaning beside him. Sweat oozed from its shiny skin. Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. Wake up! You can't remember where it was. Had this dream stopped? The snake was pale gold glazed & shrunken. We were afraid to touch it. The sheets were hot dead prisons. And she was beside me, old, She's, no; young. Her dark red hair. The white soft skin. Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom, Look! She's coming in here. I can't live thru each slow century of her moving. I let my cheek slide down The cool smooth tile Feel the good cold stinging blood. The smooth hissing snakes of rain... Once I had a little game I liked to crawl back in my brain I think you know the game I mean I mean the game called "Go Insane" Now you should try this little game Just close your eyes forget your name forget the world, forget the people and we'll erect a different steeple. This little game is fun to do. Just close your eyes, no way to lose And I'm right here, I'm going too Release control, we're breaking through Way back deep into the brain Way back past the realm of pain Back where there's never any rain And the rain falls gently on the town And over the heads of all of us And in the labyrinth of streams beneath Quiet unearthly presence of Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around Reptiles abounding Fossils, caves, cool air heights Each house repeats a mold Windows rolled A beast car locked in against morning All now sleeping Rugs silent, mirrors vacant Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples Wound in sheets And daughters, smug with semen Eyes in their nipples Wait! There's been a slaughter here Don't stop to speak or look around Your gloves and fan are on the ground We're getting out of town We're going on the run And you're the one I want to come! Not to touch the earth, not to see the sun Nothing left to do but run, run, run Let's run, let's run House upon the hill, moon is lying still Shadows of the trees witnessing the wild breeze Come on, baby, run with me Let's run Run with me, run with me, run with me Let's run The mansion is warm at the top of the hill Rich are the rooms and the comforts there Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs And you won't know a thing till you get inside Dead president's corpse in the driver's car The engine runs on glue and tar Come on along, not going very far To the east to meet the Czar Run with me, run with me, run with me Let's run Some outlaws live by the side of a lake The minister's daughter's in love with the snake Who lives in a well by the side of the road Wake up, girl! We're almost home Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Moon, moon, moon I will get you soon...soon...soon! I am the Lizard King I can do anything We came down the rivers and highways We came down from forests and falls We came down from Carson and Springfield We came down from Phoenix enthralled And I can tell you the names of the kingdom I can tell you the things that you know Listening for a fistful of silence Climbing valleys into the shade For seven years I dwelt in the loose palace of exile Playing strange games with the girls of the island Now I have come again to the land of the fair And the strong and the wise Brothers and sisters of the pale forest Children of night Who among you will run with the hunt? Now night arrives with her purple legion Retire now to your tents and to your dreams Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth I want to be ready Copyright © Doors Music Co.

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The Paris Journal
So much forgotten already 
So much forgotten 
So much to forget 
Once the idea of purity 
born, all was lost 
irrevocably 

The Black Musician 
in a house up the hill 

Nigger in the woodpile 
Skeleton in the closet 

Sorry, Didn't mean you. 

An old man, someone's 
daughter 

Arises 
& sees us still in the room 
of off-key piano & bad 
paintings 

him off to work 
& new wife arriving 

(The candle-forests of 
Notre-Dame) 

beggar nuns w/moving 
smiles, small velvet sacks 
& cataleptic eyes 

straying to the gaudy 
Mosaic calendar 
Windows 

I write like this 
to seize you 

give me your love, your 
tired eyes, sad for 
delivery 

A small & undiscover'd 
park-we ramble 

And the posters scream 
safe revolt 

& the tired walls barely 
fall, graffiti into 
dry cement sand 

an overfed vacuum 
dust-clock 

I remember freeways 

Summer, beside you 
Ocean-brother 

Storms passing 

electric fires in the night 

"rain, night, misery- 
the back-ends of wagons" 

Shake it! Wanda, 
fat stranded swamp 
Woman 

We still need you 

Shake your roly-poly 
Thighs inside that 
Southern tent 

So what. 

It was really wild 
She started nude & put 
on her clothes 

An old & cheap hotel 
w/bums in the lobby 
genteel bums of satisfied 
poverty 

Across the street, a 
famous pool-hall 
where the actors meet 
former ace-home of 
beat musicians 
beat poets & beat 
wanderers 

in the Zen tradition 
from China to the 
Subway 
in 4 easy lifetimes 

Weeping, he left his pad 
on orders from police 
& furnishings hauled 
away, all records & 
momentos, & reporters 
calculating tears & 
curses for the press: 

"I hope the Chinese junkies 
get you" 

& they will 
for the poppy 
rules the world 

That handsome gentle 
flower 

Sweet Billy! 

Do you remember 
the snake 
your lover 

tender in the tumbled 
brush-weed 
sand & cactus 

I do. 

And I remember 
Stars in the shotgun 
night 

eating pussy 
til the mind runs 
clean 

Is it rolling, God 

in the Persian Night? 

"There's a palace 
in the canyon 
where you & I 
were born 

Now I'm a lonely Man 
Let me back into 
the Garden 

Blue Shadows 
of the Canyon 
I met you 
& now you're gone 

& now my dream is gone 
Let me back into your Garden 

A man searching 
for lost Paradise 
Can seem a fool 
to those who never 
sought the other world 

Where friends do lie & drift 
Insanely in 
Their own private gardens" 

The cunt bloomed 
& the paper walls 
Trembled 

A monster arrived 
in the mirror 
To mock the room 
& its fool 
alone 

Give me songs 
to sing 
& emerald dreams 
to dream 

& I'll give you love 
unfolding 

Sun 

underwater, it was 
immediately strange 
& familiar 

the black boy's 
from the boat, fins & mask, 

Nostrils bled liquid 
crystal blood 
as they rose to surface 

Rose & moved strong 
in their wet world 

Below was a Kingdom 
Empire of still sand 
& yes, party-colored 
fishes 
-they are the last 
to leave 
The gay sea 

I eat you 
avoiding your wordy 
bones 

& spit out pearls 

The little girl gave 
little cries of surprise 
as the club struck 
her sides 

I was there 
By the fire in the 
Phonebooth 

I saw them charge 
& heard the indian 
war-scream 

felt the adrenalin 
of flight-fear 

the exhilaration of terror 
sloshed drunk in 
the flashy battle blood 

Naked we come 
& bruised we go 
nude pastry 
for the slow soft worms 
below 

This is my poem 

for you 
Great flowing funky flower'd beast 

Great perfumed wreck of hell 

Great good disease 
& summer plague 

Great god-damned shit-ass 
Mother-fucking freak 

You lie, you cheat, 
you steal, you kill 

you drink the Southern 
Madness swill 
of greed 

you die utterly & alone 

Mud up to your braces 
Someone new in your 
knickers 

& who would that be? 
You know 

You know more 
than you let on 

Much more than you betray 

Great slimy angel-whore 
you've been good to me 

You really have 

been swell to me 

Tell them you came & saw 
& look'd into my eyes 
& saw the shadow 
of the guard receding 
Thoughts in time 
& out of season 
The Hitchiker stood 
by the side of the road 
& levelled his thumb 
in the calm calculus 
of reason. 

Copyright 1990 Wilderness Publications 

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