Inverted World

Doted on like seeds planted in rows The untied shoelaces of your life Nurtured all year then pressed in a book Or displayed in bad taste at the table Problems arise and you fan the fire While there's a wild pack of dogs Loose in your house tonight Cu

As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn We settle down to cut ourselves apart. Cough and twitch from the news on your face And some foreign candle burning in your eyes Held to the past too aware of the pending Chill as the dawn breaks and f

Girl inform me all my senses warn me Your clever eyes could easily disguise Some backwards purpose It's enough to make me nervous. Do you harbor sighs, or spit in my eye But your lips when we speak Are the valleys and peaks of a mountain range on fir

The dust from a four-day affair is now landing All over the floor and your brown legs, The gold plated legs of my rival, Whose eyes have no reason to fall. You've led no celibate life, No skirt while chemicals danced on your head. You stole the keys

Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth. Only, i don't know how they got out, dear. Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met. I was happier then with no mind-set. And if you'd 'a took to me like A gull takes to the wind. Wel

I think i'll go home and mull this over Before i cram it down my throat At long last it's crashed, it's colossal mass Has broken up into bits in my moat. Lift the mattress off the floor Walk the cramps off Go meander in the cold Hail to your dark ski