Daily Dose of Paleo

Sunday Prayer, LIII - Paleo.

time & time again
what it was like to write on white flags
with my soul as rich as rags are 
rich with memories of accidents
i spilled a glass with sand in it
a rabbit with a plan
i am the bird making a stand
i am a bird making the stand i am i am

time & time again
a wager war of sums and battles
like muted music in the background
dreaming. death will never wear down
the mountain of hope. the mountain of despair
to either top, the same set of stairs
but how can anyone know? and why should they care
if i had climbed them. if i was there i am i am i am

but you’re a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes

time & time again i am i am

The Beginning - Paleo.

if you tumble down the hilltop
i will not be far behind
it will not be long  
i’m by your side

walking through the tunnel
standing in the light
through the thick and thicker        
still noreaster night

she was the message
a guess as good as mine
as a flower falling
off the wall

it all takes some time
these things take a little time  

while the world away lives off of lemons
i am making lemonade
i have tasted seven oceans
some few who taste the same
setting ice and diamonds 
on my tongue

each unique to swim in 
each gives its many waves a name
is everything a game 
when all is said
and done

she was the message
a guess as good as mine
as a flower falling
off the wall

it all takes some time
these things take a little time

time a little
time a little
time a little
time a little time

time a little
time a little
time a little
time a little time

in time you will take your rings off
and set them in the sink
then set about to take 
apart your gun

to marry lysistrata
now that the war is won

she was the message
a guess as good as mine
as a flower falling
off the wall

it all takes some time
it all takes some time
these things take a little time

hold the arrow in my heart
with treadmarks on my soul i’m headed home
treadmarks on my soul i’m headed home

first you must get permission
from the old man at her gate
who has the keys to the whole building
that’s your cue

he hopes you find the trap door
before the trap finds you

like all of the king’s women
and all the horses’ men
my love has no beginning
only means
and an end

no beginning
only means
and an end

Dead Wings Beat - Paleo.

bird
sing to me
calming words
or mellow mellow mellow 
melodies made of milk 
or honey made of dust 
and birdseed

please
will you tie me up
tie me to the kitchen door

when the bad men come
when the bad men come

don’t let them tear our house down
don’t let them tear the old house 

down down down down
let them tear the old house 
down down down down
let them tear the old house 
down down down down
let them tear the old house 
down down down down
let them tear the old house down

bird
will you sing to me

if i can make my heart beat
i can make my own heart

beat beat beat beat
i can make my own heart
beat beat beat beat
i can make my own heart

bloom
yellow stones
smiles drain

a whippoorwill hits the windshield
what all the time in the world won’t heal

if i could make your dead wings beat

beat beat beat beat
i could make your dead wings
beat beat beat beat
i could make your dead wings
beat beat beat beat
i could make your dead wings
beat beat beat beat
i could make your dead wings beat

When Nothing Was Impossible - Paleo.

one of these days
he will be sorry
for all the hearts he crossed out
with his black magic marker
i am darker than a permanent frost

like a frame we implicate
as a cover for a faithless bed
and a mastermind mantel
harvested medals for the undone dead

he is like me
going back on the things he said

i remember a time
back when nothing was impossible

when i believed my eyes
back when nothing was impossible

nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible

getting less and less young 
on the face of the earth
what is wrong and right
left at the light 
up ahead. you have to give yourself time

standing on abandoned tracks
back when nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible

nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible
nothing was impossible

I Will Count The Days - Paleo.

dip your toes in the desert
draw a draft for the sand
in the shoes of the hopeless
for one second, i understand

in the lottery lines quiet 
as trees when they die
my ladybird waits
while i count the days

carefully cavelier the stanzas
one rickety rung at a time

love is like air
it is caught and set free
caught and set free
captured but free to leave
one rickety rung at a time
and though it doesn’t like to repeat itself
it has been known to rhyme

in the lottery lines quiet 
as trees when they die

fleet are the feet of my troubles
creep up on me like a storm
then she cries in my eyes
her cold holds me tight
i feel alive

but something since then has been missing
something that i can’t replace
youth decays into patience 
decayed into pride

in the lottery lines quiet 
as trees when they die

like the birds whose little hearts freeze in midflight
one blue migrant night
addressed 
dear earth 
sincerely sky

my ladybird waits
while i count the nights

standing in the black earth with a shovel
i know the all the names of the capitals
and the names of all the flowers in the field
and the bugs that get invited
back to their beds

my ladybird waits
while i count the breaths
in the lottery lines quiet 
as trees when they die

i mistook you for angels
falling from the sky
i searched for you on the high road
you were in front of me all this time

i look down at the money
that grows on my hands like a weed
the garden was free

stand on your chairs
and reach for the air 
the temple is locked
and god doesn’t care

i mistook you for angels
free or falling from the sky. i wonder why
if you could see you through my eyes
like were seeing for the very first time

this is your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life

then you became thundercloud 
you bottle up the rain
until it gets to much to bear the weight of it
the state of your affairs
and then you rain it on your family
you rain it on your friends
it wasn’t right from the beginning
it’s only right that it ends

but it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life

no, don’t mistake me for angels
falling from the sky

i will help you a much as i can help anyone
the lost leading the lost at sea
i will hold the door for you
if you lock up  when you leave
just bear in mind a little bit
when you are calling out to me

this is your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life
it’s your life

Ocarina - Paleo.

someday every skull will be an ocarina
that way death won’t have to have the last say
so then we don’t have to be afraid as all the silence
turns in to music. we can dance away our graves 
as we make our way 
to an even, better place

someday
someday
someday
someday
someday
someday
someday
someday

an a for effort
and a purple heart
i don’t see a ring 
around your finger
it is dark. the clock is ticking
and the shot is mine to take. the clock
is ticking, my heart is only mine to break 
but i iron out my fist and i 
turn and walk away

and then i take my iron eyes out of their sockets
and then i fold my velvet shades up like a wave
and then i call all of the fire home from the field
as if a vulture eats an apple for a change
a change of heart
a change of pace

someday
someday
someday
someday
someday
someday

Say My Name (There Is No Tomorrow) - Paleo.

say my name. there is no tomorrow

say my name out loud
say my name out loud

try it out on your tongue
every once in a while

until you wear my name out
say my name out loud
say my name out loud

my photo in the fire
in the fire sweating tears i am
i am putting on years
pushing pins on to cushions
pawning needles to the pines
you were cut from a place on the cloth
that was near to mine. close
but not quite

give me your position 
i will let you see my speed
for today and for tomorrow 
a sheet of midnight inbetween
at the top of the clock
the long hand and short hand
finally finely meet

there is no tomorrow

Sunday Prayer, LII - Paleo.

time & time again
how can we see the soul of a city
through the shrines of shopped out windows
in the violin hands of the mannequin man
but a city has no center
no catchy code you simply enter
inside and out and empty sex
with what you see and what you get i am i am

time & time again
a god of war is first a lover
strike your true glass heart against her
thinking twice you too might shatter
like a hall of one way windows
like a wall of one way mirrors
black ant arpeggios and chords
fall from the staff. free on the floor i am i am i am

but you’re a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes

time & time again i am i am

Old Mirrors - Paleo.

i look for a woman
who will fit into my mother’s old mirrors

i listen for the sirens 
to toll. for the train tracks to cheer

as the recluse of a spider
who hides inside his eiderdown house 
is clearing out

i can see right through you
said the wind to the window 
it loved too much

i put up with myth 
to get closer to mystery
i live in the past because
the future is history

ribbons of the present 
never ask the box elder bow 
what, if anything, it holds

she is standing with her back to the mirror
because she knows what she needs to know
i look for a woman
like wind for a window who is open

into a space
where you can recreate 
the home you grew up in

i look for a woman
who will swallow up my mother like aspirin

A Day Goes By - Paleo.

got to the bottom of the deep end
touched the bottom of the sky
while night was working out all of her wonder
i would strain to see the stars in her eyes

i worried about tomorrow until tomorrow
when there is not enough of the world to go around
how the accidents would happen for a reason
for a cause that wasn’t meant to be found

not a day goes by
world turns all the way around
deep down somehow
not a day goes by

when did all of this get so heavy
drained my lake to make a well for one wish
with every bone in my heart just shattered
life is a fight you don’t win

not a day goes by
world turns all the way around
deep down somehow
not a day goes by

soon i turn my back on my family
soon i turn my back on my friends
but you miss the things you wouldn’t think matter
the math you have to learn over again

not a day goes by
not a day goes by
not a day goes by
that i don’t think 
of what it would have been like
if i had never left your side

i don’t think 
of what it would have been like
if i had never left your side