This Just In
(verse)
Hey you Joe the Terrorist
your humvees out of gas
staring at goats in the desert
in a deadly atmosphere, aye
Men from the future
fly at your command
takin' stolen relics
from the smoking holy lands
(chorus)
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
This just in
This just in
Got refused,
got refused
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
(verse)
Staring at goats
is just a gas man
O Capricorn Stan
Make your gasoline stand
Turning trees
into smokes
across the Asias
The popular
rage rolls over
in real time fast
(chorus)
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
This just in
This just in
Got refused,
got refused,
(bridge)
Popps points torpedoes
Toward the tackle
Momma says Go ahead Joe
aims to kill
If wingnut words
won’t work.
or fucked up vote counts
bombs sure will
(Verse)
Like a rough beast
backbeat back at last
flinging flags
with snakes on the porch
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist he got bad blues,
Read the oven in our eyes
for a penetratin’ view
(Fade)
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
This just in
This just in
Got refused,
got refused,
got refused …
Verse
Here comes coach
Riding his Humvee
Leaving cigs and smokes
and butts across the aching Asias
of bloody mountains and sand
You … just soar above the Holy lands
Feel the magic at your command
Chorus
Staring at goats
Is just a gas, Man
Staring at goats
O gasoline Stan
Staring at goats
Is plain fun, son
Staring goats
Better ‘n bigger
Badder Broadband
Verse
Coach points his torpedoes
Toward the tackle
Aims to kill in gridiron
Glories, braying to the mob
This just in from Fox News:
Coach Boehner, well, he got bad blues,
gonna put the oven in the eyes
for and you and you and you
Chorus
Staring at goats
Is just a gas, Man
Staring at goats
O gasoline Stan
Bridge
Like a rough beast backbeat back at last
the popular rage rolls in real time fast
flinging flags with snakes on the porch
of Democracy, livin' free while you die
... and all that know-nothing why
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
Finale
Staring at goats …
Brother gotta run
This just in from Fox News:
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
Got refused,
got refused,
got refused …
Joe the Terrorist just got refused
Join the Carnival Army
(verse)
Don’t get nervous, don’t get sad
This is the best damn daylight
We ever damn well had
Open your heart or you’ll go mad
The money time continuum
Is going nowhere fast
(chorus)
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
(verse)
Come back to me,
and I will be your brother
Call off your dogs, and I’ll call
Off my daughters
Bring this pit to peace
Live in this world, no other
(chorus)
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
(Bridge)
Glass floats on the beach, man,
Crystals in the sand
Get the light, gather it all
‘fore the Kracken lands
(verse)
Don’t be evil, don’t be sad,
This is the best damn daylight
A dead man ever did damn have
(chorus)
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
We can’t save the world
We have to save each other
Tough to run, but not too tough
Tough to walk on the morning tufts
of grass in your fields of earth
Your fields of earth are enough
They are enough
Stragglers will be left behind
in the alleys of deceit
and wild animal violence
driven like the tides
Getting a feel for the sun
in the dog park
Life in the dog park
alive in the dog park,
life making me a doggie
dinner, a life made of bad girls
running with me, jumping
into pools of water
But I don't recall seeing you
and I don't recall being seen
and I don't recall when I was me
You never knew me,
the me you never knew,
but knew you well enough
to say, trust me me, say
just go ... I'll say,
I told you so
Refugees
We run like
Refugees
Through the neighborhood
We are Bandits running
In Remote country,
One day short
Of a room,
Light is leaking
A little out of each day.
The sheltered share
Nothing,
not even room to rent,
We are stretched
Stretched in piles,
Beside the road.
.
Our hands are cold
And tires hot,
Numb to the labor
Of the road.
If all this roaming
Made sense
We would be laughing
now.
If all this roaming
Makes sense,
We’d find
A limit to pain.
Angel of Anxiety
Storms across America (obscene mix)
Sheriff Joe just robbed a bank
with martial law in Arizona
Kung Fu cougars roam the streets
Its martial law in Arizona
STORMS ACROSS AMERICA
She leans into the sea
keening a song
from the Madonna vagina
of the deep as hailstones
ring white pins honed from Hawaii
and a tide of low pressure
rounds up upon the shore
of the Forty-Fifth parallel,
a crowny curtin of thorns
Unknowing from the unquiet
slumbers of lost ships
still melting in icy currents
below the surface,
the seagulls scatter
and defecate upon her:
Rise, O rise, storms across America
Your plastic passions await you
as cars stream in from the Orient
and gas passes through your ports
of entry, pleased, as they are
from the total penetration
of the perfect plan
Star of India, our captains
catch colds in the bowlegged
polarities of warm seas
and freezing skies
The sun, well-timed,
is a clock-face ticking,
hidden from our view
America, may the tilted jet stream
blow a gale of goth up your nose
May the ocean rise and plaster
a new continent where truth,
chased in the wind, wakes
the ghost dancers from
the Pacific to the Atlantic
before the living dead
can get out of bed
Shipwrecked sailors
found lost at sea
discovered homes
in their own faces,
in bindles of woody words
crushed to hand-length bits
After forty days of fire,
forty days of rain,
the northwesterly El Nino
sheared shanks of wind
off the Oregon coast,
then brought a low blow
to slap the soiled temples
of the City of Angels
Driftwood is piled fore desire
against sandy beach stumps
and stop gaps, infinite and wise:
Infinity stopped here for a day,
a deluge for the dead,
so I could admire
our wood chips,
our broken bones
A winter-long windshear
plucked the breath
from my pressurized lungs,
turning my fire to water.
I floated some, then burst,
mounted a floating oar
then sank into an orb
of sand
The sun, beyond the grey wail,
shaped a man inside here,
inside this calamity of clams;
one-part plastic,
one-part fishhook,
a bonney redwood mast,
a skull & crossbones flying,
walking the plank on dry land
without an anchor, who cares?
Setting of these banalities
of life aside, let me perscribble:
Glass floats on the beach,
I've found, and the ebb-tide
of the avenues are a roar
of trucks in the rain
On tuesdays, Great Food
is closed in a seaside town;
and what a tree lacks,
the wind whispers;
and loving couples
strand tennis shoes
on the frosty morning shores
as missiles are clicked
into load in the underground
caverns of Iran
Also this: The electric truth sheds
the oil slick skin off the CIA
and sickened seagulls
reel in the ninety mile winds
and Pennsylvania miners
with black lung bibles
defuse the threat
with another tragic
mind blast
The sun goes up
and Mercury goes
into retrograde
as our satellite's
telescopic echo fades
and techno-pop
becomes the sea
in which we wade
The camera's eye
is just a catch
for this cuckoo cluck house,
our mourning latch
and what is least
is that which lasts
as buzzard gulls sift
through black morning trash
and I try to unlearn
this noisy cache
of highway moms
speeding by bullet blasts
and taxi driver Thanatoss plants
look like gods in camouflage pants
Glass floats on the beach,
it's endless, at last!
The end is coming near
and it's coming here fast
It's time to drink
from the pirate's flask
and toast a tune
to all of that glass,
to the sun, the sky,
the nuclear smash,
the currents, the past,
the pounding surf,
the manic search
for meaning and gas,
the molten glow,
the melting snow,
the rivers that run
through those who know ...
Glass floats on the beach,
the ebb is endless,
it's here, at last
Storms Across America
See the Madonna Disneyland
lean into the sea, casting a spell
of the deep as hailstones
ring white pins honed from Hawaii
and a tide of low pressure
rounds up upon the shore
of the Forty-Fifth parallel,
of the Forty Fifth Parallel
at the Forty Fifth parallel
And she sings ...
Rise, O rise, storms across America
Your plastic passions await you
as cars stream in from the Orient
and gas passes through your ports
of entry, pleased, as they are
from the total penetration
of the perfect plan
Star of India, our captains
catch colds in the bowlegged
polarities of warm seas
and freezing skies
The sun, well-timed,
is a clock-face ticking,
hidden from our view
America, may the tilted jet stream
blow a gale of goth up your nose
May the ocean rise and plaster
a new continent where truth
gets chased into the wind,
wakes the ghost dancers from
the Pacific to the Atlantic
before the living dead
can get out of bed
Shipwrecked sailors
found lost at sea
discovered homes
in their own faces,
in bindles of woody words
crushed to hand-length bits
After forty days of fire,
forty days of rain,
of the Forty-Fifth parallel,
of the Forty Fifth Paralell
at the Forty Fifth paralell
etc..
Glass Floats on the Beach
The sun goes up
and Mercury goes
into retrograde
as our satellite’s
telescopic echo fades
and techno-pop
becomes the sea
in which we wade
defuse the threat
with another tragic
mind blast
what a tree lacks,
the wind whispers;
and loving couples
strand tennis shoes
on the frosty morning shores
as missiles are clicked
into load in the underground
caverns of Iran
The camera’s eye
is just a catch
for this cuckoo cluck house,
our mourning latch
and what is least
is that which lasts
as buzzard gulls sift
through black morning trash
and I try to unlearn
this noisy cache
of highway moms
speeding by bullet blasts
and taxi driver Thanatoss plants
look like gods in camouflage pants
Glass floats on the beach,
it’s endless, at last!
The end is coming near
and it’s coming here fast
It’s time to drink
from the pirate’s flask
and toast a tune
to all of that glass,
to the sun, the sky,
the nuclear smash,
the currents, the past,
the pounding surf,
the manic search
for meaning and gas,
the molten glow,
the melting snow,
the rivers that run
through those who know ...
Glass floats on the beach,
the ebb is endless,
it’s here, at last
Ginsberg Rolls Over
(Katie Couric Scares the Shit Out of Me)
Saw a flower child
of a flower child
with a ring in her nose
house big as a cloud
Hanging from a cliff
like a prisoner in a noose
facing the wind,
rastling of the trash bin
behind the media megastore
Someday we all will be
forced to where some kind
ofr ridiculous head contraption
and now I can’t get to sleep anymore
and the country crooner
is a caged old bird now
CHorus:
And I think Orwell is right, always right
as Ginsberg rolls over
while the president goes on vacation
the world burns and seas swell
The world heard over your headset
is corporeal, corporal, and Operation
Wannabe Warlord is just a rush
for the kiddies in the suburbs
And those hay bales
in the hay barn won’t dry
mom and pop from American Gothic
have left their pitchforks to rust
and the country crooner
is a caged old bird now
CHorus:
And I think Orwell is right, alwaqys right
as Ginsberg rolls over
the president on vacation
the world burns and seas swell
CHorus:
And I think Orwell is right, alwaqys right
as Ginsberg rolls over
the president on vacation
the world burns and seas swell.
California Zephyr
Take the train. The mystery whistle
gives warning as a service
to each and hovel and burgh along the line.
Take the train. Shape your body
At a bad angle, to sleep with
One eye open,
a hand on your backpack:
Walk the aisle of the peaceful.
Tiptoe through the dead.
Take the train, but do not envy
The conductors in beautiful
blue caps, who tell tall tales
of DEA rousts, great rivers
frozen over,
whole cities rolling
alive into possibility.
Take the train, leave the attendant
regrets of lost love behind
with the voice of reason
that rules the iron-fisted
tracks of time, faith
and paper-thin legal fantasies
concerning the state
of our nation.
Take the train. Avoid the bad energy
of airports. Smoke in the smoking car.
Listen to long and endless movement
and look toward the Northern Lights.
Take the train, but just know
Charlie Vaughn, he’s just
a shape changer
in a checkered shirt.
The roust was real.
Take the train,
and he’ll confirm
The sun behind the sun.
Take the train, note the brown burned
empty water tank on its side,
feel the mystery rail move forward
again. The observation deck is a churchy
made-for-tv movie ... a transition space
of carpet and glass, frozen stiff,
the great white world,
grafting all tracks
within the context
of our mutual lost
and lonely selves.
Take. The. Train. The late
lifeline and link from Boston
to San Francisco, monk’s tea,
fuel-stained air, electricity humming
up ozone
from East to West.
Take the train,
But send it all back down the hill,
The anger, the fear, laments that fall
upon thine eyes.
Take the train, drilling through
a one-tracked meditation
on your soul’s cruelest capabilities.
Take the train, step off,
greasy, forbidden
and a little too real.
Hothouse Day
On a hothouse day
a solar storm on election day
electrifies a lake of fire
in the sky
The pattern: A tree,
maybe an off-ramp signage shadow,
with pecked And puckered knotty holes,
Where owls perch and eagles play.
I took that last quarter
To the phone booth ...
Oh, if not for so many lonely
And cynical Winnebegos
That drive, ceaselessly,
To bridge the great divide.
The real question isn’t
How to turn lead into gold,
But how to turn gold into soul.
LOOKOUT BURIAL MOUND
I was walking toward the stone circle
overlooking the city of the mind
Leaning over to pick up seven stones
a bone collector, a creature of desire
Both good and evil are in full supply
evil can be found there
in endless supply
great good comes there
at lookout burial mound
overlooking the city
glowing silver town
There on the hill of seven white stones
where the heart will never be found
its made of flesh and cannot ever
be collected, as these bones groan
and so these old bones need flesh
Both good and evil are in full supply
And evil is available
in endless suplly
and great good comes
in endless supply
Both good and evil are in full supply
And evil is available
in endless supply
and great good comes
in endless supply
Out there on the hill of seven quartz white stones
where the heart will never be found
for its is made of flesh and cannot ever
be collected
and so these old bones need flesh