Category: Penman Lounge

  • Bad Love Song

    I know nothing about you I know nothing about you She opened the door and I started the engine I looked in the rear view mirror and I listened Bad love at first sight Bad love at first sight I thought I knew something about you I thought I knew something about you I should…

  • Russian Roulette

    Red wine mixed with sly finds Fine dimes found on high times with Quick hits meaning bliss And your first time not being based on earth signs But who was ready, Willing, Able, Stable enough to control the steering wheel in the firebird of 90 mph ecstasy Next to me, a chick with a good…

  • Road to Completion

    Shake me down Rape me down Full blown break me down Take my rights At the height Of this free world’s death flight Burn the clothes, stop my engine Heart and soul, don’t win elections All my fire has been bottled up to keep me from pretending I can make a difference. Little girls subjected…

  • homeless

    fell from cushioned sheets to a bed of cement pillow too hard to fluff my room now smells of trash urine is the new disinfectant the maid’s been wearing the same ugly dress the butler has soiled himself yet again dinner’s now being served at your nearest trash bin

  • 3

    i stand naked before you fully clothed shivering and it’s not even cold in here if only you knew my thoughts the unheard speeches that curl the ends of my mouth telling me i had something to say then drawing a complete blank at one glance in your direction enough said

  • 2

    thorned sides sweeping gazes cow fields Jesus crossed dandelion winds muddy streams purposeful life Luray Caverns

  • untitled

    i no longer cling to branches where there is no tree standing ankles wrapped in roots sprouting from hard soil no smell of rain today in air to thin to breathe go forward still there is no promise of light bother not with the shadows cast by feet moving too slow winter come soon

  • Layers

    Try to strengthen the roots of our small little tree The branches appear weak too fragile to be; Know the things that you see are built best within me And others I should hide pressed hard, deep inside; Sure it feels fine To spill some red wine, As I know your secrets Soon you’ll know…

  • Vigilantes Villanelle

    In the dead of night Under cover of darkness I heed a higher calling and I make wrongs into right I have you in my sights Because the call of justice harkens In the dead of night Be you warriors of fright Contemptuous and heartless I heed a higher calling and I make wrongs into…

  • Eye of the beholder

    I saw you standing there gazing at yourself in the altogether you’ve never seen yourself like this before piercings not born out of the latest fad gazing at yourself in the altogether the feel of steel against your skin piercings not born out of the latest fad proud of the courage it took to walk…