Tres Difficile

a note from the editor: I'm not sure if this has already been posted somewhere but I will risk it because I want this to be out there for people to read The Rose I am singing along and never alone I crave you in the red, need your support in the blue, and the strength is mine alone, mine and lonely, red faced shame craves company I’m longing for their songs so long ago but when they are gone, they’re gone for ever blue I go on singing you ...my shame, my sorrow… Its my song alone…no more bang… no gong, beg for you -beat on the drums. Bang Gong. I strum along, feeling it, red and blue bleeding sound and sorrow to drown out my - and out and out and out loud, in blood red and blue our hearts beat loudly and I sing my song- for you and it goes on- Bang Gong- and on, and into red and blue, I am a true blue brother- loyal to the rhythm, the song and I’m loyal to the strings pulling me playing me, I’m singing, see?- reds and blues are we lonely- to the guitar is blue I’m dressed in red an...

The Rose I am singing along and never alone. I crave you in the red, needing you, your support in the blue, and the strength is mine alone, mine and lonely, red faced shame craves company I’m longing for their songs so long ago but when they are gone, they’re gone for ever blue I go on singing you ...my shame,is my name its my sorrow… Its my song I sing along I sing alone…no more bang… and no gong, I beg of you -to beat on these- beating drums. pound out the song- Bang Gong! I strum along, playing the notes all wrong...till I go blind and then I feel it...so strong I make my way along, I'm running in- the red and blue. I'm bleeding sound and searching outthe perfect note and then its red, and the perfect beat is blue seeking out, some sick sorrow to drown it out but I won't Ibang the gong because I know it all through my bones - and let it out and out and out- OUT LOUD, in a blood red moonscape, I drown it out once in a blue-moon our hearts beat loudly and I sing my s...

Powdered heaven dressed in plastic pulled the shades down on his eye. pinprick pupils soaring skywards offer him no alibis. but then, who needs them? he's quite perfect. perfect body, perfect teeth that flash sublime and blind the kids who spread their legs for their belief. who cross themselves at the drop of a parable; who scream they're saved when they've touched his jeans who swear his wisdom's just infallible and beg for mercy -- in his dreams... another day. another sermon. broken bread, forgotten lines. a line for comfort keeps him human. the needle trembles, band on tight. another little perforation ventilates him and paints him white. a wordless song, a prayer to no-one but still he whistles through the night. they found him on his throne of porcelain. a rusty chain draped 'round his neck. incapable. incoherent. his eyes switched off but a king no less! the jury all wore black chewed razors. witnesses were d.o.a. o.d'd, amoral, senses skewered. dribblin...