Sing Another Song Boys by Klaus J. Gerken 2013 The Slaughter There's a terrible slaughter that's going on With the guns in the hands of the good holy ones Each murderer I know had god on his side A crazy phenomena from which to hide Ten years for an attempt on someone's life When he get's out he makes it right I can't understand it It shouldn't be like this A murderer's fate should never be bliss The law's an ass and everyone knows it The lowest common denominator will always blow it. I once had a feeling but the feeling is gone You don't give a concert when you've only one song. On a shivering sidewalk your boots get undone There's a playground of sadness with ducks on a pond There a nowhere that's somewhere but who would know that A crisis develops when the rain turns the sand into mud I tell you for certain the future will promise a dream We think is so real we'll barter to scream A sailor's apprentice I learn as I roll On the waves of opinion I can never control So there's poison where we accue all our hopes The figure of madness rivals the pope's I once had a feeling but the feeling is gone You don't give a concert when you've only one song. The muses grow hollow when there's nothing to do In a boat on a river I would kiss the moon too And the king's old canary flutter around With Dylan's commitment to drink till he drowns The life of a fool is always obtuse The richer you get the more you amuse I stalk the deep shadow to observe what I can It's not quite so easy to influence man I realize sometimes the pot can't be full But a street that is empty has some kind of pull I once had a feeling but the feeling is gone You don't give a concert when you've only one song. I did not know silence until given a noise I did not know freedom until given a choice I did not know love unil I got rid of the porn I did not know evil before I was born We all have a choice Hide your head in the sand Mr Jones knows too well what is at hand The bells of the jester or Yoric's old skull Hamlet's the question we ask of the fool And what is the answer I will never know why Why we listen and listen and still deny I once had a feeling but the feeling is gone You don't give a concert when you've only one song. Jesus wasn't a prophet he was king of the road Herod almighty knew well how to keep his role Resurrection comes true when you cannot let go And where politics rule religions accrue There's a bloody block were royal heads have rolled Because religion's too evil to control The flavour of the moment is a delicious fact One always relishes what the intellect lacks There's a new world a commin' I promise it soon The sky it is falling and so is the moon I once had a feeling but the feeling is gone You don't give a concert when you've only one song. KJG 717am 6 January 2013" * The cane shuffle you hobble to the right you hobble to the left take one step forward it feels alright move your cane step to the light read the writing it's all so bright move the cane forward move it back draw a circle in the sand i don't pretend to understand and old man's purpose is to call your bluff you better know it youth's mighty daft remember egypt remember rome fast food shelters a heart attack my cane supports me I won't let go a simple shadow is all i know KJG 6 Jan 2013 2pm" * I left It All Behind Through the morning I was up and down I couldn't fathom Where I was to drown There's a hunger inside That scares the mind I walked away I left it all behind . On a city sidewalk In an empty bar It's an empty flavour In a foreign car I'm somewhere outside Where it's not so kind I walked away I left it all behind . It's a roller coaster With a circus clown Once you're up You think you're down So close the windows Draw the blinds I walked away I left it all behind . It's raining somewhere Where the sun is out The dancing beggar Has financial clout I draw a line In the sands of time I walked away I left it all behind . If you fault the silence The thunder roars If you fault the thunder You have no oars I stepped into the Barge divine I walked away I left it all behind. 539pm 30 Dec 2012 KJG * Event On A Highway There's an event on a highway There's an event on a highway There's an event on a highway That leads nowhere The horizon is crooked The horizon is crooked The horizon is crooked With some blind empty stairs There's a bar that is empty There's a bar that is empty There's a bar that is empty Of whiskey and beer There's a chair in the corner There's a chair in the corner There's a chair in the corner Where no one sits There's a stage that is empty There's a stage that is empty There's a stage that is empty Where no one will sing One life has been taken One life has been taken One life has been taken In a drunken despair There's an event on a highway There's an event on a highway There's an event on a highway That leads nowhere 3am 31 December 2012 KJG * Love Sometimes she smiles at midnight With no place left to hide Sometimes there's only silence In the crevice of the wild Sometime we see each other Across the great divide Only love committed Can be where love resides There's a simple blessed magic In the waking of the dawn The breath of our commitment Will never be forlorn There is nothing in our doubting That we will ever pawn I smile so close together We breathe a morning song KJG 8pm 7 Jan 2013 * God The Joker said to Queenie I don't know what to do There's a spider in the outhouse And a revolution's due There's thunder on the speedway And there's butter in the tea Do you really care for something Do you really care for me God came to an alley They arrested him with pride Said Jesus was their saviour And tanned his holy hide But the joker stepped up to the plate And said we can't do this We haven't got the authority To betray him with a kiss So they all went to a party And slapped each others back The good old boys just boasted Of what they always lacked There's a place were holy water Is sprinkled on your head But sometimes even the living Are the walking dead Now sometimes there's a moral And sometimes there is not If bleeding doesn't do it The flesh will surely rot So tell me something simple That I can comprehend Otherwise the shadow Is my only friend. KJG 7 January 2013 * Anger Song The beautiful Aurora Was a lady in distress She couldn't find her lover Or even find her dress The room was in a shamble And the dust danced in the sun She finally wrapped a blanket Around her and went home A day or so later Her cellphone rang and rang She didn't want to answer it She was angry like a fang He only left one message "Sorry babe I'm gone" She threw the cell phone on the floor And stomped it to oblivion. KJG 1121pm 7 January 2013 * Drugs Drugs might keep you happy drugs might keep you well drugs might keep you living drugs might bring you hell drugs are in you cupboards drugs are in your desk drugs are in you pockets drugs are in your dress drugs you get from doctors drugs you get from thieves drugs you get from dealers drugs you get from priests drugs can be your serpent drugs can be your friend drugs can be epiphany drugs can be a trend drugs might be the first thing you grab from some old shelf but drugs can never help you unless you help yourself KJG 509am 12 Jan 2013 * 3 AM Anxiety Attack Three in the morning I'm cold and I'm shivering The silent apartment Is a chamber of madness I can feel the walls echo My thoughts crave a calmness But there's nothing to tell you My thought are a blanket That cover an illness Of absolute torture I can't talk about it I'm not willing to lecture My only companion Are the cats that are roving The hallways and bedrooms Where I wan't find the sweet dreams I crave with a hunger That reaches beyond me Like an infinite number Oh tell me the morning Will rise with a warning To arm myself better I pretend there's a letter In my empty mailbox But what ever was there Has been silently stolen I cannot remember I cannot forget I sing you this song Without a regret The music is mute and Not a tune in my head I wonder if that's What it's like to be dead There's a rumble of trucks Cleaning the streets The city is shifting Past the wreck that is me Drink the last wine To calm some old nerves Think of the good Don't think of the worse Life's so much to offer Instead of a curse Infinity beckons I need a good nurse But whatever will happen A committment's been made I hold myself up From the edge of the grave And walk into sunlight And crest the next wave. KJG 345am 14 January 2013 * Silence Nothing is what it seems When there's silence in the house. KJG 413am 14 Jan 2013 * Business Deal, Fool Song, Young Love. Take your pick. He was slow in arrival The runway was dark She blew out the candle With the pain in her heart "I just couldn't help it I was a desperate fool" With a suit and a tie And a briefcase too cool She shouted it's over And threw a full glass Of something or other At the wall of their past He ducked - He was training He fell to the floor A cold terror caught him He yelped out the door A few days later She called just to say "I appreciate your honesty Please stay" KJG 307pm 14 Jan 2013 * Winter Rain The sunlight dances On the wet blue roof. KJG 1109pm 14 Jan 2013 * Amendment There is nothing o nothing I cannot control A common solution For a civilized fool I have to protect children With a gun in my hand Otherwise someone Will kill them again You know there's a point where We all must behave And gathering weapons Is a path to the grave There's plenty of poison We take every day But a gun in each pocket Is a paranoid lay I sleep pretty well with A pillow of down I don't need a weapon To defend what I own Take what you want and Then go away If you're that desperate I won't stand in your way I own very little Unless you like books I don't need a gun to Defend a rogue rook If you don't understand that I have no advice There's always a danger Where there's unseen black ice The second amendment Was there to protect Your rights and your freedoms If the county went bad How can a gun now Protect you against The weapons they have now You don't have a chance Deterrence is freedom They shout it out loud If deterrence is freedom You live on a cloud Just like religion You live in sweet fear What works for to save you Is a venomous tear So don't try to sweat it It brings no reprieve The lion will always Slaughter the beast And who is the lion The man with a gun After all he is The holy good one. KJG 149am 17 Jan 2013 * Waking Woke up in the morning Glad to be alive No matter what the day brings I like to be surprised There's an apple in the tree house And a ladder on the way Hurry hurry hurry Before the worm eats it away It's just a childhood memory I never will forget It brings a simple smile to me When lying in my bed As the sun beam warmly wakes my cats And they lick my humble head. KJG 248am 17 Jan 2013 * Paranoid They're coming for you in the hollow night They're coming for you when you think you're right They're coming for you when you clean your sink They're coming for you when you need a drink But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you in your wildest dreams They're coming for you when you think you're clean They're coming for you when you ramble on They're coming for you when you hold your tongue But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you read the papers They're coming for you when you talk to neighbours They're coming for you when you pray in church They're coming for you when you're in a lurch But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you're in the tub They're coming for you when you get a rub They're coming for you when you drink your wine They're coming for you when you're feeling fine But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you pay your taxes They're coming for you when you use your plastic They're coming for you when you take your meds They're coming for you when you're bled to death But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you watch TV They're coming for you when climb a tree They're coming for you when you finally drown They're coming for you when act the clown But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you sing the blues They're coming for you when you buy new shoes They're coming for you when you pay your rent They're coming for you when your face is bent But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you when you hardly notice They're coming for you when you haven't voted They're coming for you when you have ideals They're coming for you when you eat your meals But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void They're coming for you with their heavy guns They're coming for you when you don't belong They're coming for you just because they can They're coming for you and you better run But don't be so annoyed They're in you're head and in your social void KJG 1244am 18 Jan 2013 * Vignette The bed was soft and warm She held onto his arm Don't go she said...He kissed Her eyes and fled Into the yellow night The shadows were so bright He left a trail of blood They found him in the mud When they told her she just stared At the crevice in the wall The flood of tears remained Inside a body drained Her husband was arrested Yesterday's incentive. KJG 18 Jan 2013 * Mind sees shadow; On the ground, A fallen tree. KJG 19 Jan 2013 * How to write haiku: What? Really? WOW! KJG 19 Jan 2013 * Addict The windows are rattling And the shadows are splashing On the walls that are crashing Into me The cats are asleep And the snow is too deep To go for a walk In the desperate dark There's time on my mind It's not always kind The stars flood the ceiling With difficult meanings A race has begun It can't be much fun To try to outrun What you cannot outrun Why carry the cross That isn't your loss The dream haunts forever Like a crisis that never refuses to stop like a difficult job that carries you past a falior of task like a pound of old flesh owed to the blessed the devil appears with a plethora of fears I cannot go on Is a difficult song it echoes in silence where you never belong The painter takes chalk to a canvas so dark that nothing appears outside a dog barks in an alley of sadness the needle of death freezes in winter one more ever after KJG 1253 AM 22 Jan 2013 * My love My love's a silver bird Sparkles when she's heard Never gives me anything Except her ring to pawn My love's a gentle fawn Runs barefoot on the lawn Drops a hint that no one gets And vanishes at dawn She tells me there's no hope for The future or the past Says we should love the moments Without remorse or fuss The sky's a sea of twilight My love is in the skies Sparkles like a diamond Or a thousand fireflies She harbours no commitment To herself and others Walks away like Venus In the shadow of a dove. KJG 1155am 22 Jan 2013 * A Difficult Man Why do I write In the dead of night By the flickering Candle light Why do I sing In the blossoming spring With the apple-blossoms Ever so white Why do I search For a given word Now one has spoken Or even yet heard Why all this searching Ever this searching For truth or for reason In a difficult weaving If you ask me I'll tell you Don't know what to tell you I am what I am A difficult man. KJG 432PM 23 Jan 2013 * Evasive Illusion for Li Po With the sparkling moon reflected in my purple wine I drink a lovely moonshine! KJG 9:13PM 24 Jan 2013 * The perfect morning Waking up from one great dream into another. KJG 558am 25 Jan 2013 * Challenges I know the challenges of money I know the challenges of love I know the challenges, Oh honey Kill the dove I know the challenges of beauty I know the challenges of snow I know the challenges of duty Go I know you were not very ugly I know the summer made you brown I know the bedroom was the killer Frown I know your workaholic husbands I know your pretty obscene smile I know the smiling get the kitty Ain't it wild I know there's something very wrong here I know you do not think it real But all the money in your pockets Can never buy back what you steal I know the challenges of summer I know you had the winter blues I know you left me for the drummer True I know the plastic insurrection Exploded in a wedding cake We stepped into the roller coaster Big mistake You said I was your finest lover You taught me what the saint refused I almost stepped into a mine field So confused You showered me with famous endings I argued with a cool respect Was it lightning you were sending I forget You said your world was cold and empty You danced for me upon the bed You laughed and laughed and laughed, your sentries Fled Some made it to the nearest harbour With a slab of big cement Others spilled their guts out in an arbour spent I knew that there was something wrong here I didn't dare to let you know But I found you knew already I just had to let you go It was simply one more wasteland It was aids without regret Love was carved up by your dagger It's beating heart still bled Coda It was simply my desire To see what others had not seen I was curious, you never Even came into the dream 22-29 Dec 92, Jan - Mar 93 (2013) * ALONE alone still alone after all these years together still alone it wasn't like we weren't lovers (we were) it wasn't like we weren't friends (we were) it was more like the distance between us was a psychological defense... alone still alone after all these years together still alone it wasn't like we couldn't speak (we could) it wasn't like there was a wall between us (there wasn't) it was more like the discord of an unknown symphony fallen on deaf ears... alone still alone after all these years together still alone it wasn't like a row of little lighted candles (we burned them at both ends) it wasn't like the theory of space and time and equilibrium (it developed slowly) it was more like the loss of distribution with a cause but not an end... alone still alone after all these years together still alone. Copyright (c) 1990 Klaus J. Gerken (2013) * Waiting for the Resurrection Time is of the essence God doesn't seem to care; I wonder where the Dog is Snug on the cat's chair. Peace be with the moment, I'm sure it wont' last long; There's a wagging tail, believe me, And a smiling fang! KJG 27 Jan 2013 * Clarity Peace be to the multitude, The carpet covers dung; But the stench remains obnoxious And bothers everyone! KJG 1008 27 Jan 2013 * The End Time to leave the lotus land, Paradise is cruel To those who who gather laurel leaves Or simply play the fool. KJG 1029am 27 Jan 2013 * Published by Ygdrasil Press Copyright (c) 2013 by Klaus J. Gerken