Lilliput Her There
To the thought of crooked traveler
All thoughts jarred on shelf were left at home
Visions tell silver rambler
March alone this way or that way
Never back to urbane pathway
All of which lead away from Rome
Empires 'quire too much pain
Without a faith or love to gain
See the point from this crooked view
Few riches waft in though many blew
Fled desert 7:49
Sand ate two whole in one big swallow
Without jacket wasn't time
Without one question I was sure
I had ten needed 'leven more
Sped thru valley none dared follow
Marking trail with bits of rye bread
Saving some to keep me undead
Paired with water drained from the Park
Can't recall if it was light or dark
Limping up deserted highland
Fuming tank jerking no approval
Drowned in sweat seeking dry land
Pass stations few - no far between
Ghosts wailing through sharpened baleen
High placement faces low removal
Tires threatened by flat demands
Shiftless gears shaking off their sands
Hoping light will end this tunnel
'Waiting more than another funnel
Just in case you think this fiction
All assurances given for truth
Heroic dereliction
Then paternal eviction
Never was a worse conviction
Corroborate words of your sleuth
T'was the great Gift you think it is
Test completed before the quiz
Waste no secrets by telephone
Record your slumber party alone
Back to racing back from a start
Left the blocks at starting buck shot gun
Should have built myself an ark
Fairies assail 'cross dry creek bed
Some things better were never said
Survivors laugh as they succumb
Tumbleweeds all rooting in places
Rarity of finer graces
Rolling to the pump on empty
Hung hong King on the Horn of Plenty
No service for money transfer
Sev'ral bills and change all that remains
Debts, taxes survive Rapture
Just enough alms to feed the poor
Poor little lost soul raconteur
Another tourist Earth sustains
Filled up with sparks and trailing smoke
Beg one last kiss before I croak
Says she's leaving I must hurry
Accelerate to slow my worry
Once 'pon entering Sunshine State
Took Kingman straight through to Needles, I
Threads bulging from loss of weight
Pressured conscience let out a sigh
Wrong turned somewhere on 95
Sheephole Valley counting to pi
Twenty-nine Palms waving their fronds
Delirious oasis ponds
Approach 10 the Bonnie Bell way
One in the HOV lane quickens up the sleigh
Swerving and weaving through thru lanes
Somewhere circling Santa Ana
Dust bunnies shaking their chains
Hearing drips of hydrographic
Taking notes hagiographic
Signs saying head for Tijuana
Maybe after Palos Verdes
Check-in with my little birdié
Already flew south for winter
Lumb'ring west with a puzzling timbre
Paused downtown to get my bearings
Investigate pain down in my seat
Broken pair of gold earrings
Found coupon for a cheeseburger
Penny saved becomes wage earner
Redemption in order to eat
Feeling fat from my cheese and bread
Sunlight cools baked breeze on my head
Bird chirps around me sound like song
Catching their tune I whistle along
Just as my tongue begins to groove
Parking patrol rounds the corner curb
Cars beep expectant to move
Need more sheep in waking nightmares
When needed most seems just wolves care
Safe in car wash - do not disturb
Reach for paper stored in ensile
Joy arrived then broke my pencil
Lack of sharp'ner dulling my day
Painting each word with ashes from tray
Audience participation
Local voyeurs from faraway lands
Pair-annoyed stimulation
King is here to meet his girlfriend
Smile spins 'round - another dead end
Wedding crashers all holding hands
They've had my cake now eating it too
All their secrets I wished I knew
This library is open late
Close out the cards lest tempt in my fate
Reading all the lyrics I find
Ideal artistry sounds close at hand
Librarian "sush" reminds
Hell's angel choir flys down street
Mufflers scarfing up all my beat
Cupid's harpoon leading the band
Pink bows on red wings look so meek
White leather bridal dress so sleek
Another marriage procession
Catches surprised my apprehension
Clouds from Nevada blowing in
Adding silver to my gold yin weight
Credit balance of my sins
Apothecary's pigeons part
For falcons return from the start
Ra's cold-pee coal train, Injun's date
From here is where life takes a turn
From Eden's Hagman locked in urn
D'ante's allegory creates
Philosopher King razed per legates
Used pennies served to fill the tank
Found highway angles round in circles
Loveless three-angled mean prank
Somehow approaching same off-ramp
No mail for help without a stamp
Catching stillness thrown by windmills
Too heavy for an even hand
Too light for only one free hand
When others understand my perch
Will they believe or renounce the Church?
Can't find a way back to the East
Besides witches too wicked will know
Good health famine from my feast
Join nickel to a quarter tank
Following sunset south with thanks
Rain tucks cold bed over warm glow
Ember smolders with a fury
Never slowing constant hurry
D'Js join in radio calls
Barreling forward down through the falls
Took wrong turn at Albuquerque
Harpie loon over-tuned underneath
Rough road, smooth engine quirky
Ice drips sizzle down from low clouds
Suburban malls replace tough crowds
Fang-toothed cats nipping Christmas wreath
Guard dogs safe inside chain-linked fence
Beg promise note signed for three pence
No cred' takers give these seasons
Wrong turn again for all right reasons
Towing a wreck by interstate
Exceptional time without a place
Exception'ly Gifted fate
Vile birds perch frozen window sill
Who dies first, the whip or the will?
Spectators fight to judge the race
Signs say Victorville is in sight
Dash glow brightens up empty plight
Loss charging gains inner cation
Fuel-starved chariot limps t'ward station
Signals all drop, throwing the phone
Curse the girl I'm stuck here with alone
Received truth when got a tone
Picked mother's knit blanket cover
'Least if I die I won't smother
Reapers outside stitch what I've sewn
For these days and for all these nights
Seeing bites cited acolytes
Rude facts reformed as flattery
Removed key to spare the battery
Woke shiv'ring still in warm breath fog
Sunrise reflects on opposing hill
No croaking spares homeless frog
Eas'ly greenest of assembled
Seeing faces she resembled
Emptiest purse from sweetest dill
Shuffle inside to make a deal
Narrow time, wide ocean, no keel
Borrow line, called for money, lent
Labyrinth penned works when paid can repent
Of all the news that's fit to print
It's the bare bad news that should be told
Smoking steel upon the flint
Lights up hope with dismissive doubt
Dry creaking in-bed water spout
Watch origami life unfold
City limits over-achieved
Maybe my dreams can be believed
Maybe gov'nor before actor
So many per mutation's factor
Talent once housed fled from the tent
Tracked by animas two by too much
Ensured for just one event
Uneventful four-day long drive
Stopped each time flowers stemmed the strive
Winner's gold still lost out of touch
My 'ternal credit to giver
Treading Colorado River
Soon in Holman south of LaGrange
A man's ville without wife on the range
And I here request it again
The finest love imaginable
All my dreams calling true reign
From one ocean to another
Why keep for a sake your brother?
Mirthed depths unfathomable
One single pair of two prints strew
Never always knowing the due
Whether rose, crawled, walked, fly or flue
This be the time that I carried Hu
Knowing who
Not knowing where
Why should I care
Lilliput Her There