collab

Friday, March 17, 2017

SHARP PINK NAILS
























Sharp Pink Nails


Raking my sharp pink nails down my own shoulders

Shoulders that once you referred to as fragile
But shoulders that I know as strong enough to bear
The weight of the world and more
I thought of the way your kiss used to make me melt
Like honey and would burn me all the way down my belly
Like that German liquor you plied me with on our first date
I never understood you. That was your favorite thing to say
Never is a strong word but absolutely descriptive 
Of the truth of my understanding of you
How could I? You revealed nothing but scripted fantasy
You gave nothing but what would serve you best
You loved no one but yourself...............................
Thinking that the nail on my forefinger looked like a dagger
I ran it across my wrist, imagining what it would be like
To cut it deep and let it run with cleansing blood
Washing away your memory and the fact that
Ever since you left
I can't seem to feel anymore.


©By Voo

Dec 25, 2004
 5 p.m.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

REVOLVE LIKE THE MOON a collab by Voo and Terry the Madd Poet



 


Spinning The Wheel by George Michael
instrumental......start now......



Revolve
(Like The Moon Does)

Me


He revolves around me
Dancing a little silky two step
Sing-song-ing a scrap of lyric
He found on a stoop somewhere
After midnight when the winos were asleep.

That boy always singing! Always dancing!
Makes you feel good to be alive
To be around him on a dreary day
Revolve, girl! he tells me, smiling
Revolve! Like the moon does!

Him

And as the earth does!
This is where the birth was.
As you take your 360 degree turn,
I am watching. And so I shall too.....REVOLVE...

We formulate...
the figure eight.
lighting our footprints.
this is pure pleasure to me.
hungry for a never ending story.
But never worry.....We're ..... REVOLVING!

Me

And then he grins
And the world lights up with his joy
We lock arms and run through the intersection
Car horns blowing like trumpets
People screaming curses
That sound to our ears like blessings.

Run up to the hill
And the abandoned club house
Where the old folks say
You can still hear Louie Armstrong
Belting out his happy blues
In a smoky whisper.

Him

ON THE HILL..
TIME STANDS STILL
All except the pitter patter
of our footsteps
creating the melody of dancing poetry.

oh, what a feel, of genuine truth
as we revolve still...
longevity lives
Atop that hill.

Me

Then he turns to me
And says, See that moon?
It's already shining in your eyes
That's where I want to live forever
And I say, On the moon?
And he laughs, No, girl, in your eyes!

And he revolves around me
Dancing, singing
Holding his heart out in his hand
Until I become so dizzy
That I fall straight into his beckoning orbit
And without realizing.....
Into the mad thing called Love. 


Us




©By Voo 



and Terry, the Madd Poet
©June 22

JAY WALKING ACROSS THE AUTOBAHN












Jay Walking Across the Autobahn



If I had known where this was all going to end up
I never would have taken this trip
No, that's not right, I take that back
I had no choice in the matter
I was born with a suitcase in my hand
A wad of dirty hundred dollars bills
And a longing for something I've never known, 
Let alone found.

There was a tiny seed germinating in my heart
Weed or flower, who knows? (I have no wisdom)
Beauty or ugliness, who can tell? (I have no sight)
Not the sight of a wise man or the wisdom of the blind
But extra-sensory perception that comes from misuse.

They say that God protects the innocent and the fool
(Some say the alcoholic and the atheist)
It's been my sad experience to learn 
That the inebriated fall all the same on broken glass
But do not know until much later, how torn and broken
That they have been all along
But I am not a drunkard.

I did not believe in God
For twelve minutes in the hot July sun
One long Monday morning in the sixteenth year of my life
I did not believe in anything because I had been damaged
And all the faith had been grabbed out of my heart
And sent off down a raging river that issued from my own eyes;
For twelve minutes I was an atheist.

Being alone in the universe without a creator
Is the loneliest feeling you can ever have
There was no one to rail at, no one to cry to
No one to blame for everything and nothing
And no one to beg for mercy 
When I had come to the end of myself;
Therefore,  I am not an atheist.

There was love there in the desert
Here and there, an oasis or two
Shade from the heat as I wandered like Ishmael and Hagar
Wondering what I had done besides being born
At the wrong time to the wrong people
But love, like everything, is fleeting
And slipped like sand through my fingers.

Did you ever have a song stuck in your head
That just keeps playing over and over and over?
Well, that's my life, my memories, few as they are
They play in my gray cells like tiny transistor radios
Crackling with static and intermittent signals
That never come in quite strong enough to identify.

I have blisters on my feet from walking,
Blisters on my hands from carrying this luggage,
Blisters on my heart from being burned so many damned times
That soon the scar tissue will be five inches thick and impenetrable
But I can't seem to stop walking
They won't let me
And I won't let them let me.

I saw a crazy man once;
He didn't see me, I don't think
But I watched him for a good half hour
Out in the middle of the freeway in America
Batting at birds that were not there
And talking to people that did not talk back
I was fascinated by the conversation
And only grew afraid when I saw an angel
Take his arm and escort him to the curb.

I think I might have an angel
Otherwise, why am I still here?
I've fallen off of mountains and washed up on to seashores
Been hit by trains and hurricanes
Still clutching my battered suitcase,
Still breathing through the sea weed, my heart still pounding,
Long after the world had given me up for dead.

I don't even remember why I started writing this now
I have no one to mail it to
There's no post office box waiting somewhere
For someone to turn the key in
And exclaim, Hey, look! A letter!
There's no reason to start a diary now
Here at the end of my life.

But still, I feel the need
To record my thoughts
As I stand here at the side of the road
Watching cars go whizzing by at 125 mph
It's almost exhilarating to feel that wind in my face, my hair
I think I could almost feel happy.

When I finish writing this, I'll put it in my suitcase
With the other little things that mean nothing to no one
The bit of fish net and blue glass,
The song that the sailor wrote, the red autumn leaf,
The feather that fell from the sky, the dream I tried to paint,
The coat with no sleeves and the bottle from Paris.

It's been a long, strange trip indeed, around the world
I started out alone and that's how I'll end
My pockets are still full of money, for I never needed any
(You cannot buy what I desire)
I'm no older than I was and no younger than I wish to be
And if I am wiser, it's because I've learned
That what I'm looking for cannot be found here.

I touch the items in my luggage one last time
To thank them for accompanying me
We have shared many things, these treasures and I
(And not all of them terrifying)
If inanimate objects can feel anything,
I'm sure they feel my gratitude and devotion
And having done that, I square my shoulders,
Get a firm grip on the ragged, black suitcase
And step into the road.




                  













©by Voo
March 7, 09
1:45 a.m.



I WAS BORN WITH WINGS




I Was Born With Wings



I was born with wings that were clipped from my young shoulders
After running wild and free on this grim earth
After two or three years of flying and living
Innocent and unconcerned with terrestial things and human pain
The loss of my wings brought me anguish
And sorrow and heartache and terror
That would shadow me the rest of my life
And never let me know that taste of freedom again
Feet cannot be compared to wings
Feet can only run, they cannot soar
They cannot take you high above the clouds
Of despair and over and beyond the awful things
That wait in darkness to grasp your soul
Feet cannot outrun the thing that runs behind you
Or crawls below you or slinks in front of you
But wings! Wings can lift you up and away
To heights untouched by life's tragedies and hell's demons
Wingless now, I can only run and run and run
Run toward Heaven, where I've been told 
My wings are waiting for me.





©by Voo
Feb 12, 2005 
2:30 p.m.



WINGLESS HORSES


















wingless horses



and we were like wingless horses
running across the sky
pounding hooves like rolling thunder
fleeing from the clouds that cry

you and I, so much in love
you and I, so much in hate
you and I, too young to carry
all that worry, woe and weight

we didn’t know what we didn’t know
we didn’t see what we couldn’t see
our hearts would look for hidden treasures
found only inside you and me

days when love would pass like strangers
nights when dreams would burn to ash
weeks when life would slice our fingers
as it hurried by so fast

and then it slowed and then it stopped
and then it drowned in pouring rain
and then it died of great neglect
and then it came to life again

great breaking hearts inside our breasts
grew stronger with each pain and tear
no separation put asunder
the union of our love and fear

you and I, we fought like lions
you and I, we sang like birds
you and I, we killed each other
with our passion and our words

but we rose up like wingless horses
that didn’t know they couldn’t fly
and raced the winds that blew against us
let them raise us up so high

until we reached the pinnacle
until we left the lowest depths
leaving madness far behind us
and sang to love with our last breaths.





















©by Voo
Aug 6, 2012
2:00 a.m.