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| YOUR HEART
Write in the sand
Those that grieve you
Write it and lose no sleep
Then what you wrote today
Will not be there tomorrow.
Write in the rocks
What you learn
About love, life and luck
And all of those memories
Will come flooding back.
Write in your heart
All those who love you
From North to South
East to West
Then what you've written
Will stay with you forever. | | |
| FOR THOSE WHO DIED YOUNG
If I could know for sure
That the sky is a giant graveyard
I might not grieve
If I could know
That each star is planted there
For all those who died young
I would not mourn
As much
I have watched young boys
Who left their football games
Their unstuck stamps in albums
To go and die on some remote island
Where the sun shines on a snow white beach
I have heard of babies
Killed so brutally
Before their lips could form a smile
And I have known a young girl
With long white shiny braids
Who died one summer
With orange ribbons in her hair
I want to watch the night sky
And remember them
She had the bluest eyes
They never cried
It is enough that their dreams
Are never finished
Why should they be forgotten too ?
Life must offer some good points
For those of us who live on
And remember
Life must mark the ones who die young
Must flash their youth and beauty
Across life's endless sky
And let their short lives be known
In infinite galaxies of remembered stars. | | |
| UNREACHABLE
Life is a desolate barren field
But none were to suffer nor condemn
A tune of soft deceitful lies
When you're gone, the lying ends.
All day beneath the bleak indifferent skies
The turning shadows fall
Carnage uncomparable and human squalor
My eyes correct it all.
Possessed by various types of mind
A low moon shone on the desert land
Where dawn broke into shades of red
And the wind drove over the rolling sand.
Where I and the sun now stand
On this everylasting polar night
A touch of cold in this autumn darkness
There is no end to this fateful plight.
From twilight to the halls of dawn
Take up a quarrel with a foe
A pattern in Kaliedescope'
There's nothing told we do not know.
So don't keep things locked up inside
It won't get you far
Still strive with every ounce of courage
Till you reach the unreachable star.
(Written 22/09/1987)
Published December 1987. | | |
| LOVE AND FEAR...
Across a magic midnight stage
That I try to walk around
Romance dancing in skyward truth
I hear that lovely sound
For everywhere and everyday
Our emotions are ignored
This ocean wind whistles sharply
Painted scenes, nightwalk broad
I imagine cardboard roses
Stencilled patterns in the heat
Stolen from the floodways
In arrogant defeat
You're beautifully covered
In soft framed plate gold
I live within the stories
You carressed before were old
These memories all surround me
Praying you wouldn't appear
The endless flow of tears I have
Were never love ... but fear
(Written 29/07/1987)
Published December 1987 | | |
| HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL Of INSANITY
1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your e mail address is:
Xena-Warrior-Princess@companyname.com
4) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.
6) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
7) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
8) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
9) In the memo field of all your checks, write 'for sexual favors.'
10) Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
11) Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."
12) Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others that you like it that way.
13) Dont use any punctuation.
14) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
15) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
16) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
17) Sing along at the opera.
18) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
19) Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is of the opposite gender.)
20) Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you're doing. For example, "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom, in Stall #3."
21) Put mosquito netting around your cubicle. Play a tape of jungle sound all day.
22) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
23) Call 911 and ask if 911 is for emergencies.
24) Call the psychic hotline and don't say anything.
25) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.
26) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!", "I Won!" "3rd time this week!!!"
27) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
28) Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that bother me, it's the voices in your head that do."
29) Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
30) Every time you see a broom, yell "Honey, your mother is here!"
And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity....
31) Send this e-mail to everyone in your address book, even if they sent it to you or have asked you not to send them stuff like this.
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