Cats & Rain

Stars

The universe is furious

Star-made in the sky.

Junkets wasn't curious,

And neither much am I.

Maybe round the Pleiades

Are angels in the night,

And a raft of deities,

Making their own light.

The Lyricist

Working with three gifted men

Who made the cosmos sing,

Rodgers, Bernstein, Jule Styne,

He didn't learn a thing.

He gave the world absurdity,

A pose the country bought.

Genius, talent anyway

Can none of it be taught.

 

Dreams

As appealing as a drunkard's dream

Sleeping in his vomit. Christ redeem

The little shepherd boy upon the knoll,

Also sleeping. As if squeezed from coal,

Every star's a diamond at night,

Shining but not sending any light.

And the ocean is forever heading

To the shore. And as the shepherd's bedding,

Grass beneath an overhanging tree.

The shepherd's dream is fearless poetry.

Dreams & Laughter

When at last you reach the end of laughter,

You realize you're on a mental ward,

All your hopes behind you, and your dream

Awakened. When you're out, you'll have a plan -

To make that wakened dream reality.

Not to grow. You're grown. Not to become.

You already are. But to be happy.

With the facts to savor in the light.

And laughter will come back to you again.

Laughter, love and happiness are life.

Also horror, misery and death.

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Cats & Rain

Kittens know. Cats can feel it too.

When you're sad, they make a friend of you.

It's impossible to stay aloof

When the rain is falling on the roof.

It lifts your mood and then it lets you down.

On stalks of grass, the homeless beetles drown.

The click of claws on concrete

Is the only sound

When an old and quiet cat

Follows you around.

And the rain continues dropping on the g

Freedom

Cathexis babies all obey their god.

In obeisance there is liberty.

So go off to war. Sing “Hallelujah!”
Maybe there's some purpose to all this.

No one on god's earth but god knows what.

I hear that she is dead. And every fire

That lit the night is out. The sea is still.

She truly made the moon come down to earth,

The rain to stop, and all that's fake turn real.

And those who did what she did simply laughed.

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