Early Poetry

Early poetry

My early poetry is a combination of my successful attempts at poetry and, well, song lyrics. In some cases I may have revised these song lyrics. My first two years in college were as a major in music composition and theory.

At this point, some of you might ask and some of you have asked, “What did you play?” And now you also have the answer to why I was only a music major for two years--in other words I couldn’t sing, which some of you might know.

I’m revising some titles from people’s initials to the whole first name with the initial of the last name…so I can remember.

Nancy R.

(1990’s)

Your face is like the Moon

Full

Bright

And Mysterious

Surrounded by a starless universe of black tresses

Straightjacket of Love

(1990’s)

This straightjacket of love

Fits just like a glove

You can move around with ease

But baby I can’t even breathe

In this straightjacket of love

Crazy

(1990’s)

You always called me crazy

Now I think I am

You created a monster

To roam across the land

You always called me crazy

Now I know it’s true

You created a monster

And I’m coming after you

Disease

(1990’s)

They got a name for your disease

They got a name for mine

They’ll find one for themselves

If we just give them the time

To Dawna G.

(1990’s)

My Indian summer has nothing to do with the weather

But for her sunshine in my moonshine

I night, she the day

Together we make twilight at both dusk and dawn

I the moon, she the sun

I sometimes chase her in the day time

But she never sees me in my atmosphere

And I always recede into my darkness

The Ape Hymn

(1990’s)

I am just and ape oh Lord

I am just an ape

Try to communicate and I’ll try

Try to civilize me and I’ll die

I am just an ape oh Lord

I am just an ape

A monkey with some memory

A chimp without the charm

I am just a hairy fucking ape

An orangutan with a rutabaga

I don’t have to make sense

I just have to entertain ya.

I am just an ape Oh, God,

I am just an ape