Dog Shoe Blues (6am Tuesday)

Old man coming down the side of the road,
Got a bone in his hand and a dog by his shoe.
I’ll tell you buddy, thats whatcha gotta do
When you aint got a penny for no dog food.
Gotta save you a bone from that chicken that yah stole,
Gotta carry that piece to keep that dog at your sole.

drunken epiphany

Two steps, two steps, thats all you get, love the lesson you learn to forget. Turn to the plan writ secondhand, muster common place demands. Test market flow, research prospect, targeting certitude is never suspect. I am the laughing in the darkness, I am your bitter loving snarkiness.

A HALFWAY DRAFT - INCOMPLETENESS

My head went sailing,
High above the shore,
Eyes
Traced the spindrift plying
Crested crashings evermore.
I uhz
Warmed by the sun
Bouncing off the sea


I fear the passing of every day,
I feel my time being pulled away,
It hardly matters,
Anyway
Whats my time to theirs or thine?
Moments bubbling in gurgling brine
Green with youth and salty with age,
Spiced learning beneath a bitter rage
Against the motion of it all.
Rage against the notion of the ends distant call,
On turbid oceans no man can forestall
The pull of world's edge and that final fall
Over the last seas ledge, into the maw
Of blackness, questions, and sleep in the raw.

Coffee Caffeine Coke

Come on talk to me,
You never talk to me,
At least you never do
The way I want you to.

Come on look at me,
You see me looking at you,
And I guess our eyes meet,
But you're never looking back
The way I want you to.

Unrequited yeah,
Its fucked up but fair,
Feels fucked up to care
As much as I do.

Unrequited yeah,
I don't mean to stare,
but
I can't help but suck up to you.

Unrequited yeah,
You think I suck, thats fair,
I'll be a gift wrapped fuck up for you,
For you

For my first love
And my worst friend.
Am I aiming too high?
I'd be a fool not to try
Nah thats just a joke,
Girl yah make me sigh,
Disappointment makes me choke,
I know you cannot tell a lie
Until you get your coffee, caffeine, coke.

Ogrll

There are people in life that
Will laugh cheat and lie
And try try try
To pick you apart
As if it were art.

There is scum on the streets that
Will cry, bitch, and bleat
and beg beg beg
For a mouthful of meat
And they won't be discrete.

The priveleged have power that
Can organize every hour
Gone by by by
But those efforts will sour
On behalf of a flower
Or an orphan.

And I I I
I'll just sit and wonder why
What use it is to try
And be the nicest guy I can
When you don't seem to understand
That in the face of every poker hand
I'm still the stoic and sullen man
Thats never seen a girl as grand
As you.

Oh girl,
How can you think its so paltry
That I've born the yolk of society
And remained distinctly me?
Ogre-ill.
How can it be so hard to see
The gold I seek is sincerity.
To be bold is sometimes no mercy.

Background Check

I’ve been so strung up lately,
I hardly know what to do,
My silly problems are
Creeping up finally,
Human error, bureaucracy too.
Oh,
All this trouble is making me weary,
This situation just seems so strange,
I see my goals so clearly,
For how many more weeks must papers be arranged
Before I get the answers I want?

I never meant to mock authority,
Who judges the freedom I flaunt?
My mistake was living so freely,
Now I haven’t got a friend that can hold a pen,
Or
Sign a paper to set me free again.

Why oh why, poor old me,
No I don't really take this seriously,
Fuck the white man,
My oh my would you look at that sky?
Look at all the clouds, just blowing by.

My ISH Would Be ACE

Hey pretty baby
you ain't even gon' gimme
half-of-a-chance
you're just so mean,
...
Let's dance!

Hey pretty baby
Those look like pretty tight pants!
Should you loosen your belt?
nah...
Let's dance!

Stand there, look at me,
Pretend I'm up to no good,
Hit me with a look
Hard as red teak wood,
Ya think I think every girl that dances
Wants me under their covers?
So far, so wrong about that
Those ain't my girls... they were lesbian lovers!

Hey pretty baby,
Think I'm a sexist pig?
Well so are you! The difference is...
You like rolled out abs,
And my belly's too big.
Come on, Gimme gimme gimme
Gimme a hard time 'bout that!
You're just scared, honey
You know I know I ain't fat,
But the Lord did tell me:
"A little paunch is where its at!"

Hey pretty baby,
I think I know what you want...
Long term honey!
And I ain't got a chance,
But whatever, YOU'RE FUNNY...
Come on!
Let's dance!

You read a book about crooks,
And thieves of the heart,
Ya didn't know you were a bandit?
Its just the sum of yr parts!
Now gimme gimme gimme gimme
A little hip swinging arc.
All this reading is gonna keep you mean,
All I know is dancing, and it keeps me clean
All the places I could take you: you've never been!
All the dancin' we could do, you know we'd bulldoze the scene.
Too bad you can only sieve the world through your rich girl screen.
Look at me, Look at me, Look at me, Look at me,
Just another satin bastard, with no color tv,
Mustachioed gringo, pale skin, and sweat like paste,
Well if I had a million dollars you know my ISH would be ACE.
-Charlie Maguire