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16 January 2026

alcohol

 

I got the thirst something chronic      but that’s just the symptom       it’s not the disease      booze loves me       it loosens the bindings     that conceal my pain       it soothes my soul      while it numbs my brain        I’m reaching for oblivion      so let me breathe fire       I need to imbibe something impure      I need a drink     like I need a friend     yeah, I need a drink    like a hole in the head…

15 January 2026

sickened

 

I’m trying to make sense of my pain       does that mean I’m crazy?     should I have turned the other cheek?        dare I demand recompense?     I was suddenly swiped by a bus    my barely human remains     slickened the street      my brain dashed on the pavement        leaking out my dreams

sick thoughts can devour a body     I’m crawling through shadows     I need a little sunlight     maybe I’ll take a walk      perhaps I’ll just rot here in my room     don’t take me to the hospital      I have friends there who won’t seek remedies       they got a bag with my name on it   

don’t mind me      I am just a fool       lost in the vacuum of the universe       mine is the madness of spirit     that leaps into the abyss       without a single care in the world       I fell and kept on falling     there’s no centre to my existence     I’m a leper      and an outcast      I may have lost my bearings      but I might be heading home

13 January 2026

mythology

 

you got your story       and I have mine     people have their plans      one vile task after another       but don’t trust me      my pants are on fire       you may seek a meaning     I couldn’t possibly comment      I’m just happy to be here       alive and in the moment      truth means nothing to me     I’ve seen it all before    I got the slow burn rapture       I’m happy all the time      don’t get me wrong       my darkness serves a purpose      redemption through chaos      that there is the basis of my mythology

9 January 2026

I remember

 

I loved the man       queer enough for you?      I don’t care what you think     my heart is an open book     I know what is written there      this is a song of love    for someone ever young     he was original    an individual      and I miss him now      perhaps more than ever     my love is a river      he was the ocean      the best of friends     my lover, my brother      he’ll shine on     forever in memory

6 January 2026

Casanova

 

maybe I have a pornographic mindset     perhaps just a lonely heart      I am my own master     and I have tasted freedom      I’ve been told I was greedy       but how much is too much?      how much is too little?      I think I’ve had my share      some say that’s quite enough       but let me tell you      it can never be enough      things were different for me       you have to allow for that      I was doing my favourite thing     and paying dearly for the pleasure     for I embraced the world      and every sinner in it

31 December 2025

somewhere in our dreams

 



only my dreams seem real     is that the dark magic?       or is it all in my mind?    I dreamed of you last night      you were no ghost      you were all flesh and blood     but you would not come with me        when morning called our names     you kissed my lips just once       and vanished when I awakened       come to me tonight      I’ll wait for you there     somewhere in our dreams      where the world can’t drag us down

17 December 2025

seconds out...

 

all these fights are rigged       a man don’t stand a chance        he’s got to punch above his weight      from the very start     I was once pretty agile     but now I’m trading blows     the knockout punch was landed     and I don’t feel a thing       coz I’m numb from the neck up       and piteously exposed     one too many poundings      has left me on the ropes      I ought to throw in the towel      like so many suckers before me      but I’m in it for the fight      I don’t know what else to do

16 December 2025

silence

 

I shut up shop       just for the holidays     when you’re  silent     everything speaks  to you       me, I move right in       I occupy that space     where silence reigns      silence nourishes      silence is the only sleep I need       yeah, I’m tuned to silence     that’s how my garden grows      out there in the distance      there is a frozen field      deep in the country of silence      I will wait for you there

10 December 2025

crazy

 

the god we made is crazy      but everybody’s  crazy     you have to be fucking crazy    to live in this crazy world

I’m not the first to realize  that I’m a little crazy      my doctors say it’s normal      given the circumstances     they said a little poison would cure me of my ills     so they dosed me up on lithium        and locked me up in a hospital      until I learned to play nice

and you dear reader      do you recognize your madness?     do you let it shine before you?      or does it drag you down?      the symptoms after all     are part of human nature    so embrace your inner lunatic    and give your madness life    

 

9 December 2025

God

 

what a colossal idea

a truly fantastic hoax

he wasn’t in the sky

he was in my living room

the god of magic mushrooms

the god of revelations

the sign of my ordeal

I bargained for salvation

he crushed me with his love

the god I had in mind

answered my foolish prayer

he give me a shot at redemption

who could want for more?

8 December 2025

salvage

 

don’t you miss it?      the speedballs and reefer?    the fantastic highs?     the tragic lows?     no, I managed to keep  my shape     but it was an accident    I came out whole   as something less than holy    I defied the world and it crushed me      I’m stuck in my shotgun shack    my bindings are undone      I’m hardly worth the salvage    from the scrapyard of my mind

6 December 2025

heavy (death song #3)

 

when I was crushed by the world        others were crushed by me       you couldn’t call it fair       but I would come down heavy       on whoever was around me       wherever I happened to be    …when I was a monster    I had a tune in my head       I called it my death song      I couldn’t switch it off     it nearly drove me mad        but when I came down heavy      that song was all I had