Now the leeches are in love, and the serenade's begun Maybe you're the lucky one, but you can't trust a simple song You're no fun Are we speeding to outrun identification? Stoop for the honor, this pen's poison Defeated .. Read »

Here are some words Will you take them away? Some better ways for what they mean to say: Puzzles and rhymes, geography and time, or a kiss, like praying We know, unknowing, to let nobody in this armor, the thinnest skin I.. Read »

I've framed your face in flames and I'm painting you red, love Let's clarify this twist, pin this butterfly kiss Senseless senses sweetly simplify We twitch like marionettes in lascivious bliss Silhouette, silhouette, how .. Read »

Hey! Who broke in and kicked me out, here, into heavy weather? This screen hangs a sign in black and white, but doesn't make it better "Sometimes, very often, all the time" No: "never, almost never" This thorn in my side.. Read »

Tilt and whirl, rise and plummet Stalled in the sky and loved it Blacked out, the stars above the lot still shone on you Wired on raw good luck We'll never get far enough above The sordid and sticky low-rent show th.. Read »

Dear Hilary How many years has it been since you were going off to college and you wrote me a letter? Dear Hilary What seemed miraculous then is so faded now, though the time's brought nothing better After so many years n.. Read »

All I know about love is balanced a hundred feet above this spellbound crowd, all push and shove Alone on a wire, room there for no-one at her side, chance look down to me and fall or fly Earthbound, I kiss the ground Fall t.. Read »

In game-show purgatory, we're all just dying for a laugh Watch your boy practice presidential looks, top of his class What's darker, streets or airwaves pregnant with rumors of rewards? If you're terminally bored, fall in .. Read »

The night is opaque, spills out and it's spreading like paint Every city; 18th and k, blue blackens the grey, and money is safe She'll game under scaffolded shapes Ghost town ends anonymous day; again you arrive late and a.. Read »

Century opens like we're breaking yellow tape at the scene of something ciminal, beyond obscene Caught just a glimpse, another rubbernecker rocketing past - all perpetrators, or refugees? It is a carnival crime We're queued .. Read »