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To Venus and Back


Bliss
Father, I killed my monkey 
I let it out to 
taste the sweet of spring 
wonder if I will wander out 
test my tether to 
see if I'm still free 
from you 

steady as it comes 
right down 
to you 
I've said it all 
so maybe we're a Bliss 
of another kind
 
lately, I'm in to circuitry 
what it means to be 
made of you but not enough of you 
and I wonder if 
you can bilocate is that 
what I taste 
your supernova juice 
you know it's true I'm part of you 

steady as it comes 
right down to you 
I've said it all 
so maybe you're a 4 horse engine 
with a power drive 
a hot kachina who wants into mine 
take it with your terracide 
we're a Bliss 
of another kind 



Juarez
dropped off the edge again down in jaurez 
"don't even bat an eye 
if the eagle cries" the rasta man says, just cause the desert likes 
young girls flesh and 
no angel came 

I don't think you even know 
what you think you just said 
so go on spill your seed 
shake your gun to the rasta man's head 
and the desert - she must be blessed and 
no angel came

there's a time to keep it up 
a time to keep it in 
the Indian is told 
the cowboy is his friend 
you know that I can breathe 
even when I cheat 
should. should've been over for me 
no angel came 



Concertina
clouds descending 
i'm not policing 
what you think and dream 
I run into your thought from 
across the room 
just another trick can I 
weather this 
I've got a fever above my waist 
you got a squeeze box on your knee 
i know the truth is in between the 
1st and the 40th drink 

concertina concertina a chill that bends 
this I swear you're the fiercest calm 
I've been in 
concertina
concertina
try infrared
this I swear you're the fiercest calm 
I've been in the soul quake 
happened here in a glass world 
particle by particle she slowly changes 
she likes hanging chinese paper cuts just 
another fix 
can I weather this 
I got my fuzz all tipped to play 
I got a dub on your landscape 
then there's your policy of trancing 
the sauce without the blame 
too far too far too far 
it could all get way too cheerful 
concertina I know the truth lies in 
between the 1st and 40th drink 
clouds descending 



Glory of the 80's
I took a taxi form LA to Venus 
in 1985 i was electromagnetically sucked 
back into a party going on that night 
It was the glory of the 80's 
with karma drawn up in lines 
and two bugle boy models saying 'baby it's a freebie 
you sure look deprived.' 
I had the Story of O in my bucket seat 
of my wanna be Mustang 
auditioning for reptiles in their 
Raquel Welsh campaign 
In the glories of the 80's 
you said "I'm not afraid to die" I said 
I don't find that remotely 
funny even on this space cake high 
and then when it all seemed clear 
just then you go and disappear 
silicone party babies to the left 
and Joan of Arcs to the right 
no one feeling insecure we were 
all gorge and famous in our last lives 
In the glories of the 80's you said 
'the end is nothing to fear' I said 
- blow the end - nowbaby 
who do i gotta shag to get outta here 
and then when it all seemed clear 
just then you go and disappear 
sure you're out there orbiting around 
wish I had you back now 
I met a drag king called venus 
she had a velvet hologram she said 
"my husband ran off with my shaman but they love me as I am" 
In the glories of the 80's 
I may not have to die 
i'll clone myself 
like that blonde chick 
that sings Bette Davis Eyes and then 
when it all seemed to clear 
just then you go 
and 
disappear 



Lust
hey you gender nectar sifting 
through the grain of gold 
tripping at 
your door is that you. alpha in her blood 
and when the woman lies you don't believe her 
rolling and unrolling coiling emerging running free 
running through the underworld 
into your room 

is he real or a ghost-lie 
she feels she isn't heard 
and the veil tears and rages 
till her voices are remembered 
and his secrets can be told 

hey you gender nectar 
crystalline from the vine 
you know you'll drink her 
rolling and unrolling 
coiling emerging running free running through
the afterworld into your room so she prays 
for a prankster and lust in the marriage bed 
and he waits till she can give and he 
waits and he waits 



Suede
suede. you always felt like suede. 
there are days i feel your twin. 
peekaboo. hiding underneath your skin. 
jets. are revving yes revving
from a central source and this. 
has power over me. not because you feel something 
or don't feel something for me 
but because. mass. so big. 
it can swallow swallow her whole star intact. 
call me 'evil' call me 
'tide is on your side' anything that you want. 
anybody knows you can conjure 
anything by the dark side of the moon. boy. 
and if you keep your silence 
silencer on 
you'll talk yourself right into a job. 
out of a hole. into my 
bayou. i'm sure that you've been briefed my 
apsorption lines. they are frayed 
and I fear. 
my fear is greater than my faith 
but i walk. 
the missionary way. 
you always felt like suede. 
there are days I am your twin. 
peekaboo. 
hiding underneath your skin. 
jets. are revving. yes revving from 
an ether twist. 
call me 'evil'. little sister. I guess 
I'd do the same. 
little sister. 
you'll forgive me one day. 



Josephine
not tonight Josephine. 

in an army's strength therein 
lies the denouement. From 
here you're haunting me. By 
the Seine so beautiful, only 
not to be of use - impossible. 

so strange, victory - 1,200 spires. 
the only sound, Moscow burning. 
Empty like the Tuileries. Like a dream 
Vienna seems, only not to be of use-impossible. 

In the last extremity - to 
advance or not to advance - I 
hear you laughing.
 
even still you're calling me 
"not tonight, not tonight, 

		not tonight"
 
	Josephine 



Riot Poof
you know what you know so you go break the terror of the urban spell 
this alliance you say 'i'm on the threshold of greatness girl' 
so you burn your pagoda through the congo till there's a broken bond 
on the birth of the search white trash my native son 

it will all find its way in time 

blossom, riot poof 

you know what you know so you go chain her to your flow 
she bites through your lean dried meat as she's 
going to the movie show 
in a bath of gliter and a tiny shiver 
she crawls through your lava sea 
black sahara I'm stepping into your space oddity 

it will all find its way in time 

blossom, riot poof 

the sun is warming my man is moistening 
on the bomb 
on the bond 
on the bomb 



Datura
get out of my garden 

passion vine 
taxas sage 
indigo spires salvia 
confederate jasmine 
royal cape plumbago 
arica palm 
pygmy date palm 
snow-on-the-mountain 
pink powderpuff 
Datura 
crinum lily 
st. christopher's lily 
silver dollar eucalyptus 
white african iris 
katie's charm ruellia 
variegated shell ginger 
florida coonite 
Datura 
ming fern 
sword fern 
dianella 
walking iris 
chocolate cherries allamanda 
awabuki viburnum
 
is there room in my heart 
for you to follow your heart 
and not need more blood 
from the tip of your star
 
walking iris 
chocolate cherries alamanda 
awabuki viburnum 
natal plum 
black magic ti 
mexican bush sage 
gumbo limbo 
golden shrimp 
belize shrimp 
senna 
weping sabicu 
golden shower tree 
golden trumpet tree 
bird of paridise 
come in 
variegated shell ginger 
Datura 
Ionicera 
red velvet costus 
xanadu philondendron 
snow queen hibiscus 
frangipani 
bleeding heart 
persian shield 
cat's whiskers 
royal palm 
sweet alyssum 
petting bamboo 
orange jasmine 
clitoria blue pea 
downy jasmine 
Datura 
frangipani 

dividing Canaan 
piece by piece 
o let me see 
dividing Canaan 



Spring Haze
well I know it's just a spring haze 
but I don't much like the look of it 
and if omens are a god send like men
breezing in 
certain these clouds go somewhere 
billowing out to somewhere 
in a single engine cessna 
you say we'll never make it there 
all we do is circle it 

uh oh. let go. off on my way 
unseen this eternal wanting 
let go. 
way to go so I get creamed 
waiting on Sunday to drown 
waiting on sunday to drown 

and I know it's just a spring haze 
but i don't much like the look of it 
but all we do is circle it 
and i found out where my edge is 
and it bleeds into where you resist 
and my only way out is to go
so far in 
billowing out to somewhere 
billowing out luna riviera 
waiting on Sunday to land 
waitng on Sunday to drown 
why. does. it. always end up like this 
waiting on Sunday so I get creamed 
waiting for Sunday to drown 



1000 Oceans
these tears i've cried. 
I've cried 1000 oceans 
and if it seems I'm. floating. 
in the darkness 
well, I can't believe that I would keep. 
keep you from flying. 
and i would cry 1000 more if that's what it takes
to sail you home 
sail you home. sail you home.
 
I'm aware what the rules are. 
but you know that I 
will run. 
you know that I will follow you. 
over silbury hill through the solar field. 
you know that I will follow you 

and if I find you. will you. still remember 
playing at trains. 
or does this little blue ball 
just fade away. 
over silbury hill through the solar field. 
you know that I will follow you. 
I'm aware what the rules are but you know that I 
will run. 
you know that I will follow you. 

these tears i've cried. 
i've cried. 1000 oceans 
and if I'm. floating. 
in the darkness 
well, I can't believe that i would keep. 
keep you from flying. 
so I will cry 1000 more if that's what it takes
to sail you home. 
sail you home. sail. sail you home.