12/31/06

Let's Get Drunk

I need Beer
Lots and lots of beer
Insane quantities of the stuff
Let's get drunk
and play ping-pong on any table we can find.

Let's throw down
And throw up
And throw out
Our notions
Of sanity

Let's get drunk
And try to raise a god
Or bring one down
I'll let you choose which
They're all pretty much the same

Let's get drunk and
Make out on the back patio
Where the neighbors can see
Make em jealous
Make em wet

Let's get drunk and
Try to walk a line
Try to touch our nose
Try to not see double
Two of you would be just fine

Let's get drunk
Let's get naked
Let's howl at the moon
And if the police come
We'll howl at them too

Broken

Torn and tattered
the beat of
an irregular staccato
on calcium walls

In the time before time
In the perpetual then
I was the dream
The belief and the idea

Now I am the ghost
Of the phantom
Of the dream
And a price must be paid

The price for pain
For weeping
For sorrow's secret heart
In the dead of night

I am the past
And I haunt you
When you close your eyes
When you try not to think

But that's all that I am
Your specter
The spook that haunts
Your Scooby Doo nightmare

That's all that I am
And I can hurt you no more.



A quality of ignorance,
Self-deception may be
Necessary to the poet's survival


-Jim Morrison