10 Random Poems

Blowing a New Swordfishtrombone

Well I stared straight at the sun

'Til I couldn't even see

Inside of an old Chevrolet

Now I'm floating like a butterfly

Without any wings

I've been dreaming of pretty LA

I've been looking for myself in the bottoms of bottles

While I've been blowing

On a swordfishtrombone

I've been burning an endless number of cigarettes

While I've wept in the

Darkness alone

Well I've been deep in gutters

Where there wasn't any light

Scattered and wounded in the Twilight Zone

She came over and I kissed her

The place hushed down to a whisper

I started blowing on a swordfishtrombone

Now I'm watching the rainbirds

Flying above my head

Reflected in a pane of shattered glass

I'm rolling up a joint now

'Cause I need a hit

I want to dig it down into the past

I've been deep down inside the trenches

I've been sleeping in the alley

With heavy metal boxcars pouring steam

And I've been choking on white angel hair

And spitting maggots everywhere

Before I got fed to the Bone Machine

And now the metal nails are showing rust

They're catching moonbeams in the dust

And Dave just called me crying on the phone

He was always so meek and taciturn

But right now his final lesson's learned

I'm blowing on a new swordfishtrombone

You know I've been doing the obituary tap dance

Making up the moves

As I go along

And now my gut is the only thing

That I don't take for granted

My lives are congregating in a song

I wanna see where broken people go

Just to hear them begging

For a home

I can see the fires burning in the black sky

I'm playing this

Brand new swordfishtrombone