West of rome

My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of...

Narrowed eyes and soggy tongues Beautiful rumors are flying about the ugly ones The girl she is by the pool Yellow journalists' jewel And all those wagging fingers Are silly little stingers Rabbits...

Where were you two years ago when I was locked out there at the barn When some certain athens sacred monster was doing me in with charm We could've been chatting heart to heart on that front porch...

what are you doing withering away yes i've heard you've lost the will to play whatever happened to those fluid movements you were so proud of in the intimate moments what about the girl you left at...

west of Rome, just east of the border in a static-y ramada inn polishing his boots and pummeling his liver steeped in the dark isolation just what business does he have around here credentials are...

well the big huge valley is a ribbon of light the aqueducts are snakes tonight the stars are homesteaders, staking claims my head is hopping with historical names transfer trucks are buffalos chewing...

someday I'm gonna be rich someday I'm gonna be bona fide someday I'm gonna be just like Steve Willoughby but today I'm simply I'm simply terrified I'm terrified someday I'm gonna be bright someday I'm...

Florida. Florida, the redneck riviera Florida. Florida, there's no more pathetic place in America A man must make unpopular decisions surely from time to time And a man can only stand what a man can...

I am sick of you Expecting me to do All these puny ingratiations You know I am a terrible patient I am barely alive Ever since my daddy died I've been searching for my own little babies To misbehave...

Pleasure is melting like chocolate My blue ribbon gumption is gone All my gravy must have soaked into something And the world... The filthy steps, the cold concrete The phony earth below my feet The...