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New York City Blues

The terminal prophesised an eternal line
 of moving faces arriving at their destination,
 mothers hold their screaming babies
as the business guys drank their coffee
 like insomniac puppets on strings
valleys n lagoons of young children and elderly folk
 all moved in a singular motion
 to a melee of sound buzzing above their heads
 a hubbub of civilisation on soap dish.          
Back to life with the old soul and the funky dollar bill
 like genoas khan lost in new York city
 with new York city blues,
 watching the jet planes fly above the mass of buildings
 circling the weather stations in New Orleans
 in autumn winds and summer rain in Chicago
 floating like clouds with its over whelming usual conscience
  Towering over towers of old motor’s
 with junk yard hands on the dog 
and the women drinking buds swearing at a elderly man 
for having a faulty back tire on his bike 
and the look of hell shaved fear on his face,
 used to be in Korea and nam probably still thinks he is.

Copyright © Jak Woods | Year Posted 2009



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Country Girl

Okay here we go again two in morning
 on the end of nothing known
 trying everyone for what they had
 I know its bad 
but not so long ago it was what it was
 no brimstone or magic in you her and him
 and 23 billion of that other bacteria that exists 
in a hand of soil thrown into a blue sky
  dices of stars joining onto her
 holding on to whatever goes mangling
 with the warm gods of autumn
 some crone playing softly in pools of swinging gold
 besides the broken rooms
 of yesterdays bleeding snow
 giving honey trip don’t fly to Latino girls
 who don’t know there taking my money before they go
 and leaving me with a hole
 which holds the moving lips
 saying don’t leave 
and crone 
don’t leave leaning against the whole truth smoking
 with slow magnetism 
as burning rubbish with wings circles around your soul
 and souls of other Latinos girls crooning for souls
 flirting with car salesmen across the road 
crooning softly with souls to be sold by big fat hands
 moving slowly through the fire and into the inferno
 the place where dogs wheeze in dust clouds
 wherever long forgotten angles are flying 
for the sound of midnight blues playing
 in the streets below the clouds
 and a high sun leaving but never leaning 
into the west of an American daydream.

Go, go, go country girl go.

Copyright © Jak Woods | Year Posted 2009


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