Minnesota Meets the Bronx

> holy godless troubadour > > saint of beauty's truth > > cigarettes and shades > > acoustic electric real > > all despite himself > > wisps words notes for us > > tries hard to set us straight so > > he can find the keys > > slim poet shaded > > behind the lenses a world > > where what is is all > > history's losers > > found light hope space or justice > > in dashed-off lyrics > > lonesome deaths or worse > > songs sung and shhh shhh listen > > all whispered demands > > reluctant poet > > his mysterious women > > blueprints for Bronx girls > > curly hair blue eyes > > sliced into green eyes straight hair > > across vinyl years > > forever aged > > his young blood blonde on the tracks > > dispense theft and love > > his words notes guitar > > venomous antidotes cured > > some isolation > > slim medicine man > > without advice or consent > > his unknowing salve > > highways horses war > > spaces between the words tell > > nothing everything > > museless save for him > > behind dark shades and guitars > > kids pretend to know > > songs of souls' desires > > innocent criminal finds > > you me and himself? > > pissed off cranky faced > > chubby baby cheeks tell of > > loss more loss and hope? > > slim still no wiser > > wise enough for forty years > > screw the weatherman