Vinyl Poems

The B Side Man

I was cut in the studio after the hit had dried its sleeve—
a shadow-track pressed in wax
buried under the melody that crowned them kings
I came with the needle's sigh,
not for applause,
but for the noise you never chose.

The A-side spun through summer air—
windows down, girls laughing loud
boys riding every chorus like a dare.
Me?
I cracked my voice

Vinyl Scratch

                                                
 
The manner of this speech gives

Flea Market Jazz Vinyl Diggin'

on weekends, Mondays, and maybe Fridays too/
across the Bebop time zones/
people be digging at flea markets 4 Bebop jazz gold/
walkin', talkin', lookin' workin' the price/
on a table way in the back/
I dug into a crate of LPS and found jazz vinyl alongside a vacuum cleaner/
 It was Mark Murphy singing vocalese/
and the young Roland Kirk

Vinyl Times

Soulful melodious injections... 
Rendering sweet salient pulsations

Scintillating sensations in the spine...
Organic rhythms of the time

Just what the doctor ordered after a 
long day of hustling and bustling

I find my favorite crease in the couch

With a turntable, record, and a needle in hand... 
I slowly self-administer dose after dose of natural healin'

Now, I stand and move

Needle On the Vinyl

You might think I’m crazy
Some say I'm insane
But when it comes to country music
It takes me to another place

It takes me back to those early days
Me sitting by daddys side
Listening to old Hank Williams
Sing I'm so lonesome I could cry

He put that needle on the vinyl
Id watch it spin around
I felt like Hank was singing

The Vinyl of Love

Had I known your betrayal, 
I would have let go,
And free myself from you. 

Deep down, we know the wits of love,
A poison made from the cups of romance. 
I drank too much from those used ones... 

I need to buy new ones to cover your spillage,
A mess in pieces on the floor of my

Jukebox

The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzi Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Aerosmith, The Brothers Four
Dolly Parton, Sandie Shaw

The Jackson Five and Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Presley, Slade and Queen

David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Sweet
Rose Royce, Madness and The Beat

Dusty Springfield, Fox, Nick Drake
Soft Cell, Toto, Sting, Greg Lake

Three Dog

The Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove

It occasionally  occurs to me,

as I distractedly remove my right dominant
Powder-Free Vinyl Exam Glove,
after yet another young adult diaper change,

Perhaps getting lovingly laid
by a lifetime committed
caring and passionately consenting peer
filled with warm compassion,
active hope for tomorrow
would not be the worst conjoining thing
that could happen to neuro-alternatively-challenged intelligent beings
childishly preferring win/win cooperative outcomes
derived from compassionate

Cut From Vinyl

an LP where a mother should be

                                     flip and repeat

         

Vinyl

Vinyl (3/1/19)

“Wow, everybody just cleared out.
“That’s what happens when you leave a
“Bookstore with vinyl.”

I haven’t a clue what she meant
And to be perfectly honest, I’m not
Sure she knew either. She also
Carried some vinyl from the bookstore
That people clear out of because it
Sells vinyl: Hairspray. She was
Very excited to show me that she
Could now complement a

Vinyl Tape and the Dvd's

reality views...
is digital here to stay...
the discrete segment...

with the analog...
the action...in a back seat... 
to be forgotten...

there's start and finish...
a seen perception of time...
measured periods...

hours...minutes...seconds...
mille and micro moments...
but...time can't stand still...

accident events...
where rescuers die helping...
may last days...hours...weeks...

so...which is correct...
digital or analog...
you perceive your truth

stan sand

A Song Not By Paul Mccartney

NO ONE WANTS TO LIVE IN A COLD HOME
from the album "Heaters for Sale"
by Not Paul McCarney 

No one wants to live in a cold home, cold home
Uncle Albert says you should go home, go home
Turn the heat up or sit by the fire
Toasty as upon a funeral pyre
Oo-hoo, because
No one wants to live in

Dream Series: the Rare Lp

Last night I dreamed I owned a Beatles album from their break-up period that was never officially released and even most Beatles experts didn't know it existed.

 I had one because I'd had a lover who had partied with Paul and he gave it to her and she didn't give a **** about it so

If I Were a Vinyl Record

wispy grooves of sound
playing on dusty, conical flat lungs 
scratching the meat off 
a chalk board of 
throat burning fumes
 
I abuse my recall of 
better days

hands at throat 
contorting fingers curling up 
to barbarously dig
for more required air 

life seems harshly longer 
when you can't inhale

the gasping sounds 
play over and over 
bringing tears

I'M Vinyl Baby

i’m vinyl baby,
easy to scratch,
easy to gouge, 
prone to warping.

i’m a 45 rpm record, 
single and labelled,
still got track marks.

dot dot dot
from the seventies!

you know there’s
my black side,
my dark side.

i’m a 45 rpm record, 
single and labelled,
still got track marks.

you,
you’re my diamond needle.
i'm your music,
you know me,
 you play me.

you,
you’re my diamond needle.
gets under my

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